Chapter 2688: Hollywood Rhapsody (Part 47)

After starting to browse the market, Shiler finally understood Pride's group of friends. Now he felt that Stark definitely wouldn't think of buying anything he saw, so he wanted to buy them all and bring them over.

In the end, Ultron accessed the dashcam of the car near the beach and looked at the situation around before dispelling Shiler's idea of really buying a tent to bring over.

According to Ultron, Stark's hardware preparation was quite good. The canopy, tables, chairs, grills, and the like were prepared in a decent manner, and he even prepared a screen and a projector. Shiler didn't even need to think to know what he intended to watch.

However, he didn't see him preparing other things. Shiler knew Stark was the kind of very traditional American. Perhaps he followed the principle of self-prepared ingredients at camping parties; many backyard parties were like this.

Since he had to buy ingredients, Shiler had to come to the fresh food section. He planned to buy some fish. Besides the fact that he liked eating them himself, others also liked his skill in cooking fish.

Actually, it couldn't be called a skill at all. These foreigners had always disliked eating whole fish just because they felt it was fishy, so they were all very curious about how Shiler managed to cook whole fish so deliciously.

Shiler had seen the methods white people used to process fish long ago, and even saw some people put the fish into the pot without even taking out the internal organs. It would be strange if this didn't have a fishy smell.

Because of the rampant water systems in the United States, it was very suitable for fishing, and there were many fish species returning to spawn in various estuaries, all of which were delicious. But because many people didn't know how to process them, they either made them into fish fillets or fish paste, completely losing the delicious flavor of the fish.

Shiler knew that besides him, almost no one present would know how to process whole fish, so he specifically bought a few plump trout and some small miscellaneous fish that locals didn't like to eat, planning to take them back and process them simply in the resort cottage's kitchen, and then they could be made into grilled fish.

In addition, Shiler also bought some chicken. Ladies would relatively prefer to eat chicken leg meat, but the way Americans processed chicken was also lackluster. They either made it into fried chicken or chicken pie, either with excessive calories or not very tasty.

Chicken could also often be seen in barbecues, but it was not very popular because, thinking about it, this thing was not as oily as beef, and most of it was dry and tasteless after grilling. To grill it well, it must be marinated in advance.

Shiler had also attended many backyard parties, most of which were invited by patients at Arkham Asylum. Simply put, they were the consumers of the immortal factor. Their taste was not low, but every time the ingredients Shiler prepared would be very popular, and many people privately asked Shiler for secret recipes.

And these so-called secret recipes of Shiler were actually the most basic ingredient processing methods of Chinese people: bleeding, removing internal organs, soaking in salt water, marinating, and if that didn't work, boiling with some messy spices, and there would be no strange smell at all.

Shiler bought a lot of things to process ingredients and returned to the vacation house with large and small bags. He first put the fish in the water tank into the refrigerator to freeze them unconscious to prevent being slapped by them when killing the fish.

Immediately after, he de-feathered the whole chicken, processed the internal organs, soaked them in water to remove the blood, and then began to process the spices and vegetables.

Now the weather was very hot, and Shiler himself had no appetite to eat barbecue, so he decided to make some cold dishes. And what surprised him very much was that even in such a remote small town, he could still meet Chinese vendors and bought a lot of ingredients and spices.

Shiler prepared to make a lemongrass lemon cold-mixed chicken and sour and spicy fish skin. Considering that there were some ladies present who wanted to maintain their figures and had a lighter taste, Shiler also prepared various materials for iced fruits and cold noodles, which could be poured together and eaten when the time came.

Shiler actually didn't know how to cook, especially those complex Chinese dishes that involved frying, stir-frying, and deep-frying. He didn't know how to do it in his previous life, and after being reborn, he had no conditions to do it.

But thanks to the god of short videos, Shiler was a Chinese person in his previous life after all. He had more ways than foreigners to search for recipes on TikTok, and he could also easily distinguish whether the dish was delicious or not. And these idiot-proof recipes only needed to be followed step by step, without any difficulty at all, so Shiler had been addicted to cooking recently.

Although many short videos were all about flashy operations, in the end, what they made was still an exquisite version of white people's food. But after all, there were quite a few Chinese living in the United States, and there were many international students. Recently, Xu Shangqi opened an account specifically to teach people how to cook Chinese food.

His TikTok name was also very interesting. The translated meaning was roughly "Unbearable Xu Shangqi". The avatar was a chef from Hell's Kitchen, and the first pinned video below was his rant about white people's food that he couldn't bear.

He was the first TikToker Shiler followed because his rant video was very popular at the time, resonating with many Chinese and international students living in the United States.

And later, the gourmet teaching videos he made were also very successful. Mainly, what he taught was not traditional Chinese food, but some improved dishes. For example, the lemongrass lemon chicken Shiler made today was actually an American-applicable version of Chinese food plus Southeast Asian food.

In China, people generally eat sour and spicy chicken feet, but few people in the United States eat chicken feet, so Xu Shangqi changed this dish to use lemon and Southeast Asian spices to mix with Cantonese-style white-boiled chicken. Whether it was delicious or not was secondary; the key was that it was very simple, even simpler than many white people's meals.

After Shiler made it a few times, he found that whether it was authentic or not was not that important, as long as it was delicious.

In fact, many Chinese in the United States didn't cook for themselves not because they didn't know how to do it, but because the conditions here really didn't support it. Not to mention that spices and the like couldn't be bought, the processing of meat here had no unified standard and was even more varied. Sometimes when you bought a piece of smelly meat, the smell could stay in the kitchen for several days without dissipating, almost catching up to a biochemical weapon.

After Shiler stepped on the pork pit a few times, he decided to give up. After all, there were many people making fried chicken here, and the probability of stepping on a mine with chicken was relatively small. Combined with some ingredients commonly used in Western food such as lemon, there would basically be no problems.

Shiler made everything semi-finished. For example, the chicken and the dressing were separated, and the various ingredients for the cold noodles were not added either. Besides keeping them fresh, it was also to let others have some sense of participation.

After being busy for a long time, it was almost time. Shiler packed various materials into the Lock & Lock boxes he had just bought and called a car from the resort.

Unexpectedly, it wasn't the resort staff who came, but Ultron. He got himself another body, and his hands were still inlaid with colorful fake gems.

He helped Shiler move things to the car and then conscientiously acted as the driver. Shiler felt a bit suspicious about his sudden diligence. Could this guy be wanting a raise again?

Ultron seemed to see through Shiler's suspicion. While driving, he said with some showing off, "I added a taste bud system to myself, which can rate food by sensing its taste. Today I'm going to feast."

"What kind of technology is this?" Shiler felt a bit unbelievable. How could a robot taste flavor? And why did it need to taste flavor?

"The material was provided by Helen. I heard it's the tongue of a certain mechanical race in the universe. They spent a long time evolving taste buds. As for the purpose, it's probably for enjoyment."

"You too?"

"No, I'm for scoring. You always say whose cooking is delicious and whose cooking is not. Now you are about to welcome an objective and fair judge."

"Very absurd." Shiler commented, "If you were in Hell's Kitchen, you would be the first to be eliminated."

"That's not for you to say." Ultron took out his mobile phone. No matter how many times he saw it, Shiler still felt this scene was absurd—a robot took out his own mobile phone!

But soon Shiler was attracted by the content on his mobile phone. It was actually the homepage of a TikToker. Shiler leaned over to take a look, and it was actually Ultron's own homepage, and it was written on it that he was a robot.

But the first point Shiler focused on was, "The fans on this page of yours aren't all yourself, right? You just took your hundreds of billions of clones to do this??"

Ultron curled his lips very humanly and said, "I'm not that bored yet. These are all real people. They are the fans I've worked hard to accumulate."

"What type of videos do you make?" Shiler asked.

"Of course, it's robot reviews." Ultron shook his head and said.

"Why would others believe you are a robot?" Shiler asked from the bottom of his heart, "Even if you have a mechanical body that can move, it could also be controlled by a person."

"They have to believe it even if they don't believe it, because most of the people commenting below are myself."

"Aren't you still buying internet water armies?"

"This is different. I don't have to pay."

Shiler shook his head. He picked up his own mobile phone and searched for the account he just saw, finding that there were quite a few fans. But except for those comments Ultron brushed himself, most of them were fun-seekers who didn't believe at all that there was a robot that could go online, thinking that this must be a gimmick made by some robot company.

However, despite this, everyone felt it was very interesting, because you could even see a robot experiencing internet cafes all over the world, and the comments below were both absurd and funny.

"Don't you plan to open an account?" Ultron asked, "The call is very high. Everyone wants to hear you analyze various troubles in life."

"It's because of this that I don't open it. Ordinary people's troubles can basically be divided into two categories: one is pure bad luck, which doesn't need analysis at all, and the other is that even if analyzed, they can't do it, and it doesn't work."

"I thought you would be very happy to be a life mentor, helping people get a healthier psychology."

"Forget it, they can even get happiness by watching your account, isn't that healthy enough?"

Shiler paused for a moment, then continued, "It is precisely out of professional considerations that I cannot express my views on the internet at will. Psychology is a very magical subject. Once you gain people's trust, it is easy to make people believe how things are."

"Now many people admire me, thinking that I have strong professional standards. Their subconscious trusts me very much, so any word I say may be regarded by them as a golden rule."

"If I do some analysis of negative emotional symptoms, it is easy for them to apply it to themselves, thereby causing negative psychological suggestions, which is precisely unhelpful for mental health."

"Once I mention certain symptoms of depression and anxiety, although they are indeed pathological symptoms of the disease, in daily life, people are also prone to such symptoms, but this does not mean they are sick. Once they always suggest this to themselves, it is easier to have problems."

Ultron nodded, feeling that Shiler made sense, and then he slowly stopped the car and said, "We are here." ===== CHAPTER 2689 =====