CHAPTER 526: CHAPTER 287: IT’S SO DELICIOUS!

The staff in the kitchen of Yunzhong Restaurant were already dumbfounded from eating.

If tasting the first bite of the dumpling made people, who had never tasted such delicious dumplings, exclaim in surprise, whisper to colleagues, look up to Qin Huai with admiring eyes, and kept muttering "wow" endlessly,

then by the second dumpling, many people had become silent.

Everyone was eating in a messy way.

Some had a sweet filling first, while others had a meat filling at the start. Unlike Chen Huihong, who has extensive tasting experience and knows how to use the correct order, not everyone could eat the Four Happiness Dumpling in the right sequence.

But that doesn’t matter.

Only the B-grade Four Happiness Dumplings need to be eaten in sequence; the A-grade Four Happiness Dumplings are just wildly delicious.

You might say to eat the sweet first, then the salty, and finally have the sweet to finish, which would not be cloying, allow for more layers in taste, and avoid flavor mixing.

The kitchen staff of Yunzhong Restaurant tell you they’re not afraid of mixed flavors.

Wow, with dumplings this good, who cares about mixing flavors!

With meat filling, delicious!

With red bean filling, amazing!

With sesame sugar filling, it hammers Pei Xing’s sesame brittle into the ground.

With mixed fruit filling, don’t call me anymore, five-nut/mixed fruit mooncake, I’m afraid the mixed fruit dumpling will misunderstand.

Sequence or pairing doesn’t matter at all; deliciousness is what counts.

It’s all in one bowl; once it enters your mouth, it doesn’t need pairing before eating. It can be paired in the stomach.

Qin Huai has seen much in Huang’s Kitchen and has a certain degree of understanding of the current status of domestic hot dishes and pastry snacks.

In one sentence, the pastry side is not doing well.

Only Zhiwei Restaurant can compete in pastry, the others aren’t worth mentioning. Grab Pei Xing and Chen An to ask, and they probably couldn’t name another famous pastry restaurant nationwide.

It’s not that there are no other famous pastry chefs nationwide besides Zhiwei Restaurant. There certainly are, but the restaurant they work at would definitely have a more famous master of hot dishes.

You can see it in the Chef Record rankings; there are Chinese chefs in the top 10, and Qin Huai vaguely remembers the first is a Chinese chef working in the US. But the highest-ranked Chinese pastry chef, Master Zhou from Zhiwei Restaurant, is only ranked 41st.

Pastry’s decline is a recognized fact.

This also means that ordinary people like An Youyou and Chen An find it hard to taste truly delicious pastry snacks.

Unless they happen to live in Hangzhou and frequently visit Zhiwei Restaurant, most snacks they usually have might not even taste as good as those produced by Zheng Da’s factory.

Qin Huai didn’t mean to insult Chen An’s skills, but to be fair, the sponge cake Chen An makes really isn’t as good as the snacks produced on the assembly line at Zheng Da’s factory.

Zheng Da’s snack business is doing so well not just because he knows business, but also because he genuinely understands snacks, in a profound way.

Compared to pastry, it is much easier for ordinary people to taste delicious hot dishes.

Just go to a well-known restaurant.

Take Huang’s Kitchen as an example, when Huang Shengli was in good health and could work normally, his signature dishes required an extra charge or even a pre-booking. But for ordinary dishes, the back kitchen of Huang’s Kitchen mixes them up, and with luck, you might get a dish made by Huang Shengli as a surprise.

Huang’s Kitchen recently had long lines because it appeared on "Taste," becoming a "Taste" limited online celebrity store. Under normal circumstances, Huang’s Kitchen doesn’t have long lines, and even when Huang Shengli was there, you wouldn’t wait long if you went early.

It’s fair to say that as long as you are willing to do some homework and spend a little extra, ordinary people can taste dishes made by a master of hot dishes.

In such circumstances, Qin Huai’s A-grade snacks appear extraordinarily delicious.

Much better than equivalent A-grade dishes because no one has heard or seen, and don’t know where else to taste them besides here.

To many people, buns and steamed buns are not comparable to braised pork or knuckle because buns and steamed buns are just ordinary breakfast, cheap dumplings, while braised pork or knuckle are major dishes, good dishes, carefully cooked dishes.

But when the flavors of buns and steamed buns become as delicious as, or even better than braised pork or knuckle, the situation changes.

Satisfaction doubles, surprise super-doubles.

When something is so good that it exceeds your imagination, it becomes beautified in your mind from an original 100 points to 120 points or even more.

The Four Happiness Dumplings were glorified to 150 points by the staff at Yunzhong Restaurant.

An Youyou and Chen An had tasted Qin Huai’s cooking before, but many helpers had neither tasted nor even seen Qin Huai.

After a bowl of Four Happiness Dumplings, Qin Huai was no longer just their boss in their minds.

He was their brilliant boss!

The kind of boss who makes them want to cry out: Boss, is this the employee meal we’ll have from now on? Boss, please, can we have this for the employee meal from now on?

By the end, there was no shout of "wow" in the kitchen.

There was no sound at all in the kitchen, only the silent munching.

An Youyou finished all the soup, and if the soup hadn’t been somewhat tasteless, she might have even licked the bowl.

"Master Qin, it’s still not 5:50 yet, what should I do now?" An Youyou asked robustly.

Qin Huai glanced at the radish An Youyou was cutting. He originally just wanted to simply guide her to practice knife skills and let her adapt by cutting some radish, not really intending for her to cut radish.