Chapter 349: Aroma Bomb!
After lunch, Ryohei continued processing the ingredients with Jashin-chan.
Seeing him put the old hen, backbone, chicken feet, pig skin, and pig trotters into the pot to blanch together, Jashin-chan couldn't help but ask curiously:
"Aren't you afraid the flavors will mix if you blanch them all together?"
"Mix what flavors?" Ryohei turned his head and looked at Jashin-chan in astonishment: "Except for the swimming crabs and rice cakes, everything I bought today is for making Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. How can there be flavor mixing?"
"...Nani! All of them?"
Jashin-chan was stunned for a moment, then shocked, her eyes widening.
"Yes, all of them."
The corners of Ryohei's mouth lifted slightly. He puffed out his chest and said with a hint of pride: "Today I'll let you witness China's 'Number One Soup in the World'!"
"Sounds delicious!"
Leaning on the kitchen counter shoulder-to-shoulder with Pekola, pressing her world-class fullness lightly against the surface, her left hand resting casually aside, and her right hand supporting her fair and delicate cheek, Lucoa chimed in with a smile.
"..." Jashin-chan deeply agreed with Lucoa's words.
Ryohei's "Number One Soup in the World"...
It was indeed very tempting!
But the scummy snake was a tsundere and wouldn't easily admit her thoughts. She muttered, "Number One in the World... what a loud title!"
Then she turned her head to look at the delicacies from land and sea on the cooking counter—
"Then let me witness it!"
"Just wait, it will definitely amaze you!"
Ryohei said confidently.
Then, he raised a finger and spoke with assurance: "We are currently simmering the first broth (Head Soup). Later, there will be a second broth. The first broth needs to simmer for six hours, and the second broth for eight hours."
"That long?" Jashin-chan looked surprised.
"That long."
Ryohei raised his hand and said, "The production process of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall is famously tedious among all Chinese dishes! But it is precisely because of these tedious processes that the ultimate deliciousness of the 'Number One Soup in the World' can be created!"
Bubble, bubble—!
The water in the pot began to boil, making bubbling sounds.
Seeing this, Ryohei added the prepared ginger slices and scallions, then poured in cooking wine to remove fishiness and enhance fragrance.
After blanching for three minutes, he fished out the ingredients one by one with a skimmer, rinsed them clean, set up a clay pot, and prepared to simmer the first broth.
The first broth was mainly used to establish a rich base flavor and abundant gelatin.
Ryohei threw a few slices of ginger into the boiling water and put all the blanched ingredients into the pot. Bringing it to a boil over high heat, he then turned it down to medium heat, letting the soup roll steadily in the pot.
After finishing this step, he turned around and beckoned to Lucoa:
"Lucoa, come apply a 'Time Acceleration' buff."
"Okay."
Lucoa responded, her voluptuous body leaving the counter. She strode into the kitchen with her long legs and asked casually:
"Six hours?"
"No, accelerate for five and a half hours first. The remaining half hour needs high heat to boil the ingredients until they fall apart."
Ryohei explained simply.
"Understood."
Lucoa extended a slender white finger, and a miniature magic circle with "Time Element" appeared at her fingertip.
A point of golden light flew out from the magic circle and landed on the clay pot, dyeing the entire pot gold.
"I've accelerated the time inside the clay pot. When the clay pot returns to its original appearance, the acceleration is done."
Lucoa turned her head to Ryohei and said:
"This process will take about a minute."
Reserving a minute was to give Ryohei a better sense of the cooking experience.
"Impressive!"
Ryohei looked curiously at the golden clay pot and gave Lucoa a thumbs up without hesitation.
He suddenly thought of the Eight Legendary Kitchen Utensils in Cooking Master Boy—
What the legendary kitchen utensils could do, Lucoa could do. What the legendary kitchen utensils couldn't do, Lucoa could also do—Lucoa was superior by N levels!
"Hmph hmph!"
Praised, Lucoa put her left hand on her waist, the corners of her lips turning up, and puffed out her chest proudly—that world-class fullness trembled slightly, looking extremely enticing!
It was a pity that Ryohei's attention wasn't on her at all right now; she was casting pearls before swine.
"Actually, I can do this too."
Pekola, who had come to the kitchen with her hands behind her back, spoke up unexpectedly.
"Hmm?"
Ryohei just came back to his senses, looked at her subconsciously, blinked, and said, "Then ask you next time?"
"Sure."
Pekola nodded gently, paused, and added:
"Ask me next time."
"Eh eh? Someone's stealing my job?" A look of astonishment appeared on Lucoa's face as she raised her hand towards the two.
"..." Jashin-chan crossed her arms at the side, looked at Lucoa, then at Pekola, tilted her head, and said, "Strange, why do I feel like I'm a bit superfluous? Like I shouldn't be here..."
"Hmm..."
Ryohei looked over, propped his chin, pondered for two seconds, and said:
"Indeed superfluous."
Jashin-chan's mouth twitched. She pointed at herself and said unhappily:
"Then I'll leave?"
"Leave my ass! Who's going to help me if you leave!"
Ryohei scolded laughingly.
"..."
Perhaps the time magic isolated the inside and outside of the clay pot; Ryohei only smelled a wisp of enticing aroma overflowing from the clay pot when the gold color on it faded.
He turned the heat back to high and arranged for Pekola to perform "Time Acceleration."
When the clay pot "faded" again, Ryohei turned off the flame on the stove and arranged for Pekola to perform "Time Acceleration" once more—
This time it was accelerated steeping, to make the flavor of the first broth even better!
Completing cooking that would take more than six hours in just a few minutes—it had to be said, time magic was really too useful!
Ryohei felt a bit addicted for a moment!
"..."
Heart surging with excitement!
Ryohei habitually took a rag, wrapped his hand, and lifted the lid of the clay pot—
Instantly, blinding golden light surged from the clay pot!
White steam followed, adding a bit of haziness and mystery.
The rich and enticing aroma of the first broth exploded like an aroma bomb with a boom, instantly filling the entire kitchen and spreading outwards!
"Uwah—!"
Invaded by this aroma, Lucoa couldn't help but lift her chin slightly, take a deep breath, and reveal an intoxicated expression on her face:
"This aroma... is truly unbearable!"
"It's too tempting!"
"The first broth is already like this... hard to imagine what the final product will be like!"
Jashin-chan wiped the non-existent drool from the corner of her mouth with the back of her hand, her face full of craving.
(´﹃｀)
"..." Pekola didn't make a sound, but she looked into the pot with sparkling eyes.
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