A Bite of Douluo Continent

"Meow~"

Gulu paid no attention to the conversation between the three. Its eyes were fixed on the dishwasher that Qi Han had put the small bowl in earlier and that was now running, and it fell into deep thought.

Next time, you'll have to wash the dishes yourself after eating!

...

Over the next two days, the shop's operations returned to normal. Thanks to the influence of the food review, Hanshi's popularity in Xingluo City successfully exceeded 50%, and half the city knew about the shop, resulting in a surge in business.

The Cold Food Festival is now packed again, with countless diners coming every day to try the dishes that have received such high scores in food reviews, making it difficult to even get a table despite the long queues.

Qi Han even started considering following Shrek City's example and starting a food delivery business. However, Star Luo City and Shrek City are different after all, and he would not stay in Star Luo City for long. After completing all the missions, he would return to Shrek City.

If we start a food delivery service, we will inevitably leave behind a mess, which is not a good thing.

Meanwhile, Qi Han also used every available moment during this time to practice Boiled Cabbage with all his might.

Finally, two days later, in the afternoon, when Qi Han walked out of the training space again, he had a bright smile on his face and turned his gaze to the price list wall.

A purple price list has appeared on the price list wall.

Boiled cabbage in clear broth - 1000 Gold Soul Coins/serving.

"Ruyi, how many times have I failed at making boiled cabbage in clear broth?"

After waiting for a short while, Ruyi's voice rang in Qi Han's mind, "Training duration: 182 days, number of failures: 65463."

More than 60,000 attempts, which is much better than the previous 100,000 failures of hiding a sheep in a fish's belly, and there are reasons for that.

On the one hand, Qi Han had obtained dragon beard noodles before, and the soup for dragon beard noodles is made from superior broth, so Qi Han was not completely unfamiliar with the process of making soup.

Of course, the soup in dragon beard noodles and the soup in boiled cabbage soup are not comparable.

On the other hand, it's because the system has been upgraded.

Huang Jinglin's remnant soul received a boost from the life force, allowing him to stay in the training space for longer periods and communicate with Qi Han. With his personal guidance, Qi Han avoided many detours, greatly improving the efficiency of his training.

After a moment of contemplation, Qi Han slowly spoke, "Ruyi, let's add the 'fish belly with sheep' recipe as well."

Previously, because he had just arrived in Xingluo City, Qi Han did not plan to immediately release the "Fish Belly Hidden Sheep" dish, thinking it was better to avoid trouble. But now that he had boiled cabbage in clear broth, he didn't mind having another dish like "Fish Belly Hidden Sheep".

Ruyi naturally had no objection to Qi Han's request, and soon the price list for the fish belly with mutton appeared next to the boiled cabbage.

After doing all this, Qi Han's face showed a hint of anticipation.

After completing the preparation of Boiled Cabbage in the training space, Qi Han immediately came out of the training space, eager to see how the special effects of Boiled Cabbage were.

For this reason, he didn't even taste the boiled cabbage soup he had prepared in the training space.

Stepping into the kitchen, the ingredients for boiled cabbage were already prepared in the food cabinet.

Upon opening the cabinet, a thousand-year-old five-colored pheasant bound hand and foot and a thousand-year-old jade swan bound hand and foot huddled together in fear.

The golden pheasant gets its name from its five-colored feathers, and a thousand-year-old golden pheasant even has a faint sixth color appearing on its body, making it look extremely gorgeous.

If the sixth color fully emerges, it will break through its racial limitations and become a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast.

The jade swan on the other side is equally stunning. Although it doesn't have such rich colors, the jade swan's uniform jade-colored feathers are simply too beautiful. The vibrant life force that can be felt when you get close is truly breathtaking.

However, all these wonderful things mean nothing to Qi Han, a chef devoid of emotions.

If he were just starting to cook, Qi Han might have felt pity and hesitated to cut, but after practicing more than 60,000 times, he no longer does.

He first picked up the thousand-year-old five-colored golden pheasant, and with one swift stroke, ended its life. Then, after soaking it in hot water for a while, he quickly plucked all the feathers off its body, leaving not a single feather root in the chicken skin. After removing its internal organs, head, and claws, he placed it aside and casually grabbed the frightened jade swan next to him.

Having witnessed the entire process of her companion being dealt with, the Emerald Swan cried out in terror, but she still couldn't escape Qi Han's swift and decisive strike.

After removing the internal organs and head and claws using the same hair removal process, Qi Han put both of them into a pot, blanched them for five minutes, and then took them out and washed them clean.

Immediately afterwards, Qi Han took out a pork hock the size of two palms and a piece of smoked ham with strong smoke marks from another food cabinet and placed them on the table.

Both of them have extraordinary origins.

The pork hock comes from the foreleg of the thousand-year-old Guixiang pig. Qi Han is no stranger to this kind of spirit beast, because the hundred-year-old Guixiang pig hock is the raw material for Dongpo pork hock.

Gui Xiang Pigs can hardly grow to a thousand years under natural conditions; a hundred years is their limit. This kind of docile soul beast with little attack power is food for many carnivorous soul beasts. Its only advantage is that it reproduces very quickly.

Growing in a specially designated area within the small world by the system, free from natural enemies, the Gui Xiang Pig had the opportunity to break through its own limits and grow into a thousand-year-old soul beast before naturally dying of old age.

It is both lucky and unlucky for the Guixiang pigs that have grown into the thousand-year-old breed. Although they escaped the danger of becoming raw materials for Dongpo pork knuckle, they never expected that what awaited them was boiled cabbage.

Gui Xiang Pig: mmp!

Ham also originates from Guixiang pig, specifically the hind leg, which does not conflict with the origin of pork hock.

The hind leg of the thousand-year-old Guixiang pig is smoked using a unique process involving branches picked from the thousand-year-old plant-type soul beast, the Cloud Pattern Cypress, resulting in the Cloud Pattern Smoked Ham in Qi Han's hands.

Just hearing that makes it sound like you can't afford it.

Finally, Qi Han bent down and picked up a basin of dried century-old sea clams from the ground, placing it on the table.

The Sea Dream Clam is not a soul beast. Similar to the Dragon Scale Fish, it is a rare species with a long lifespan that does not evolve into a soul beast. Consuming this aquatic product has a great effect on sorting out and removing foreign energy in the soul master's body.

This kind of precious aquatic product, which can only be found in coastal cities of the Douluo Continent, almost disappeared hundreds of years ago.

With the five ingredients ready, Qi Han rolled up his sleeves and prepared to start making the soup.

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Put all five ingredients into the pot together, add water to cover them, then add scallions, ginger, and garlic. After that, close the lid and simmer over low heat for about six hours.

However, thanks to advanced system technology, this time has been compressed to within a few minutes.

Qi Han took a strainer that had been prepared from the side, drained all the ingredients from the pot, and set them aside.

These ingredients are no longer needed; their essence has been completely infused into the soup during the six-hour slow simmering. The remaining meat will be recycled by the system.

"Meow?"

Gulu jumped down from the partition, took two or three steps to the table, looked at the mountain of meat, tilted its head and looked at Qi Han with curious eyes.

Can I eat this?

Qi Han's heart skipped a beat, but he shook his head. "This won't work. I added scallions, ginger, and garlic when I stewed it. But next time I make cat food for you, I might be able to improve the recipe."

Wouldn't it be a waste to use thousand-year-old golden pheasants and jade swans as cat food?

"It's not just a little bit, it's an absolute waste!" Ruyi said in her mind, sounding annoyed.

Even so, Qi Han silently decided to add these two next time. The Thousand-Year Osmanthus Fragrant Pig is also good, and the Sea Dream Shell is also a good thing.

Since it's my own cat, it shouldn't be a problem to feed it well.

"Meow!"

New flavor of cat food? Yay!

Gulu turned around and jumped off the table, no longer looking at the meat on the table.

Onions, ginger, and garlic are not allowed to be eaten, as the pet owner has said.

Gru's extra meal was just a minor incident; Qi Han's attention quickly shifted to the thick soup in the pot, which was white with a hint of pale yellow.

The real challenge of making boiled cabbage in clear broth lies in turning this pot of thick soup into boiling water.

The boiled cabbage in the system's recipe is not quite the same as the boiled cabbage on Blue Star.

Although Blue Star's Boiled Cabbage is called Boiled Cabbage, it only meets the requirement of being transparent, not completely colorless. The Boiled Cabbage from the system recipe goes a step further, and after completion, it really looks no different from plain boiled water.

Qi Han took out an extremely fine sieve, filtered the thick soup in the pot through the sieve, poured it into another pot, then put the pot into ice water to quickly cool it down to room temperature, and finally set it aside to stand.

Next, he took out a piece of lean, century-old Hellfire beef, his knife flashing as he chopped it into a fine paste after several stirs. Then, without stopping, he took out a piece of lean, century-old Osmanthus pork and chopped it into a paste in the same way. Finally, he took out another piece of lean meat from a century-old grass-fed Xihua argali sheep and chopped it into a paste.

The lean meat from pork, beef, and mutton is laid out separately on the table, and upon close inspection, one can see the differences between them.

The meat of the Hellfire Bull is deep red, and the meat with a large amount of myoglobin looks extremely plump. The Osmanthus Pork next to it has no fishy smell at all, and the meat is a deep pink color. The last Xihua Lamb is light pink, and if you look closely, you can smell a very faint muttony smell that is unique to lamb itself.

The color of the broth after it had been left to stand looked slightly different from before, but it was still far from being clear. Qi Han turned the heat down to low and brought the broth to a boil again, then added the minced meat from the three kinds of sacrificial animals in three separate batches.

The minced meat from the three sacrificial animals not only adds a unique flavor to the soup, but also absorbs large molecular particles in the soup, restoring its clarity.

The boiling soup quickly cooked the minced meat. After Qi Han carefully skimmed off the foam and minced meat from the pot, the thick soup had turned into a pot of light yellow clear soup.

After filtering the clear broth again through an extremely fine sieve, Qi Han removed two strange ingredients that looked like irregular sponges.

This ingredient comes from the ocean of Douluo Continent; it is the heart of the Mica Sea Monster.

The Mica Siren has an extremely large body with a loose and irregular shape. It can quickly change its body shape to prey on other sea spirit beasts. Moreover, it grows at an extremely fast rate. A Mica Siren the size of a palm can grow to hundreds of meters in length in a year.

Its heart is different from other soul beasts. The heart of the Mica Sea Monster is also its brain. As long as the heart is not damaged, it can recover quickly.

Of course, none of the above are the reasons why the Mica Siren became food in Qi Han's hands.

Mica siren has a unique flavor, and its texture and taste are somewhat similar to sea urchin, but even more delicious. Adding it to soup can further enhance the flavor of a soup that has already been infused with countless essences.

Moreover, the heart of the mica siren has a physical structure similar to activated carbon, which can absorb pigments. It is because of this that Qi Han was able to turn the pot of soup in front of him into colorless and transparent boiling water.

The siren's heart seemed to sense the danger and throbbed uneasily, but having lost its body, it had no chance of escaping Qi Han's grasp. Qi Han carefully placed it in a pot and simmered it over low heat for ten minutes before taking it out and setting it aside.

The soup, after being filtered through a fine sieve for the last time, becomes a completely colorless and transparent broth.

Qi Han carefully poured boiling water into the soup pot, then turned around and fetched three cabbages.

These three cabbages are no ordinary ones; they are rare and precious natural treasures, named Jade Apricot Cabbage.

The top-grade fire-attribute natural treasure is called Fiery Apricot, while Jade Apricot is strictly speaking a branch of the same species, so its quality goes without saying.

The three jade-green apricots before me are all centuries old.

The kitchen knife in Qi Han's hand reappeared, but this time it had transformed into a slender carving knife. With the support of his master-level carving skills, Qi Han wielded the knife with divine skill, quickly carving the three jade apricots into the shape of lotus flowers.

Master of swordsmanship, possesses divine skill with plants!

Looking at the three lotus flowers before him, which were slightly closed like shy young girls with only their tips blooming, Qi Han couldn't help but smile.

Place the three lotus flowers in three small bowls, then slowly pour in freshly boiled water, steam for half an hour, and the boiled cabbage in clear broth is ready to serve.

The ingredients used in Boiled Cabbage in Clear Broth far surpass those used in Stewed Lamb in Fish Belly in both quantity and quality. The reason why its price is the same as Stewed Lamb in Fish Belly is quite simple.

Because one serving of ingredients can make three servings of boiled cabbage in clear broth.

The portion of boiled cabbage soup is not large; this kind of soup is about quality, not quantity, and the portion is only about the size of a small bowl.

Qi Han took one portion for himself, and the other two portions were just enough for the Qin sisters to try.