The Game of Life-Chapter 865 - 864 Cardiac Stimulant

Chapter 865: Chapter 864: Cardiac Stimulant

Chapter 865 -864: Cardiac Stimulant

Friday afternoon at 4:17 PM, less than eighteen hours before the final, Sun Maochai tried making sea cucumber and abalone soup for the first time.

Jiang’s Sea Cucumber Soup was still simmering in the clay pot, and just like the numerous times it had been prepared before, there were no issues at all. This also meant that Jiang Feng could spare time and energy to focus on finishing the Jinyu White Cabbage dish while still taking care of the Jiang’s Sea Cucumber Soup.

Three people were all watching Jiang Feng.

Stir-frying white cabbage is a very simple task, so simple that any cooking rookie could finish it by themselves without any help from others, just by following a recipe. However, the quality of the stir-fried cabbage produced that way could not be guaranteed.

Although Jinyu White Cabbage has the flavor of a herb, the method of stir-frying it is not much different from that of ordinary cabbage.

The only difference is that it uses a special type of broth, which is a sea cucumber and abalone soup that takes ten hours to prepare.

Special techniques are also required, and for the purpose of fully combining the plain but fresh and tender white cabbage in the pot with the sea cucumber and abalone soup, Jiang Chengde used a technique of tossing with a big spoon when stir-frying the cabbage.

The good news was, Jiang Feng knew all these techniques, and he possessed them as well.

He also recently acquired a legendary golden pot.

To say he wasn’t nervous would be a lie.

Since starting his culinary studies, the saying “Your great-grandfather cooks white cabbage that tastes of herbs” rang in the ears of every Jiang Family child like a curse. Everyone thought it was just an exaggeration by Sir, and Jiang Feng had thought the same until he saw that memory.

Now, he was about to start stir-frying the herb-flavored white cabbage.

Blanch the white cabbage.

Serve it out.

Pour in the sea cucumber and abalone soup.

Spread on some lard.

Stir-fry quickly.

…

Reduce the sauce.

Serve.

Four minutes.

Jinyu White Cabbage was served.

A dish that looked quite ordinary, with even its color not particularly vivid—just a bit more lustrous than typical cabbage, which didn’t outwardly reveal why it was named Jinyu White Cabbage—was served.

Wu Minqi, Sun Maochai, and Sun Jikai had already been waiting with their chopsticks for four minutes.

To be honest, none of the three could see what was so good about this dish.

If you say the cabbage was great, it was just ordinary fresh cabbage that any adept shopper, even a typical housewife, could pick out at a vegetable market.

If you say the broth was great, it was an expensive pot that took ten hours to make, and to be honest Sun Maochai actually sneaked a taste after it was done, finding it to taste quite indescribable.

It was nothing like a precious seafood soup that required a chef to spend a full ten hours preparing it.

It didn’t taste good, the seafood flavor was too intense, and there was a bit of a fishy smell.

Even Sun Maochai didn’t think the combination of the two could make the cabbage very delicious.

“Have a taste,” Jiang Feng said with confidence.

[Jinyu White Cabbage S+ Grade]

He felt it was hard not to be confident.

At first, he thought the best he could make was an S-grade Jinyu White Cabbage, after all, the game’s recipe rating was S-grade, and the Jinyu White Cabbage that Jiang Chengde made during the New Year’s Eve dinner also reached an S-grade level.

It cannot be said that his culinary skills had surpassed Jiang Chengde already, and even with generous rounding, Jiang Feng could not come to such a conclusion. In Jiang Huiqin’s Jinyu White Cabbage, the soup was made by Jiang Huiqin, and though Jiang Huiqin certainly had plenty of experience, her culinary skills were not on the same level as Sun Maochai. Jiang Feng’s soup was better, and not just by a little bit.

Although Jiang Feng was definitely not as skilled as Jiang Chengde in managing the heat, it couldn’t be said that he was far behind either. At the master level, the comparison of culinary skills between two chefs shouldn’t be about who is better or worse, but rather who has the slight edge. Actually, both are quite close, it’s just about who can go one step further. At this level, advancing further is as difficult as ascending to the heavens, and it’s not like anyone could pull ahead with a clear difference.

The most critical aspect was that Jiang Feng had a good pot, using equipment to make up for some of his shortcomings, albeit small, but enough.

If Jiang Chengde had used the sea cucumber and abalone soup made by Sun Maochai back then, perhaps the Jinyu White Cabbage he made could have reached an S++ grade.

Wu Minqi, who trusted Jiang Feng the most, was the first to stretch out her chopsticks.

When the cabbage reached her mouth, Wu Minqi exclaimed in surprise.

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It wasn’t that there was anything wrong with the “golden jade” cabbage, but Wu Minqi suddenly discovered that this cabbage actually smelled quite fragrant.

Deliciously fragrant, that kind of fragrance, and uniquely so— a wonderful scent combining seafood and vegetables. Fresh and aromatic, with just a hint of the distinct fishy scent of seafood that, in this context, was not a derogatory term, but rather a special embellishment. Much like a beauty mark at the corner of a beauty’s eye or between her eyebrows—while a mole on an ordinary person might be seen as a flaw, on the face of a beauty, if positioned just right, it becomes a unique charm.

This was the charm of this cabbage dish.

Wu Minqi suddenly understood why the “golden jade” cabbage needed such a bizarre pot of seafood broth.

Upon tasting.

Exquisite.

Wu Minqi chewed slowly and meticulously, quiet as a hamster eating its food, incessantly chewing. She wished she could chew each small piece of cabbage two hundred times, breaking down each fiber thoroughly, and squeezing out every drop of the broth between her teeth, reluctant to swallow.

Dazzling.

Having grown up eating the boiled cabbage her grandfather cooked, Wu Minqi had always thought that this was the highest form of cuisine a cabbage could achieve. But now, she realized she had been wrong.

If there was a dish in the world that could be described as divine, it would certainly be this one.

This was indeed the flavor of divine herbs— in cabbage form!

Seeing Wu Minqi not speaking, but just silently chewing with a look of enjoyment, Sun Maochai and Sun Jikai knew that the cabbage before them was certainly not as plain as it looked, and they both reached for their chopsticks eagerly.

Jiang Feng was the last to reach for his.

Even though he had created the dish, it was also his first time tasting “divine herb” flavored cabbage.

Even Jiang Feng was stunned by his own creation, and to be unabashedly vain, he was even impressed by his own skills.

Having never tasted boiled cabbage, eating this “golden jade” cabbage was especially thrilling.

Divine herb flavored cabbage, Sir had not deceived him.

The kitchen fell into a hush; the Jiang’s Sea Cucumber Soup simmering gently on the stove was neglected for the first time.

Finally, Sun Jikai was the first to swallow.

And finally, a voice shared its thoughts.

“Fuck.”

Who would have thought— these two simple, mundane, yet out-of-the-ordinary words came from Mr. Sun, a Wharton graduate.

Jiang Feng, still chewing, silently gave Mr. Sun a thumbs-up in his mind. Then, he swallowed the “golden jade” cabbage he had been chewing who knows how many times, and began to show off subtly.

“How about it? How do you all think this dish will do for tomorrow’s final?” Jiang Feng asked knowingly.

“Exceptionally good.” That was Wu Minqi.

“Choose this one.” That was Sun Maochai.

“Victory is certain.” That was Sun Jikai.

A simple dish of “golden jade” cabbage had Sun Jikai feeling slightly inflated, almost as if he had made the dish himself.

Having finished showing off, Jiang Feng continued back to tend to the Jiang’s Sea Cucumber Soup that had been ignored for several minutes, while Sun Maochai, Sun Jikai, and Wu Minqi polished off the rest of the “golden jade” cabbage.

It’s worth mentioning that Sun Maochai didn’t miss out on a single bite, even displaying a subtle hint of the hustle of a family rushing for dishes during the New Year’s Eve dinner.

Friday afternoon, 4:30 PM, seventeen hours and thirty minutes from the final, and approximately two more hours until the Jiang’s Sea Cucumber Soup would be ready.

The people of Taifeng Building felt certain of their victory.

They were the champions, it was a must.

If not, the divine herb flavored cabbage would be the first to disagree!