CHAPTER 719: CHAPTER 718: THE FOOD DEMON KING’S RECIPES (PART 2)

The personal recipes of the Food Demon King were, of course, not simple.

Moreover, unlike Grandpa Xia Qing’s handwritten notes, when Xia Yu flipped through the Demon King’s recipe notebook, he immediately felt the pressure akin to facing the abyss and being stared down by it.

Vast!

Mysterious!

These were Xia Yu’s first impressions of Xianzuowen’s cookbook.

"At least, it’s a recipe of the Kirin level’s golden tier!" he concluded in his heart, even feeling a forbidden word about to leap from his thoughts, bringing with it a nervousness he hadn’t experienced in a long time.

Clutching the notebook, his palms began to sweat.

"Then I won’t give you a demonstration!"

After saying this, Xianzuowen walked to the outer chamber of the large kitchen, seated himself on the tatami, and a maid brought him hot tea, which he silently poured for himself and drank.

Xia Yu gathered his scattered thoughts and bowed his head to flip through the notebook again.

Seeing this, Leonora pulled Alice and Eriina, who were still eager to argue, away while Tiqie Zongwei stayed put. Roughly a few minutes passed, and when he saw Xia Yu raise his head, he asked with a smile, "How is it?"

"It seems to be just an ordinary vegetarian ramen."

His brows furrowed, Xia Yu hesitated.

This was too strange!

He had felt an imposing aura when he had initially glanced over it, but upon closer examination, the cookbook seemed extremely ordinary.

"Oh, so it’s that recipe!"

Upon hearing it was vegetarian ramen, Tiqie Zongwei suddenly realized, a flicker of shock that Xia Yu did not notice passing through his eyes.

Could it be...

Tiqie Zongwei commented subtly:

"Over a hundred years ago, ramen was introduced from Yokohama Chinese Street to Japan and, after a series of reforms to suit Japanese tastes, it became the most down-to-earth and representative staple of Japanese food."

"A bowl of authentic Neon Ramen can be broken down into five parts: noodles, toppings, soup base, dressing, and seasoning. Among these, the soup base is the essential component. If we start from the soup base, Neon Ramen differs from the pork, beef, or seafood Chinese soup bases in that it adds other seasonings such as soy sauce and miso into the pork bone broth..."

Xia Yu nodded: "I understand this!"

Having lived in Japan for years, it wasn’t necessary to learn from a textbook; Xia Yu could accumulate plenty of ramen knowledge from daily life.

For instance.

The three major types of Japanese ramen are Sapporo Ramen, Fukuoka Ramen, and Kitsukado Ramen.

To elaborate further, Sapporo Ramen stands for miso soup-based ramen and is the origin of this branch.

Kitsukado Ramen belongs to soy sauce ramen, with a broth fortified with soy sauce.

And the most familiar Fukuoka Ramen to foreigners has brought the pork bone soup base to great prominence.

Therefore, by extension, the three major Japanese Ramen systems are, naturally:

Miso Ramen, Soy Sauce Ramen, and Pork Bone Ramen.

Xia Yu knew how to make Japanese Ramen, so upon first flipping through the Food Demon King’s recipe notebook, he determined that this ramen recipe, named "The Demon King’s Ramen," did not strictly belong to any Japanese Ramen system!

"Chicken clear soup!"

"Accompanied by distinctively alkaline noodles!"

Muttering to himself, Xia Yu lowered his head and pondered the cookbook once more.

"Chicken clear soup?"

Hearing her mutter, Tiqie Zongwei’s expression stiffened, and he thought silently to himself, as expected!

It was that recipe!

The Food Demon King’s life menu backup recipe!

As the Demon King’s biological son, Tiqie Zongwei had the fortune to taste it once many years ago, and it seemed that the flavor still lingered in his mouth.

He went to the outer chamber and sat down across the tea table, looking at Xianzuowen and saying in a low voice, "Are you sure it’s okay to show him such an important recipe?"

Leonora pricked up her ears.

Alice and Eriina also looked on with interest.

After all, the Far Moon Commander personally giving a young lecturer his personal recipe notebook would pique anyone’s curiosity. It was fortunate they were at home; otherwise, if the media got wind of it, the Japanese Food Industry would certainly be in for another big news story.

Xianzuowen glanced up nonchalantly, cast a glance at the chef standing motionless in the corner of the kitchen, and said, "This is a small test."

"A test?"

Everyone looked puzzled.

"Yes, the work is the most convincing. If he can recreate this recipe, it means..."

Here, Xianzuowen took a breath.

"He’s qualified to apply for the Kirin level evaluation!"

The Kirin level test!

Upon grasping the subtext of the Food Demon King’s words, the people of the Tiqie Family were suddenly silent.

"Lin, Lin-Lin-Lin-Lin?" Alice stuttered.

"Shh! Keep it down!"

Eriina glared at her fiercely, tilting her head to look at the boy who, unaffected, still stood there perusing the recipe.

Alice pouted, about to retort.

At that moment.

The sound of a maid’s footsteps approached from afar, and soon, several maids lined up outside the door, "General, the ingredients are ready!"

"Bring them in to him," commanded Tiqie Xianzuowen with a wave of his hand.

"Yes!"

The maids entered the room and arranged the ingredients just brought from the storehouse on the table.

Brand-new, unopened sauce bottles with Far Moon Group labels.

Vacuum-packed fresh vegetables.

Striking green onion strips.

Of course, there were also the essential chicken bones, chicken meat, and other ingredients for making the broth. The "vegetarian" aspect of this noodle recipe did not refer to the broth but to the toppings, which lacked the Japan Ramen’s usual fish cakes and char siu pork.

...

In the mysterious space.

Xia Yu communicated with the system, summoning free materials for practice.

"Adjust the flow rate, the time flow ratio to the external world is 10:1, here it is 10."

"Adjustment successful!"

"At this flow rate, every hour will consume 1,000 Fame Points," said the system.

Clearing a row of prompt texts, Xia Yu went to review the recipe information recorded in his mind.

First and foremost was the soul of the ramen—

The broth!

"The main ingredient is chicken, with ham as a secondary ingredient, Jinhua ham being the best, and dried scallops. The recipe writes ’yuanbei’ in Japanese, which after drying becomes dried scallops. Adding dried scallops to simmer the old broth can make the broth taste more refreshing and less greasy."

At the stove in the virtual kitchen, Xia Yu set up a pot for simmering broth.

Chicken and bones, once scalded in hot water, were tossed into the pot.

Of course, to enrich the flavor of the broth further, ham and scallops alone were not enough; ingredients like onions, celery, and carrots were also essential.

"Wait a minute!"

After adding all the ingredients, Xia Yu suddenly halted.

"I’m missing one ingredient!"

Wracking his brain, he finally found the missing ingredient in the recorded text.

"Some kind of seaweed, blue star algae?"

A trail of cold sweat ran down his forehead.

Xia Yu was stunned.

"System, do you have any data on blue star algae?"

"Identified as a Fantasy Ingredient, specific analysis of the specimen is required."

Fantasy Ingredients!

This time, Xia Yu became furious, "This Food Demon King is clearly setting a trap for me to fall into! This is not any common food recipe at all!"

The virtual kitchen could not provide the ingredient known as ’blue star algae,’ and without this key ingredient, any attempt at practice was a joke.

He could only exit the mysterious space.

"Ah!"

Seeing him wake up, Alice called out, "Instructor, hurry up, I’m getting a bit hungry. Grandpa’s recipe should be easy for you to figure out, right?"

Xia Yu’s eyebrows twitched.

This girl still didn’t understand the situation. The Demon King’s recipe was not so easily deciphered.

"What is blue star algae?" he walked over and asked.

"It’s been prepared for you," Tiqie Xianzuowen answered indifferently, pointing towards the table piled with ingredients.

"The specifics are all written in my recipe notes," the old man concluded, then lowered his eyelids and continued to drink his tea calmly. He was like an examiner who remained tight-lipped about the contents of the test.

Tiqie Zongwei and Leonora, the couple, were whispering to each other, and Leonora, evidently hearing something from her husband, could not help but look up at Xia Yu with a helpless gaze.

Ding.

At that moment, the system added fuel to the fire.

A rare punishment task.