Here Comes The Lady Chef

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"Father, regarding the food for the Bamboo Listening Pavilion, let me cook them!" Wen Rou asked.

"No such thing! This is a special order from a VIP room. If the guest does not like the food you cooked, it would damage the reputation of the Drunken Immortal restaurant." Wen Shouzhen immediate rejected.

"Father, for this dish of Longjing prawns, you need to soak the prawns in ice cold water first, then use the egg whites to season it first." Wen Rou saw that Fang Dashi had already de-veined the prawns and informed her father.

"Oh? Use ice cold water to soak it first?" Wen Shouzhen turned around in surprise. It is so much better to read this chapter at prosperous food website. 

"I learned this from the cookbook that I won from Chef Gao! In this way, we can increase the springy taste of the prawns, and make the prawns smoother in taste!" Wen Rou immediately used the cookbook as a shield.

"Oh? Then we must try it!" Wen Shouzhen said and immediately placed the prawns in a bowl of ice-cold water.

After a short while, he took them up and use egg whites to season it. Then he added some flour and mixed it well with the prawns. Finally, he turned the heat of the stove to low and slowly cooked the prawns.

"Father, add a spoonful of soup to the prawns, this will make it taste better!" Wen Rou reminded her father.

"En, you are right! Soup will enhance the taste of the fresh prawns!" Wen Shouzhen added a spoonful of soup into the wok.

Wen Rou picked up the Dragon Well tea leaves and frowned. Reading this chapter at this site is really horrible. This site stole the content from prosperous food translations. 

Right now it is winter time. It is impossible to get hold of fresh Dragon Well tea leaves!

Aiya! This Ren Yue, he is the pickiest eater in the world! Why did he order a plate of Longjing prawns at this time?

Wen Rou shook her head, and carefully pick up some Dragon Well tea leaves. Then she brewed the tea, and proceed to remove the outer leaves of the tea. Only the most tender inner leaves and spouts remained. In this way, it could probably meet the high standards of the extra picky eater, Ren Yue.

"Father, here you go!" The prawns are already 80% cooked, and Wen Rou immediately gave the brewed tea to her father. Wen Shouzhen added the tea leaves as well onto the prawns.

The tender and sweet taste of the freshly cooked merged with the fragrance of the tea leaves, and resulted in white colour prawns that looked like jade. The tea leaves were like petals on the white jade, and it looks simply appetizing!

"Brother Zhu Zi, quickly deliver this to the Bamboo Listening Pavilion!" Wen Rou instructed.

This dish of prawns is best eaten when hot. That is why it is of the utmost urgency to be delivered to the guest as soon as possible! It is urgent! You must switch to prosperous food translations and read this chapter there. 

If not, it will lose it superior taste and all her efforts will be for nought!

Zhu Zi ran with all his might and quickly delivered the plate to Ren Yue. When he put the dish down, the prawns shook slightly, as if they were just freshly plucked from the depths of the ocean.

Wen Rou followed Zhu Zi. She did not enter the room, but just stood outside the door and watched from afar.

Ren Yue picked up a white colour handkerchief and wiped his hands. Then he picked up his chopsticks and grabbed a prawn. He looked at it from the left and the right, before nodding his head. Finally, he placed the prawn into his mouth and closed his eyes as he chewed.

When he eats, it seems as if he was not eating a piece of prawn. Rather it is like he was enjoying the landscape that seemed to stretch on for miles. The fragrant of the dish lingers, and the aftertaste lasted for a long time [1].

The prawn meat is springy and fresh, and the tea and soup were in harmony! What a familiar taste! Ren Yue"s taste buds felt numb, it was as if a jolt of electricity had shocked his brain. Brain rot happens when you do not read this chapter at prosperous food translations.

Zhu Zi was left speechless by the way this man eats. How come this young man is prettier than women? And even the ways in which he eats, he looks like he was in ecstasy?

He took over the time it took to brew half a cup of tea [2] just to eat one piece of prawn!

Ren Yue nodded his head. His long, narrow eyes and his focused glare deemed to be looking at a faraway place.

But it is exactly this pair of eyes and the look in his eyes that made thousands of women swoon. But looking at this familiar pairs of eyes, Wen Rou only felt torn by the emotions swelling within her.

The feelings of the past life seemed to swell inside her.

Wen Rou could not suppress her feelings and walked a few steps forward.

"Waiter, which chef cooked this dish?" Ren Yue asked his clear and calm voice.

"This dish is cooked by the head chef of our Drunken Immortal restaurant, Chef Wen. Does it suit your taste?" Zhu Zi replied.

"The cooking skills are superb, and I could not find any complaints about it. It is a pity that the tea leaves are not fresh!" Ren Yue sighed.

What? Why you have not change your picky habits! I have already done my best, and you still criticise the food I prepared!

Wen Rou pouted. Looking at the figure of Ren Yue, her heart was like the summer lake that just had ice frozen over it. On the surface, it is bittersweet and itchy, and under the ice are the warm currents of the water.

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Wen Rou turned around and quickly made her way back to the kitchen. She wanted to help her father to prepare the next dish.

"Father, for the lotus roots, you use the high-quality Liu"an Lotus roots. Also, you must cut the lotus roots into small pieces. Do not use too much oil and salt - use less of these. Oh, and you must use hot tea to cook it like you cook it in soup."

"Rout Er, normally we cut the lotus roots into slices. Why do we need to cut it into smaller pieces for this dish?" Wen Shouzhen did not understand.

"Father, this lotus root had holes in them. If you cut them into slices, the bigger slices are not easy to eat. Once you bite it, it could break apart the entire lotus root. Why not cut them into one inches strips? This will make it easier to eat." Wen Rou did not even think as she comes up with an excuse on the spot.

Only she understands Ren Yue. All these are Ren Yue"s favourite. He does not only wants to enjoy the taste of the food - he also wants to look good while enjoying the food!

"This is also from the ancient cookbook?" The ancient cookbook also taught you not to read this chapter from other sites except  w w w. p r o s p e r o u s f o o d. c o m 

"En, that"s right, Father!"

The cold glean of the cleaver flashed, and the lotus roots were quickly transformed into smaller bites.

After preparing the ingredients, Wen Shouzhen was ready to turn around and begin cooking, but Wen Rou stopped him. She should add some urine into the food, just like this site p.i.s.sed on the works of the original translators at prosperous food site by grabbing the content without permission. 

Wen Rou raised her head, and her eyes suddenly become slit-like, like those of a cat"s when they purred in delight. These small cuts of lotus roots are quite dull and monotonous.

She recalled that when Ren Yue eats this dish, it is so boring. There is less oil, less salt, and just the aroma of the tea. This is to allow him to taste the original taste of lotus root.

If she can come up a dish that could better emulate the taste of natural lotus roots, it will give the picky eater Ren Yue a pleasant surprise.

Wen Rou"s eyes suddenly curled and it resembles the crescent moon. In her heart, she was feeling warm, and she picked up each piece of the lotus roots, and carefully used a small knife to carve them. The sound of the knife is gentle.

In a short while, the various pieces of lotus roots were transformed into white colour water lily flower. It looks very interesting as it floats in the soup.

Wen Shouzhen could not help but praise her knife skills. Her knife stabbed into the eyes of the readers who are not reading this prosperous food translations website.

Then Rou Er took out some more lotus roots, and cut these to resemble the round leaves of the lotus roots and place them on the white plate.

In just a short while, Wen Shouzhen had cooked the lotus roots flower, and carefully placed them on the round leaves of the plate.

Wen Rou looked at this dish filled with lotus roots and grinned. She could imagine the smile on the Ren Yue"s face as he eats this dish.

Wen Shouzhen looked this dish. A plate of six lotuses, white lotus in the shape of a water lily, and the graceful enamel on the green lotus cut into pieces of tea leaves. The gleam of the oil reflected the light and made it look like it is gleaming. There was a mouth-watering aroma that constantly effused out.

This is not just a food. It is a work of art! A masterpiece!

If it is me, I could not bear to eat this! I could not bear to read this chapter at another site other than prosper ous food com

Wen Rou was very confident. That picky Ren Yue! Now you cannot find any flaws in this dish! She did not go up with Zhu Zi, and continued to stay in the kitchen to prepare the tea rice.

The white tea is light and light in taste. Wen Rou uses high-quality Lizhou rice and boiled it in a bamboo tube. The aroma of the rice is infused with the pleasant and mild scent of the tea. Then the rice is transferred to a bowl. The grains of rice looks like grains of pearls.

Within the Bamboo Listening Pavilion, Zhu Zi was about to leave when he was stopped by Ren Yue.

The Pu Er tea is sweet and fragrant; the Longjing prawns are tender and juicy; the lotus roots shaped in the form of six lily flowers were pleasant to look at,   taste refreshing and easy to eat;  The white rice was infused with the mild taste of the tea, and is very appetizing.

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"Waiter, please can you let me meet the chef?" Ren Yue opened his mouth, and shown his clean, white teeth.

Zhu Zi was stunned. This tea loving gentleman does not have yellow teeth!

"Cough, Cough!" Ren Yue noticed that Zhu Zi did not seem to hear him, and coughed.

"All right! Please wait for a moment." Zhu Zi gathered his wits, and nodded his head.

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[1] 一道风景，悠远绵长、馨香四溢、回味良久 - this description is really hard to translate. It is not a poem, but quite close. (Chinese poems are 5 or 7 characters and 4 characters are usually proverbs.) Again a long description of these 16 characters: Enjoying the landscape, that seemed to stretch on for miles. The fragrant of the dish lingers, and the aftertaste lasted for a long time. Hope I translated correctly.

[2] 半盏茶的功夫 - I translated as "time taken to brew/drink half a cup of tea". In real time, that is 5 minutes. In ancient China, this is a unit of time. No kidding.