"Best, hot pot, dipping sauce..."
Long Yue opened her phone and typed the words into the search bar one by one.
Aside from streaming, she spent most of her free time binge-watching dramas and anime, as well as learning all kinds of things.
By now, her typing speed had become far more proficient than before, and she had also learned how to use browsers and various video platforms to search for things.
Looking at all the search results, she still found it difficult to choose.
There were simply too many kinds of dipping sauces to choose from, and every blogger recommended different combinations.
"Since you don't know what to eat, why not try every kind?"
Seeing Long Yue's troubled indecision, Lin Fan walked over, took the empty bowl from her hand, and began adding different seasonings to it.
"This is sesame paste sauce, my favorite hot pot dipping sauce. It's delicious with boiled meat."
After saying that, he stuffed the prepared sesame paste sauce into her hands. Then he took another empty bowl, scooped in several spoonfuls of sesame oil, and added some minced garlic and chopped scallions.
"This is an oil dip. It's also good with meat, and it can help with the spiciness."
As he spoke, another bowl of hot pot dipping sauce was placed into Long Yue's hands.
Long Yue was just about to speak when a third bowl of dipping sauce was immediately placed in her hands.
"This is a dry dip. It has chili, cumin, and white sesame seeds. It's perfect for grilled meat."
"Oh... thank you..."
Holding the three bowls of dipping sauce, Long Yue carefully returned to her seat.
While they had been preparing the sauces, the grill had nearly finished preheating, and the hot pot had also been brought over.
Zhou Yan had already put some meat onto the grill, then poured plate after plate of fatty beef rolls into the hot pot. By then, the grill was already sizzling, and the aroma of roasting meat had spread through the air.
"You came at just the right time. It'll be ready to eat in a moment."
"Ooh~!"
Long Yue sat down and stared happily at the meat on the grill. Smelling its aroma, she nearly couldn't stop herself from drooling.
Back when she still possessed her cultivation, she did not need to eat and had never known hunger.
Ever since she had nearly starved to death and eaten that bowl of instant noodles last time, she had gradually realized just how delicious food could be!
She had once dismissed all kinds of delicacies without a second thought. Looking back, that had truly been a waste of heaven's gifts.
She had been living frugally lately, and she did not even know how long it had been since she had seen so much meat!
"Here, you can eat now."
Seeing the longing in Long Yue's eyes, Lin Fan picked up a slice of boiled meat from the hot pot and placed it in her bowl.
"Then I won't hold back!"
Long Yue picked up the cooked beef, coated it in sesame paste, and eagerly put it into her mouth in one bite.
As the rich flavor of the meat and the sweet fragrance of sesame paste bloomed across her taste buds, her face instantly filled with blissful delight, as though countless brilliant flowers had blossomed upon her cheeks.
"Mmm! So delicious~!!"
That bite of meat instantly made her feel alive again.
Just as the Demon Supreme had said, boiled meat dipped in sesame paste was truly delicious!
She had never even heard of sesame paste on the Immortal-Demon Continent. How could mortals of this world invent such an outrageously delicious dipping sauce? It was simply sinful!
"Don't rush. Eat slowly. You have two hours at this buffet, that's plenty of time."
Lin Fan stood up, placed beef into a slotted spoon, dipped it into the hot pot for a few seconds, then lifted it out and divided it between Zhou Yan and Long Yue's bowls.
"Thanks."
Zhou Yan casually thanked him as he busily turned the meat on the grill in front of him.
As for the Empress? She was busy lowering her head and stuffing slice after slice of boiled meat into her mouth.
"Mmm mmm mmm... This oil dip tastes pretty good too!"
"Don't talk while you're chewing."
"This dry dip smells so good when you chew it too!"
"Damn it! How could mere mortals invent so many delicious ways to eat food!"
Before long, amid Long Yue's muttering, all the food they had taken beforehand was wiped out.
After swallowing the last piece of meat, she was about to reach her chopsticks into the hot pot when she realized there was no meat left in it.
"Hm? Why is there no more?"
"Maybe we didn't take enough..."
"Seriously, then I'll go get some more!"
Long Yue frowned slightly, immediately got up, and ran toward the meat section, stuffing plate after plate of meat into her arms.
She had spent over a thousand yuan! No matter what, she had to eat enough to get her money's worth today!
Before long, Long Yue returned to the table carrying dozens of plates filled with all kinds of meat.
Bacon, fish, shrimp, steak, lamb chops, beef rolls, lamb rolls—she had taken nearly every kind available.
While waiting for the meat in the hot pot and on the grill to cook, she even made a special trip to the cooked food section and brought back more than a dozen plates of fried meat dishes. As she waited for the hot pot and barbecue, she enjoyed the cooked food first, calling it, "Just eating a little to tide myself over."
Lin Fan and Zhou Yan each took charge of one task—one handling the hot pot, the other the grill—but they were actually starting to struggle to keep up with her eating speed...
In the blink of an eye, empty plates had piled up on the table as high as a wall.
The surrounding diners could not help showing looks of astonishment. Quite a few even took out their phones to take pictures.
Such a slim and delicate young woman could actually eat this much...
Could she have been serious when she said she would eat this place clean...?
Could she be some competitive eater here to teach the owner a lesson and create a spectacle?
"Lin Fan, tell me honestly. How many days has it been since you last fed your sister-in-law?"
Zhou Yan muttered in shock.
His arm had grown sore from turning the grilled meat, yet Long Yue showed no sign of stopping whatsoever. He had every reason to suspect that Lin Fan had secretly been mistreating her and refusing to feed her...
"What are you talking about? She ate a huge pot of noodles at noon..."
Lin Fan was stunned as well.
He had vaguely noticed at home that Long Yue had quite an appetite, but he had not expected her to be this capable of eating!
This was the first time he had seen her eat without holding back at all...
"Hm? Why aren't you two eating?"
"Uh... we're full. You go ahead..."
Lin Fan and Zhou Yan said with awkward smiles.
The two of them had barely eaten anything. Most of their time had been spent boiling and grilling meat for her, and peeling shrimp for her on the side. They had not even finished the meat on their own plates.
"You're full after eating so little? Seriously. Then I'll reluctantly help you finish it~"
Long Yue stuffed the last piece of meat from her bowl into her mouth, then reached out and pulled the meat from Lin Fan and Zhou Yan's bowls in front of herself, eliminating it all in one go.
The waiter had said earlier that wasted food would result in a deduction from the deposit!
She had no choice but to help them finish their leftovers too.
"Lin Fan, I suddenly think that if sister-in-law doesn't want to be a virtual streamer anymore, she could switch to competitive eating. She should have no problem at all..."
Having witnessed Long Yue's astonishing appetite, Zhou Yan could not help saying to Lin Fan beside him.
Lin Fan nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, I think so too..."
With the appetite Long Yue had displayed, he felt that challenging the famous competitive eaters of today would be no problem at all...
He suddenly felt that the pressure of supporting the household in the future had increased quite a bit...
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