The Wool Comes From the Sheep's Back

After a good night's sleep, Xue Xi yawned and finished washing up. Rolling up her sleeves, she habitually headed to the kitchen to practice her basic skills. With great strength in her small frame, she tossed the wok and flipped the pan, stir-frying vegetables and cooking meat. Xue Xi's movements grew increasingly proficient, faintly possessing the flair of a master chef.

While simmering the topping for the Cat Ear Noodles, Xue Xi decided to test the power of the Myriad Manifestation Water. She tapped the center of her brow with her left hand, and a three-dimensional holographic map of Earth's waterways appeared in her mind. Xue Xi pinpointed the Yellow River in Jin Northwest, then wiped her right hand over the faucet, causing a faint, ethereal gray film to cover the water outlet.

Turning on the faucet, the water inside shifted from the gentle softness of Jiangnan Base City to the grand, heroic spirit of the Northwest. It was true that the water and soil of a region nourish its people; the functionality of the Myriad Manifestation Water was truly powerful.

Xue Xi then used this water to knead the dough and boil the soup. The resulting Cat Ear Noodles indeed rose a grade on the evaluation page. The Hong Rank magical modification effect provided a full 10-fold acceleration in movement technique comprehension. Xue Xi suddenly felt that 100,000 credits were no longer worthy of this level of food.

Thinking that there would be more and more dishes in the future, Xue Xi planned to clearly mark the prices for different grades of food on the menu. In the future, if she wanted to improve the food grade, high-quality Monster ingredients would be indispensable. Those were all bought with hard-earned cash; she hadn't earned much yet, so how could she afford to lose money?

As the saying goes, the wool comes from the sheep's back. She wasn't running a charity, and compared to the benefits brought by the food's magical modification effects, this amount of money was the most affordable thing imaginable.

She took down the simple menu hanging on the wall, wiped away the original writing, took out a marker, and after careful consideration, began to write on it.

[Cat Ear Noodles]: Accelerates movement technique cultivation and comprehension. 1x effect: 100,000; 10x effect: 1,000,000. (1 bowl lasts for 1 month)

[Crab Roe Soup Dumpling]: Enhances Origin Force cultivation speed. 10x effect: 1,000,000; 100x effect: Not yet available, stay tuned! (1 dumpling lasts for one week)

Note: This shop guarantees delicious food, exceptional effects, and fair prices. Guests, please enjoy with confidence!

Clapping her hands, she hung the new menu on the prominent wall behind the cashier. After looking at her masterpiece with satisfaction, Xue Xi turned back to the kitchen to begin preparations for the Crab Roe Soup Dumplings with the remaining ingredients.

The filling for the soup dumplings consisted of crab roe, crab meat, and pork skin jelly, while the soup was an original chicken broth. The dough was made from high-gluten flour. For now, she could prepare the pork skin jelly and the dough first, multitasking without falling behind.

The production of Crab Roe Soup Dumplings can be divided into three steps: first, simmering the crab oil over low heat; second, simmering the chicken broth for the skin jelly; and third, forming the high-gluten flour dough. After that, they could be placed in the steamer.

The first step had to wait due to the materials, so Xue Xi started directly with the second step.

She took the pork out of the refrigerator, sliced it horizontally to separate the skin from the meat, then boiled the skin in a pot for a few minutes. Once softened, she scraped off the fat and cut the pork skin into strips.

She placed the pork skin strips into a pot, added water, and brought it to a boil, repeating the blanching process three times to remove as much fat as possible, ensuring the resulting pork skin jelly wouldn't be greasy.

She added hot water to the pot along with the pork skin and a whole chicken, then added green onions, ginger, seasonings, cooking wine, soy sauce, and salt. After bringing it to a boil over high heat, she turned it to low heat and simmered it for 2 hours. She then removed the skin, minced it in a meat grinder, and made it into a pork skin paste.

In the final step, she filtered the chicken broth, put it back into the pot, added the pork skin paste, brought it to a boil over high heat, and then simmered it over low heat for 50 minutes. She skimmed off the foam, and after simmering for another quarter of an hour, Xue Xi added shrimp roe, soy sauce, salt, sugar, and Shaoxing wine to season it. When the soup became thick and rich, she stirred in chicken essence, white pepper, and sprinkled on green onions. Two minutes later, she took it off the heat, filtered it while hot, placed the soup in a tray, and stirred it constantly. Once the soup cooled and solidified, she crumbled it to form the jelly filling.

Next was preparing the dough. She put salt in a bowl, added water, and mixed it well to create a saline solution. She placed the high-gluten flour on the cutting board, poured in the saline solution gradually, kneaded it into a dough, rolled it into a thick log, placed it on the board, covered it with a damp towel, and let it rest for 20 minutes.

She rolled the rested dough log into a thinner strip, divided it into small pieces of about 25 grams each, and rolled them into circular wrappers about 16 centimeters in diameter, slightly thicker in the middle and thinner at the edges. Once the crab arrived to mix with the filling, she could start wrapping.

After finishing all this, it was past eight o'clock. Xue Xi opened the door, and the morning sunlight spilled into the restaurant, stretching the shadows of the tables and chairs diagonally.

Taking a deep breath of fresh air, she saw a small team in the distance with bulging backpacks, laughing and talking as they walked straight toward the restaurant. Xue Xi reached out and called out, "Yo, Li Guangming, your team looks like you've had a good harvest! Congratulations, congratulations. Why not come in for a bowl of hot Cat Ear Noodles to warm your stomach?"

Li Guangming's team was an elite War General team from the Thunder Martial Arts Hall. He himself had been a High-Level War General for many years and was just one step away from breaking through to become a War God; his strength was truly terrifying.

But ever since he came here once, he had been completely captivated by the restaurant.