Before she began cooking, Bronya did not rush to light the stove. Instead, she first prepared the seasonings and ingredients. There were plenty of ingredients in the kitchen, so she was not only making Golden Shrimp Balls. She also planned to make several other dishes.
Watching the young girl chop at such speed, Yanxiao could not help but marvel. It was too fast—more phantom than a phantom!
Was this really something a human could do?
A potato... in Bronya's hands, it seemed to merely spin once. In less than two seconds, the skin had been perfectly peeled away. The crucial part was that the peel was still one unbroken strip.
Yanxiao looked at the potato peel Bronya had tossed aside and picked it up. It was an incredibly complete strip... not broken anywhere. She had peeled the potato as though peeling an apple, and the key was that she had not cut too deeply into it. It had also taken an extremely short time.
From his perspective, the potato had merely spun once in her hand, and that was that.
Next, Bronya tossed the peeled potato into the air, raised her knife... and slashed with blade flashes too swift to see. By the time the potato landed on the cutting board, it had become neat, fine shreds.
Leaving aside Bronya's cooking, Yanxiao was completely convinced by her knife skills alone. He could barely manage something similar himself, but never with such speed and fluidity.
She handled the other ingredients in the same way. Even the technique she used to shell a lobster was first-rate.
Tasks that would take him over half an hour were completed in Bronya's hands in just over five minutes.
Once all the ingredients were ready, Bronya heated oil in a wok.
Naturally, the first dish was