Crystal Shrimp Dumplings? They were a Cantonese dish. Plenty of people in Magic City had eaten them, and many restaurants served them, but few made them truly well. The greatest feature of Crystal Shrimp Dumplings was not the filling, but the wrapper.
It had to be thin and translucent, yet it could not fall apart, stick together, or turn hard. It also needed a certain springiness and chewiness. Such requirements severely tested a pastry chef's fundamentals.
"I never expected my brother-in-law to make pastries too?" The younger sister-in-law was curious. It was not as if she had never eaten dishes made by Big Chef, but this was the first time she had seen him make dough.
Queen Mother had no doubts. What kind of background did the Food God have? He was proficient in dishes from every culinary school. What was so strange about pastries? Besides, Qin Fen was his teacher.
The restaurant owner swallowed another breath. Cooking and pastry-making were entirely different specialties, like different academic departments. Qin Fen's knife skills aside, and his cooking aside too—he had been featured on A Bite of China. Who would have thought he could make pastries as well?
"Dumplings?" The foreigner asked. Seeing Big Chef nod, he relaxed and could not help glancing at Qin Fen again. Dumplings held great appeal for foreigners, and most could accept them. He had been afraid Qin Fen would fool around and make something bizarre, but it turned out Qin Fen knew what he was doing. His look immediately changed.
Qin Fen prepared the wheat starch, then took a small bottle from his pocket and poured out some starch from the Earthly Immortal Realm while he began marinating the filling. Modern Crystal Shrimp Dumplings generally used whole shrimp; once the shrimp had been shelled, they needed