Scallion oil f-flying pancakes?

[Ding! A cooking god's confidence fears no doubt. Culinary aura maxed out. Show-off Points +60!]

[Ding...]

After saying that, Shen Chuan felt the stunned silence around him and shifted his feet awkwardly. Doing his homework before showing off really had paid off.

All those domineering CEO short dramas hadn't been watched in vain!

But with nobody responding, he really was embarrassed!

Thoughts flooded his mind, but Shen Chuan maintained his impressive pose, his expression completely unchanged, as though he hadn't been the one to say it.

Jiang Wenyan was the first to reassure himself after getting over his shock.

Boss Shen had such skill at such a young age. Wasn't it perfectly normal for him to be a little chuuni and enjoy showing off a little?

Besides, how could this count as showing off?

This was called being different!

"Boss Shen is right! Anything a cooking god makes has to taste good. I'll take three!"

Today's customers had all arrived quite early. With Jiang Wenyan keeping Zhang Jiale and the others informed, they had headed out as soon as Boss Shen did. They had even rounded up a group of classmates, guaranteeing they would take everyone to eat the most delicious chive pockets in the world.

They had practically timed their arrival to the minute.

Yet when they arrived, they weren't first in line at all. Instead, the customers who had come early for chive pockets had pushed them farther back.

There had originally been quite a few customers ahead of them, but several had left one after another upon hearing that the menu had changed to crispy scallion pancakes. Their position had suddenly jumped from somewhere in the twenties to somewhere in the teens.

"Huh? Why did several people up front leave? Great, that's fewer people to wait behind!"

A customer with particularly sharp ears heard this and replied, "Because Boss Shen isn't selling chive pockets today. He's selling scallion pancakes, I think?"

"What? I don't like scallions!!! Ever since I was little, I've had to pick them out of anything I eat. Why does it have to be scallion pancakes!!!"

Before Zhang Jiale and the others could speak, someone jumped up at this news. After saying that, they stopped waiting in line and headed straight toward the front instead.

The group of classmates invited by Zhang Jiale and his two companions: ...

"The most delicious chive pockets in the world?"

The three roommates hadn't expected things to turn out this way either. They had only wanted to share delicious chive pockets with everyone and find more people who agreed with them. How had this happened?

"Boss Shen is such a good cook. Don't chives and chopped scallions taste pretty much the same? His scallion pancakes will definitely be good too. Trust me!"

Fatty thumped his chest loudly, giving them his guarantee.

More than twenty of them had come, all college students. Even with people leaving the line, it still looked quite impressive.

Shen Chuan kneaded the dough, then covered it with cheesecloth to rest.

With the high summer temperatures, the dough rested beautifully in just ten minutes or so outdoors.

He used that time to start making the scallion oil mixture.

A large bunch of fresh scallions, their cut ends still wet with juice, lay on the cutting board. Shen Chuan rapidly chopped them with his kitchen knife. His knife moved so quickly it seemed to leave afterimages, leaving Auntie Liao, who was among the people in line, dumbfounded.

She had only wanted to see how those ten-yuan chive pockets were made so she could learn.

But there were no chive pockets for sale today. She had been about to leave when the unbroken sound of chopping caught her attention.

Goodness gracious, with knife skills like that, this young man must be a professional chef!

Anyone who could cook knew that without a certain level of skill and practice, it was extremely difficult to chop so quickly while keeping every piece of scallion the same size and length.

Without the skill, you would cut your hand, too.

Soon, as Shen Chuan chopped more and more scallions, their sharp, clean scent gradually filled the air and shot straight up their noses. Standing close by, Jiang Wenyan couldn't help turning his head away, a thin film of tears misting his eyes.

So sharp!

After wiping his eyes, Jiang Wenyan was just about to check on Boss Shen, only to find that his expression hadn't changed, his eyes looked normal, and his gaze was even brighter than before. Jiang Wenyan was instantly filled with admiration.

As expected of a cooking god!

Fresh scallions were pungent and far more irritating than chives. An ordinary person would have been streaming tears long ago. To maintain his cooking god image, Shen Chuan could only keep his eyes wide open, not daring to blink for fear that tears would fall and ruin his image.

Once all the scallions were chopped, Shen Chuan calmly set a pan over the heat and poured in the oil.

A generous amount of gleaming white lard went into the hot pan and quickly melted. He added some golden rapeseed oil, and fine bubbles soon appeared in the pan.

Once the oil heated up, Shen Chuan first tossed in a handful of Sichuan peppercorns to remove unwanted odors and add fragrance, locking the flavor into the hot oil. After frying them until fragrant, he quickly scooped them out, then added half the chopped scallions.

"Sssizzle-"

The scallions tumbled and danced in the oil, slowly fading from fresh green to pale yellow, then turning golden. At that point, the heat could be turned off. Oily smoke rose, but the aroma only grew richer. It no longer had the sharpness of fresh scallions, instead becoming mellow and lingering, with a smoothness that seemed to have been tempered by time.

Shen Chuan then set the scallion oil aside to cool and seasoned it.

Seeing that the dough had finished resting, he began kneading it into pancake bases.

The system's scallion pancake recipe was relatively complicated. While kneading each base, he had to scatter fresh chopped scallions over it while tossing and stretching the dough by hand, making it larger and thinner so it could hold more scallions.

The dough was extremely relaxed and elastic in his hands. Soon, it became large and round, covered so densely in chopped scallions that all he could see was green, with none of the dough showing.

The next step was to brush a layer of the fried scallion oil over the fresh scallions, allowing the seasonings in the oil to blend into the filling.

Then it could be folded up layer by layer to form one extra-thick pancake.

The customers at the front had thought Boss Shen would take out a rolling pin next and roll the thick pancake base thinner. Instead, he tossed it straight into the air. An uproar swept through the crowd, everyone both amazed and nervous, their eyes fixed on the pancake spinning overhead.

The pancake stretched fully as it flew, slowly growing larger and thinner without tearing at all. In the blink of an eye, it was back in Boss Shen's hands.

"!!!"

"Holy crap, the scallion pancake flew!"

"So it's a scallion oil flying pancake!"

Shen Chuan quickly placed the pancake into the frying pan he had already prepared beside him. Every movement was crisp, efficient, and graceful. Rather than watching someone make pancakes, it felt like watching a flawless performance, leaving the customers dumbfounded.

The customers experienced the scallion pancake making a circuit right over their heads. Before they could cover their heads or catch it, it returned to Boss Shen's hands as though it had its own navigation system.

Incredible!

Waiting in line had originally been tedious and drawn-out, but now there were even expressions to watch, and the crowd instantly grew excited.

"Goodness gracious, it really flew for a while."

"An airborne pancake! I imagined all sorts of ways Boss Shen might make scallion pancakes, but I never imagined the pancake would fly."

"It really floated over my head just now. I thought it would land right on my head. I was so nervous! Who knew this pancake had a mind of its own?"

"Now I'm really looking forward to the scallion pancakes again. I want one."

"Boss, are your cooking skills really this amazing?"

Seeing the customers' rebuttals, Shen Chuan nodded inwardly in satisfaction. The recipe he had so carefully selected hadn't gone to waste.

How could I not show off with this!

What a perfect moment to harvest Show-off Points!

"It's nothing. Just basic cooking god stuff."

[Ding! Show-off Points +100!]