Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle

Listening to An Youyou's exaggerated compliments, Qin Huai waited until the buns cooled down a bit before picking one up and taking a bite.

Mmm, just a normal vegetable bun.

I'll send two to Zheng Siyuan later.

Zheng Siyuan's flight just landed this morning, so he relaxed a bit at noon. In the afternoon, he came to work at Yunzhong Restaurant, helped Qin Huai make the Three Meat Buns and Fermented Rice with Steamed Buns, then went back to rest without any extra hours.

He's not interested in the regular vegetable buns that Qin Huai makes.

If Qin Huai had made Double Crab Buns, Zheng Siyuan might have been willing to stay and research together. Zheng Siyuan is already very used to Qin Huai's random ideas, eastward hammers, and westward mallets.

Not to mention if Qin Huai went to the bathroom and suddenly decided to make vegetable buns. Even if, after going to the bathroom, Qin Huai announced that he won't be a pastry master for a few days and that he wanted to diligently practice cooking, specializing in Stir-fried Cabbage and Meat. Zheng Siyuan would just think that the system in Qin Huai's imagination gave him a mysterious side quest.

Master Xiao Zheng is just that accommodating.

With a big bite, the first thing Qin Huai's teeth touched was the bun skin.

With his current advanced dough fermentation level, making the skin for this kind of everyday bun is as easy as pie, a dimensional reduction strike. Just a casual attempt could overwhelm breakfast shops within a ten-mile radius, making their owners surrender with white flags, curse inwardly, while secretly buying buns from Yunzhong Restaurant.

It's very delicious, chewy and yet soft, allowing you to taste the wheat fragrance and the unique steamed gentle carbohydrate aroma of the bun.

The first chew is the skin, and by the second chew, you taste the filling.

It's a very ordinary and simple cabbage filling.

Cabbage absorbs oil, making the taste bland, the legendary yin-yang cabbage soup is said to be a weight-loss weapon. Without oil and salt, only ginger and Sichuan pepper boiled in water with cabbage. The first mouthful makes one reflect on their past life, the second makes them ponder their future. By the third, they feel life is hopeless, and by the fourth, they start questioning the meaning of existence. If one manages to eat the whole pot continuously over a few days, they could succeed in anything.

The above was from a friend circle post Qin Huai saw while perusing, by an unnamed owner of a lemon tea shop, who decided to lose weight after gaining weight from drinking their own store's products.

From this post, it's evident that cabbage in cooking, if lacking oil and seasoning, must be as unappetizing as possible.

And this time, the vegetable buns Qin Huai made only achieved having oil and basic seasoning for the cabbage.

If this snack didn't have a buff, it would just be a normal vegetable bun that's tastier than usual—still an ordinary bun since its rating is only C+.

Yes, C+.

Qin Huai thinks he should watch the tutorial videos when he gets home tonight because Jiang Weiguo's pastry skills are not great, producing only C-grade buns. Despite his pastry skills being much better than Jiang Weiguo's, his buns are just C+. Besides not affecting the knife skills crucial to the bun itself, there must be other aspects he hasn't paid attention to.

Of course, it might also be because Qin Huai doesn't usually make vegetable buns and is not skilled yet. With more practice, the buns should reach B-level.

A C+ bun, with a buff, can become like a B-level snack experience.

If it were B-level, even just B-level vegetable buns with a buff...

One wouldn't dare to imagine, simply couldn't.

Not to mention that this vegetable bun only costs three yuan each.

Before the Three Meat Buns are upgraded to A-level, the vegetable buns will be the strongest in Yunzhong Restaurant.

Qin Huai squinted slightly, enjoying chewing on the bun.

He felt that this vegetable bun's buff was really good, providing double happiness and satisfaction. When people consume carbohydrates, the body's instinct brings happiness and satisfaction. This vegetable bun's buff is double that—just a wonderful feeling.

A wonderful feeling of having a delicious vegetable bun when you're almost starving to death while dieting.

Equally amazed were the customers who bought the vegetable buns.

The first to buy the vegetable buns was Aunt Liu, intending to take all ten buns home to share as the main dinner dish with her family.

But Aunt Liu was a little hungry and couldn't resist her craving. As soon as she received the buns, she immediately picked one up and took a bite.

With just one bite, Aunt Liu had a wild urge, considering breaching Yunzhong District's community agreement, risking justified enforcement to queue again and buy 20 more buns.

Then Aunt Liu hesitated, choosing instead to call her husband to quickly come downstairs and buy buns, while she hurried home.

If anyone asked, she'd say she didn't know her husband was also coming to buy, that they both happened to get the news and rushed to buy buns without notifying each other. As they say, ignorance implies no guilt, and though they violated the community agreement, it's understandable and won't invoke justified enforcement.

20 buns, well, their family of five could finish them, so it's not wasteful.

Thinking this, Aunt Liu happily stuffed another bun into her mouth, filled with happiness.

Oh, Master Qin's vegetable buns are really delicious this time!

In Yunzhong Restaurant, Chen Huihong, being a super privileged member, didn't have to abide by the community agreement and bought 20 buns at once. She took 18 and left 2 for Luo Jun, having five there and taking fifteen away.

"You're buying so many buns?" Luo Jun couldn't help but glance more at the buns Chen Huihong bought and said sarcastically, "Why, haven't you had enough vegetable buns over your lifetime?"