Reborn in Japan as a Chef God

In the early morning, the thin mist was still lingering in the deep alleys.

Early on, Xia Yu got out of bed.

All the practice projects were temporarily stopped, focusing his energy on researching new ingredients.

"Golden Wheat", "Taboo Bird Egg", "Shiny Silk-footed Fish"...

If he had to make a choice among them, Xia Yu chose "Golden Wheat" for research without hesitation.

The reason: It's normal to be attracted to new things. He had previously cooked with "Taboo Bird Egg" and "Shiny Silk-footed Fish" more than once, even played with them, and had grasped about seventy to eighty percent of their characteristics. On the contrary, "Golden Wheat" was completely new and unknown to Xia Yu.

Exploring unknown territories always fills people with energy.

Moreover, the Liu Clan's selection theme this time, according to the intelligence from Ye Feizhou, was very likely "pastries," so researching "Golden Wheat" was a move aligned with the trend.

Don't be fooled by just one night passing. In the past 12 hours, Xia Yu had spent almost a week in the mysterious space, working in full, sleepless mode.

"Hmm..."

Staring at a small bowl on the kitchen counter, inside was a small lump of dough, like gilded jade, translucent with a glimmering gold light.

Xia Yu held his chin, distracted, "At least I've gotten past the water absorption and kneading part!"

Next to the bowl, there was about a third of clear water left in a ladle.

This clear water was scooped from the water tank.

Don't forget the shared secret of the Xia grandfather-grandson duo—

Meteorite from beyond the skies!

That's right.

Settling into the old house, the stone brought back from Japan was naturally placed in the water tank at the old house, so the water in the tank was purified, vaguely mirroring the special "Cold Water" of White Jade Tower.

Therefore, it's evident that Xia Yu used rather special water to get past the 'water absorption, kneading' step.

"Water quality, or rather water quality, is indeed important, huh?"

Xia Yu reached a preliminary conclusion from his practice.

"Then, next..."

His eyes showed hesitation.

The dough was kneaded, and the next step was naturally to use the dough to make buns, noodles, or something.

In other words, the dough made from "Golden Wheat" had to form a recipe.

Recipes can be created, of course, or one can try to incorporate new ingredients into old recipes. Xia Yu himself had rich experience with this, for example, the classic recipe "Shuangjiang Magical Mapo Tofu," which had almost become his signature, wasn't it improved by incorporating "Shuangjiang Tofu"?

Creating a new recipe from thin air is much more difficult than incorporating new ingredients into old, classic recipes.

Thus, Xia Yu knew exactly how to proceed to the next step.

"Golden Wheat is inherently a comprehensive, dreamlike ingredient for pastries, a sought-after material for countless pastry chefs in modern times. If those heroes from a hundred years ago, like Steel Rod Jie Qi, pastry king Logan, could have encountered these fantasy ingredients in advance, then the ancient recipes like 'Golden Open-mouth Smile' and 'Four Divine Seafood Eight Treasure Soul Suppressing Dumplings' would undoubtedly be revamped and advanced further..."

Ancient recipes have their strengths but also their shortcomings.

In this era, new fantasy ingredients are emerging one after another, and the official IGO releases new ingredient lists every year for chefs to study and research. If those heroes from a hundred years ago traveled to the present age, it's easy to imagine that their recipes would undergo a wave of improvement.

Although the ancients are no more, people of today can inherit their recipes and remake the classics!

"Directly incorporating 'Golden Wheat' into 'Golden Open-mouth Smile,' 'Four Divine Seafood Eight Treasure Soul Suppressing Dumplings,' these golden pastry recipes, is too difficult... In short, starting easy before hard, the principle is indeed correct!"

Xia Yu flipped through his ingredient record, looking for suitable blue-purple pastry recipes.

At this moment.

"Mr. Xia!"

A joyful shout, like the chirping of morning birds, was very clear.

Little Ying swiftly ran out from another small kitchen in the old house, panting as she stopped behind Xia Yu. In her hands, she was tightly holding a bowl of ramen, which contained her proud new dish from a while ago—Treasure Cover Mushroom Noodles.

Like presenting a treasure, Little Ying offered up a bowl of ramen, her little face inevitably tinged with nervousness, "Mr. Xia, you let me try to use 'Golden Wheat' for cooking, and I, I did it!"

"Huh?!"

Xia Yu was startled and staggered.

Putting the ramen bowl on the table, he didn't question Little Ying but closely examined the 'Treasure Cover Mushroom Noodles' that were vastly different from his memory.

What he saw were noodle soup with rippling waves and a golden glow effect!

But on closer inspection, it was the noodles in the soup emitting light.

Moreover, the treasure 'treasure cover mushroom' in the bowl was combined tightly with another unspeakable new treasure, one with an airy, elegant flavor and the other with a full dreamlike aura.

Lightly sniffing, the entwined melody of treasures felt like a white snake and a golden snake entangled with each other, Xia Yu's eyes widened slightly in shock.

"No way..."

He was still troubled by the second step, while his apprentice, who he viewed as a Demon King in training, had already brought out a dish made with Golden Wheat?

Incredible!

His eyes showed hesitation, yet he didn't hold back and took chopsticks, gulping down the noodles.

As the noodles and broth entered his mouth, his eyebrows furrowed tightly.

The taste of 'treasure cover mushroom' seemed to vanish, covered by another kind of dazzling golden dust.

Chew!

For a moment, the complex taste from the noodles spilled into his mouth.

While chewing, images of ramen, udon, Italian pasta and other noodle dishes flashed through Xia Yu's mind, whether Japanese, Chinese, or mild or strong-flavored...

In short, it was like swallowing all of them in one mouthful.

This was Xia Yu's first taste of "Golden Wheat's" true flavor, stunning him, "No wonder it's called a dreamlike pastry ingredient, with one bite it encompasses all pasta dishes in the world!"

He put down his chopsticks, closed his eyes, and asked the system:

"System, evaluate the completion of this bowl of ramen."

"Unknown ramen completion at 56%."

So that's it.

Xia Yu exhaled, couldn't help but open his eyes to look at Little Ying, "Little Ying, can you tell me how you did it? How did you get past the first step, water absorption and kneading?"

The fresh smile from her master eased Little Ying's worries, and she said joyfully, "Actually, I didn't get past water absorption and kneading. I found it nearly impossible to make Golden Wheat absorb water and expand using regular water, so I switched to another method, mixing Golden Wheat with regular flour. As for the mixing ratio, I spent a whole night trying and discovered that a ratio of 1 to 22 worked best, meaning 1 gram of Golden Wheat had to be mixed with 22 grams of flour..."

"Yeah, I used Golden Wheat like kneading 'salt'! Treated it as a seasoning!"

Little Ying added.

Upon hearing this, Xia Yu's face gradually filled with gravity.

...

While the master and disciple were discussing "Golden Wheat," the morning internet was disrupted by a set of images.