The Heavenly Egg

Chapter 141 The Heavenly Egg

"Haha! Okay, Miss, please make yourself at home!"

Lin Yu wasn't annoyed and didn't expose Nakiri Erina's forced attempt to save face.

He simply took two steps back, his face bearing his usual calm expression, as he looked at Erina Nakiri's profile, his eyes still possessing a gentle and serene quality like a still pond.

Erina Nakiri pouted and turned her gaze to the last dish in the set meal.

From the outside, it looks like just a peeled hard-boiled egg, nothing special.

Erina Nakiri even squeezed the boiled egg in her hand, and the bouncy feeling it gave her was no different from a regular boiled egg.

Erina Nakiri looked up at Lin Yu, but Lin Yu didn't speak, only giving her a mysterious smile.

With the excellent century egg and lean pork congee and three-egg shumai as examples, Erina Nakiri didn't think that what she had was just an ordinary boiled egg.

"It's best to eat it all in one bite!" Lin Yu suggested at the right time.

Erina Nakiri frowned slightly. "Hmm~ This feels a bit indecent..."

Although she said she was disgusted, Erina Nakiri decided to follow Lin Yu's advice and, just like she had eaten shumai earlier, put the egg into her mouth in one big bite.

"Pop!"

Before Erina Nakiri could even react, with just a slight exertion of her tongue, the egg burst open in her mouth!

The thick, scalding egg yolk splashed everywhere in Erina Nakiri's mouth, instantly filling it completely. The sticky texture even enveloped her tongue and teeth.

Despite the scalding heat making her gasp for breath, the delicious taste in her mouth made Erina Nakiri reluctant to give it up, so she could only tilt her head back and gasp for air.

wrong!

Erina Nakiri's pupils widened suddenly, and a dazzling light burst forth from the depths of her eyes!

Erina Nakiri could feel her God Tongue trembling wildly!

wrong..

My own [God Tongue] is actually getting excited!

Erina Nakiri immediately realized that this so-called "boiled egg" was not so simple at all.

With a deft flick of her pink tongue between her lips and teeth, Erina Nakiri knew the answer in her heart.

The inside of an egg is not filled with an egg yolk at all.

It's crab roe!

Surprised, Erina Nakiri instinctively looked at Lin Yu, but her movement was so exaggerated that a strand of rich, golden sauce almost spilled from the corner of her mouth.

Erina Nakiri gave Lin Yu a charmingly disdainful look, then quickly caught the food with her hand to her mouth.

The girl, her face flushed, licked her lips, her nimble tongue wiping away the golden sauce from the corner of her mouth.

After swallowing the food in her mouth, Erina Nakiri let out a long, pleasant sigh.

"How is it? How does it taste?" Lin Yu asked with a smile.

Instead of answering directly, Erina Nakiri said, "I'd like to have another one!"

"no problem."

Lin Yu handed over another boiled egg.

Erina Nakiri carefully examined the egg in her hand. The surface of the egg white was very smooth, without any gaps, and it felt warm and elastic to the touch.

No matter how you look at it, it's just an ordinary boiled egg!

Unconvinced, Erina Nakiri decided to try it again, but this time she was smarter and didn't swallow it whole; instead, she only bit off half of it.

The rich, delicious flavor assaulted her brain once again, causing her to momentarily lose her senses.

Coming to her senses, Erina Nakiri looked at her hand. The remaining egg white resembled a small bowl, with a thick, golden sauce in the center. A rich, savory aroma wafted from it, wafting towards her.

"It's not just crab roe..."

Upon closer inspection, the thick, golden sauce is coated with tiny, orange-red pieces of crab roe, resembling peeled orange segments.

In addition, there is crab roe with an oily sheen, resembling lard grains, and crab roe that reflects a golden luster.

This sauce uses egg yolk as a base and incorporates various ingredients such as crab roe, crab paste, and crab meat, but the combination is very clever, and the balance between the different flavors is excellent.

It can be said that this tiny egg embodies the essence of "deliciousness" to an unparalleled degree.

Erina Nakiri tossed the remaining half of the "Qiankun Egg" into her mouth, and a blissful expression of enjoyment over the delicious taste returned to her face.

Even though the delicious aftertaste in her mouth had faded, Erina Nakiri couldn't help but lick her lips, her face showing a mixture of reminiscence and reluctance.

Erina Nakiri looked up at Lin Yu, her eyes full of curiosity, but with a complex mix of emotions mixed in.

"How did you do that?" Erina Nakiri asked.

"What?"

"I'm asking how you managed to fill the egg with crab roe sauce without leaving a single gap in the egg white?"

"It's very simple!" Lin Yu smiled gently. "Want to learn? I'll teach you!"

As he spoke, Lin Yu took a fresh egg from under the counter.

"Overall, the structure of the eggshell gives it a certain degree of strength."

"But if you concentrate your power on one point, the eggshell will become very fragile, like a thin layer of porcelain."

"By gently tapping the eggshell with the blade, you can create cracks. As long as you control the force, you can chip off a small piece of the eggshell from the bottom without damaging the whole shell."

After saying that, Lin Yu moved the hand holding the egg in front of Nakiri Erina, and with his other hand he drew a sharp knife.

"I'm about to begin, focus! Watch carefully!"

Hearing Lin Yu's reminder, Erina Nakiri took a deep breath and stared intently at Lin Yu's hand.

"I'm ready!"

As soon as Erina Nakiri finished speaking, Lin Yu's hand moved.

The dagger in Lin Yu's hand instantly turned into a blur and disappeared.

A cold light suddenly flashed in the air right in front of Erina Nakiri, and disappeared again in the blink of an eye.

The cold light reappeared in the next instant.

And so, as Lin Yu's wrist and five fingers moved rapidly, the knife also danced and spun in his hand, almost turning into a continuous slash of light that was impossible to see.

As Lin Yu's two hands approached each other, a series of soft, crisp "ding-ding-ding" sounds were heard, and the blade of the knife had already traced a circle around the eggshell.

Just as Erina Nakiri exclaimed inwardly, before Lin Yu could even react to this acrobatic-like technique, Lin Yu had already stopped moving.

Erina Nakiri suppressed her rapid heartbeat and looked up at Lin Yu, whose face remained calm.

"alright?"

"Of course, that's fine."

Seeing Erina Nakiri's disbelieving look, Lin Yu smiled, gently pinched the small end of the egg with his fingers, and gently rubbed it with a rotating motion.

He removed a perfectly round eggshell with smooth edges.

"Look!" Lin Yu handed the eggshell he had removed to Erina Nakiri. "I didn't lie to you, did I?"

Erina Nakiri took the eggshell and gently stroked its smooth edges with her fingers.

Although she could clearly feel the touch on her fingertips, Erina Nakiri was still in disbelief.

"Is this dish that complicated?"

Erina Nakiri was still somewhat shaken.

"Even removing the eggshell...does it have to be this showy?"

Lin Yu was immediately amused by Erina Nakiri's statement, "Hehe! It might be difficult for most people, but it's alright for me!"

Lin Yu smiled as he poured out the egg white and yolk from the eggshell and separated them.

"If we can open the eggshell, then putting things inside will be easy."

"After separating the egg whites and yolks, I used the yolks as the base for the sauce, and added crab roe, crab paste, and crab meat to make a rich, fragrant, and smooth crab roe sauce. Then I used a mold to solidify it into a spherical shape like an egg yolk."

"After making the sauced dumplings, put them back into the eggshells, put the egg whites back in, seal the shells, and steam them until cooked."

"That's it! Pretty simple, right?"

Hearing Lin Yu's explanation, Erina Nakiri opened her mouth slightly, her eyes somewhat blank, but she still couldn't hide the shock in her heart.

She truly hadn't expected that such an ordinary-looking boiled egg would contain such ingenious ideas and require such a complicated preparation method.

Erina Nakiri stared blankly at the eggshell with the chipped edge removed.

This guy... is amazing!

Erina Nakiri couldn't help but think this to herself...

Although Erina Nakiri was shocked, Lin Yu couldn't care less about her right now.

As the aroma of the preserved egg and lean pork congee continued to spread throughout the hall, more and more judges were drawn in by the fragrance.

The more judges gathered in front of Lin Yu's cooking station, the more curious people who hadn't yet found their target would become, and they would walk over to try the food that attracted so many people.

This is the agglomeration effect brought about by the massive flow of passengers.

To some extent, the efficiency of completing this project and the number of visitors showed an exponential positive correlation.

The more customers you can attract in the early stages, the greater your advantage will be. As long as the taste remains consistent, your advantage will only grow stronger over time.

Lin Yu is in this situation now.

Even though his neighbor, Erina Nakiri, is a very strong competitor.

However, with Lin Yu's snowballing advantage, even Nakiri Erina was severely affected, and the guests were all drawn to Lin Yu's side.

"Excuse me, could I have one?"

"Hey, I want one too!"

"And me!"

"Me too!"

A huge crowd gathered in front of Lin Yu.

The rich aroma wafting in the air, the sight of people receiving their meals, and the expressions of "enjoyment" after tasting them...

A blissful expression of "ecstasy".

Even the judges at the very end of the line firmly chose to stay in line, ignoring the offers from other students around them.

Fortunately, Lin Yu had prepared all three types of dishes in advance, and he had also fully anticipated the popularity of his dishes, preparing a large amount of food. This allowed him to handle such a large crowd with ease.

If they were to make it on the spot, they probably wouldn't be able to handle it even if they chopped Lin Yu into ten pieces...

"Okay! Please don't crowd!"

"Line up! One at a time!"

"I've prepared plenty of ingredients, so please don't worry if you're at the back of the line!"

While greeting the guests, Lin Yu deftly handed out each meal.

Although beads of sweat were appearing on his forehead, Lin Yu remained calm and composed, showing no sign of panic.

Lin Yu's outstanding performance was naturally seen clearly by Dojima Gin in the monitoring room.

In the dimly lit monitoring room, Dojima Gin looked at the exceptionally busy figure on the small monitor screen, nodding repeatedly with satisfaction and approval in his eyes.

"Lin Yujun, I knew I hadn't misjudged you..."

'

A growing crowd gathered in front of Lin Yu's cooking station.

Even though Lin Yu was incredibly fast, he was already so busy that he was completely oblivious to the world around him.

The porridge pots were emptied one after another, and the steamers for making shumai were filled with leftover steamer basket after basket.

But the crowd gathered in front of Lin Yu's cooking station did not seem to have decreased at all.

"Lin Yu!"

"Two hundred copies!"

"Achieved!"

When Dojima Gin's voice was broadcast through the monitoring room, reaching the ears of everyone in the venue, everyone who heard the news was startled.

"What did they say on the radio again?"

"It seems someone has already completed the requirement of two hundred submissions!"

"No way?"

"Damn it! That speed is terrifying!"

"The project has only been going on for about 30 or 40 minutes, and someone has already finished it!"

"Fake news! It must be fake news!"

On the other side of the venue, Takumi trembled upon hearing the news, and almost dropped the bowl in his hand.

"What?!"

"Has Lin Yu already met the requirement of picking up two hundred meals?"

Takumi felt as if all his strength had been drained in an instant. He leaned against the kitchen counter, barely managing to keep from collapsing by supporting himself with his hands.

"I...lost again?"

"And...they lost so utterly..."

'

Looking at the small pile of leftover plates from the guests' meals in front of me, I could roughly count only forty or fifty plates.

"hehe...

Takumi chuckled self-deprecatingly. "The gap between him and me... is it really that big?"

Just as Takmi was feeling disheartened and his faith was wavering, a voice suddenly rang out in front of him.

"Excuse me, do you still serve breakfast here?"

"certainly!"

Upon hearing that a guest had arrived, Takmijip reflexively raised his head, increased his voice, and shouted.

At this moment, Takumi's face no longer showed any disheartenedness, only a serious look in his eyes and a gentle smile on his lips, as if the wavering of his belief just now was just a dream.

This is a habit that Takumi developed while working in his own restaurant for a long time.

Regardless of your own state of mind, once a customer arrives, you must immediately pull yourself out of a negative state and treat the customer with a positive attitude.

Cooking in a state of mental confusion is not only disrespectful to the diners, but also to the ingredients and the chef's own cooking.

This shows a lack of respect for art!

In short, as a professional chef, you must never show your negative side to diners! You must always approach food preparation with a serious attitude!

These are essential professional qualities that every professional chef must possess!

"Hello!"

"My dish is an Italian-style baked egg salad, please enjoy!"

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