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At the mention of food, many people perk up.

Well, while it's dinner time in the eastern part of Tianxia, the sun hasn't even set in the west. But Earth is a sphere, and in some places, it's already late at night.

For all-weather live streams like those from Pathfinder Aerospace, some people are staying up all night to watch.

There's no helping it; many people just love spaceflight, especially in recent years as it's become more prominent and entered the public eye.

Especially the scene of a super-heavy rocket launching a super-heavy space station—not watching the live broadcast would be a regret for a lifetime!

Staying up late definitely means going past normal bedtime and the time food stays in the stomach. Plus, long videos can be a bit dry.

If it's dry, you have to drink something, like water, juice, milk tea, soda, oolong tea, or something like that.

After drinking water, the mouth still feels a bit 'bland', so you need something to 'chew on'.

Ordinary things won't do; it has to be hardcore stuff like fried chicken, braised pork, zhajiangmian (noodles with savory soybean paste), roast goose, Peking duck, or barbecue.

Some people even eat specifically while watching videos because it's extremely appetizing.

Now the astronauts are about to eat, and of course, people want to watch closely. Many have slowed down their eating, waiting to eat in sync with the astronauts. And some who don't have food on hand are quickly taking snacks out of their food boxes to prepare.

Some are even more extreme, having already eaten or not yet at mealtime, and with no food nearby, they directly open a food delivery app and order!

They all have a premonition that they'll definitely need it later because they saw what the astronauts were holding, and it's quite different from the space food they've seen before.

"Everyone, look at what we have in our hands!"

Li Yuling showed the biodegradable plastic package to the camera.

In fact, the level of interaction in this live broadcast is very high. Not only can the ground control center see the floating comments and the comments below, but the four astronauts in the space station can also see them.

Their live broadcast mode is that Li Yuling is the host, and her male apprentice is in charge of photography.

Du Kangsheng is holding a tablet and acting as "commander", including watching the comments. If there are instructions from the ground or a relevant project is underway, he will pick a few comments for the team members to answer, and he will also tell the "host" Li Yuling some of the comment content.

And his female apprentice acts as a "tourist" and cooperates with Li Yuling to make presentations from the user's perspective.

So, when Li Yuling asked this question, the nosy viewers naturally started sending barrages of comments, after all, the answer was revealed a few minutes ago.

Undoubtedly, it's food!

It's just hard to guess what kind of food it is.

Li Yuling listened to a few of the more prominent guesses that Du Kangsheng said in her headset, and said with a smile: "Oh dear, it's all my fault for leaking the answer before, but you haven't completely guessed it correctly. What I have in my hand is indeed space food, but it's not quite the same as the usual space food."

"What's different? I won't say it first, everyone will know when they see it, hehe~"

This isn't about creating suspense, because in the next second, she opened the food package and took out portions of food from inside.

"This is my dinner. This paper bowl contains my favorite zhajiangmian. The noodles are cooked, and the zhajiang (savory soybean paste) is personally made by the company's chef..."

As soon as this bowl of noodles was taken out, the audience noticed something was different, because if it were a normal space video, this thing should be called 'a bag of noodles'.

Because of the size of the spacecraft and the expensive cost of rocket launches, in order to save space on the cargo ship and the effective payload during launch, these space foods are as light, small, and nutritious as possible.

So, if it can be bagged, it will be bagged; if it can be dehydrated, it will be dehydrated; if it can be compressed, it will be compressed.

And this bowl of noodles that Li Yuling is holding has broken through all the limitations.

Instead of using a lightweight packaging bag, it uses a slightly heavier paper bowl. It's not dehydrated, but directly cooked wet noodles, and something has been added to make it like it was just cooked, only cooled down.

Ingredients such as shredded cucumber, shredded carrots, and green beans also contain moisture, and they are packed in individual bags, looking like they were just cut.

The zhajiang (savory soybean paste) is also in a separate bag.

This completely deviates from people's perception of space food.

Putting aside whether they are heavy or not, just how to mix them together is a problem.

The space station has no gravity, and a little force can make a person fly away, let alone those noodles. They won't obediently stay in the bowl for you to stir.

This is also why Tianxia's space food is already so rich, and its menu still features mostly fried noodles and fried rice, because the vegetables, seasonings, and staple food are mixed together on the ground, and they can be heated and eaten directly from the bag when they are transported to the space station.

Yes, this bowl of noodles from Pathfinder Company does have a sense of ritual, making the person eating feel like they are on Earth, but its usage is extremely troublesome.

Is it worth it to create so many things just to eat a meal?

As far as Pathfinder Company's commercial space station operation is concerned, it is worth it, because this doesn't require anyone to stir it.

No one on Earth understands the equipment in space better than Tang Chuan!

Because he has a cheat!

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Li Yuling put the bowl of noodles into a device next to the restaurant, fixed the bowl in a slot, then closed the door and pressed a few buttons. The device started running automatically.

First, a circle the size of the bowl's mouth descended from directly above the bowl. The circle pressed down on the bowl's mouth and retracted, and then a small robotic arm popped out, neatly peeled off the plastic film from the noodle bowl, and retracted into a small hole with the plastic film, disappearing.

Then another robotic arm took away the vegetable package, and a thick circular lid descended to cover the noodles and the sauce package inside.

One second later, the small platform that fixed the noodle bowl, along with the round lid, began to vibrate rapidly with a small amplitude.

Thirty seconds later, when the round lid left, the sauce package inside had melted, and the zhajiang (savory soybean paste) had spread all over the noodle bowl, causing the white noodles inside to stick to a lot of brown sauce, and the entire bowl of noodles was steaming slightly.

At this time, the vegetable package also returned, but there were only vegetables and no package. The vegetables were pushed down by a cover, and finally buckled on the noodle bowl.

This cover is different from the previous cover, because there is a special mixer inside.

Although the noodle bowl is not transparent, any audience who has eaten zhajiangmian knows what this step is for.

Mixing!

Another thirty seconds, with a total time of less than two minutes, and a bowl of "authentic" zhajiangmian was pushed out.

Li Yuling, who had been prepared for a long time, successfully caught the noodle bowl and handed it to the "female tourist".

The tourist caught the noodle bowl and said thank you. The hand that wasn't holding the bowl gently pushed against the cabin wall and floated horizontally to the dining table. Reaching out and holding the back of the chair, she stopped.

She put the noodle bowl on the table, sat on the chair, and fastened a waist seat belt, so she "sat" securely on the chair.

There is a circle of metal under the noodle bowl, which can be sucked into the suction plate on the table.

Next to her is a chopsticks disinfection cabinet. Pressing a button, a pair of chopsticks extended out.

After she took the chopsticks, picked up a small chopstick of noodles, lowered her head and ate it, watched the camera chew and swallow before saying: "Um, it's really delicious, exactly the same as the zhajiangmian I eat on Earth."

"This is the process of eating zhajiangmian in the Starry Sky Inn. Have you learned it?"

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