What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Chapter 80 The Chef

Xiang Kun invited Tang Baona, Yang Zhen'er, and Xia Libing over for dinner one day later, that is, on the night of Tuesday, September 3rd.

Originally, according to Xiang Kun's original idea, he just bought some beef and cooked two dishes according to the recipe.

But his character is like this, no matter what, at first he thought about doing it casually, but as he was doing it, he accidentally put himself into it, and he couldn't help thinking about how to do it better.

What's more, he happened to be interested in cooking recently.

In fact, on the night when he promised to treat them to dinner, when Xiang Kun was looking for suitable recipes on the Internet, he couldn't help sending wechat messages to ask them about their taste.

In Xiang Kun's understanding, there is no absolutely delicious or perfect dish in the world.

People in different regions have different taste preferences, and even every different individual has his own preference.

Although well-made dishes can usually be unanimously recognized by most people, the degree of recognition is also different. Some people think it is "very delicious", some people think it is "very delicious", and some people think it is "very delicious". Some people think it's "okay", and there may even be completely opposite judgments such as a little salty, a little light, too spicy, or not spicy enough.

Most people are not professional gourmets, there is a set of judgment system. Whether a dish is good or not is the first feeling and purely subjective judgment of the taste buds.

Therefore, Xiang Kun believes that adjusting the taste of dishes according to different people's tastes is the way to get twice the result with half the effort.

Even to achieve the ultimate, it should be to call the people who want to eat to the kitchen, let them try it while he is cooking, and then adjust the taste and method little by little according to the feedback.

Xiang Kun also had this idea for a moment, but he gave up immediately, which is a bit too exaggerated.

And this process may take an hour or two, or it may last for a long time. If they find it troublesome, they will just let it go halfway. With Xiang Kun's character, the feeling of not finishing one thing is even more uncomfortable... …

At 6:30 on Tuesday night, Yang Zhen'er picked up Tang Baona and Xia Libing after get off work and arrived at Xiang Kun's house.

The anti-theft door outside was ajar, and the three of them pushed the door open and entered.

As soon as I entered the house, I could smell the aroma from the kitchen at the entrance.

On the dining table in the living room, in addition to four sets of bowls and chopsticks, there were three large white porcelain plates, all of which were covered upside down by a stainless steel soup basin, and it was impossible to see what was inside.

Obviously, this is a three-course meal that has already been prepared.

After closing the door casually, the three girls went straight to the kitchen, looking curiously at Xiang Kun who was wearing an apron and was busy.

"I'm going, are you going to cook a few dishes...?" Yang Zhen'er said in surprise. When Xiang Kun promised Tang Baona the day before yesterday that she would cook and invite them to dinner, she thought it was just one or two dishes at most. Cook the dishes by himself, and then order a few takeaways to make up for it—after all, Xiang Kun himself said that he had only just started learning to cook for a few days, and they didn't report any expectations, they just wanted to force him to eat with them .

But looking at the posture in front of him, he doesn't look like a beginner...

Indeed, Xiang Kun was busy in the kitchen, his movements were nimble, fast, and smooth, but he didn't appear flustered at all. The stir-frying was steady and fast, and he was very accurate in knowing when to put the seasonings in, and when to put the pot on the plate. , decisive, without any hesitation. After a while, it was time to wash the pot and prepare for the next dish. He really looked like an experienced chef, not like a rookie who just started learning how to cook.

"Four dishes and one soup, it will be ready in about 15 minutes. You guys wait outside for a while." Xiang Kun said without turning his head.

He bought a bunch of ingredients the day before yesterday, and then spent a whole day using up the ingredients, improving the recipes he found online, and adjusting the taste and cooking process in a targeted manner.

The dishes and recipes to be made were determined last night,

Then I went out this morning to buy fresh ingredients and calculated the time. After Yang Zhener said that she was going to leave, she began to calculate the approximate time it would take her to arrive at her community after receiving Tang Baona and Xia Libing at this time.

Then according to this time, arrange the time to start cooking.

There is also a sequence of four dishes and one soup. Some dishes can be put out of the pan first for a period of time, but taste better, while some dishes need to be eaten as soon as possible after being out of the pan.

And before cooking starts, he has already planned each step in his brain, and the next step is one step after another, just like a set program, running line by line of code, although sometimes there will be error, but the error is also within the calculation range. Before taking this step, the next step or even the next step has been rehearsed in my mind.

So it seemed that Xiang Kun's figure in the kitchen was busy but not chaotic, like a skilled veteran.

Standing at the door of the kitchen for a while, Yang Zhen'er couldn't help whispering to her friend: "What the hell is he looking a little handsome when he's cooking?"

Tang Baona glanced at her sideways, and said with a smile: "Your ideal is a world-class chef. One day, he will come to you wearing an apron, with a bald head, and carrying braised pork?"

Yang Zhen'er pinched her: "I'll go! You actually laughed at me? He's your blind date..."

Xiang Kun, who was busy in the kitchen, said without looking back, "Go to the living room, don't block the door!"

Tang Baona stuck out her tongue and whispered, "It's so fierce!" But she went back to the living room with Yang Zhen'er.

Xia Libing didn't leave, but stuck his head into the kitchen and asked, "Can I use your computer?"

"No! Play with your phone by yourself! The WIFI password is *****, dinner will be served soon!"

Xiang Kun was right. When he said 15 minutes, it was indeed almost 15 minutes.

After the last dish, a pot of soup, was ready, he didn't bring it to the living room immediately, but put them into two smaller plates and soup pots respectively, and then asked Xia Libing to help him open the door. , holding a basin in one hand, and walked out.

"Where is he going?" Yang Zhen'er and Tang Baona both followed out curiously.

Then I saw Xiang Kun went to 706, where a chubby little girl was waiting for him with the door open, and happily welcomed him into the room.

"What's the situation? He started the second battle?..." Yang Zhen'er blinked and looked back at her friend.

"You ask me who am I asking?" Tang Baona shrugged.

But more than ten seconds later, Xiang Kun came out of 706. The plates and pots were gone, but he came out with the inner pot of an electric rice cooker.

Tang Baona and Yang Zhen'er immediately understood that they were trading vegetables for rice. Judging from the performance of the little girl in 706, it was estimated that Xiang Kun had made an agreement with their family before.

"Let's serve!" Xiang Kun said to the three women as he walked into the room with a pot of rice.

After bringing out one dish and one soup from the kitchen, and removing the stainless steel basin covering the three dishes on the table, the lineup of four dishes and one soup appeared in front of the three women.

Tang Baona looked a little dazed, and murmured: "It's all meat..."

Four dishes, all meat, even the only soup is beef soup.

However, the four dishes are all delicious in color, fragrance and taste, and they are appetizing just looking at them.

Xiang Kun directly made a bowl of rice for each of them, then scooped some beef soup into the soup bowl, and then took out drinks from the refrigerator to share. Of course, he only had a glass of water in front of him - even though he didn't know how to drink this water .

Xia Libing was not polite either, he inserted a piece of crispy pork knuckle into the bowl with his chopsticks and started eating.

It is charred on the outside and tender on the inside, sweet and not greasy. It really tastes very good. It is really not worse than the ones made in restaurants outside, but is this really something that beginners can make?

Was Xiang Kun lying when he said he had just started learning to cook?

Xia Libing raised his head and glanced at Xiang Kun suspiciously.

But he saw that Xiang Kun was also observing her, and when she saw her looking over, he asked, "How does it taste?"

Before she could answer, Tang Baona, who had tasted curry beef and fried chicken in sauce, couldn't help but said, "Xiang Kun, you really made this yourself? Did you buy it from outside?"

Xiang Kun used the knuckle of his right index finger to support his glasses, and smiled with satisfaction: "It seems that I am quite talented in cooking, maybe I can't stay here anymore, so I will go back to my hometown and open a small restaurant , Open when you are in a good mood, and go fishing in the mountains when you are in a bad mood..."

Yang Zhen'er also sighed: "Xiang Kun, tell me honestly, are you a cook from Shaolin Temple who sneaked down the mountain to become a programmer... Is it really like that saying, programmers who don't know kung fu are not good cooks?" Hey, but what kind of meat is this on your plate? I thought it was chicken, but it doesn't taste like..."

While talking, she suddenly thought of something, her eyes widened, she looked in the direction of the kitchen, and murmured, "Xiang Kun, where is your rabbit?"

Xiang Kun pointed to the balcony: "I moved over there."

"Huh~" Yang Zhen'er breathed a sigh of relief: "Then what kind of meat is this? Duck meat?"

"Rabbit meat." Xiang Kun said, "I think killing one is enough. Anyway, there are so many vegetables. Don't worry, I just killed it today. It's absolutely fresh." He still sighed in his heart, this was his first time. The first time was not to kill a rabbit for drinking blood. When processing the rabbit meat in the morning, I really had a psychological struggle, and I almost couldn't help but drink blood.

Yang Zhen'er opened his mouth again, looked at the balcony, then at the plate of dried rabbit meat on the table, hesitated for tens of seconds, and finally said nothing.

Tang Baona, who was watching from the side, almost couldn't help but ask, "Really, is rabbit meat delicious?"

Yang Zhen'er gave her a blank look and didn't reply, but after thinking about it, she picked up another piece of the dry pot rabbit meat in front of her - she didn't expect that the rabbit meat was so delicious. I originally thought that if I knew that I was eating rabbit meat, I would have psychological barriers and would not be able to eat it... But it seems that I underestimated the hardness of my heart...

Seeing the three of them eating happily, Xiang Kun was also quite satisfied, just like the feeling when junior high school used VB to program a fortune-telling software for students to have fun.

He also slowly took a piece of rabbit meat and poured it into his mouth, but he seemed to be chewing it, but in fact he only held it in his mouth, and then directly swallowed the whole piece forcibly.

Although he found an excuse not to eat, but such a large table of food, he did not eat a mouthful, it really seemed too weird.

He has previously confirmed through experiments that after swallowing a small stone in his stomach in advance, if he eats a whole piece of solid food, if the total weight is about 200g, it will not affect the feeling of that stone, and he can use that feeling to suppress the onset of vomiting.

Just before he brought out the last two dishes, he had secretly swallowed the stones.

As long as you don't drink water, don't drink soup, and eat a few pieces of meat and swallow it directly, there is no problem.

Of course, this process is still very uncomfortable and painful, and the stomach is always fighting and receiving punishment.

But if you go home to cook for your parents in the future, you always have to rehearse the situation before you.