Chapter 519: Chapter 416: Fusion Cuisine: New-Style Goudao Noodles

"Why are you in my house, eh? Don’t you have to set up your stall today?" Chen Kexin asked curiously as she came downstairs, her expression clearly happy. "Can I have milk tea pancakes for breakfast? That’s awesome!"

"This is your home?"

Chen Mo was truly a bit surprised. The girl in the rabbit pajamas in front of him was indeed the police officer who chased him yesterday to buy milk tea pancakes.

"Yes, this is my home." When Chen Kexin saw the ingredients Chen Mo had prepared, including a cup of brown sugar pearls, her eyes lit up immediately, "You really are making milk tea pancakes, but why are you making them in my house?"

"Oh... I passed by here this morning and thought it was a breakfast shop, so I knocked on the door to come in for a meal."

Chen Kexin wasn’t surprised by this reasoning.

In the morning, it’s fine. If it’s a weekend and she’s staying at home, there are often people knocking on the door asking if there’s food, and she would tell them that Granny has moved to the night market to set up a stall.

"Have you eaten? Granny’s danzai noodles are super delicious!"

"Yes, I’ve had them, thanks. They were so good that I wanted to make milk tea pancakes for Granny to taste as well."

Chen Kexin blinked and nodded, then walked over to the TV. Chen Mo’s gaze followed, could this girl actually repair TVs?

Then he saw Chen Kexin take a bag of green snacks off the TV, looked at the back, and appeared frantic, "Granny! The Guai Guai are expired, no wonder the TV is broken. I’ll just buy another bag after work."

Granny smiled kindly, "Alright, alright. Do you want some noodles? I’ll cook you a bowl now."

"No, I want to eat this guy’s milk tea pancakes, they’re really super delicious!"

Granny looked at her granddaughter somewhat oddly, and then at Chen Mo.

Could it really be such a coincidence?

Are you two putting on a show for me here?

Speaking of which, there was a similar plot on TV before: after young couples fall in love, they’re too shy to meet at home, so they have the guy pretend to be a taxi driver or something similar, not for anything in particular, but just to see each other more often.

Granny Chen temporarily put these thoughts aside, as she truly didn’t understand young people nowadays, and given that this young man was so passionate about food, she wouldn’t oppose it if he were in a relationship with her granddaughter.

After all... a man who can cook certainly wouldn’t be bad.

But now it was Chen Mo’s turn to be curious. He walked to the TV and picked up the snack bag to have a look. It was a very ordinary snack called Guai Guai.

"So what’s the connection between the TV being broken and this snack bag?"

"It’s just Guai Guai! If you put Guai Guai on the TV, it will run properly. If Guai Guai expires, it won’t have any effect."

Chen Mo looked at Chen Kexin. She was speaking so earnestly that it didn’t seem like she was joking at all.

"Huh?" Chen Mo examined the snack bag repeatedly and confirmed it was indeed just a snack, "Isn’t this for eating, does it really have such an effect?"

"Yeah." Seeing Chen Mo so curious, Chen Kexin asked back, "So what do you do inland if you don’t put Guai Guai and the TV breaks?"

What a question.

Chen Mo looked at the TV, full of static, then turned his body to the side of the TV.

Bam bam!

He slapped it twice directly!

Chen Kexin was dumbfounded. She watched as the TV miraculously displayed a picture. Although it was still a bit unclear, it was no longer pure static.

Chen Mo was evidently not quite satisfied with this result, and he slapped the top of the TV twice more. Now, even the unclear parts disappeared, and the screen was perfectly clear.

Chen Mo was very satisfied.

Who needs Guai Guai anyway? If the TV breaks, isn’t it just a matter of slapping it a couple of times?

"This, this, this..." Chen Kexin was genuinely bewildered. What kind of trick was this?

Chen Mo didn’t explain much and went straight to the kitchen to start mixing the batter.

Making pancakes is relatively simple. You just have to mix the batter well, arrange the ingredients in order, and then roll it up.

The key difficulty lies in controlling the heat, but this was no longer a challenge for Chen Mo.

Before long, two milk tea pancakes appeared in his hands. When he handed them to Granny and Chen Kexin, the former was visibly a bit shocked.

Thinking about what she had eaten last night, Granny felt a bit nauseous.

Besides making milk tea pancakes, Chen Mo had another task for this trip. With a slight sense of embarrassment, he asked, "Granny, I know how to make a kind of noodle, could I borrow some of your ingredients?"

"Noodles?" Granny was slightly stunned, then asked, "What ingredients do you need, and what kind of noodles are you making?"

"Gou Dao Mian!"

Most people only know that Jingzhou is famous for its knife-shaved noodles, but what they actually eat in restaurants might not be knife-shaved noodles at all, but Gou Dao Mian!

The tool used for knife-shaved noodles is a willow leaf blade, which looks like a big iron piece. You hold one end and shave down the dough with the other.

The knife-shaved noodles made with the willow leaf blade have a triangular cross-section, giving them a very special texture and a distinct chewiness in the center of the noodle.

But Gou Dao Mian uses another kind of tool, a small round iron piece with a hook-like end. When making it, instead of shaving the noodles, the dough is pulled down with the sharp hook.

The resulting noodles are thinner than the knife-shaved noodles, and their cross-section is no longer triangular. It shows an irregular shape close to round but not entirely.