Chapter 1023: Chapter 423: How Many Ultra-Difficult Poached Eggs Can You Eat? Unexpected Reward!

Moreover, these are lost recipes, not lost famous dishes.

If we draw a dish that got lost because it tasted terrible, then we’re really in for a laugh.

So we need to be cautious about this kind of thing. Since there’s a cheat to increase luck, might as well use it. After all, the system hasn’t determined it’s a bug exploit.

Lin Xu put away his thoughts and continued making poached eggs.

By the time he finished, all the noodles were fried and softened with clear soup.

He served the noodles into bowls, placed a white poached egg in each bowl, took a photo of them all together, and then picked up a bowl to start eating.

"Oh, the soup is absolutely incredible."

"Just for this soup, it can outshine any Chinese restaurant."

"Do you think selling it for two thousand bucks a bowl can cover the cost?"

"I’m not selling it anyway, and we won’t be adding it to our menu. Making it requires gathering all the head chefs, so it’s not worth it, not even at twenty thousand a bowl."

"..."

Lin Xu held the bowl, not eating the noodles directly, but taking a sip of the soup first.

This perfectly clear soup surprisingly had a rich, savory flavor. Unlike typical clear soup, it had a faint vegetable taste, which balanced the usual greasiness of stock.

Though there were no vegetables, it tasted as if there were, showing how brilliant his master was in creating this clear soup noodle dish.

After a couple sips of soup, he picked up some noodles and put them in his mouth.

The noodles were smooth and lacked any greasy taste from frying, resembling the texture of vermicelli.

As he ate the noodles, he took a bite of the poached egg, the egg white was tender, and the yolk was filled with the fresh taste of crab.

The richness of crab roe, the freshness of crab meat, and the fullness of crab paste exploded in his mouth, creating an indescribable delight, irresistible to crab lovers.

"Brother Lin’s poached egg is truly ultimate."

"Not only enriching the flavor of the soup but also filling the absence of river delicacies in the stock."

"Indeed, with the poached egg, this soup now embodies flavors from sky to ground, rivers to lakes, all together."

"It’d be such a treat to devour ten or so of these straight."

"The crab roe inside is absolutely perfect... but aside from crab roe, I think sea urchin or starfish could work too, right?"

"Of course, there are quite a few substitute ingredients... if anyone wants to try, just call me; Old Dai here is a professional reviewer."

"Get lost, you just want free food and drinks. This stuff isn’t cheap."

For these head chefs, no culinary secret remains unopened, even with this clear soup noodle, they know the recipe but can’t crack the stock ingredient proportions.

This stock’s exorbitant cost makes even the Fishing Platform limit its attempts, bringing chefs flocking to observe Xie Baomin’s methods.

After finishing a bowl, Old Dai and the others started snatching the remaining ones.

Lin Xu uploaded the photo he just took onto his social media with a caption:

"Living in poverty, visiting relatives at Fishing Platform, treated with clear soup noodles and unable to have more... Can you tell this small bowl costs over four figures?"

As soon as he posted, netizens swarmed in.

In the picture, Lin Xu and a group of state banquet head chefs stood in the kitchen around a stainless steel workbench, with bowls of soup noodles, a small serving, clear soup, no vegetable leaves, just a round poached egg on top.

Upon seeing the latter part...

"Over four figures in cost? Lin, are you talking Vietnamese Dong?"

"To think my culinary skills can match the standards of state banquet head chefs."

"A bowl of plain water-cooked noodles requiring four figures in cost? Lin, you must be joking, right?"

"If that’s four figures, then my mom’s noodles with sauce should sell for five figures."

"..."

As everyone was joking, Huo Yifan jumped out to educate them.

"If I’m not mistaken, this should be Lin Xu’s master’s creation, Elder Gao’s clear soup noodles. It looks like plain water-cooked noodles, but it actually uses repeatedly cooked stock, costing at least ten thousand per pot. The noodles are pulled by a master pastry chef at fifteen pulls or more, then fried in lard, and as for the poached eggs... they shouldn’t be the usual kind either."

Lin Xu and Huo Yifan planned this.

To help Huo Yifan quickly grow his followers.

But today’s impulsive poached egg endeavor left no time to coordinate with Huo Yifan, leaving this professional explainer unable to guess how the poached egg was made. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Nonetheless, intuition told him, given the quality of these noodles, the poached egg couldn’t be ordinary.

After such an explanation, everyone realized what set this bowl of noodles apart.

The initial jokes transformed into a unanimous chorus of "Recipe please!"

Even if not attempting to make it, saving it to bookmarks gives the sense of being a culinary master.

Lin Xu commented in the discussion:

"Due to confidentiality, the clear soup noodle recipe can’t be shared online, but the poached egg is no problem. It’s a method I created today, will share it sometime so you can see the secrets within. Here’s a heads-up, due to the high cost of this poached egg, don’t make it in front of your mom, or you might get hit."

Seeing his comment, everyone was taken aback.

A self-created poached egg method?

Likely to be scolded by mom?

"What ingredients were used in this?"

"Must be complicated."

"Looking forward to the video tutorial, even if I can’t make it, watching is satisfying enough."

"Same here, but as a food lover, I really want to try. Just don’t know if it’ll use outrageously expensive ingredients, my wallet’s been consistently barren."

"I own two houses, earn seventeen thousand monthly, have nine hundred thousand savings... will making this poached egg bankrupt me?"

"It won’t bankrupt you, but you’ll bedwet... Above, get up, time to pee!"

"..."

After finishing the soup noodles, lunch officially commenced in Building No. 2.

Everyone went to the small employee cafeteria for lunch.

Dai Jianli looked at Lin Xu and asked:

"Brother Lin, any plans this afternoon? Do you want to join me for some restaurant scouting?"

Lin Xu shook his head with a smile:

"No restaurant scouting for me, got a lot of stuff back at my shop... but later, how about I go to Building 18 to grab some marinated dishes? Yueyue said it’s been a while since having marinated rabbit heads and sweet-skin duck, and asked me to bring some back for a taste."

Upon hearing this, Dai Jianli slapped his thigh:

"Well, what a coincidence, we’re making sweet-skin duck right now, should be ready by the time we finish lunch. I’ll show you the method."

Really?

Lin Xu’s heart skipped a beat, recalling the unused Memory Exchange Card.

Wow, here’s the perfect chance to use it!

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