Chapter 379 Seasoning
Hundreds and thousands of experiments and countless simulations in the mind only take a few minutes in reality.

In the eyes of everyone, Xu Qing just closed his eyes and rested for a short while. No one knew how amazing his move was.

No, someone still knows.

The elderly can see it.

No, it should be said looking, because he was not looking.

At the same time Xu Qing closed his eyes, the old man felt the strange aura coming from him, as if something extraordinary was happening at this moment.

This made him close his eyes, ignore the interference of the outside world, and feel with his heart.

In his spiritual perception, Xu Qing seemed to have transformed into thousands of figures, each with a different way of mixing, different seasoning ratios, different choices and combinations of ingredients, from traditional to novel. Countless figures appeared in a moment of thought, and then disappeared in a moment of thought.

In the end, even the old man couldn't tell how many shadows there were and how many ways there were.

It is like countless travelers leaving a trail of footprints in the barren desert, heading in all conceivable directions to find the only oasis in the desert.

It is like groping and searching endlessly in the dark night, looking for the only source of light.

Countless times of failure, countless figures disappeared, and then countless new figures appeared, embarking on this hopeless journey again.

Can we really find it? That impossible taste, that imaginary oasis, that light in the darkness.

If it really exists, why have we spent so much effort but still failed to reach the goal?

And if it didn't exist, why did these figures keep coming forward, never stopping, or even hesitating or giving up?
Then, it must exist.

Even if it does not exist, it will definitely be created through such persistent and persevering pursuit.

Suddenly, in the old man's perception, all the figures disappeared in an instant.

has it ended?

Did you find it in the end?
Or give up in despair?

I don’t know, the old man doesn’t know the answer.

Even if he stared at Xu Qing closely, he could not see the answer from Xu Qing's face.

There was no confidence of success nor resentment of failure on Xu Qing's face. He treated it as normal, just like when he first started making this dish.

He didn't feel that he was doing anything great; it was just one of his countless cooking times, just one of his countless dishes.

It is just one of the countless miracles he created.

So there is no need to get excited about it.

And the answer is now in his hands.

Xu Qing chose the special chrysanthemum sauce made by Master Abei to make the fish-flavored sauce. It takes a year for the chrysanthemum sauce to ferment, and the longer the fermentation time, the stronger the flavor.

And the Kikushita sauce carefully prepared by Chef Abei has a more mellow and charming taste than ordinary sauces.

In addition to the chrysanthemum sauce, Xu Qinghai chose several other ingredients, such as the chili pepper, which is known as the hottest pepper, the sourest aged vinegar, etc., to bring the four flavors of sour, sweet, salty and spicy to the highest level.

In addition to these four basic flavors, there are dozens of other ingredients that Xu Qing added to the sauce one by one, turning the familiar fish-flavored sauce into a strange thing that no one knew what it tasted like.

"How can this sauce taste good after adding so many seasonings?" "Why did he even add Chinese medicinal herbs? It must taste terrible!"

"I just counted them, there are at least 30 kinds of seasonings. Chinese medicinal herbs, peppercorns, various spices, all mixed together, the taste must be messy!"

"That is to say, if you add a few of these, it's still delicious. But if you add all of them, how will it taste?"

"My child mixed up all the seasonings in the house while playing a few days ago. It's okay for an ignorant child to do this, but it's not right for a top chef to do this!"

"Yes, this is totally wrong!"

Almost everyone was shaking their heads and sighing.

Whether people who know how to cook or not, everyone opposes Xu Qing's approach.

Because anyone who uses their brains will know that this dish will definitely not taste good.

The more seasoning you add, the tastier it will not be. The main purpose of seasoning is to add flavor, that is, to supplement and enhance the taste of the ingredients. If you add too much, the taste will be too strong, covering up the original taste of the ingredients, and people will taste the seasoning in one bite and cannot taste the taste of the ingredients. This becomes a bad thing.

Even if someone doesn't know how to cook, at least he has eaten food and knows what is delicious and what is not. This method will obviously not taste good.

Even Dong Fang, who had just gained confidence in Xu Qing because of his exquisite knife skills, couldn't help but waver at this moment.

"Old sir, this... this is really ridiculous! Adding so many seasonings will cover up the taste of the ingredients themselves. Even if Xu Qing's knife skills bring out the taste of the ingredients, once these seasonings are added, all the work will be in vain."

After all, generally speaking, if you want to highlight the delicious taste of the ingredients themselves as much as possible, the best way is to add less seasoning, especially not adding seasoning with too strong a flavor, so as to highlight the deliciousness of the ingredients themselves with light flavors.

Just like the dish that Amu had made before, it was plain but had a long aftertaste.

Xu Qing's knife skills surpassed Amu's by more than ten times. Such exquisite knife skills and such wonderful taste were ultimately completely overshadowed by the strong-flavored seasonings. It was such a pity.

If it were before, perhaps the old man would have had similar ideas as Dong Fang.

But after feeling the strange aura from Xu Qing, he changed his mind.

After that long pursuit, countless failures, and the path finally found, will it be a success or a failure?
Although he won't make a conclusion easily before the final taste.

But deep down in his heart, he desperately wanted Xu Qing to succeed and turn the impossible into reality.

The old man just said, "Don't think about it anymore. Just watch and wait quietly."

Seeing the old man say this, Dong Fang had no choice but to shut up.

When Master Abei saw Xu Qing doing this, he knew that Xu Qing had already made up his mind.

Although his current actions seem to be unreasonable, Xu Qing is a person who cannot be judged by common sense, and every time he makes an unreasonable move, it means that something shocking is going to happen.

Master Abe is full of expectations.

Judging from Xu Qing's appearance, he must have given it his all and left no room for himself.

Xu Qing, who is pushed to his limit, will surely make dishes that will be unforgettable.

And when Amu saw Xu Qing mixing dozens of seasonings together, his saliva inexplicably kept being secreted, as if his tongue had already realized how wonderful the taste would be and had already been intoxicated by it uncontrollably.

(End of this chapter)