The Gourmet Customizer

Chapter 261: Chapter 130: Expensive Breakfast, Never Treating Anyone Again

Some of his junior brothers were so restless they wanted to drag their Second Senior Brother out of the kitchen and demand answers!

Su Chen stood at the door watching his fellow chefs’ reactions and breathed a sigh of relief.

This was the first step.

He had to make them feel that by staying at Delicious, their culinary skills would see unbelievable progress in a short amount of time!

Of course, whether they would actually improve was another matter entirely.

He would take whoever he could get. In any case, Su Chen had no intention of keeping these people at his company forever.

After all, everyone had their own jobs. No one would just up and stay somewhere because the food was good—that was pure wishful thinking.

Even fiction wouldn’t be that bold!

The current priority was to gather enough staff and ride the momentum from the sports games to expand the business. An opportunity like this was hard to come by.

As for what came after, if things really didn’t work out, he could always close down temporarily. After all, the assets were his, he wasn’t in a rush to pay back any money, and an opportunity like this would be hard to find again.

Besides, these sports games would bring a wave of free publicity to his company. There was no reason not to go all-out for something with nothing but upsides.

Just as he’d hoped, Zhang Heping’s buns were a huge shock to his fellow chefs. They simply found it hard to believe that their Second Senior Brother could make buns this delicious.

Of course, Zhang Heping was peeking out from the kitchen at that very moment, feeling incredibly smug.

’I’d like to see who dares to look down on Second Senior Brother now!’

’Heh heh, these will leave every last one of you speechless!’

Unsurprisingly, Cui Yufen also got to taste the buns Zhang the Second was treating everyone to.

"This must be Boss Su’s handiwork, right? I never thought a little guidance from him could help Old Er improve this much."

Cui Yufen suddenly felt she had failed as a teacher.

All her years of teaching Zhang Heping couldn’t compare to a bit of casual guidance from Boss Su. Honestly.

’Maybe you could give me a few pointers, too?’

Wang Peixing finished a bun. He was stunned, but it only left him wanting more. "Senior Brothers, breakfast is on me today! If Second Senior Brother won’t let us eat our fill, then I will! Let’s get the thirty-eight-yuan ones!"

Wang Peixing worked at the Cuihua Building and made good money all year round.

He could certainly afford to treat everyone to a few buns.

Not only could he afford it, but Wang Peixing also said magnanimously, "Two buns for each of my senior brothers—the thirty-eight-yuan ones. And two tea eggs, plus a bowl of millet congee."

People from Lu Province have big appetites. For buns this large, they’d eat at least three in a single sitting.

Add two eggs and a bowl of congee, and that would be enough to fill them up.

Amid the cheers of the chefs, Aunt Fang and a few others came out carrying trays of buns and eggs.

Meanwhile, Lu Yongliang wasted no time, helping himself to five large meat buns and three tea eggs from Aunt Fang’s tray.

Cui Yufen stared blankly for a moment. "Old Lu, you... at your age, aren’t you worried you’ll upset your stomach?"

"Not a chance."

She turned to see that the two Jiang Brothers had also each grabbed five buns.

Cui Yufen shook her head slightly, feeling a bit of contempt for these old men.

Previously, she had thought Boss Su was greedy for only treating a few of them to breakfast. Now, she felt he hadn’t done anything wrong at all.

The way these three old men were eating was honestly a little obnoxious.

You can’t just stuff yourselves silly just because someone says it’s their treat. What kind of seventy-year-old man eats five buns for breakfast?

She was more reserved.

She only took one.

And a single tea egg.

This was the proper decorum for someone of her age. Even if something was delicious, one had to exercise restraint.

Once everyone had their buns, they all rolled up their sleeves and dug in.

Zhang Heping stood in the kitchen, watching in silence. He hadn’t eaten one of the expensive buns.

According to his agreement with Su Chen, if he wanted to eat one of the large meat buns meant for sale, he would have to put it on his tab.

So, Zhang Heping only ate a few of the five-yuan large meat buns. He was convinced that there couldn’t possibly be a more delicious bun in the entire world.

Not even Boss Su could top this.

Cui Yufen was very demure, taking a tiny bite that didn’t even reach the meat filling.

Then she peeled the tea egg. "Old Lu, is there some secret to these tea eggs? They look so..."

"Unremarkable, you mean?" Lu Yongliang said, his mouth stuffed with bun. He couldn’t be bothered with Cui Yufen. "Just take a bite and you’ll see."

Cui Yufen frowned and said nothing.

Ever since coming to Delicious, the phrases she’d heard most often were, "You’ll know once you try it," and "You’ll know once you’ve eaten it."

’Would it kill them to just explain it!’

She set aside the bun, whose filling she hadn’t yet reached, and gently broke the tea egg in half with her hands.

The egg white, which had looked flawlessly white from the outside, now revealed delicate, marbled lines of a soy-sauce color on the inside!

The lines snaked from the surface of the white deep into the yolk. It looked utterly magical.

"This... this is a tea egg?"

Lu Yongliang and the Jiang Brothers were too busy noisily wolfing down their buns to pay her any mind.

’This tea egg is just incredible. How in the world did they make it like this?’

Cui Yufen picked up a piece of the eggshell from the table and took a look. The answer immediately became clear.

’So that’s how!’

The surface of the shell was covered in hairline cracks. They were difficult to spot, but visible upon close inspection.

Along the edges of those cracks, she could clearly see the stains left behind where the soy-colored broth had seeped in.

’They cracked the shell before boiling the egg?’

’Boss Su even has this kind of skill up his sleeve?’

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