Gourmet: From a Stall in Northern Europe Chapter 414 - 326: All Positive Reviews, Potential for Maruw

"Am I seeing things, or why is there a white atball bouncing on the ground like a bouncy ball?"

The few who were originally interested in Helena’s voluptuous and charming back quickly shifted their attention to that white atball.

"Did anyone see this kind of atball when getting the ingredients just now?"

"Didn’t see it, but I heard there’ll be atballs served at lunch."

"I’ve never heard of atballs bouncing so high on the ground, and it bounced several tis in a row — could it actually be a white bouncy ball instead?"

Just as the few were puzzled, the young guy suddenly yelled ’Ow’ and lunged forward, grabbing the squid atball about to roll onto the floor.

"Excuse , miss, where can I find a wash basin around here?"

"Uh?"

Helena, with both hands holding trays, instinctively tilted her chin: "Outside from the side door to the left, there’s a wash basin."

"Thanks!"

The young guy sprinted towards the side door, turned on the faucet to clean the atball, and then flipped it straight into his mouth.

"????"

"Holy... Crab?!"

"He ate it, oh my gosh, he ate it!!"

"He’s chewing it!!"

Witnessing this scene, the jaws of the guests dropped to the ground, disbelief written all over their faces.

Helena quickly put down the dirty tray, ran a few steps to the door, and sure enough, saw the young guy chewing, eyes gleaming like searchlights.

"Sir, you weren’t supposed to..."

"It’s all good, it’s all good, no wasting food, right! Anyway, I have to go now!"

Seeing her, a wary look flashed across the young man’s face and disappeared quickly, he turned and ran as if afraid the beauty would ask him to spit it out.

Helena blinked her eyes, seed to have thought of sothing, then turned her gaze towards the entrance to the kitchen.

"Could it be... Chef Lin’s new dish?"

Though eager to rush into the kitchen imdiately, her professional etiquette as a server held her impulse in check.

"It’s work ti now, can’t leave my post without permission, there are still hundreds of guests waiting for my service."

"Oh, how great it would be to be on Chef Lin’s team."

...

After a busy day.

Lin Chen gathered his team mbers and gave a brief summary, highly praising Zhao Shun and Chen Dongliang.

"The two of you perford excellently today, but I have other arrangents for tomorrow, the food truck will be gone, you two will stay in the kitchen to prepare breakfast and lunch, take ten minutes to discuss tomorrow’s nu and report to ."

Zhao Shun and Chen Dongliang, who barely slept a few hours last night, now had heavy dark circles but still struggled to stay awake.

The ti difference is tough, naturally making it hard to endure, only high-intensity work allows them to quickly adapt to the schedule here.

While the two were discussing tomorrow’s dishes, Lin Chen had already opened his laptop, logged into the wholesale platform, and was teaching them how to use the website.

Through the day’s trial, he found that handmade atballs and machine-made ones, though different in texture, aren’t much different for those who haven’t tasted them.

And the preparation ti between the two is at least several hours apart.

After careful consideration, he finally decided to abandon handmade production in favor of using machines to save workload.

If relying on manual pounding, he alone will definitely not be enough; at least Zhao Shun, Old Chen, Dais, and Elsa should be added, working until late to complete preparations.

This would exhaust everyone and affect work the next day, which is really unnecessary.

There’s no need for him to order materials to make atballs, they are directly provided by John, as for squid, let Boss Magna take a run, that guy now couldn’t be happier to sneak out and Dodge chores, corrupted by John in just half a day.

After giving instructions, he clapped his hands signaling everyone to disperse, only leaving Zhao Shun and Old Chen to discuss dishes in the restaurant.

Both were deeply moved by Lin Chen’s full trust, despite physical fatigue, neither had any intention to slack off, even considering whether to do so preparations again that night before going to rest.

"Impossible, we can’t do buns again tomorrow, making buns is too labor-intensive, and preparation takes long, we need to think of sothing quick to prepare and cook, yet tasty."

"Right, I’m getting old, can’t pull all-nighters; didn’t expect the real restaurant operation mode to be so unlike our small diner."

"You can’t really call it a restaurant operation mode, have you ever seen any restaurant that’s food truck oriented? Tomorrow using the kitchen counts as a real restaurant mode, we can refer to dostic buffet dishes..."

The two were busy discussing while Lin Chen quickly returned to his room.

No ti to waste, he’d even held it in all afternoon!

While busy experinting with atball making that afternoon, he received a system notification about the settlent of the crab tofu video he shot last ti.

The rewards for this task are currently completely unknown, purely depending on the number of views the video gets.

Since it’s his first ti appearing on cara, and also promoting Great Xia’s culinary culture, he felt like he was carrying a sense of national cultural heritage, a sense of mission on his shoulders.

This led him to not dare click in to look when he saw the settlent notification, afraid that his emotions would fluctuate too much and affect his work.

"Phew... Whatever, the worst that can happen is just a Recipe Exchange Coupon, what’s there to be afraid of? Anything more is a bonus!"

He quickly adjusted his mindset, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and used his mind to open the system notification.

[Notice of Settlent for the Revived National Banquet Famous Dishes Challenge...]

He skipped a series of text in the middle directly and his gaze fell on the last line.

[Total views across the internet in twenty-four hours is 1.83 million, with dostic video views at 760,000, reduced by tenfold to 76,000, with a final valid view count of 1.146 million.]

[Congratulations, you’ve received the following rewards: Recipe Exchange Coupon *5, Food Truck Upgrade Card *2, Food Truck Challenge Card *3, Potion Fragnt *1]

"......"

After seeing the reward contents clearly, his mind went blank for a mont, and he froze on the spot.

This is the first ti a task has given so many rewards, at least equivalent to the amount given for completing four or five regular tasks or three challenge tasks.

Even disregarding other rewards, they even gave the last piece of Potion Fragnt!!

It was simply an unexpected surprise!

He even felt like he didn’t want to set up his stall for tomorrow... wait!

When this thought popped up, he suddenly realized a problem.

The last piece of Potion Fragnt has been obtained, so is the Potion Fragnt rewarded by the round slippery challenge still useful?

If it is useful, doesn’t that an his previous guess was completely wrong?

If it isn’t useful, doesn’t that an he’s wasting three Challenge Cards for just so cash rewards?

Thinking about this, he imdiately pulled up the task list and opened the details page of the round slippery challenge.

Sure enough, the rewards remained the sa as before without any changes.

Lin Chen frowned and thought for a mont, always feeling like sothing was off.

His keen sixth sense had never failed him, and it definitely wouldn’t this ti either.

"Could it be... I need to exchange and consu the Potion for my physical state to update?"

Very likely!

Without much hesitation, he imdiately used three Potion Fragnts to exchange for the last bottle of Stamina Potion, and tipped his head back to down it.

The Stamina Potion enhances heart-lung function and full-body endurance, in simple terms, it strengthens the heart and lungs, increases the size and robustness of blood vessel walls, and develops slow-twitch muscle fibers throughout the body.

Slow-twitch muscle fibers are the kind trained by professions like long-distance runners; they look slim but have strong endurance.

Fast-twitch muscle fibers are the kind of muscle trained in gyms, strong in explosiveness, but unable to sustain for long.

Feeling the warm liquid wrapping around his entire body, powerful heartbeats echoed in his ears, beating like a drum, the blood flow speed in his veins gradually increasing.

In just a few seconds, his clothes were completely soaked with sweat, and even the bed sheets were wet in a big patch.

"Damn, if I had known I would sweat, I wouldn’t have sat on the bed!"

He looked at the obvious wet patch on the sheets, covered his face with several eye rolls, and quickly pulled them off to soak in the bathtub, then called housekeeping to co and take them away, and replace with new ones.

Fortunately, there was no one else in the room, and there was no strange sll, plus he was covered in sweat, which made housekeeping think this Head Chef was just working out in the room and accidentally dirtied the sheets.

Once housekeeping left, Lin Chen imdiately reopened the round slippery challenge task page.

[If all three challenge requirents are t at the ti of settlent, it is considered a challenge success, and rewards include Recipe Exchange Coupon *1, Skill Experience Card *1, and a bonus of 3,000 Euros]

"Skill Experience Card????"

What is that?

He really wanted to click in to see the specific effects of the item, but because he hadn’t gotten it yet, only a title was there, and he couldn’t click, so he had to give up.

"Oh well, I can get it by tomorrow after setting up the stall anyway. Based on today’s reactions from Head Chef Nagishiro Sho and colleagues, the popularity of the balls definitely exceeds my expectations."

"If sales go well, maybe in the future, I can mass-produce them, set up a factory, and hire people to make these."

"But the problem is, supermarkets also sell these ready-made balls, and they are from big companies. It’s unrealistic to crush them on price, and they have dedicated R&D teams for flavor. If I do it myself, the only advantage is freshness."

"How can I succeed in a market where others didn’t?"

"But it’s possible they focused mainly on the dostic market and didn’t pay much attention to overseas expansion, only supplying local supermarkets here."

He wasn’t particularly optimistic, instead, he cald down quickly.

"Oh well, we’ll deal with future problems when they co. One step at a ti, let’s plan for tomorrow first."