Chapter 134 - Pickled Vegetable Rice (1/2)

Chapter 134 Pickled Vegetable Rice

The store manager, Bai Xiaoming, was tactful in handling matters and hurriedly tried to resolve the awkwardness. He knew that with Alex as KL’s editor-in-chief, his appearance would only bring an increase and not a decrease in the show’s viewership. It could even heighten the amount of discussion. Moreover, even the director didn’t mind, so what reason did he have to reject?

“Wow, isn’t this too fragrant? Let me guess… This, the crab, rice, and tofu are all made by Xu Le?”

Zhou Huangya was stunned. “How did you know? Did you come early and watch secretly behind the monitor?”

“Hmph, it looks good and smells delicious, so he must have made these.”

When he said this, he even shot Zhang Liang a disdainful look before continuing, “Where’s Xu Le?”

This time, Alex didn’t start eating in advance. Instead, he crossed his arms and wandered to the kitchen, wanting to help Xu Le serve the food.

In the kitchen, Xu Le swiftly washed the internal organs of a mandarin fish and removed the fish’s scales and gills.

Then, he changed the knife to cut the fish meat into pieces and marinated it with salt and pepper. Then, he removed the fish bones to make soup.

When the stage supervisor saw that he was already sweating profusely, not to mention that he was still a child, he reminded him with heartache, “Why aren’t you eating? Are you still cooking?”

“Yeah, I saw that the ingredients aren’t used up. There are so little of each of them that I couldn’t even piece together a single dish. So, I decided to make soup so that it’s not a waste.”

“Are you making fish soup?”

“Yes, fresh fish soup.”

After Xu Le answered, he placed a spoonful of lard in the boiling pot. After the lard melted and started emitting smoke, he added some ginger slices and scallions to enhance the fragrance. Then, he added the fish head and fish bones so that they were softened, forcing out the fragrance inside.

He poured water into the pot while it was still hot, producing a sizzling sound in the pot. The milky white soup was filled with fragrance.

After it was boiled, the residue was filtered and it was poured into the ceramic pot. Then, the clams, fish, marinated meat, fresh meat, tofu rolls, lettuce and spring bamboo shoots were placed inside to be simmered.

This soup was already fresh enough, so there was no need to add chicken essence. When it was ready to be served, he added a little salt and pepper, and the steaming fish soup would be ready.

He was about to carry it out when he heard an anxious voice behind him.

“Wait, wait, wait. Let me do it! It looks so hot!”

Alex dashed forward and was about to lift the ceramic pot but it was so scalding that he bared his teeth.

“Be careful.”

Xu Le was wearing a pair of heat-resistant gloves.

Alex pursed his lips and forced himself to say, “Humph, I wasn’t scalded.”

“You should use cold water to rinse your fingers. Why are you here?”

“Are you not welcoming me?”

In less than half a minute, Alex immediately went to rinse under the cold water. Thankfully, he was not scalded and his fingertips were only slightly red.

“What? You came at the right time. I made a new dish today.”

“Yes, I can smell it. The soup smells not bad, it seems fresh.”

There was a distance between the kitchen and the long dining table in the corridor outside. Alex insisted on helping Xu Le, so he did not refuse and handed over the heat-resistant gloves.

“The interview last night has been edited. The magazine will be released next week. Are you nervous?”

As Thailand’s trending magazine, it was extremely popular. Xu Le raised his eyebrows and said, “Shouldn’t you be worried about the

sales?”

“Haha, that’s true.”

Alex took a few more steps as he kept pursing his lips. Finally, he said softly, “I need to talk to you.”