Chapter 512 (2/2)

“Okay.” Li Wentong nodded his head before he took out 120RMB from his wallet and handed it to Zhou Jia directly.

“Here’s the change of 2RMB for you.” Zhou Jia took out the change and gave it back to him swiftly.

“Thank you.” Li Wentong nodded his head again and received it.

“Boss Yuan, a serving of Green Jade Rice Crust with broth inside from the 100 Styles of Rice Cuisines.” Zhou Jia nodded her head and then turned around and reported the name of the dish.

“Got it.” Yuan Zhou’s voice passed from the face mask.

Only then did Li Wentong, who had been staring at them closely, feel relieved.

“It seems this young chef can make it. I just don’t know how the taste will be like.” Li Wentong sat on the chair and looked at Yuan Zhou earnestly.

However, he could catch nothing special from Yuan Zhou’s constantly unchanged face.

“System, I can cook the Green Jade Rice Crust. But what the heck is with the broth?” Yuan Zhou was a little curious.

The system displayed, “I have searched all related information. This dish was invented by a chef one hundred years ago and it was once a cooking masterpiece. However, it was failed to be handed down to the later generations. There isn’t really an authentic cooking method of the Green Jade Rice Crust.”

“Again, it’s surprisingly a dish lost in history. But where about the cooking method?” Yuan Zhou was quite interested in that dish inwardly.

The system displayed, “It has been released and is available to be read.”

“Chinese cuisines are really extensive and profound. It’s unexpectedly cooked using such a method. How interesting!” Yuan Zhou received the cooking method of Green Jade Rice Crust. The customers in the restaurant only saw Yuan Zhou stand still, close his eyes, and then open them again.

“No wonder it was lost in history. It’s surprisingly another kind of tribute rice.” Yuan Zhou opened the cabinet marked with the characters ‘Babao Rice’ naturally as if it hadn’t shown up suddenly, but had been there for a long time.

That’s right. What Li Wentong ordered was called Green Jade Rice Crust. The raw ingredients were another kind of tribute rice.

This kind of rice was called the Eight Treasure Rice, which was produced in Babao Town of the Guangnan County. As it neighbored Fu’ning County on the east, Xichou County and Malipo County on the south, Qiubei County and Yanshan County on the west and Xilin County of Guangxi Province on the north, it was at the junction of Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guizhou Provinces. Therefore, the rice was also one of the varieties of Yunnan rice.

The Yunnan Province was the origin of cultured rice and the initial starting point where rice was spread to other places. Therefore, many kinds of quality rice were all produced there, of which the Zhefang Rice and Babao Rice were two excellent ones.

Due to the place it originated, however, it was named Babao Rice.

Babao Rice consisted of two varieties. For the first one, the rice particles were a greenish white, similar to the color of green jade. It was the best choice to cook the rice gruel. For the other one, the rice grains were snowy white similar to the color of white jade and it was the best choice to cook the steamed rice.

But today, what Yuan Zhou prepared to cook the rice crust with was contrarily the first one, the greenish-white type of rice.

“This chef is said to cook very fast. Is he going to carry the dish up soon?” Li Wentong didn’t sit at a good position, thus he could merely see Yuan Zhou’s body rather than his hand movements.

Therefore, he couldn’t see if Yuan Zhou had prepared the Green Jade Rice Crust.

Not long after that, however, the Green Jade Rice Crust was carried up to him.

“Here’s your 100 Styles of Rice Cuisines, Green Jade Rice Crust.” Zhou Jia set down the plate gently.

“Thank you.” Li Wentong thanked her first before he turned to look at the plate.

It was a plate that had wide edges and was hollow in the center. A semi-circle piece of intact rice crust was placed in the plate, upside down. The middle of the rice crust was a golden yellow with a slight tinge of green. The closer it was to the edges, the greener it became.

Such a strange rice crust was just floating in a bowl of clear water.

“It’s really the Green Jade Rice Crust no matter in design or appearance. Now I’m merely waiting to see if the taste is good.” Li Wentong was a little excited in his heart. Nevertheless, he just picked up the chopsticks steadily and prepared to eat.