Chapter 931 - Understanding Life (1/2)

“That’s right. Judge after eating,” Ma Cheng also stopped holding back and picked up his chopsticks.

This was the final dish. If he was still holding back, there would be nothing else for him to eat.

Action spoke louder than words. While they were still talking, Zhou Shijie had already reached for the tofu with his chopsticks.

“The tofu is in perfect shape. The shape is maintained despite the tofu’s softness,” Zhou Shijie nodded while studying the tofu he had picked up.

“The plate is quite interesting as well,” Lee Yanyi remarked as well after picking up a piece of tofu.

Normally, as the Mapo Tofu was a dish with a lot of sauce, people would serve it in a bowl to avoid the overflow of sauce.

As for Yuan Zhou, he used a plate with a flat bottom. With this, his remarkable work on this dish was showcased as the sauce was wrapped around the tofu. Apart from the portion of the tofu he had intentionally left white, the other part of the tofu were wrapped by the glossy red sauce.

The sauce was red, the tofu was white, the garlic shoots were green, the minced beef was reddish-gold, and the plate was completely white. The entire dish looked refreshing and delicious, looking extremely appetizing.

While Zhou Shijie and Lee Yanyi were busy studying the tofu they had picked up, Zhang Yan had directly stuffed the tofu into his mouth.

Zhang Yan could not be bothered with anything else and directly stuffed the tofu into his mouth.

“Hot,” Zhang Yan couldn’t help himself but to blurt this word out.

That’s right. The first sensation they felt when the tofu entered their mouths was hot. The tofu looked tender and refreshing, not appearing hot at all. But the moment Zhang Yan ate it, his tongue quivered at how hot it was.

While his tongue was still feeling the scalding heat, the sauce around the tofu spread in his mouth. The sauce was made from Pixian Soy Bean Sauce, chili oil, and black bean. The fragrance of beef could also be tasted from it.

At the same time, the flavor of the Sichuan pepper also exploded. It was as if there was a party going on in his mouth as the myriad flavors intermingled.

Numbness, spicy, hot, fragrance, tenderness, salty, everything erupted and flooded Zhang Yan’s taste buds, causing him to be engrossed in the world of myriad flavors.

“Delicious,” Zhang Yan blurted again before he started chewing.

When he picked the tofu up with his chopsticks, the tofu felt quite springy but the moment he chomped down on it, the tofu was crushed, giving him a feeling the tofu was so tender he did not know how he should start eating it.

But since the tofu was immediately crushed, it blended perfectly with the myriad flavors currently within his mouth, giving off a feeling of completion.

“This is how a Mapo Tofu should be. I feel like my taste buds have been brought alive,” Zhang Yan remarked.

“Indeed. But I feel like adding the minced beef meat will be more appropriate,” commented Hu Yue.

“Let me give it a try,” Zhang Yan could no longer be bothered about talent. The only thing he had in his mind was to fully explore the delicacy before him.

This time, Zhang Yan had also intentionally picked up some minced beef meat as well and ate it together with a piece of tofu.

“Indeed,” Zhang Yan immediately understood Hu Yue’s meaning the moment the tofu entered his mouth.

Hu Yue was right. The tofu was tender and salty, and the sauce gave it a hot and numbing aroma, and when the minced beef meat was added into the mix, it was like a finishing touch had been added to the tofu to bring all the flavors to life.

It was like the flavors had gone alive with a commander leading them, giving his taste buds the pinnacle of enjoyment.

And just like that, they finished the tofu before they knew it. Even as the tofu was finished, they felt like they still wanted more.