A bowl of tangyuan, four pieces of varying shapes, all with a beautiful white porcelain color, at a glance you can tell they are cooked perfectly.
When cooking tangyuan, they were simmered in four separate pots, making it easy to serve. All the tangyuan were served by Dong Shi, one bowl at a time, while Qin Huai was timing 3 minutes and 50 seconds from the side, and Qin Luo was tip-toeing impatiently at the kitchen door.
Although Qin Luo didn’t need to wait 3 minutes and 50 seconds, eating hot food too much is not good for health, so it’s better to let the child wait a bit longer.
minutes and 50 seconds.
Qin Huai walked out with two bowls of tangyuan. Outside the kitchen, Qin Luo, Chen Huihong, and Chen Huixi were already sitting on small stools. The small stools weren’t from Huang Ji, probably bought by Chen Huihong herself; fully equipped.
"Four Happiness tangyuan." Qin Huai said, handing the bowls to Qin Luo and Chen Huihong.
Qin Luo immediately took a tangyuan, and with lightning speed, scooped a red bean-filled one into his mouth, biting down most of it and chewing furiously.
After swallowing one, Qin Luo finally had time to express his thoughts.
"Brother, it’s so delicious! The freshly made Four Happiness tangyuan is really so good, much better than the frozen ones from the fridge! I want to eat this again tomorrow!"
Qin Luo was a professional at showing appreciation.
After speaking his lines, Qin Luo continued to bury his head in eating, his mouth so full he couldn’t even make a noise, turning into a relentless tangyuan-chewing machine.
While Qin Luo was devouring tangyuan, Chen Huihong wasn’t idle either. Many times, Chen Huihong could still show the brilliance of maternal love, she didn’t eat alone, always remembering to share a bite with her daughter.
"Come on, Huihui, open your mouth, mommy will feed you." The bowl of tangyuan was quite big, and Chen Huihong was worried Chen Huixi might not be able to hold it steadily, so she fed her directly.
Chen Huixi opened her mouth wide, took a small bite, and mimicked Qin Luo’s chewing, her whole cheek bulging up like a hamster.
As she chewed, Chen Huixi wanted to speak, but her mouth was too full to open, only able to make "mmm mmm" sounds.
Chen Huihong didn’t notice her daughter’s situation, as her motherly love at this moment wasn’t much.
Chen Huihong just picked a sesame peanut brittle flavored tangyuan, which was the most well-known sweet sesame-flavored tangyuan, made from the sesame glutinous rice skin soup ingredients that Director Qin was most skilled at.
Chen Huixi took a small bite, and most of the tangyuan remained in the spoon, with a corner missing, the tangyuan sunk down a bit, and the black sesame peanut filling slowly oozed out.
The thick black filling looked dense, like a scene from a falsely advertised TV commercial. The white glutinous rice skin was fully wrapped with sesame filling, dark and shiny like molten chocolate custard, just looking at it one could almost taste the sweet sesame filling.
Not just sweet, but with a crushed sesame aroma too.
It’s the taste of tangyuan, also the taste of the holiday.
Chen Huihong’s eyes were solely on the tangyuan.
Chen Huihong felt as if she hadn’t seen such tangyuan with sesame filling in lifetimes, having eaten many of Qin Huai’s pastries, more exquisite than Qin Huai’s in her first life, she pitifully swallowed a mouthful of saliva at this moment.
Almost subconsciously, Chen Huihong stuffed the tangyuan into her mouth, trying to swallow it whole in one go.
Chen Huihong had to settle for biting most of it off in one go.
The rich sesame peanut brittle flavor instantly overwhelmed her entire mouth, Chen Huihong didn’t dare to open her mouth, afraid that this wonderful feeling would dissipate if she did, she could only mimic Qin Luo and Chen Huixi, continuously chewing, chewing, chewing.
At this moment, the actions of the three reached a uniformity.
Finally, the one who took the smallest bites, Chen Huixi, finished chewing first, swallowed, and loudly exclaimed, "Mommy, this big tangyuan is so good!"
With motherly love returned, Chen Huihong stuffed the remaining tangyuan in the spoon to her daughter, and Chen Huixi continued to chew with puffed cheeks.
A bowl of Four Happiness tangyuan only contains 4 pieces, which sounds not much, but actually, tangyuan are big, the glutinous rice snacks are themselves hard to chew and not easy to swallow, making it take a considerable amount of time to eat a whole bowl of tangyuan.
Noticing that Qin Luo, who is always known for eating fast, had only gotten to the second piece, Qin Huai decided to go back and eat a bowl first, then come out to refill Qin Luo’s.
With Qin Huai’s understanding of his sister, encountering such a delicious snack for the first time, one bowl would definitely not be enough, at least starting from two bowls.
As for exactly how many bowls, it would depend on whether Qin Luo still wanted to eat Zheng Siyuan’s Zhou Sha Wonton and Paopao Dumpling, or if she had any interest in Xiao Long Bao, rice cake, siu mai, and rice cake.
When Qin Huai took the bowl back to the kitchen, Huang’s Kitchen had already been conquered by Four Happiness tangyuan.
Almost everyone was holding a bowl of tangyuan, a spoon in one hand, mouth constantly chewing, occasionally emitting the highest praise of "mmm".
Among the people eating tangyuan, undoubtedly, the one with the most expressive face was Tan Wei’an.
Tan Wei’an would take a bite of tangyuan and glance at the filling, his eyes showing three parts surprise, three parts puzzlement, and four parts soul-searching, chewing one moment, contemplating the next, chewing and spacing out another moment, looking as if he wasn’t eating tangyuan, but was being devoured by tangyuan.
It seemed as if there was a gigantic Four Happiness tangyuan slowly gnawing at his soul, emitting a "mmm" sound with each bite, with every chew taking Tan Wei’an’s gaze a notch more bewildered.
Tan Wei’an was dumbfounded.
He knew Qin Huai was an extremely outstanding pastry chef, a role model worth learning from, and the Qin Master everyone spoke of with respect.