I'm the Culinary God

"Wow, this smells amazing!"

Shen Jiayue didn’t know that there was no such thing as a "flower eel" in the world, nor did she care whether Lin Xu’s words were correct. She was now holding her bowl of rice and eating the spicy and flavorful snake meat with big bites.

Even though it was farm-raised snake, the texture and taste were not lacking at all.

Especially the firm snake meat and chewy snake skin, paired with the spiciness of four types of chili peppers, the taste was incredibly delicious.

Lin Xu tasted it too and was full of praise for Xie Baomin’s culinary skill.

Although many high-end chefs consider heavy-flavored dishes shameful and focus on creating fresh and elegantly presented official and literary dishes, what ordinary people can really afford are these heavy-flavored dishes.

Moreover, after a long day’s work, eating three bowls of rice or drinking two bottles of cold beer with spicy and tasty dishes is what truly relieves the body’s exhaustion.

If you are starving and go for some soup or bland dishes, it’s quite disappointing.

It’s in TV dramas where the emperor eats lotus seed porridge or small snacks made by concubines, treating meals as a form of amusement.

If Lin Xu were an emperor, he would probably slap the table:

"Take this useless lotus seed porridge away and bring me two big pork knuckles!"

What’s the point of being the supreme ruler if you have to eat such bland food?

Spicy snake meat with rice, eating it is extremely satisfying, and the osmanthus abalone and golden sand abalone made by Lin Xu also offer a unique taste.

Especially the golden sand abalone, crispy and crunchy, you can taste the salty and sweet flavors of the egg yolk, this mix of sweet and salty flavors with the sandy texture of the salted egg yolk is really good.

Recently off work, Han Shuzhen and Shen Guofu ate and praised endlessly, giving them a new understanding of abalone as an ingredient.

Shen Guofu just sat down and recognized the flavorful snake served in the earthen pot.

However, he was smart enough to know that his daughter was afraid of snakes, plus Shen Jiayue deliberately boasted that this was a "flower eel" made by her senior brother, so he accepted the name.

As long as his daughter is happy, it doesn’t matter what it’s called.

The family was sitting at the dining table eating, and Old Huang came in.

As soon as this old brother came up from the stairway, he yelled:

"Old Xie, you’re really something, those snakes are already hibernating, those few snakes were bought by me at a high price for a feast, and what do you guys do? You split them clean."

Generally speaking, autumn is the season for eating snake, and in the south there is even a saying "When the autumn wind rises, three kinds of snakes are fat."

The so-called three snakes refer to cauliflower snake, black snake, and king snake, these three non-toxic snakes used as ingredients.

Old Huang, feeling indignant, was hoping to save a few fat snakes for himself to eat, but they were snatched clean by two rascals.

As he was saying this, he saw the flavorful snake on the table and immediately stopped complaining:

"Damn, you guys are actually eating it, isn’t enjoying the free snake meat great?"

Snake meat???

Shen Jiayue looked at the fragrant, spicy, and delicious chunks of meat in her bowl and then looked at the pattern on it, which indeed seemed very similar to the texture of snake skin...Ahhh, I’m actually eating snake meat?

She put down the bowl and looked at Lin Xu with wide eyes:

"Stinky Xu Bao, you actually tricked me into eating snake meat, don’t you know I’m very afraid of snakes?"

Lin Xu chuckled dryly:

"Let’s just eat, worry about being scared later, I’ll be scared with you then."

Shen Jiayue originally thought snakes were creepy, yet here they were eating it. Just the thought made her fearful, but on second thought, the taste of the snake meat wasn’t bad, so under the influence of appetite, she picked her bowl back up.

Hmm, let’s eat first, we’ll talk about fear after we’re full.

After all, Xu Bao is here, and cats have a natural bloodline suppression against snakes, as long as she’s with her beloved son, there’s absolutely no need to fear snakes!

Old Huang didn’t usually eat staple food, but after tasting a piece of snake meat, he couldn’t help but serve himself a bowl of rice, with such spicy snake meat, you must pair it with rice for the full enjoyment.

Moreover, these were his snakes, he needed to eat as much as possible to minimize the loss.

Xie Baomin instructed a helper:

"Little Che, bring out the liquor soaked with snake gall for Boss Huang, since we’ve eaten the snake meat, let him have the snake gall, it’s good stuff."

Upon hearing about snake gall soaked liquor, Old Huang showed real interest:

"That thing is too strong, I can’t drink it alone, why don’t we divide it among the three of us, I hear it’s a very beneficial substance, we can’t miss it."

Just hearing the word "liquor," Shen Guofu’s ears automatically perked up.

Now hearing it’s snake gall soaked liquor, he was even more intrigued.

He quickly shoveled two mouthfuls of rice, reminiscing:

"The last time I drank snake gall liquor was when Yueyue was young, visiting relatives back home in the Northeast, an old relative caught a poisonous snake in the forest and soaked its gall in liquor, drinking it was really strong, since we have snake gall now, we must try it."

Soon, the helper brought out a liquor cup with three snake galls soaked inside.

Old Huang took it, using a liquor divider to split the large cup of liquor into three, carefully separating the snake galls inside, then the three middle-aged men raised their glasses and drank heartily.

Whether it’s effective or not is uncertain, but the way the three men grimaced, as if they had taken some elixir, makes one wonder if this so-called infused supplement was merely a psychological effect.

While they were eating, Chen Yan, Zeng Xiaoqi, Dou Wenjing, and others finished work and came over to eat.