[Genshin Impact]: I can become stronger by cooking

This special means of transportation is exactly the rickshaw, but according to the current Liyue terminology, it should be classified as a sedan chair.

Chao Ke still remembered that it was shown in the Ye Lan PV that there were people engaged in this profession in Liyue Harbor. Now that he had encountered it, Chao Ke naturally wanted to experience it for himself.

"Sir, where are you going? Why not take my sedan chair? I guarantee that I can take you to your destination quickly and safely."

"Oh? I want to go to Chihuyan, please help me, Mr. Liu San."

"Hey, no trouble, no trouble. Sir, please get in the car, we will set off now."

Chao Ke stepped into Liu San's sedan chair and sat down.

The seats in the sedan were covered with thick cushions and were quite comfortable to sit on.

"Sit tight, sir, we are about to start!"

After saying that, Liu San picked up the handrail, pulled Chao Ke and ran towards the direction of "Chihu Rock".

Sitting in the rickshaw, Chao Ke observed the street scenes of Liyue Harbor on both sides, and also observed the driver named Liu San and the rickshaw.

The driver Liu San is quite a big guy. It makes sense that one needs some strength to make a living like this.

Even in the classic literary work of the previous life, "Camel Xiangzi", the protagonist Xiangzi is described as "a man with a very strong stature and muscles."

But what really interested Chao Ke was the rickshaw used by the driver Liu San.

There was a small wooden sign on the rickshaw, engraved with a number and the logo of the Liyue General Affairs Department.

Chao Ke's mouth twitched. There couldn't be license plates in Liyue Harbor, right?

In order to verify the facts, Chao Ke asked the driver Liu San questions.

"Hey! Sir, why are you asking this? I can tell you don't often live in Liyue Harbor."

"This small wooden sign was issued by the General Affairs Department of Liyue. One sign is for each sedan chair. It is used to record the owner of the sedan chair and related information. It is very valuable."

"You can't go on the road without this little wooden sign. The General Affairs Department has people patrolling the streets. If you go on the road without a sign, not only will you be heavily fined, but even your sedan chair will be confiscated."

Chao Ke held his forehead with his hand. It was amazing. It was just as he had guessed.

Byd, same world, same Liyue, right?

Suddenly, Chao Ke thought of something.

Liyue Harbor is the economic and political center of Liyue. Will it be so easy to get this license?

After asking this question to the coachman Liu San, Liu San's expression suddenly became excited.

"Of course, sir!"

"You have no idea how difficult it is to apply for a license to ride in a sedan chair in Liyue Harbor!"

"Let me tell you, an old man in our car dealership saved money for a few years and bought a sedan chair. He wanted to leave the dealership and start his own business."

"But you don't know that my elder brother filled out the application form for the wooden sign last year. By this year, the new sedan chair has been replaced by the old one, and his sign has not yet been approved."

"To this day, I still work in the car dealership."

Chao Ke's mouth twitched. It's so classic.

This familiar feeling is like returning home...

After a moment of silence, Chao Ke slowly said, "Be content. At least Liyue Harbor has not started to implement the odd-even license plate restriction yet."

Coachman Liu San: “?”

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After arriving at Chihuyan, Chao Ke paid the full fare and gave Liu San an extra tip.

But the driver Liu San still had a dull expression, as if Chao Ke's words had had such a huge impact on his worldview that he still hasn't gotten over it.

He shook his head at Ke, got out of the car, and strolled in this "Tiger-Eating Rock".

Compared with the streets near the General Affairs Department, the atmosphere at "Chihuyan" is obviously more lively.

The cries of the vegetable and fruit vendors, the storytellers' commentary and singing, mixed with the spicy and fresh aroma of food, along with the scattered leaves of the trees, enter the senses of passers-by.

Walking in it, there is an inexplicable sense of comfort and security.

Anyway, it was still early, and Chao Ke didn't plan to rush to the Wanmintang restaurant. Instead, he wanted to taste the street snacks in Liyue and feel the flavor of Liyue's fireworks.

The first place that Chao Ke stopped at was a grilled fish stall.

The owner was extremely skillful and cleaned a fish in no time. He then set it aside, roasted it over a high fire, and seasoned it with spices.

The reason why Chao Ke stopped in front of this stall, besides the aroma of the grilled fish, was also because of the stall owner's knife skills.

He removed the scales and opened the belly with a very methodical movement of the knife.

"Hey! Master Chen, give me a grilled fish!"

"Okay, please wait a moment, sir!"

A passerby's address to the shop owner woke up Chao Ke, "I was wondering how a guy selling grilled fish could be so good with a knife. It turns out he's the fast knife Chen from the game."

The current stall owner, Chen, neither has the later store nor the nickname "Quick Knife Chen", which is simply because Chao Ke did not recognize him.

However, although he has not yet become famous, stall owner Chen's knife skills, which are derived from the Guhua School, are not weak at all.

When used in processing fish, it is truly a dimensionality reduction attack.

Chao Ke also ordered a skewer of grilled tiger fish to taste.

Thanks to the rapid roasting, the golden skin locks in the tender fish meat, but the fish meat just out of the oven is still too hot to the mouth, so you need to blow on it while savoring it slowly.

Speaking of which, the dish of [Grilled Tiger Fish] actually has a lot of knowledge to it.

The original pronunciation of grilled tiger fish should be "grilled chihu fish", which specifically refers to the grilled "chihu fish".

But as the dish spread, "grilled chigo fish" gradually became "grilled tiger fish".

In addition, the fish species originally required for this dish, the "Goby", became endangered many, many years ago due to a sharp decline in the number of marine mammals that accompanied it.

Therefore, the [Grilled Tiger Fish] currently sold in Liyue has undergone tremendous changes in both its name and ingredients from its original appearance.

Of course, when it comes to whether it tastes good or not, not much has changed. It has been a delicacy from ancient times to the present.

But for the people living in Liyue, as long as it tastes good, it is enough.

Chapter 82: The Reason for the Decline of Wanmin Hall

[Note: The information in this chapter is derived from Xiangling's character information, Ningguang's character information, and the author's personal speculation]

Master Liu’s [Grilled Tiger Fish] is very good, but the recipe for this dish was not obtained from him, but from the nearby [Wanmin Hall] restaurant.

Now that we have finished this snack, it is time to start today’s main course, the Wanmintang restaurant.

At this time, inside the Wanmin Hall restaurant.

Chef Mao couldn't help but sigh. The business in the restaurant hasn't been very good in recent days.

Of course, the reason why the restaurant’s business is not doing well is not because of his bad cooking skills, but the problem lies with the restaurant’s ingredients.

As we all know, Liyue Harbor has two major traditional cuisines, namely "Li cuisine" and "Yue cuisine".

These two major cuisines each occupy half of Liyue's food scene.

In order to determine the winner, both sides continue to fight and develop their own supporters.

Over time, the two factions launched a "food war" that focused on the quality of the food, regardless of its taste.

This "war" also directly led to the monopoly of all rare ingredients in Liyue Harbor, and is also subtly changing the Liyue Harbor residents' evaluation and pursuit of food.

It seems that whether a dish contains rare ingredients is more important than whether the dish is delicious enough.

Rumor has it that the bosses of Liuliting and Xinyuexuan are behind this "food war".

As the leaders of "Licai" and "Yuecai", these two restaurants work together to control most of the rare ingredients in Liyue Harbor.

The delicious top-quality fish and rare mountain treasures will be reserved by the purchasing staff of these two restaurants as soon as they enter the market.

Of course, no matter how bold [Liuliting] and [Xinyuexuan] are, they dare not openly engage in monopoly. They will still deliberately leave out some rare ingredients for distribution to other chefs.

It's just a small amount, and it has to be divided up among other "Li Cai" and "Yu Cai" restaurants. In the end, what is left for Wanmin Tang is very little.

Logically speaking, a restaurant like Wanmintang that specializes in Jianghu cuisine with thick oil and sauce should have a good customer base.

But today's guests are more willing to pay for rare ingredients. Ordinary consumers would rather choose a restaurant that only has a small amount of rare ingredients in the whole dish, and rarely consider a restaurant that does not contain any rare ingredients.

This also leads to the fact that those who come to dine at the Wanmintang restaurant are either experienced gourmets who are devoted to the taste of food and do not care about the quality of the ingredients; or those who do not care about the taste at all and just want to fill their stomachs.

But after all, Wanmintang is a low-cost business, and its target group is "everyone".

Today, the restaurant is not favored by its target group, and the financial situation of Wanmin Tang is worrying.

If the restaurant had not happened to gain the favor and appreciation of Lady Ningguang and received her multiple grants, it would still be a mystery whether the Wanmintang restaurant could have survived to this day.

Suddenly, a voice came into Master Mao's ear.

"Dad, I'm going out to look for ingredients!"

"Go, go, be careful on the road."

Seeing his lively daughter going out to look for ingredients, Chef Mao felt relieved.

Born into a family of chefs, his daughter Xiangling possesses a great talent for cooking and is willing to take over his mantle. This has always been a source of pride for Master Mao.

Moreover, as a child, my daughter is at an age full of passion and ideals.

After learning about the changes in Liyue people's pursuit of food and the current difficulties of restaurants, he made up his mind.

That is "There should be no distinction between expensive and cheap food!"

Following this concept, Xiangling starts from finding new ingredients and constantly seeks breakthroughs in dishes.

From the ice mist flowers and slime gel at the beginning to the strange bugs, crystal butterflies, and even the wooden sticks of the hillbillies later, they all became "new ingredients" in her eyes.

Xiangling wants to break the blockade of some restaurants on precious ingredients through innovation in ingredients, so as to guide the people of Liyue back to the original taste of food instead of pursuing ingredients again and again.

As for his daughter's bold ideas and novel creative thoughts, Master Mao considered it again and again and decided to fully support them.

However, these decisions led to an unusually rapid consumption of pots and pans at the Wanmin Tang restaurant, to the extent that the price of a pot was often added to the expense column of the restaurant's account books.

There are many reasons why the pot is destroyed.

Including but not limited to, cracks appeared due to the rapid cooling of the ice mist flower, the high temperature of the fire slime scorched the bottom of the pot, and sometimes there was a small explosion in the kitchen. When Master Mao went in, he saw Xiangling with a black face and the iron pot turned into a pile...