Since she had made dumplings, how could she leave out steamed buns!
Gan Lan glanced back inside the cafeteria. It was a classic scene of people eating their words—almost everyone was thoroughly enjoying the food, with only a select few running away because they couldn’t stomach it.
She smiled and headed straight back to prepare the ingredients for her livestream. Although the income from streaming far exceeded that of her food stall, it was the stall’s earnings that had initially kept her fed and clothed. Furthermore, making barbecue in her dorm room always felt like it lacked a certain touch of worldly warmth; she still preferred the lively atmosphere of the Food Street.
While her livestream channel was certainly bustling, the inability to hear voices or see faces made it feel a bit cold.
After buying all the necessary ingredients, Gan Lan prepared to make soup dumplings and grilled beef for the day.
"Good afternoon, everyone! Have you eaten today?" Gan Lan smiled and waved at her livestream audience, asking her daily question.
Immortal Barbecue: [I’ve eaten! Just came back from having a bowl of Luosifen. It feels like the more I eat it, the more addictive it gets. Also, the voting numbers were so close; it made me nervous to death! Fortunately, our junior won in the end.]
Sky Blue: [You have the nerve to say that upstairs! Weren’t you the one who started the poll? Junior, come to our school! We won’t charge you a window fee! The First Military Academy welcomes you!]
Feiran: [I went to your school’s cafeteria and ate Luosifen.]
Hot Pot Balls: [The captain skipped class today! Junior, you never expected him to be this kind of person, did you? He’s so bad! He left me all alone to train T.T. Junior, I need your food to heal me!]
Love Ugly Shellfish, Love Kale: [Boss Yan came over? Why didn’t I see him in the cafeteria? What a pity! I didn’t get to see Boss Yan’s beauty, otherwise I definitely could have eaten another bowl of noodles!]
Feiran: [...What are we eating today?]
Gan Lan was already used to the viewers bickering in the channel, feeling completely unbothered by it.
"Today we’re eating soup dumplings and grilled beef! We’ll marinate the beef first. Because the soup dumplings require quite a few steps, we’ll start with the simple one!"
Gan Lan took the cleaned beef and sliced it. Since she was going to grill it over charcoal, the meat couldn’t be too thin.
I’m So Stressed: [Aww! The junior’s knife skills are incredible! It’s almost like they were cut by a machine! How is my goddess so outstanding!]
I’m Here to Learn: [So what are soup buns? Do you pour soup into a bag? What kind of bag?]
Osmanthus Rice Cake: [Upstairs, your... learning attitude is really good. Common sense dictates it’s probably not a bag for holding items!]
Hot Pot Balls: [Who cares what kind of bag or bun it is! I’ll eat anything the junior makes!]
Sky Blue: [I won’t know how to make it anyway! Even the ’simple’ grilled beef the junior mentioned isn’t actually simple, let alone hearing her say that the soup dumplings require a lot of steps! Looking at it this way, it’s definitely not something a normal person could learn. Suddenly, I’m really looking forward to it!]
...
Gan Lan placed the sliced beef into a large basin, poured in clean water, and let it soak for a while to draw out the blood.
"We’ll leave the beef to soak for a bit and marinate it later." She took a massive piece of pork skin out of the temperature-controlled box and hoisted it up with effort in front of the viewers, casually introducing it. "This is pork skin, the main ingredient for soup dumplings. Without it, they’d have no soul."
Pork Knuckles Are Delicious: [This... um... doesn’t look very appetizing.]
Flower Pastry Is True Love: [I also... feel like it won’t taste very good, right?]
Sky Blue: [I licked the data of the pork skin... Now I feel like I’m not doing too well.]
Hot Pot Balls: [Idiot! Hahahahaha]
Gan Lan’s mouth twitched when she saw Gao Haiyang’s comment. With a helpless expression, she said, "You can’t eat this yet. I haven’t even started processing it; it’s still raw."
She placed the thoroughly washed pork skin into a pot, added clean water, cooking wine, and green garlic, then covered it with a lid to boil.
"Because my piece of pork skin is quite large, it needs to boil for about half an hour. If you guys are making this, choose a smaller piece—boiling it for ten minutes will be enough."
Gan Lan then switched to another large basin. "Add the prepared flour into the basin, pour in cold boiled water, and knead it into a dough with your hands." She lifted a large ball of dough and slammed it into the basin. "Like this. As long as it doesn’t stick to the basin, it’s fine. Then, let it naturally proof for half an hour."
The green of the Qingtuan is really beautiful: [It really looks a bit troublesome! It must be delicious!]
Barbecue Bibimbap: [I don’t think I could learn this in my entire lifetime.]
Gan Lan washed her hands and took the cleaned meat from the robot Wu. Yes, her current robots now had names: Yi, Er, San, Si, and Wu.
"Wash the meat clean, mince it, and prepare a clean, large basin. Put the minced meat in, add salt, cooking wine, light soy sauce, and oyster sauce. Stir evenly, cover with cling film, and let it marinate for a while."
Gan Lan opened the pot where the pork skin was boiling and took a look inside. "The pork skin needs to boil for another ten minutes, so let’s marinate the beef first."
I’m Here to Learn: [The streamer is really methodical when cooking. Whenever I try my hand at it, I get all flustered and forget this and that.]
Blooming Beauty, Moonlit Grace: [Sister, study hard! I look forward to you becoming an excellent culinary master in the future! Of course, in my heart, my dear junior is the absolute best! Unsurpassable!]
Feiran: [Yes, very well said.]
Handsome Mingyu: [Which sentence was well said? The former or the latter?]
Sky Blue: [School Beauty, why are you hanging around here instead of livestreaming? Of course it’s the latter sentence that’s right! Because I feel the same way! The junior is the absolute best!]
Feiran: [...]
"Scoop out the beef, wash it, and drain the water. Add half a chopped onion, an appropriate amount of garlic, light soy sauce, cooking wine, white sugar, pepper, and egg wash, then mix evenly." As Gan Lan stirred the beef, she added, "If you have the means, you can pour in some red wine to marinate with it. I don’t have the means."
Love Ugly Shellfish, Love Kale: [I have red wine here. Do you want me to bring it over to you, Junior?]
Binbin: [I have some too. If you want it, I’ll bring it over to you.]
Seeing her friends in the chat eagerly offering to bring her red wine, Gan Lan hurriedly waved her hands. "No need, no need! I was just joking. I can afford it, but I actually prefer grilled beef without red wine."
I’m Just Looking: [I knew it! How could the streamer be this poor! With so many big shots on the leaderboard, her total income must be in the hundreds of millions by now.]
Flower Pastry Is True Love: [Upstairs must be a newbie, right? Our streamer is genuinely broke. She refunded the gifts sent by the big shots on the leaderboard. A few days ago, she even treated the whole school to hot pot! A lot of viewers from the livestream went too; Mingzong’s culinary cafeteria plaza could barely fit them all. Haha, the streamer is probably in negative equity right now!]
I’m Hurt: [As a newbie, this is the first time I’ve heard of such a silly streamer refunding gifts. Is the streamer an idiot?]
Hot Pot Balls: [Upstairs, drop your address! Let’s fight in real life!]
I’m Hurt: [I’m just telling the truth. She’s either an idiot or pretending to be noble! I saw this livestream was so popular, so I just dropped in to take a look. Your tastes are truly bizarre!]
Sky Blue: [I’m getting angry!]
System Notification: [’I’m Hurt’ has been permanently banned from entering this livestream channel for speaking disrespectfully to the streamer.]
System Notification: [Congratulations to the streamer ’Come and have some barbecue!’ for receiving ten Cosmic Starships from ’Feiran’. Triggering a network-wide broadcast.]
Network-wide Broadcast: [’Feiran’ says to ’Come and have some barbecue!’: While he was right to call you silly, you’re adorably silly.]
System Notification: [Congratulations to the streamer for receiving...]
For a time, the words ’adorably silly’ completely took over the entire livestream channel.