That night, Weibo was destined to belong to Chen Xuan!
After Chen Xuan first trended on Weibo, the momentum couldn't be stopped.
Have you ever seen someone make it to the trending list just because of a single dish?
Originally, six trending topics were related to Chen Xuan.
Now, there were already eight!
The "Immortal Fish" dish topped the trending list!
And the "Stuffed Bean Sprouts" quickly followed suit, also making it onto the list!
Chen Xuan had taken over the entire internet just with her cooking skills.
It even reached the point where a particular trending topic appeared on Weibo.
#Who is Chen Xuan?#
Under this hashtag, many people were introducing her, and more people began to learn about Chen Xuan.
At this moment, Chen Xuan was focused on making her next dish.
Lion's Head!
"To make Lion's Head, you need six parts fatty meat and four parts lean meat," she explained.
"Chop it into minced meat, then add spring onions, ginger, and eggs to form fist-sized meatballs. You can either steam or braise them, they should be fatty but not greasy."
"This dish is actually quite simple and you can make it at home, but if you want to make it well, it's a bit tricky."
Chen Xuan placed a piece of pork with the right balance of fat and lean on the cutting board, and with a few quick strokes, the blade moved with lightning speed, cutting the meat.
"Lion's Head requires attention to two things: First, the meat should be tight. To make it tight, you have to focus on your knife skills."
"These days, people use meat grinders for convenience, which makes the meat very fine, but it loses the necessary texture. If you want texture, you have to do it the old-fashioned way, by hand chopping."
This is similar to how beef balls are made in Guangdong—whether they're chewy or not depends on the knife skills.
It's purely physical labor, but it also shows the chef's dedication to the dish.
Chen Xuan grabbed another knife, and with two knives in her hands, the movement of the blades became a blur.
The whole kitchen was filled with the sound of the knife against the cutting board.
Li Aimin watched closely from the side, in awe of how fast Chen Xuan worked.
If it were him, he wouldn't be able to cut this quickly.
"I can see the afterimage!" someone exclaimed.
"The legendary... unity of man and knife!"
"This feels so immersive, my hands are already moving with her!"
"Chen Xuan's arm strength must be terrifying. If anyone else tried this, their arms would be sore in no time!"
Meanwhile, Chef Lu Yuan, the master of national banquets, was busy making calls.
He called up masters of the Shandong cuisine to tell them he had discovered the Stuffed Bean Sprout dish.
He called others to help him contact Chen Xuan.
In the distant Xiang province, Pang Tong and Wu Zhou were doing the same thing.
They were also trying to get in touch with Chen Xuan.
The appearance of these culinary giants sent shockwaves through the entire chef community.
Many famous chefs from across the country entered the livestream to see for themselves what kind of young person could attract the attention of a national banquet chef like Lu Yuan.
At this moment, every move Chen Xuan made was under the scrutiny of professional chefs.
Watching her knife skills, they nodded in approval.
Her knife skills were truly professional!
Nowadays, chefs tend to slack off on their knife skills once they become head chefs. This is because they focus more on perfecting the dishes themselves, and the prep work is usually handled by others.
What they need to do is cook the dish!
But someone like Chen Xuan, who could maintain excellent knife skills while also managing the fire and flavor during cooking, was incredibly rare!
What impressed them even more was her youth!
They could imagine that if Chen Xuan dedicated herself to cooking full-time, within five years, she would undoubtedly secure a place for herself in the culinary world!
However, they had no idea that her knife skills were still only the tip of the iceberg.
Once she finished chopping the minced meat and seasoning it to make the lion's head meatballs, she immediately turned to prepare something else—a block of tofu.
This block of tofu, perfectly square, was carefully placed in her palm.
"Our country, Da Xia, is known as a paradise for food lovers. And this is not just boasting," she said.
"When it comes to cuisine, I dare say that all the foods in the world combined are still not as good as ours in Da Xia!"
"And within Da Xia's cuisine, many dishes test your knife skills, but the one dish that tests knife skills the most is a single one!"
At this point, she pointed to the tofu in her hand.
The camera zoomed in on the tofu. The viewers stared at it for a long time, but couldn't figure out what made it special.
"This dish is called 'Wensi Tofu'," she introduced. "It started in the Qing Dynasty and has a history of over 300 years. It was created by a monk named Wensi at the Tianning Temple in Yangzhou, hence the name."
"This dish is simple, but also difficult. It's simple because it only requires a few ingredients like winter bamboo shoots, chicken breast, ham, and shiitake mushrooms. But it's difficult because it requires near-impossible knife skills!"
She placed the tofu gently on the cutting board, grabbed a clean knife, and said, "Wensi Tofu is the dish that demands the highest knife skills in the eight major Chinese cuisines. To make this dish, you have to cut about 15,000 strands of tofu, and no more than 10% of them can break. Each tofu strand should be five centimeters long and approximately 0.3 millimeters thick. If you can make Wensi Tofu properly, you can consider your knife skills to be 'beginner level!'"
The audience was stunned. This small block of tofu needed to be cut into over 15,000 strands?
Chefs watching the program were shaking their heads.
To say that making Wensi Tofu properly meant your knife skills had entered the beginner level?
How high must your knife skill standards be to say that?!
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