After watching the recipe a few times, Chen Mo's current understanding of cooking makes him feel that the key to boiled meat slices lies in marination.

The key to this dish is how to make the meat tender, with only the aroma and no off-flavor.

Typically, boiled meat slices are made with pork tenderloin, but Chen Mo is using beef tenderloin, so it seems more appropriate to call the dish boiled beef.

The sliced meat should be coated with refined salt and cooking wine, then mixed well with egg whites, which seal the meat juices, cooking wine removes any gamey taste, and refined salt adds a base flavor.

In theory, once evenly mixed, the cooking can begin, but since Chen Mo hadn't prepared all the ingredients beforehand, he now needs to pour some vegetable oil to seal the surface to prevent the meat from drying out.

The beef is set aside, and he continues to prepare other ingredients.

Dice the chicken breast; this dish is simple enough not to require much thought, and the diced chicken is also set aside.

The pork belly is already tossed into the black pot, bubbling away, and finally, it's time to make the noodles!

"What happens when Shanxi noodles collide with Sichuan craftsmanship?"

In Chen Mo's hometown, people rarely eat alkaline noodles, so this is Chen Mo's first attempt at making this type of noodle.

Grade A flour is scooped out, and the dough recipe is quite unique, unlike anything tried before—five pounds of flour with only one and a half pounds of water, plus alkaline noodles and vegetable oil, and a bit of salt at the end.

Chen Mo slowly follows the recipe in his mind, keeping his hands stirring the flour constantly as he adds all the ingredients.

Moments later... the flour is still flour.

Except it has turned into somewhat larger small lumps of flour.

"With so little water added, it's impossible to form a dough... Is this state where the noodles are to be rolled out?"

The recipe calls for these small granular dough pieces to be rolled into sheets and then made with a noodle press.

But...

"Maybe the food cart didn't anticipate that we in Jingzhou might have a certain kind of tool?"

He pulls out a handheld noodle press from the cabinet!

This device is quite magical; you just need to load all the dough into it, put on the lid, and press the button.

The tube works like a piston device, squeezing the dough out through a patterned metal plate at the bottom.

Chen Mo chose a round mold, and the pressed noodles are completely circular, directly pressed into boiling water to cook, then scooped out and rinsed in cold water, coated with a layer of oil, and they're ready.

Busy, busy, handling the noodles and then the peppers, done with the peppers, now slicing the pork belly. Not until after eleven o'clock are all the ingredients finally prepared.

"Damn, never again will I fight an unprepared battle. Today is a total breakdown!"

Not only were things not going smoothly during business hours, but the Lantern Shadow Beef also didn't have the queue of eager buyers as imagined.

Chen Mo even felt a bit embarrassed.

He Ziheng felt a bit awkward returning to the long table, uncertain why, but sitting next to Sister Fang felt a bit embarrassing.

Feeling somewhat like a bumpkin.

So he just stood by the food cart, even when Gu Jing called out to him several times, he just replied, "I'll stand here and see when it might be ready to stir-fry."

"Jingjing."

"Hmm?" Gu Jing hugged her sister's arm, "Sis, actually, Ziheng is quite a good person; he's just a bit..."

Before she could finish, Gu Fang pinched the kraft paper bag, "Go buy some more, this beef is quite delicious, oh no, I forgot to let you taste it!"

Gu Jing looked at her sister resentfully, thinking, did you finally remember you forgot to let me have some?

I only didn't speak up because you said you wouldn't eat it, yet kept munching nonstop.

"Got it." Gu Jing ran to the food cart, "Boss, more beef please."

Chen Mo, who was busy, pointed next door, "Just get the beef over there, we're all one shop."

"Oh!"

Gu Jing ran over to Lu Fang, "Boss, more beef please!"

Lu the Second popped out, "Sure, sure! How much do you want?"

"Two packs, please." Gu Jing was quite generous, though a bit shocked to hear the total was two hundred forty.

"It's normal; beef is inherently expensive, and making it into this drier form is even costlier. Plus, it's so delicious, a little pricey is just natural. Mainly, eating beef doesn't make you gain weight." Gu Fang didn't mind at all, pinching the beef with a crunch, munching away, "Right, make sure to buy more on our way back, treat it like a regular snack since it doesn't lead to weight gain."

In Gu Fang's heart, Lantern Shadow Beef had already been ranked as the number one snack for 'slim people'!

Just as Gu Fang was joyfully eating her beef, an aroma lightly drifted to her nose.

She could smell enough numbing pepper, spicy chili, and, of course, meat!

"I've had boiled meat slices before, how can I still smell such a strong meat aroma?"

Gu Fang, a bit perplexed, looked up and found Boss Xiao Chen, at some point, had already cooked the beef slices and served them in a large bowl, now pouring hot oil over the surface of the big bowl.

The hot oil splashing over the surface of the meat sparked the aroma she just caught a whiff of!

Gu Fang felt curious and even had the urge to get closer for a better look; at this moment, a hurried woman's voice came from a distance.

"Xiao Fang, Xiao Fang!"

Gu Fang turned and immediately stood up to meet, "Sister Liu, what's got you all in such a rush?"

"Oh dear, how did you end up playing in such a remote spot? Let me tell you, something big happened!"

Liu Yuerong casually took Gu Fang's water cup, poured a cup from the lid, gulped it down, and finally sighed in relief, "The boss of Jia Mei is being underhanded, today they actually hired a whole bunch of young and handsome fitness instructors, specifically handing out flyers right in front of our building, that's clearly just stealing clients!"

"They..." Gu Fang hesitated, "But our clients have always been stable, will their tactics even work?"

Liu Yuerong, visibly aggravated, said, "At first, I thought the same, but guess what? Originally, two acquaintances were going to introduce friends to get a membership today, but those young guys just dragged them away, now they're already getting memberships at Jia Mei! I mean seriously, how could they do that? We work so hard to find people to help, recommending us, only to have them snatched at the last moment!"

"And that's not all." Liu Yuerong got angrier as she talked, "They even secretly infiltrated our student group and post muscle photos from time to time. Today, Sister Zhang told me, several sisters in the group are already planning to visit Jia Mei at their earliest convenience for a trial, can we allow this?"

Gu Fang listened more and more seriously.

The clientele of their Primordial Power Yoga Studio and Gym was always on the path of [Successful women's body shaping and wellness], so the clients attracted and recommended were typically wealthy ladies.

A Jia Mei Gym had opened across the street not long ago.

Liu Yuerong and Gu Fang never paid much heed to this new gym because, after all, their market positioning was different.

Primordial Power was relatively private and upscale, and moreover, it was a women's club.

The gym across the street was a bit ordinary, no wealthy woman would prefer such a shared equipment gym.

Hadn't expected...

They would resort to beautiful men!

Liu Yuerong had been talking for ages, plus she had been busy early in the morning arguing with the gym across the street, now she was hungry, tired, and thirsty.

She noticed Gu Fang in deep thought.

Periodically stuffing a kind of meat slice into her mouth, looking like she was contemplating a solution.

Curious, she asked, "What are you eating?"

Gu Fang awkwardly went, "Nothing much."

Liu Yuerong also grabbed a slice, "Give me a bite."

Coincidentally, He Ziheng at this moment, carrying a big bowl, brought up the dish!

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