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In the kitchen, a group from the Polar Star Dormitory surrounded Xia Yu.
“Instructor Xia, you only used the ‘Starry Sea Bream’ as a Fantasy Ingredient for cooking, but why did you order a total of three types when you purchased them?”
Yoshino Yuuki voiced the question that had long been on everyone’s mind, and Sen Tian Makoto as well as Tiqie Eriina perked up their ears, showing keen interest.
“Oh, you mean the other two ingredients…” Xia Yu took out the other sealed ingredient boxes in front of everyone and opened them.
Inside was beautifully marbled beef!
And another kind of strangely shaped mushroom that suddenly made the atmosphere in the kitchen awkward!
“These are materials I purchased for practice.
It was just more convenient to buy them all together,” Xia Yu said offhandedly, reaching his hand into the box.
But the moment his fingertips touched the beef and he felt a chill, a faint stab of pain suddenly pierced through his left eye.
Hmm?
His expression changed slightly, a hint of disbelief in his eyes.
Xia Yu looked down, his fingertips touching the beef, the beautifully marbled beef appeared completely different when viewed with his left eye.
“The Eye of Analysis…”
It was like a data eye.
By merely observing and looking, the hidden information about the ingredient emerged in his mind.
“Beef, pork, chicken.”
“It was bled and butchered at 3:50 PM yesterday, exposed for about an hour in total before being transported to Tokyo in a refrigerated case.”
“From yesterday until now, it has been refrigerated at 0 degrees Celsius for a total of 30 hours and 10 minutes!
The acid removal process is complete and it’s now ready for direct cooking activities!”
Chefs often discern the grade of beef just by its appearance.
For example, beef graded A5 or above is first judged by the distribution of the marbling, the more evenly and finely distributed the fat, as opposed to clumping together, indicates better meat quality.
Then there’s the color of the meat.
The top-grade A5 wagyu beef from Neon has a marbling that resembles blooming chrysanthemums, and the meat color is a faint pink, that kind of tender pink.
Beyond appearance, the next aspect is texture.
Or rather, the fibrous content within the meat, which requires tasting through cooking to identify.
But now, through his mutated left eye, Xia Yu could see the inner fibrous structure of the beef!
“Ichise, go to the ingredient storage and bring me a piece of A5 wagyu beef!” he exclaimed urgently, reaching his hand toward the tall-stalked mushroom in the box—it was a ‘Cream Pine Mushroom.’
“So that’s how it is…” he murmured softly, uttering words his Polar Star Dormitory friends couldn’t understand, while his left eye peered right through the Fantasy Plant mushroom.
The internal cross-section of the mushroom was clearly visible to his left eye.
Inside, there were tiny, highly active cell structures continuously secreting a viscous liquid.
This liquid, transported through a complex network of internal channels, eventually formed the unique aroma of the matsutake, wafting away.
“Ah!”
Xia Yu’s eyes sparkled.
Turning the mushroom upside down, beneath the cap-like part, he found densely packed spores within the gills of the mushroom.
Each spore was brimming with vitality, which is also how mushrooms reproduce.
Ichise Hui returned with a piece of unfrozen A5 beef.
Putting the mushroom back into the box, Xia Yu continued to touch and observe the A5 beef.
Like a child who just received a new toy, he tirelessly inspected the inner structure of the Fantasy Ingredients.
From a structural standpoint, Fantasy Ingredients indeed differed from ordinary ingredients.
Take beef, for example.
Apart from Fantasy Ingredients, the most expensive beef in the world today is Neon’s A5 top-grade Kobe Beef.
However, through the analysis of Xia Yu’s left eye, he felt that the piece of Kobe Beef he held in his hands had a very obvious difference in quality from the ‘meat of cattle, pigs, and birds’ he had just compared it to, without even discussing fat content or color—just the texture alone.
The texture of the Fantasy Beef was finer and more delicate, with fibers almost tightly entwined together.
Yet, this compactness did not spoil the ‘melt-in-your-mouth’ texture; on the contrary, after cooking, the moment the beef entered the mouth, the tight fibers suddenly relaxed.
What would the texture feel like then?
Explosive!
“So that’s how it is!”
From this analytical perspective, Xia Yu felt as if another door had been faintly opened in his mind.
Those so-called culinary researchers must be studying this kind of thing.
They needed to rely on various precise, modern scientific instruments to obtain such detailed analyses, but Xia Yu, with his “Analytical Eye” Talent, saw it as a certain skill, although the system would call it whatever it wanted.
Without needing to allocate Talent Points to upgrade, it was already so powerful.
Shouldn’t he be hiding in a corner and laughing to himself?
“But, those divine talents like ‘Super Vision’ and ‘Super Touch’ should be even more useful, right?”
Xia Yu felt resentful again.
The Analytical Eye gave him instrument-like abilities.
But those divine talents, they directly granted chefs a form of masterful superpower.
They just didn’t make sense.
What, you want to discuss science with golden talents?
With this thought, the slight joy that had just arisen in his heart was cleanly swept away by Xia Yu, “It’s just a consolation from the system for the unlucky ones!
I’ll, I’ll just accept it gratefully!”
…
Coincidentally, it was Sunday, and a group of friends from Polar Star Dormitory gathered to visit.
Xia Yu could not just ignore them; since it was just after 5 pm and not yet business hours, he led everyone on a good tour of the shopping street that was still under renovation.
Standing at the head of the street.
Everyone looked out at the modern buildings that rose and fell at a distance, and listened to the faint sound of the train from Ueno Station.
“In such a bustling area, it should have been developed long ago!”
Yoshino Yuuki exclaimed, with everyone else nodding in agreement.
Xia Yu led them to the entrance of the old street, where he had commissioned the construction company of Feng Zhizi Yaeko to erect an overview map of the district, similar to those found at park entrances.
“This is the new street, directly invested in and governed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.”
“The old district, due to various historical reasons, has always been privately owned, but now it’s mine!”
Xia Yu said calmly.
“If I could open a restaurant nearby after graduation, would that count as being a successful chef?” Yoshino Yuuki’s eyes sparkled with enthusiasm.
It must be said, although Taidong District is the smallest special ward within Tokyo in terms of area, it boasts numerous cultural landmarks and is esteemed for its cultural charm.
From Asakusa Temple and Kuan Yong Temple to Ueno Park and so on, surrounded by these scenic spots, the old street could have been packed with various high-end restaurants and luxury stores if it had been well-planned.
Xingping Chuangzhen scratched his head.
“This place, indeed, is not bad!” he mumbled.
Xingping Restaurant was located in the outskirts of Tokyo, crudely put, in the countryside, far from matching the cultural and geographical conditions of this district.
Just considering the land and real estate prices, they were not on the same level.
“How about it, do you all want to open restaurants in my shopping district?”
Xia Yu watched the expressions of the group and smiled inwardly.
Getting started was the hardest part.
These student chefs undoubtedly dreamed of owning their own restaurants.
Xia Yu wanted to be the one to make those dreams come true.
At the same time, he was also that detestable capitalist exploiter.