Food Stall: Customers Chase Me across the Country

Chapter 743: Chapter 639: Simple and Delicious—Sweet Potato, Yam, and Coconut Cake

For Wang Fan, completing the task wasn’t difficult, mainly because the difficulty level of this task was indeed not high.

However, compared to stewing and stir-frying, making desserts for so many people was clearly more challenging.

The biggest feeling he had these days was that the number of little Southern princesses seemed to be decreasing every day.

As the end of the year approached, those who came out to travel began to go home in succession, which slightly reduced his workload.

The desserts for the past four days were Great Border honey cake, oatmeal banana brownies, caramel pudding, and strawberry daifuku. Today, on this last day, he planned to finish with a Chinese dessert, sweet potato yam coconut pudding.

Liu Hehe and Zhou Ruoqing were diligently slicing sweet potatoes and yams.

Though they were working, their faces were all brimming with excitement.

It’s not that they particularly enjoyed working, but mainly because today was already New Year’s Eve. For them, the highlight of New Year’s Eve wasn’t the Spring Festival Gala, but the New Year’s Eve dinner that Wang Fan promised!

Once today’s work was done, they could enjoy the most delicious New Year’s Eve dinner of the year, or maybe the best of their lives. How could they not be excited?

Although they didn’t even know what dishes there would be, just thinking about it made their mouths water.

"Come on, come on, come on, I can already see the luxurious New Year’s Eve dinner waving at me!"

"All right! Not eating lunch today, just waiting for the evening to feast wildly."

Zhou Ruoqing was also very happy. Upon learning that she didn’t plan to go back home for the New Year, Zhuo Qianqian warmly invited her to celebrate together, and Second Uncle and Wang Fan naturally didn’t object. The thought of a young girl celebrating the New Year alone in a different place felt quite pitiable.

Zhou Ruoqing’s smile was even more brilliant. This period of life in the Northeast had brightened her mood considerably.

The sweet potatoes and yams that the three of them had sliced were already placed on the steamer by Second Uncle, while the previously steamed trays had already been brought to Wang Fan.

In the Northeast, sweet potatoes are generally called "di gua." The fertile soil of the black land and favorable climate conditions provide an excellent environment for the growth of sweet potatoes here, making them full of sugar and tasty.

Northeast sweet potatoes are not only sweet but also delicate without any fibrous texture, soft and glutinous, with a unique sweet aroma.

Wang Fan used sweet potatoes from Tieling, known for their tooth-aching sweetness. After steaming, Wang Fan added just a pinch of salt and nothing else, simply mashing them with a masher and setting them aside for later use.

Such high-quality ingredients really only need the simplest cooking method, with no need for any extra embellishments.

Most Northeasterners are tall and strong, and so are the sweet potatoes and yams. Especially the iron pole yam, which was as thick as Wang Fan’s forearm.

Yam itself has no particular taste, so Wang Fan added some icing sugar inside.

This dessert is very simple to make, you just need to lay a layer of yam paste in the mold and smooth it out, then put a layer of sweet potato paste and smooth it out, then cover with another layer of yam paste and smooth it out. It’s arguably the most suitable dessert for beginners to make.

In the past, the desserts Wang Fan made required high precision, heat, and technical skill. Diners were merely spectators, never considering trying to make them themselves. But after seeing today’s process, most people had a bold thought — I could do this too!

But that thought might be too shameless, considering this man in front of them defeated a chef from France’s Michelin three-star restaurant.

Besides, it should just look simple; there must be many notes and techniques, right?

Right? There’s no way it’s that simple, right?

Surely there are some particularly complicated steps later on; it definitely shouldn’t be so simple.

Then, just when they were sure Wang Fan had more to do, Wang Fan simply picked up the mold, placed it on the shelf, and moved straight on to preparing the next batch...

???

What’s going on here?

That’s it?

"Boss Wang, is this sweet potato yam coconut pudding already done?"

Wang Fan shook his head and replied, "Of course not."

Hearing this, the diners’ hopes were dashed. Indeed, this was only the beginning of the process.

"After it cools down, it still has to be cut into squares and sprinkled with coconut before it’s finished."

However, Wang Fan’s next words made them widen their eyes again.

"Is it really that simple?"

"No way? Looking at this, it seems like even I could do it. Is it really that simple?"

Wang Fan, both crying and laughing, explained: "Don’t think of all desserts as particularly complex. This sweet potato yam coconut pudding is really this simple. It uses sweet potatoes, yams, and coconut. Whether it tastes good or not depends entirely on the quality of the ingredients.

So, while we’re on the topic, I highly recommend our Northeast Tieling’s tooth-achingly sweet sweet potatoes. They’re soft, glutinous, sweet, and have no fibers. It’s a really great local product."

He had been promoting quite a bit lately, not because manufacturers sought him out or he sought them out. It’s just that he used some of these ingredients, like honey, sweet potatoes, yams, etc., during dessert-making, so it also contributed to the local agricultural products industry.

A pang of excitement!

After hearing Wang Fan’s words, those about to leave were truly intrigued. Constantly seeing various delicacies being created by Wang Fan made many eager to try.

But they were aware of their own culinary skills. Even if they followed along, they knew there would be an insurmountable gap in taste between what they made and what Wang Fan made.