Chapter 1070: Chapter 439: The Sweet and Savory Debate in the Sticky Rice Cake Circle? One Sentence Silenced Both Sides [Monthly Ticket 1000 Bonus]
Lin Xu leaned over to take a look and realized it was actually a shooting game.
No wonder Shen Baobao and Chen Yan couldn’t handle it; with this kind of game, guys with a better sense of direction generally pick it up more easily.
Girls already get lost easily in real life, let alone in a shooting game.
They can’t even read the mini‑map properly, so playing smoothly is really hard.
The two of them deliberately turned the difficulty down a bit, just grabbing guns and going rat‑tat‑tat. Totally braindead, but very爽 and stress‑relieving, even Dundun was sprawled on the sofa armrest, watching with great interest.
In the kitchen, just as Lin Xu was about to continue making Sticky Rice Cake, he suddenly noticed the Trial Task progress had actually ticked forward one notch, from 0/8 to 1/8.
What the hell????
He opened the task details and saw that in the blank space under the progress bar, a dessert name had appeared:
[Superior Freshly Wrapped Red Bean Paste Sticky Rice Cake]
Superior?
When he’d just made them, Lin Xu had thought he hadn’t reached Superior, so he hadn’t bothered to identify the Level.
He hadn’t expected that just casually wrapping and pinching them would actually get rated that high.
What does this say?
It says Perfect Level filling gives a huge buff to the overall dessert!
Damn!
If he’d known, when mixing the glutinous rice flour just now, he would’ve added some caster sugar. Maybe he could’ve jumped straight to Perfect Level in one go.
Too careless!
Lin Xu swung his fist in annoyance.
From a gaming perspective, since the red bean paste Sticky Rice Cake had already been "dropped," the pan‑frying that came next would very likely end up being wasted effort.
But life isn’t a game.
Even if it’s wasted effort, he still had to make it and see.
After all, who can say no to red bean paste Sticky Rice Cake pan‑fried in oil?
Lin Xu kneaded the dough on the board into long ropes and divided it into evenly sized little portions.
He scooped out some Red Bean Paste, rolled it into small balls as well, then flattened each dough piece and wrapped a red bean paste ball inside.
After wrapping, he let them rest for a bit, then used a rolling pin to roll them into small round cakes.
Once everything was ready, he put the frying pan on the stove, heated it up, and spread some rendered lard over the bottom.
The lard melted, and he laid the little round cakes in one by one.
Soon, the pan was crackling with the sound of frying oil, and the unique fragrance of Glutinous Rice started to drift out.
Once the bottom turned a deep golden brown, he flipped them over and kept frying until both sides were golden. Lin Xu lifted them onto a plate and was just about to carry them out when he noticed the Trial Task progress had changed again.
It had gone from 1/8 to 2/8; another dessert snack made with red bean paste had been added.
He tapped it open and saw that the newly added snack was called:
[Pan‑Fried Red Bean Paste Sticky Rice Cake]
Tsk tsk, the one just now was freshly wrapped Sticky Rice Cake, and this one had turned into pan‑fried Sticky Rice Cake. He hadn’t expected one dessert to have this kind of surprise attached; really unexpected.
Lin Xu carried the plate of Sticky Rice Cake outside and said to everyone:
"Come try it, I pan‑fried these in oil. See if they taste even better than the last batch."
With that, he picked up a small plate, put two Sticky Rice Cakes on it, and went upstairs with it, planning to let Shen Jiayue, who was working overtime editing video, have a taste too.
Chen Yan, who was sitting on another sofa in the living room with Han Shuzhen picking out imported cosmetics, glanced over and immediately said:
"Auntie, these Sticky Rice Cakes look even better than the last ones."
Han Shuzhen turned her head and saw the pan‑fried Sticky Rice Cakes in the plate, browned and crispy, and her eyes lit up.
Just from the way they looked, she knew they couldn’t be bad.
She stood up and said:
"I really love oil‑fried stuff like this. I usually don’t dare eat it for fear of dragging your uncle down with me, but since they’re made already today, I’ve got to eat an extra couple of pieces."
Anyway, they were going back home tomorrow, and their daily meals there were all low‑fat, low‑calorie healthy food.
So eating a bit more today should be fine.
Besides, with Sticky Rice Cake that pretty, even if she could hold back, Old Shen definitely couldn’t.
If that’s the case, she might as well eat two more pieces, so Old Shen can eat two fewer, indirectly preventing him from binge‑eating.
Yup, she really was sacrificing so much for this family.
Shen Guofu had originally wanted to keep playing, but once the aroma of lard hit him, he immediately chose to pause the game.
He picked up his chopsticks, chose the most deeply browned Sticky Rice Cake and put it in his own small dish, held it up and took a big bite, and was instantly scalded by the Sticky Rice Cake and the filling inside, sucking in air.
"Hoo, hoo... so hot, so hot, but it’s really fragrant!"
The crispy crust fried out of the Sticky Rice Cake surface in lard was fragrant and crunchy; inside was the soft, fluffy glutinous rice dough, and at the very center was the piping hot red bean paste filling.
Lots of fat and sugar had been added to the red bean paste filling when it was made.
Now that it had been heated a second time, everything had melted and seeped out.
In the mouth, it was indescribably delicious.
As an elder, Old Shen could just chow down without restraint, but Ren Jie couldn’t. He picked up a small plate, placed some Sticky Rice Cakes from the big plate onto it, then handed it to Han Shuzhen and Chen Yan.
After he’d finished doing that, he asked:
"Where’s Yueyue? Should we bring some up for her?"
Chen Yan blew on the Sticky Rice Cake she was holding:
"She’s got someone delivering to her. Knowing my brother‑in‑law, he probably won’t come back down for half the day."
Hmph, she’d just caught the two of them making out.
They might’ve started up again by now.
These young people... tsk tsk, even we "old folks" get embarrassed watching... wait, since when did I become an old folk?
It should be "even an eighteen‑year‑old girl like me gets embarrassed watching."
Right, Yan Baobao is forever eighteen, not almost forty!
Upstairs, Shen Jiayue was holding the plate, taking big bites of the Sticky Rice Cake Lin Xu had brought her, while Lin Xu was wiping the grease off his hands with a wet wipe from the desk, then sitting down in front of the computer and dragging through the video he’d just finished editing for a review.
