Chapter 68 - Chapter 68: Chapter 68: Spicy Rabbit Meat (1/2)

Chapter 68: Chapter 68: Spicy Rabbit Meat

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Chapter 68: Spicy Rabbit Meat

The last time Xiang Kun cooked with rabbit meat, he was playing around, and didn’t care much about how it tasted or if it was even edible.

But this time, he focused his attention on the dishes’ flavors.

He wanted to make a delicious spicy rabbit dish to return the favor for the snacks that Liu Shiling and her mother brought over.

After preparing various seasonings, Xiang Kun divided the rabbit into four sections. This was supposed to be an experiment and a summary, to adjust the flavor, so he couldn’t guarantee success on the first try.

After his mutation, he hadn’t specifically trained his taste buds and he didn’t need to eat like others, so his sense of taste didn’t change much after the mutation, but at least it didn’t degrade.

But the olfactory and taste systems often work together, especially when tasting food.

Given that his brain’s ability to distinguish and process sensory information has greatly increased, he can now provide more detailed and comprehensive analysis of the taste perception, even if his taste buds aren’t much better than a regular person’s.

Moreover, without the interference of appetite, his analysis of flavors would also be more objective and accurate.

“Hmm, the flavor of the cooking wine feels a bit too prominent, did I add too much? Or, should I take it out?”

“It’s a bit bland, I should add more garlic and soy sauce.”

“It seems a bit overcooked, did the meat get old?”

“Hmm, Little Fat Girl and her people seem to be from Hunan and Chu region, I can add more dry chili.”

Xiang Kun originally just wanted to replicate the spicy rabbit recipe he noted down from the internet.

However, as he cooked and concentrated on preparing this dish, making modifications and tweaks to the flavor, he had strayed far from the original recipe, regarding both the quantities of various ingredients as well as cooking procedures.

Even the rabbit meat, which was originally divided into four parts, had to be further subdivided into more pieces for him to continue experimenting with taste adjustments.

By the time Xiang Kun was finally satisfied with the final product, he glanced at his phone and it was already 2:43 in the morning. Unknowingly, six hours had passed.

Looking at the spicy rabbit meat in the trash can, Xiang Kun couldn’t help but smile bitterly. Same old problem. Once I get engrossed with something and if it doesn’t work out well, I feel uneasy all over, unable to forget it.

With his current abilities, if he was willing to put in the time, becoming a top chef wouldn’t be a problem, would it?

But a chef who doesn’t eat? That would indeed be very eccentric.

After tidying up the kitchen and recording the recipe of the spicy rabbit dish that tasted best to him on the computer, Xiang Kun temporarily put this aside.

For this Blood-drinking Period, Xiang Kun’s training plan was mostly geared towards his cognitive and learning abilities.

His first method was reading books.

He had initially prepared a reading list for himself, but after chatting with Xia Libing, she recommended a dozen books on neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, and clinical medicine at his request.

So, Xiang Kun downloaded or bought PDF versions of these nineteen books online for free or at a cost. This included the thick volume of ‘Shen Yucun Psychiatry’ – a book thick enough to block a knife — that Xia Libing brought to the café during their first meeting.

Xiang Kun’s middle finger was on the pagedown key, and he read at the quickest speed he could manage.

Every three pages, he would stop, close his eyes, and recall the content, repeating it in his mind.

In other words, during the reading process, he not only had to understand the contents, but he also had to remember everything.

Even though his memory had been greatly enhanced after mutation, it was far from being able to remember everything he read.

He was specifically training for this now, hoping that a significant improvement would be seen in the next mutation, helping him improve the efficiency of knowledge acquisition.

If he was merely trying to enhance his speed of memorizing written information, it wouldn’t be that difficult. He believed that after over 30 hours of specific training in a Blood-drinking Period, there should be a noticeable improvement after mutation.