OBS Chapter 2689 Hollywood Rhapsody (47)
Chapter 2689 Hollywood Rhapsody (47)
Chapter 2689 Hollywood Rhapsody (Forty-Seven)
After he started shopping in the market, Schiller finally understood his arrogant friends. He now felt that Stark would never think of buying anything he saw, so he wanted to buy it and take it over.
In the end, it was Ultron who called up the dashcam of a car near the beach and looked at the surrounding situation before he dissuaded Schiller from the idea of buying a tent and going there.
According to Ultron, Stark's hardware was well prepared, including the dome, tables and chairs, ovens, and even screens and projectors. Schiller knew what he was going to watch without even having to think about it.
But he didn't prepare anything else. Schiller knew that Stark was a very traditional American. Perhaps he adhered to the principle of bringing one's own food for camping parties, which was the case for many backyard parties.
Since he wanted to buy ingredients, Schiller had to go to the fresh food area. He planned to buy some fish. Besides himself, other people also liked his skills in cooking fish.
In fact, it can't be called a skill at all. These foreigners have never liked eating whole fish because they think it tastes fishy, so they are very curious about how Schiller made the whole fish so delicious.
Schiller had seen how white people processed fish a long time ago, and had even seen people put fish into the pot without even removing the internal organs. It would be strange if there was no fishy smell.
The United States is very suitable for fishing because of its abundant water systems. Many fish migrate back to various seaports to spawn, and they taste delicious. However, many people do not know how to process them, so they either make them into fish fillets or fish paste, completely losing the delicious flavor of the fish.
Schiller knew that apart from him, almost no one present would be able to handle a whole fish, so he bought a few plump trouts and some small miscellaneous fish that the locals didn't like to eat. He planned to take them back and simply process them in the kitchen of the resort cottage, and then make them into grilled fish.
In addition, Schiller also bought some chicken. Ladies tend to prefer chicken thighs, but the way Americans handle chicken is also unremarkable. They either make it into fried chicken, chicken pie, or the calories are too high or it just doesn't taste good.
Chicken is often seen on barbecues, but it is not very popular because, as you can imagine, it is not as oily as beef and is mostly dry and tasteless after being grilled. If you want it to taste good, you must marinate it in advance.
Schiller has also participated in many backyard parties. Most of them were invited by the patients of Arkham Sanatorium. In simple terms, they were the consumers of the immortality factor. Their tastes were not low, but the ingredients prepared by Schiller were always very popular. Many people even asked Schiller for the secret recipe in private.
Schiller's so-called secret recipes are actually the most basic Chinese way of processing food ingredients, including bleeding, removing the internal organs, soaking in salt water, pickling, and if that doesn't work, just adding some random spices and cooking them, and then all the strange smells will be gone.
Schiller bought a lot of food processing supplies and returned to the holiday home with big and small bags. He first put the fish in the tank into the refrigerator and froze them unconscious to prevent them from jumping up and slapping him when he killed them.
Next, pluck the feathers from the whole chicken, prepare the internal organs, soak it in water to remove the blood, and then start processing the spices and vegetables.
It was very hot now and Schiller himself had no appetite for barbecue, so he decided to make some cold dishes. What surprised him was that even in such a remote town, he was still able to meet Chinese vendors and buy a lot of ingredients and spices.
Schiller prepared a dish of lemongrass and lemon cold chicken and spicy and sour fish skin. Considering that there were some ladies present who wanted to maintain their figure and had lighter tastes, Schiller also prepared various ingredients for chilled fruits and cold noodles, which could be poured together and eaten when the time came.
Schiller actually can't cook, especially not those complicated Chinese dishes that require frying, stir-frying, and deep-frying. He didn't know how to cook in his previous life, and he doesn't have the conditions to cook after his rebirth.
But thanks to the god of short videos, Schiller was a Chinese in his previous life after all. He has more ways to search for recipes on Tiktok than foreigners, and he can easily tell whether the dish is delicious. These fool-proof recipes only require following step by step, and there is no difficulty at all. So Schiller has been obsessed with cooking recently.
Although many short videos show a lot of fierce operations, and the final product is still a refined version of white people's food, there are many Chinese people living in the United States after all, and there are also many international students. Recently, Xu Shangqi opened an account specifically to teach people how to cook Chinese food.
The name of his Tiktok is also very interesting. It roughly means "Xu Shangqi who can't bear it anymore". His avatar is a chef from Hell's Kitchen, and the first video pinned below is his complaint about white fans who can't bear it anymore.
He was the first Tiktoker that Schiller followed because his complaining video was very popular at the time and resonated with many Chinese Americans and international students living in the United States.
And the food teaching videos he made later were also very successful. The main reason was that he did not teach traditional Chinese cuisine, but some improved dishes. For example, the lemongrass lemon chicken that Schiller made today is actually an American version of Chinese cuisine plus Southeast Asian cuisine.
In China, people usually eat spicy and sour chicken feet, but few people in the United States eat chicken feet, so Xu Shangqi changed the dish into a Cantonese-style blanched chicken mixed with lemon and Southeast Asian spices. Whether it tastes good or not is secondary. The key is that it is very simple, even simpler than many white people's meals.
After making it a few times, Schiller found that authenticity was not that important, as long as it tasted good.
In fact, many Chinese Americans don't cook for themselves not because they don't know how to cook, but because the conditions here are really not supportive. It's okay that they can't buy spices and the like, but there is no uniform standard for meat processing here, and it's even more varied. Sometimes when you buy a piece of stinky meat, the smell can stay in the kitchen for several days, almost as bad as biological weapons.
After Schiller failed a few times with pork, he decided to give up. After all, there are many people making fried chicken here, and the chance of failure with chicken is relatively small. Plus, with some ingredients commonly used in Western cuisine such as lemon, there will basically be no problems.
Schiller only makes semi-finished products. For example, the chicken and the seasoning are separate, and the various ingredients for the cold noodles are not added. This is not only to keep them fresh, but also to make others feel involved.
After being busy for a long time, it was almost time. Schiller sorted the various materials into the newly bought Lock&Lock boxes and called the resort to call a taxi.
Unexpectedly, the person who came was not a resort staff, but Ultron. He made himself another body and still had colorful fake gems on his hands.
He helped Schiller move things into the car, and then worked tirelessly as a driver. Schiller was a little puzzled by his sudden attentiveness. Could this guy be looking for another pay raise?
Ultron seemed to have seen Schiller's confusion. He said boastfully while driving, "I added a taste bud system to myself that can rate food by sensing its taste. I'm going to feast on it today."
"What kind of technology is this?" Schiller was puzzled. How can a robot taste something? And why should it taste something?
"The material was provided by Helen. I heard it was the tongue of a mechanical race in the universe. It took them a long time to evolve taste buds. As for their purpose, it was probably for enjoyment."
"The same to you?"
"No, I'm here to give you scores. You guys always say whose dishes are delicious and whose are not. Now you're about to have an objective and fair judge."
"It's ridiculous," Schiller said. "If you were in Hell's Kitchen, you'd be the first one out."
"Your words don't count." Ultron took out his cell phone. No matter how many times he saw it, Schiller still found this scene ridiculous - a robot took out his cell phone!
But soon Schiller was attracted by the content on his phone, which was a Tiktoker's homepage. Schiller leaned over to take a look and found that it was Ultron's own homepage, and it even said that he was a robot.
But the first thing Schiller focused on was, "Are all your fans above you yourself? Are you using your hundreds of billions of clones to do this?"
Ultron curled his lips in a very human way and said, "I'm not that boring. These are all real people. They are fans that I have accumulated with great difficulty."
"What type of videos do you make?" Schiller asked.
"Of course it's a robot evaluation." Ultron said, shaking his head.
"Why would others believe that you are a robot?" Schiller wondered from the bottom of his heart. He said, "Even if you have a movable mechanical body, it may be controlled by a human."
"They have to believe it even if they don't believe it, because the vast majority of people commenting below are me."
"Aren't you still buying navy troops?"
"This is different. I don't have to pay."
Schiller shook his head. He picked up his phone and searched the account he had just seen. He found that it had quite a few fans, but apart from the comments posted by Ultron himself, most of them were just for fun. They didn't believe that there were robots that could access the Internet, and thought that this must be another gimmick created by a robot company.
But despite this, everyone finds it quite interesting because you can even see a robot experiencing internet cafes around the world, and the comments below are both ridiculous and hilarious.
"Aren't you going to open an account?" Ultron asked, "You're very popular. Everyone wants to hear you analyze the various troubles in life."
"That's why I don't like it. The troubles of ordinary people can be roughly divided into two categories. One is pure bad luck, which doesn't need to be analyzed at all. The other is that even if they analyze it, they can't do it and it doesn't work."
"I thought you would enjoy being a life coach and helping people achieve better mental health."
"Come on, they can even get pleasure from looking at your account, isn't that healthy enough?"
After a pause, Schiller continued: "It is precisely because of professional considerations that I cannot express my opinions freely on the Internet. Psychology is a very magical subject. Once you gain people's trust, it is easy to make people believe what is going on."
"Now there are many people who respect me and think I have a strong professional level. They trust me very much subconsciously, so anything I say may be regarded as a guiding principle by them."
"If I were to analyze the symptoms of negative emotions, they would easily apply them to myself, which would lead to negative psychological implications, which is not good for mental health."
"Once I mention some symptoms of depression and anxiety, although they are indeed pathological symptoms of the disease, people are also prone to such symptoms in their daily lives, but this does not mean that they are sick. Once they always suggest this to themselves, it is more likely to cause problems."
Ultron nodded, thinking that what Schiller said made sense, then he slowly stopped the car and said, "We're here."