Chapter 171: Freshly Fried Crispy Pork - Her Food Livestream Broke the Galaxy

With that, Jiang Qiuqiu turned off the bullet comments and refocused the camera drone onto the cutting board. She picked up the large kitchen knife and began slicing the meat with fluid, graceful movements.

"For fried crispy pork, you need to select high-quality pork belly. Don’t use meat that’s too fatty, or it will be greasy when you bite into it. If it’s too lean, the texture will be tough after frying."

"When you cut it, slice it into small strips, just like this—"

As she spoke, the kitchen knife effortlessly sliced through the long strip of pork belly. Each piece was almost identical in thickness. One look at her technique was enough to know this streamer was the real deal.

At the same time, the Ju people’s army of fans launched their own campaign in the bullet comments:

[Are there any fellow foodies here? Sorry about the argument today! But Juju’s cooking is seriously delicious!!!!]

[Especially the gugu meat. Her gugu meat is to die for, the kind that makes your mouth water!]

[Your recommendations are so lame, let me do it. The braised gugu meat Juju made before was fragrant without being greasy. The flavor lingers in your mouth long after you’ve eaten it. Even the fatty parts had this delightfully springy and sweet texture. It’s absolutely perfect with Rice!]

[And the fried gugu meat cutlets—]

[That unique aroma of fried meat—it’s one of a kind in the whole universe!]

Everyone was hyping her up with such genuine emotion that the onlookers thought: ’Hmm... that does sound pretty tempting. Well? Maybe I’ll stay and watch her finish cooking before I go?’

After the number of viewers in the live stream dropped by ten million, it began to stabilize.

The paid troll studio, realizing they were at a disadvantage, also halted their efforts and began discussing their strategy in a group chat.

—We can’t get any traction with this wave of attacks. What do we do? Keep posting?

—Don’t post anymore. Making negative comments now would be too obvious. We missed our chance.

—So what now? Are we just going to sit here and do nothing but watch her stream?

—Let’s hold off for now and see what happens. She’s a food streamer, and we haven’t even gotten to the main event yet. We’ll wait until she starts cooking, then we can start flaming her.

’As if our thousands of trolls can’t take her down!’

In the time it took the studio to finish their discussion, Jiang Qiuqiu had also finished slicing the pork belly.

After slicing came the marination. Jiang Qiuqiu took out the Sichuan peppercorns she had acquired last time, grabbed a rolling pin, and evenly ground them into a fine powder, which she then added to the bowl of neatly arranged pork belly.

Having eaten numbing and spicy food a few times now, some viewers recognized the seasoning and asked excitedly in the bullet comments: [Are you making something spicy again today!! I’m so excited!]

[Spicy again! Ah, I’ll have to wait until I get home to eat.]

"Actually, it won’t be very spicy this time," Jiang Qiuqiu said with a smile as she mixed the meat and peppercorn powder together, adding some ginger-garlic water to remove any gamey taste. "Once the pork belly is prepped, we’ll set it aside to marinate and then start on the batter."

Just as the coating determines the texture of fried chicken, the batter for this crispy pork directly determines the texture of the finished pieces.

Whether it ended up soft or hard, full of crispy aroma or tasting bitter—it all came down to this one mixture.

"First, we’ll crack four bird eggs into the bowl."

[I see you’re using a huge bowl for everything lately. You’re working so hard, Juju!]

"Then, we’ll take the leftover starch from when we made the rice noodle rolls and put it in the bowl. Add a generous amount of cold water, and to make mixing easier, we can also add a little cooking oil."

Now that all the ingredients were in the bowl, it was time to mix.

Normally, mixing the batter by hand would be better for judging the consistency, but with such a huge bowl—

Jiang Qiuqiu opted to use a mixing rod.

The quantity was huge today, so it would take a bit longer to mix.

To the long-time fans, even the mixing process was fascinating. ’Our Juju’s little hands holding that little rod, about to create something delicious! AWOO AWOO AWOO, I’m so excited, so excited, so excited!’