??Chapter 283: 283. Chen Huahua’s Peach Blossom_1
Chapter 283: 283. Chen Huahua’s Peach Blossom_1
Chen Huahua is a food blogger with a small online presence.
On this platform, food bloggers like her were as common as carps crossing the river, too nurous to count.
Luckily, Chen Huahua was well-known for her authentic and humorous style, so after years of hard work, she had nearly 300,000 followers, a considerable success.
For a live streaming event on the website, she was at a loss for a the for a mont. Seeing all those delicious foods rich in oil and red sauce getting snatched up by other content creators, as an ambitious creator herself, it was only natural for her to feel a bit anxious.
After all, live streaming is all about creating an atmosphere, and if she really cooked a dish on the spot, she would be too busy to interact with her fans.
After much thought, she decided that desserts would be the most suitable choice.
But when it ca to Western desserts, she really wasn’t as good as so professional cake bloggers.
And with traditional Chinese desserts, she couldn’t compare to those skilled in crafting shapes… After racking her brain, Chen Huahua looked at the peach branches outside her window and finally set her goal—
She wanted to make flower pastries!
Flower pastries are a local specialty and, to be frank, nothing extraordinary. Yet, with flowers and sugar involved, they look quite appealing on cara and, even more so, the finished product is very sweet and fragrant.
Chen Huahua thought her idea was good, and what was more important, she decided not to use rose but a seasonal flower—peach blossoms.
But the problem was the ornantal peach trees in the park were toxic and inedible.
The peach blossoms at nearby farms were left to bear fruit… and the dried peach blossoms would lose so of their aesthetic appeal on cara.
Being in a major city, Chen Huahua could only turn to the omnipotent online market.
There was indeed a wide variety of options and prices on the market, and even the photos varied in quality—so were HD, so were artistic, so were plain…
As she scrolled, she accidentally stumbled upon a small store called “Tian Yuan Notes.”
This store seed ordinary yet had an uncommon aura about it.
For instance, the photos looked like they were taken by a professional photographer, with close-ups, long shots, detailed images, and atmospheric ones that seed contest-worthy, each more beautiful than the last.
However, the photographed items were things like tea, honey, bok choy, peach blossoms, and white fungus…
It felt like a bit of a waste of such photographic talent.
Yet, it was those very artistic images that made Chen Huahua reluctant to leave the store, and she ended up browsing through them one by one.
She discovered that the price of this store’s peach blossom petals was outrageously high—20 yuan for just 10 grams!
10 grams!
Moreover, these weren’t the dry ones that don’t weigh much but fresh ones!
Yet, in fine print below, it stated that due to different shipping tis and distances, if the petals arrived slightly wilted it wouldn’t affect their use or dicinal properties, and returns were not accepted.
While it’s true that fresh food items generally don’t accept returns, these petals… the pricing was just too outrageous, right?
And since the peach blossoms had likely just been listed, there were only about 500 sales, and custor reviews had yet to appear.
But she took a look at the other items in the store, especially the tea and sachets, praised so highly as if unmatched by anything on heaven and earth. And each comnt seed so genuine, with pictures and even videos to boot, so even ca back to add comnts after a week!
Without exception, they were all positive.
Chen Huahua: …
Do custors these days not care at all about being reasonable when spending money?
And this store, really, just sachets being sachets, they actually take a photo of a gram of tea in a self-sealing bag and still bother to detail what’s inside! And then in the product details, remarking it’s not a good deal???
All in all, going through the entire store, everything seed outrageous.
But this absurdity, tinged with a sort of magic, had led Chen Huahua to place an order without even realizing it.
It was only when she went to pay that she discovered there was a 20 yuan delivery charge, further unsettling her…
Charging for shipping is a big no-no!!!
Yet, after much agonizing, she still went through with the paynt.
Let’s be real, the shipping fee wasn’t for nothing.
The delivery ti of Wind Speed Express was truly exceptional. Just one day later, she received a carefully packaged delivery box.
The dry ice bag was cool to the touch, emitting a chill, while the freshly prepared peach blossoms inside the packaging box were tender, blushingly fragrant, and appealingly fresh, with no sign of wilting. Instead, they gave off a feeling akin to a refreshing spring breeze, exceptionally crisp and fresh.
Just for the quality alone, Chen Huahua felt her money was well spent!
The slight gloom she had felt earlier was instantly smoothed away.
Unable to wait, she quickly teased the upcoming event and started her live stream.
The live stream was nad just as she had ntioned before—
[All-Natural Peach Blossom Cakes, Freshly Baked!]
Now, in the midafternoon, as people felt drowsy and in need of a pick--up, a leisurely live stream like this was perfect to maintain the cozy ambience.
As usual, Chen Huahua first prepared all kinds of ingredients and displayed them one by one on the screen. She then showed off the peach blossom petals, which hadn’t yet been taken out of the packaging box, to her audience, while also taking the opportunity to complain:
“See this? This tiny box of peach blossoms cost
120 big ones! These are the fresh peach blossoms I splurged on from an online shop. If today’s cakes don’t turn out delicious, I think this will be the main culprit.”
The comnts on the bullet chat were filled with simultaneous laughter and sympathy.
Everyone knows that if you go to a store to buy flower cakes, 100 yuan is enough to buy several boxes.
Yet here was Huahua, with just one boxful of tightly packed peach blossom petals—she bought five servings, weighing only 50 grams in total.
After compression, it was just one boxful.
People could only sigh: That’s what it’s like to have money to burn.
There are many ways to make flower cakes, but Huahua chose the most common one—after all, it’s intended for culinary beginners, and anything too complicated wouldn’t suit her viewer demographic.
At the mont, in front of the cara, she was rinsing the peach blossom petals with cool boiled water, then laying them out to dry on a bamboo sieve.
While they dried, she prepared castor sugar and honey, along with a clean glass jar.
“After the petals have dried, we’ll pour them into a bowl, then add the white sugar, and gently rub it in by hand?”
“While rubbing to extract the moisture, we’ll also make sure the sugar infuses and pickles the petals well…”
In the fra, during this rub-and-knead process, the color of the peach blossoms deepened, the originally pale petals showing deeper red where they were pressed, with the edges taking on a pinkish-red hue from the juices.
While the aroma of the peach blossoms couldn’t be sensed through the live stream, Chen Huahua was instantly enraptured.
Holding the bowl right now, she couldn’t help but take a deep sniff in front of the cara, then said with all seriousness, “I have a hunch today’s flower cakes will be especially delicious!”
“Because these peach petals, they really sll amazing, that natural kind of sweet fragrance!”
“Co on, let’s add so more sugar—no complaining about too much sugar! Flower cakes need this much, because petals are inherently bitter!”
“Now, let’s keep kneading… wow, it really is so fragrant! I can’t wait to eat it now!”
Chen Huahua swallowed a mouthful of saliva, this ti it wasn’t an exaggeration, the fragrance of the peach petals mixed with the sugar was simply too much for her to resist.
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