Compared to the local culinary culture.

The culinary culture in the Damo Realm is actually a more complex domain.

First and foremost is the aspect of ingredients in the Damo Realm.

Due to the existence of mystical creatures that surpass ordinary livestock, the ingredient standards in the Damo Realm are much higher than those locally.

For example, the Two-Headed Bull that the rabbits yearn for, even willing to wage war for.

The unranked Two-Headed Bull, due to the infusion of spiritual energy, has meat quality akin to high-grade beef.

And looking further at the first-rank Two-Headed Bull, its meat quality alone can crush 99.99% of local beef.

It's estimated that only a few dozen annually-produced top-tier supply-level beef cattle in Huaxia can barely compare.

Such beef cattle are like the Yangcheng Lake crabs found near the MRT station, typically inaccessible to ordinary governors.

How many first-rank Two-Headed Bulls are there in the Damo Realm?

In a single siege battle in Chixian City, there were several hundred of them.

Not to mention there's also second-rank, third-rank, and higher realms beyond first-rank.

The same applies to other livestock.

For instance, the Damo Realm has a creature resembling the Pearl Chicken called the Yunshu Bird, with meat quality far superior to the Huamei Grouse—known as the 'dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat on the ground.'

Essentially, it's due to the existence of spiritual energy in the Damo Realm, making the concept of 'ranking' ridiculously broken.

Basically, it represents that life has leaped to another level.

You could reasonably argue that they are not of their original species without much issue.

Apart from meat.

Some spirit plants in the Damo Realm share the same situation, surpassing the concept of 'vegetables' on Earth.

Thus, in terms of food ingredients, the Damo Realm is superior to the local.

However, in culinary culture or culinary history, the Damo Realm is far more complex.

The reliable history of Huaxia is over five thousand years (personally, I do not accept the four-thousand-year claim).

The culinary culture undoubtedly deserves to be called both ancient and developed; few countries on Earth can match us in gastronomy.

And the cultural history of the Damo Realm is even longer than Huaxia.

After all, the so-called 'Ancient Times' in the Damo Realm is one to two thousand years ago, not to mention the era when humans first began forming settlements would certainly be earlier.

This is determined by the nature of extraordinary civilization itself.

A civilization with extraordinary powers certainly has stronger initial risk resistance, at least the head classes wouldn't die out completely due to a single disease.

Whereas ordinary civilizations in their nascent periods might have their heritage cut off due to a mere storm.

So, the continuity of civilization in the Damo Realm is long, and its time span is naturally longer.

But the problem is...

Even though the cultivator civilization's heritage is so ancient, their culinary culture is terribly lacking—or rather not living up to their ingredient fundamentals and historical heritage.

According to the rabbits' gathered information, the Damo Realm's commoners currently use merely five types of condiments.

For culinary culture to develop, two indispensable and rigidly co-existing conditions are required:

First is that the societal level of productivity must be high enough, and secondly, there must be corresponding dietary demands.

Here, the former serves as a prerequisite for the latter, with far greater importance.

This theoretical basis is derived from Claude Levi-Strauss's Mythology: Raw and Cooked, currently a key elective reading in anthropology both domestically and abroad, including Shuimu Yan University and multiple Teng University campuses.

The former is easy to understand.

As the saying goes, 'when fed and warm, desires arise.'

Apart from craving carnal desires, this purview broadly includes the appetite for tastier foods.

Of course.

If someone is a reader of this book, then broad concepts generally don't exist.

Ahem...

To put it simply, it's about having money, and the purchasing power of this money relative to prices must be sufficiently high to attain a high enough level of basic productivity.

In short, if you have no money, what can you even eat?

As for the so-called dietary demands...

Incorporating those early virtual reality game novels from the starting point makes it easy to understand.

Those virtual reality novels usually have a backdrop of overproduction, where everyone merely lies in a gaming pod just consuming nutrient fluids.

Such a situation represents a lack of dietary demand.

And in the Damo Realm.

The commoner class generally possesses the latter but lacks the former, while the cultivator class has the former but lacks the latter.

Commoners in the Damo Realm do not have sufficient productivity to create affluent wealth, failing to meet even the second-to-last layer of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Thus, they can only engage in very basic culinary preparations just to barely survive—and with the frequency of beast tides increasing, many lower-class individuals can no longer satisfy even basic cooking needs.

Consequently, any grand culinary aspirations are futile, as reality confines them to munching on dirt.

The cultivator class in the Damo Realm isn't short on money.

But these cultivators mostly pursue spiritual cultivation, seeking transcendence and longevity.

Moreover, once reaching the Fourth-Layer Qi Cultivation stage, they can consume Grain Avoidance Pills, which not only satisfy hunger but also avoid the hassle of excretion.

After all, cooking beasts at or below third rank—hence, below the Core Formation Realm—only offers good taste but doesn't enhance cultivation, so there aren't many cultivators who eat merely for taste.

Therefore, the demand for gourmet food among cultivators above Fourth-Layer Qi Cultivation is far lower.

The vast majority are the kind who are willing to have a bite if there's an opportunity, but most of the time still prioritize cultivation.

The remaining few may enjoy a nibble, but their numbers are extremely low.

This kind of ratio directly results in "Immortal Chefs" who cook ingredients above the first tier being extremely rare in the Damo Realm.

There are definitely Immortal Chefs, but they are pitifully sparse, mostly located in specific areas with high inheritance requirements.

This situation in turn leads to a sharp decline in the number of cultivators who enjoy gourmet food.

After all, if you can't find an Immortal Chef nearby, and your craving for flavor isn't strong enough to cook for yourself, what else can you do?

You can only follow the crowd.

This forms a negative closed loop.

Just like during a period on Qidian where many sign-in novels and global novels were all the rage, causing works of other genres to struggle and gradually decline.

And readers who wanted to read other books couldn't find ones that suited their tastes, and they couldn't write them themselves, so they had to tough it out.

These readers who tough it out, in turn, sped up the popularity of the global sign-in novels.

The narrative style of novels and the cooking in the Damo Realm are essentially the same thing, a distorted supply and demand relationship leading to a worsening form.

Therefore, to sum it up.

There is actually quite a gap in the cooking of high-end ingredients in the Damo Realm.

The current dietary landscape of the Damo Realm is roughly like this:

The lower-tier barely fill their stomachs, the dining industry catering to cultivators is relatively sluggish, mostly focusing on ingredients below the first tier, with most guests being below the fourth-layer Qi Cultivation.

So in this situation, the rabbits still have some confidence in their own culinary culture.

After all, our heritage may not be able to match theirs in terms of time span.

But after thousands of years of culinary exchange, the entire Huaxia's dietary system has already integrated and reached a certain level of culinary Datong.

Did you not see that even in the Qing Dynasty, they managed to put together a Manchu Han Imperial Feast?

And whether it's the civilian restaurants or cultivator restaurants in the major cities of the Damo Realm.

They basically rely on bloodline inheritance, with almost no regional exchange and fusion.

Such 'secret recipes' are actually quite limited within the entire dietary system and cannot support any facade on the cultural level.

Faced with an unintegrated dietary system, it's really not too easy for the rabbits to find a weakness that the other side isn't adept in.

For example, if your xxx restaurant is famous for ox-head meat, then I'll avoid ox-head meat and go for black pepper ox ribs, or at worst, abandon beef and cook Yunshu chicken.

Can a single non-Datong restaurant in terms of variety of dishes compete with a recipe after ethnic integration?

Not to mention the price advantage.

So in the rabbits' plan.

Two groups, headed by Huang Shixian and Wang Hai, will open two restaurants of different standards.

The restaurant opened by Huang Shixian primarily focuses on high-end ingredients, with Qin Jiu in charge of concocting the drinks, named Taihe Building.

Named after the famous ancient chef Grandmaster Taihe.

The target customers of Taihe Building are the prominent families in the city, with the target reaching cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage and above!

With the skills of Huang Shixian and others, it's not hard to cook food that can tantalize people's taste buds.

The number of private rooms in this restaurant won't be many, but they win with exquisite decoration and extremely high class.

In such limited space as suites, showcasing luxury and flair, the rabbits backed by an industrial system are really not afraid to compare with the local high-luxury restaurants of the Damo Realm.

Even the Nascent Soul Old Monsters of the Damo Realm, upon seeing Young Master Huang's interior, would probably be stunned for a moment.

Also considering safety.

After the private rooms are decorated, it's definitely not wrong for the rabbits to place some cam... cough, film and sound sample collectors inside, right?

Don't ask, they are for collecting the local customs and enriching the language library of the Damo Realm.

As for Wang Hai and his team, they focus mainly on civilian cuisine.

Friends who know something about military kitchens probably know that in the army, the best you can say about the dishes is one word:

Hard!

The braised pork with vermicelli in the army can really raise you like a pig.

In other words, it's mainly inexpensive and plentiful.

Besides, Wang Hai and his team have another trump card.

That is Wang Hai is from Sanyuan in Min Province.

Starting from his grandfather's generation, Sanyuan had a famous brand to its name:

Shaxian Chain International Group!

Shaxian snacks, those who know, know.

Even the old man in the gambling quitting forum gives it a thumbs up, let alone the lower-class people of the Damo Realm.

A serving of peanut butter noodles can conquer your heart in minutes.

Two restaurants of different standards can basically cover all the current classes.

And with Yang Bolin's protection, there are no local bullies collecting protection fees in Ziqiong City.

Under such circumstances.....

Little fellows of the Damo Realm, feel the charm of our great food-loving nation!

And the code name for this operation by the command is:

Yi Yin!

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