After yesterday's big mishap, Qin Huai went back to seriously review everything.
He felt that the main problem was still unfamiliarity.
He wasn't familiar with the ingredients, nor with Crab Dumplings, and he wasn't even very familiar with this overly simple seasoning.
He tried to season the Crab Dumplings based on his past experience of making snacks, combining the process and steps demonstrated by Zheng Da, and ended up with an inedible shu mai by combining the worst of both approaches.
Qin Huai reflected all night and decided to adopt the method of forgetting, to forget his past experiences and to redo it completely as a beginner according to Zheng Da's way.
This idea was great.
But alas, the ideal is plentiful, and reality is skeletal.
Impossible, absolutely impossible.
After a round of exuberant seasoning, Qin Huai experienced a mishap similar to yesterday's.
The good news is there were only 9 small mistakes and 6 large mistakes this time.
