[The challenge task can be retried until completion after being triggered]
[During the activation of the challenge task, ordinary tasks will automatically freeze]
[The challenge task is quite difficult and there are specific requirements for time, location, and food, but the rewards are also more generous. It's recommended that the host carefully read the challenge task details before selecting the appropriate time to complete it]
[During the challenge task, the space and facilities within the food truck will undergo a magical change. Please seek out and make reasonable use of these changes]
The explanation of the task is quite clear and straightforward, easily understandable at a glance.
In simple terms, you can only do one task at a time. Once the challenge task is triggered, you can save it for later and do it whenever you want. It's okay if you fail; you can retry until you succeed.
But this food truck will undergo a magical change... What does that mean?
Can't figure it out for now, can only look for clues while doing the task.
Judging by current observations, this food truck system is quite laid-back, at least it doesn't force him to do anything, and the rewards for tasks align well with his preferences.
Being a Great Xia Person and a chef, it's impossible not to want to learn Chinese cuisine, but life has its constraints.
It's a system tailored for Great Xia People, offering the potential to earn money, learn new recipes, and improve cooking skills.
[Challenge: Introduction to Great Xia Cuisine]
The instant Lin Chen saw the task name, he felt a sense of foreboding.
"This... Masaka?"
[Foreigners are overly picky about food types and preparation methods. Please cure their picky eating and open the door to a new world for them]
[Task content: Please go to the East District and interview twenty pedestrians. Ask them which animal body parts they refuse to eat, choose one from the top three choices, and prepare a dish that must be Great Xia flavored. The food truck location must be within one hundred meters of the interview location]
[Task time limit: one day, accumulate two hundred positive review points to complete the task]
[Completion rewards: basic bonus of ten thousand euros, designated recipe lottery vouchers*3, food truck upgrade card*1]
"Another food truck upgrade card?"
Having just achieved something and gotten one, and now the challenge task rewards another one, is this more valuable than he initially thought?
Thinking of this, he immediately uses his mind to pull out the recently obtained food truck upgrade card and clicks to use it.
Just like last time, the entire structure of the food truck instantly becomes transparent in his mind. Each area and equipment is marked individually, and there are many blank slots for adding equipment.
Last time he focused all his attention on the TV, not really researching it thoroughly.
Considering the task content mentioning changes in the food truck's space and equipment, he decides with his mind to select the refrigerator.
[Upgrade the refrigerator?]
[After upgrading, the internal space of the refrigerator doubles, no changes to the exterior]
"??????"
Seeing the pop-up prompt, he opens his mouth wide in shock.
WTF?
A huge loss!!
Next, he selects the freezer.
[Upgrade the freezer?]
[After upgrading, the time required to completely freeze items is reduced by 20%]
"......"
Then clicks on the oven.
[Upgrade the oven?]
[Please choose the function you want to upgrade: baking/fermentation]
[After upgrading, the time required to bake food is reduced by 20%]
[After upgrading, the time required to ferment food is reduced by 20%]
Then there is the ice maker, stove, various pots and pans, and he even sees that the structure of the food truck itself can be selected like reinforcing the body, enhancing the motor, hardening the glass, etc.
The most absurd thing is that only now does he realize there's an overview page on the roof in the upgrade page state.
Opening it, it contains statistics on the current upgrade status of all facilities in the food truck and their functional states, along with additional set attributes like how many upgrades, how many types, how much new equipment added, etc., all triggering extra set attribute bonuses.
Set attribute bonuses are quite simple and straightforward.
Time acceleration.
Yes, that's exactly what it says.
He's been worried about having less than three hours after work each day, needing to prepare ingredients and set up the food truck; it's really not enough time, and many delicious foods can't be made.
Now discovering that upgrading the food truck will give these functions, there will be no more time constraints, and he can confidently do whatever he wants to do.
The premise is that he needs to complete more challenge tasks and achieve more accomplishments to gain food truck upgrade cards.
Compared to Great Xia, foreigners legally carry guns, various contraband is also legal, the risk factor is high, and it's difficult to ensure nothing will happen if someone gets agitated.
If he could have an invincible food truck, he could be more at ease.
Cancelling the use of the food truck upgrade card, he starts pondering.
"East District... hissing, a bit troublesome huh?"
The foreigners' government isn't like domestically where city construction is emphasized, all old buildings, unchanged for decades.
The East District is claimed to be a slum, not quite to that extent, but the population indeed primarily consists of lower-class people; many homeless people lie on the road overnight.
The only place that could be considered bustling might be around Old Chinatown.
It's said to be the address of Chinatown thirty years ago. As West District Chinatown rose, the East District gradually became forgotten and abandoned, leaving only one vertical and one horizontal main streets still reflecting the Chinatown look.
The residents have shifted from primarily Chinese to a mixed crowd, including various Southeast Asian ethnicities and Black people, with a very chaotic public order.
"Lucas, are you familiar with the East District?"
He hasn't been over there much, so it's more reliable to ask a local.
"East District?"
Lucas is puzzled, "Why suddenly ask that?"
"I want to try some different kinds of cooking, the population there has varied tastes, eats anything, maybe more suitable for experiments, consider it market research. Most white people are too picky, you know."
"Oh~ so that's it, then indeed. Like internal organs, white people hardly eat them, skin and fat and stuff they don't eat either, and various paws and whatnot. If you're selling those, East District might be more suitable."
Lucas briefly explains the situation of the East District, though he hasn't been back to the country in several years, so he's not confident in the details.
He has to take the lead chef to shop at the Chinese supermarket in the morning, Lin Chen decides to ask the chef's opinion then as well, since these ingredients are indeed a new challenge for white people.
Adding Lucas's contact information, after saying mutual goodbyes, Lin Chen goes home, quickly freshens up, and goes to bed.
The food truck upgrade card and recipe exchange voucher he just got aren't urgent to use; he plans to wait after the interview, decide on the dish to make, then use them.
Meanwhile, he's quite interested in Lucas's suggestion of creating a self-media account, maybe recording the challenge tasks as a series, likely attracting many curious people to become fans.
Once he has a certain fan base, doing challenge tasks should be easier next time.