Title: The Villain and the Cannon Fodder’s Mother
Translator: Little Bamboo Spirit
Chapter 35 - Meng Yuran had already turned his head away to ignore them (1)
Compared to live streaming, Lin Yiyi would rather open her own shop.
However, finding a shop wasn't something that could be done in a short period of time. She would also have to consider the shop's location when choosing. The shop couldn't be too far from home. It would be best if it was close to the children's school as well so that it would be convenient for her to drop them off and pick them up from their schools.
Since she hadn't come up with the legal documents needed to form her business yet, she looked at a few of the more popular live streaming sites that her son had recommended to her.
Lin Yiyi didn't know exactly how popular live streaming was.
She was skeptical about Meng Yuran's suggestion. However, it would be good to pay attention to relevant information before opening her stop.
Yaxing was considered as the nation's number one live streaming platform.
It was said that there were tens of thousands of live streamers on this platform. These live streamers covered topics of every sort, and more and more videos were emerging each day. There were also a growing number of viewers. This platform was exploding in popularity.
Since Lin Yiyi was going to come up with a plan related to food, she naturally had to pay attention to the food videos.
Compared to the other types of live streamers, there were relatively very few live streamers that focused on food. Some of the most popular ones were people eating food.
There was recently a growing popularity of reality shows in the form of people live streaming themselves eating gourmet food. Specifically, the streamers would face the camera while eating the food and rely on their ability to enjoy eating food on camera to get views and rewards.
After Lin Yiyi went through the videos of past streams, she found that there were more people that streamed themselves eating food and less people cooking food.
Actually, it was easy to understand why this would happen. Compared to eating, cooking required skills. It wouldn't go well if you didn't have genuine cooking skills to showcase.
Besides, everyone had their own unique ways of cooking. If you taught other people your cooking methods instead of opening your own restaurant, wouldn't that be exposing your trade secrets?
Wouldn't that be ruining the livelihood of the teacher that taught the students?
However, Lin Yiyi didn't care about this.
Although one of the factors that a first-rate chef was able to cook delicious food was because of their own set of techniques, there was something else that played a bigger role. It was their experience in cooking that allowed them to cook food that would be endlessly praised even using simple ingredients and without any complicated cooking methods.
Most of the food that she had cooked here were all ordinary homestyle dishes. The reasons that the food looked good in the photos was because she was at expert at plating and knew how to handle food, that's why the food looked appetizing and gourmet as if they had come out of a high-end restaurant.
At this time, Lin Yiyi had already registered on a live streaming platform.
She wouldn't rush with streaming her first video. She still needed to do some preparations. It was just like how a chef would go through the ingredients before cooking and think about what tools and seasonings that she would use in order to compose the meal.
Even if she was just displaying the process of how a dish would be cooked, the level of difficulty had to be slowly increased. She couldn't jump straight to cooking relatively more difficult dishes like Slivers of Five Flavors or Buddha Jumping Over the Wall. The first dish tested one's knife skills and the latter tested one's ability to control heat and the degree in which the food was cooked. If you didn't have enough experience, it wouldn't be possible to successfully cook either one of these dishes.
(T/N: Below are pictures of Slivers of Five Flavors and Buddha Jumping Over the Wall.)
Cooking required a gradual advancement in skill.
Modern-day people lived fast-paced lives and were busy with work. How could they normally have time to cook for themselves? However, there were still many people that were willing and interested in cooking despite lifestyle constraints.
There were also housewives and even retired middle-aged and elderly people as her potential audience. If she showed them how to cook highly praised dishes in a simple way, they would probably be happy to try it out.
Having a general idea of what she wanted to do, she temporarily put the matter aside to go cook something for her children.