Once the timer started, Lu Xinyi and Ye Xieren simultaneously picked up the tray of their squids and started cutting them. The two tuned out everything and focused their attention on the dish they were about to cook.
Lu Xinyi made a clean long cut on her first squid and ripped the ink sack gently away from it, setting it aside before moving to her next squid. Once all the ink sacks were collected, she took a small clear bowl and pressed her fingers on each sack carefully, squeezing all the ink she could get from it.
Squeezing the ink out was a little tricky, but Lu Xinyi and Ye Xieren managed to collect a decent amount of ink they could use for their pasta. Now that they had the squid ink they needed, they both started working on their pasta which needed to be made from scratch.
