My husband doesn’t like looking up spoilers or game mechanic explanations when playing games, so his recent run through of Enter the Gungeon with the newly released Advanced Gungeons and Draguns update was even more suspenseful! Since he’s still in the dark about some game spoilers, he didn’t understand why certain items started popping up messages about combos and extra bonuses. Since I don’t care about spoilers for this game, I looked it up and found out that the DLC added item combinations.
Suddenly, like it was destiny, he picked up a meatbun and hot peppers, making a sausage and peppers item combo. This item increases the healing rate of the meatbun and increase the range of the gungeon pepper. When I first started concepting the recipe, I really wanted to run a beef filled bao of some form because when I hear the term meat, beef traditionally comes to mind. When I saw the combo name, I was worried I would have to change the meat to pork to fit the sausage part a bit more but decided to include some standard sausage flavors in the recipe like fennel seed and fenugreek. The gungeon pepper comes out with the combination of gochujang for the spicy element and the bell peppers to give the filling a crunchy texture. With all these elements combined, I was extremely happy with my interpretation of the meatbun.
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