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Comment by Snuggly

You may begin this quest for Way of the Wok specialization when you have 530 Cooking. This quest is found at the Halfhill Market from Anthea Ironpaw. Juicycrunch Carrot drops from Zandalari and Virmen mobs and can also be grown on your farm.

Comment by Smadronia

Cooking specializations can be learned starting at level 530 from Sungshin Ironpaw, in the Halfhill Market in the Valley of the Four Winds. What's not mentioned, is unlike alchemy, or the now defunct tailoring specializations, you can specialize in each form of cooking, and all at the same time. So, save up your raw materials while you're out leveling, because you can find a use for them in one of the specializations.

Each specialization increases one primary stat, except for the Way of the Brew, which provides mana replanishing drinks, and apparently headaches and grandeur. Each quest requires something specific to start; these items are returned to you at the end of the quest, and are needed for the first quest in each specialization to get an Ironpaw Token.

Way of the Wok: increases agility
Requires 5 juicycrunch carrots and is turned in to Anthea Ironpaw
Examples: Sauteed Carrots, Valley Stir Fry

Way of the Steamer: increases spirit
Requires 5 giant mantis shrimp and is turned in to Yan Ironpaw
Examples: Fire Spirit Salmon, Shrimp Dumplings

Way of the Pot: increases intellect
Requires 5 jade lungfish and is turned in to Mei Mei Ironpaw
Examples: Swirling Mist Soup, Braised Turtle

Way of the Oven: increases stamina
Requires 5 wildfowl breasts and is turned in to Jian Ironpaw
Examples: Chun Tian Spring Rolls, Twin Fish Platter

Way of the Gril: increases strength
Requires 5 raw tiger steaks and is turned in to Kol Ironpaw
Examples: Eternal Blossom Fish, Black Pepper Ribs and Shrimp

Way of the Brew: mana drinks, some also replenish health
Requires 1 ginseng and is turned in to Bobo Ironpaw
Examples: Mad Brewer's Breakfast, Ginseng Tea

Comment by 695025

Even though you get this quest in Valley of the four winds, ~~I wouldn't suggest farming the Virmen in that zone. You're better off killing the trolls in Kun-lai summit.~~ Don't bother farming mobs. I killed a bunch of zandalari and didn't get anything. Maybe my RNG is bad but this seems the least efficient way to get the carrots.

Conversely, you could also purchase a sack containing 25 of them from Nam Ironpaw, located at Halfhill in Valley of the Four Winds. Only costs 1 token so to be perfectly honest I'm going with this option.. lol. (and also farming it by planting/harvesting) You can easily obtain tokens by farming meat, turning a stack of 20 into a bag of groceries and turning in that bag for 1 token... pretty quick this way if you just pick 1 type of meat to farm.

EDIT: I noticed people were upvoting this comment so I double-checked my information because there's a lot of confusion as to where the best place to get these darn carrots is.

Comment by Vlad

1. Go to Krasarang Wilds at 64.05, 24.79

2. You are looking for Sunwalker Scout (Note that he spawns at these coordinates and walks on the road to the east.)

3. Enable automatic setting of the stopwatch, indicating next spawn:
/run if not SS then CreateFrame("Frame","SS")end SS:RegisterEvent("COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED")SS:SetScript("OnEvent",function(_,_,_,e,_,_,_,_,_,d)if e=="UNIT_DIED"and d:sub(6,10)=="0E5E2"then Stopwatch_StartCountdown(0,1,0)Stopwatch_Play()end end)

4. Disable once finished so it doesn't keep scanning the combat-log:
/run SS:UnregisterEvent("COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED")SS:SetScript("OnEvent",nil)

I've found him to have the highest drop-chance for Juicycrunch Carrot and especially Red Blossom Leek, he must really like those! He doesn't always drop the cooking ingredients, but when he drops, it's between 1 and 4 items. In my personal opinion it's far more than I could manage farming the other suggested mobs.

For Horde characters you have to farm Darnassian Outrider (she is nearby, spawns at 61, 29) and use a slightly different macro for the stopwatch script:
/run if not SS then CreateFrame("Frame","SS")end SS:RegisterEvent("COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED")SS:SetScript("OnEvent",function(_,_,_,e,_,_,_,_,_,d)if e=="UNIT_DIED"and d:sub(6,10)=="0E5E9"then Stopwatch_StartCountdown(0,1,0)Stopwatch_Play()end end)

Comment by arten

The followup to this quest, Agile as a Tiger, requires turning in 5 Sauteed Carrots. Despite needing to turn in only 5 Juicycruch Carrot for this quest, which are then returned, each Sauteed Carrot requires 2 Juicycruch Carrots to make . If you are planning on growing the carrots rather than purchasing them, be sure to plant 2 plots worth.

Comment by Zoopony

I could not get any other the snagtooth - except the Hooligans in or near the lair by the river south of the Thunderfoot farm.
I got 3 within 10 minuutes in the lair and zero anywhere else

Comment by Carsti

Yes, chicurbanity, you're perfectly right. And since the next quest Agile as a Tiger also requests carrots, buying that sack with 25 isn't even overshopping. :)

Comment by Swordfang

As a quick note to those of you having trouble learning all of the cooking sub-proffessions (ie, way of the wok, way of the steamer, etc. etc.)

If you get 1 ironpaw token from finishing any of these quests, you can cash it in at the vendor (Nam Ironpaw, located on the south side of the path in the center of halfhill, to the west of the in) for a sack of whichever good you need for the quest, and then the quest gives you an ironpaw token, leaving you right where you started before you completed the quest. Essentially, if you get one done you can finish them all with a single ironpaw token:

As an example, 1 ironpaw token buys you Juicycrunch Carrotx25 (contained within Sack of Juicycrunch Carrots from Nam Ironpaw), which you can trade in 5 of to finish this quest, getting you back your token + 15 carrots, and you have the quest done. Then you use the ironpaw token to buy the sack for the next quest, and so on and so forth. The only issue is you still have to get one of the sets of goods. I find the easiest to get to be the Wildfowl Breastx5 which you can get from the Monstrous Plainshawk that fly directly over halfhill. These can be turned in right in halfhill to Jian Ironpaw

Comment by Icetta

It took me a while to get the carrots but it went quicker when I realized that the Springtails had a den underground. In the den there is this huge carrot surrounded by other little carrots, where the Spring tails like to congregate. And because there is many entrances you can stay in one spot and let them flow to you. Rather than running around the fields shooting them down. Also in the den is N.C.P Mina Mudclaw standing on top of the huge carrot.
Hope this helps.

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Way of the Wok

Bring 5 Juicycrunch Carrots to the Master of the Wok.

	Juicycrunch Carrot (5)

Description

If you wish to make dishes that enhance agility, you should bring some carrots and rice to the Master of the Wok. The virmen around here tend to carry a lot of carrots around. You can also grow your own, if you have a farm.

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Rewards

You will learn:

	Way of the Wok

You will also receive:

	Juicycrunch Carrot		Ironpaw Token

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(31470))

Guides

Pandarian Cooking - All the way from 1 - 600!