It Is A Different World And Yet I Am Cultivating Monsters

"Thank you for your patience. This is our cuisine."

Mina transports the cooked food to the judge's table.

The judges are all breathtaking at the strange dishes lined up there.

"Hmm, what the hell is this..."

There was a dish of seafood monsters on a bite-sized piece of rice.

"This dish is passed down to my hometown called SUSI. When you eat, put a bite on your soy sauce."

This is my prepared seafood dish. You can enjoy a variety of flavours by cooking seafood into bite-sized dishes.

And above all, the strength of this grip sushi is that only seafood is not the staple food.

In recent years, there has been an increase in sushi made from various ingredients such as meat and vegetables, which in turn has enhanced the flavour of seafood sushi.

This will allow me to use the fresh monsters I cultivated as ingredients.

Well, because it is a different world style sushi, I dare say SUSI here.

"Oh, this is an interesting sip. You can enjoy all kinds of flavors."

One after the other, the SUSI of various ingredients is put into the mouth after the voices of the judges who ate it.

Then I signaled Mina and put something I had prepared on the judges' table.

"Here you go. This is a special drink called tea. Drink between SUSIs."

Hmm, I didn't think you had a drink.

One of the judges carried the tea into his mouth.

The first-time taste of hot water exhales with admiration.

At present, the judges' ratings are generally favourable, but I'm sure they'll still appreciate it if we skip that full course of Sage Bravery.

The question is, do the judges notice the tricks we've prepared? Or give it a rating.

That's all we can do to win the match.

Then bring the final item, the main dish, to the judges.

"Thank you for waiting. This is our main dish, a box called the heavy box, where we skewered the leviathan meat, baked it fragrant in a special sauce, and put it on rice. It's commonly known as Riva Heavy."

There were so-called nodding weights of leviathan meat, which I cooked in a secret sauce and put on freshly cooked rice.

Of course, heavy boxes were prepared for this time. Speaking of nodding, I had to eat it with this.

Oh.

This is all we can do.

All you have to do is wait for the evaluation.

One by one, the judges carry the Liva weights placed in front of their eyes to their mouths.

The intense smell drifted through the venue, and the voice in the venue, which had been Casalina's color until now, quieted down and sounded like swallowing yogurt.

Eventually, all the judges calmed the weight of Liva, finished rinsing the prepared tea, and breathed.

"... it was a really good dish. Now, let's move on to evaluation."

The whole venue calms down.

At the Grand Cuisine Games, a majority decision is made by five judges to decide which dish was the best.

First, the judgment of the first judge is the wise man, the brave man.

* giggle *, it's still not that easy.

I thought, but Mina & Kyo and I voted for the second judgment.

But the third one that follows is the Sage Brave. And again in the fourth person, this one and the vote were two to two.

"Oops! This is a surprise! What a five-point vote with the previous year's semi-winner Casalina! This is an unexpected development while being an unknown rookie! The final verdict is in the hands of the gourmet master!

Gourmet Master.

It was an old man who took a breath to impress something when he drank the tea we had prepared earlier.

Gently put your arms together for a while, and eventually spread out the paper with one name written down as if you were determined.

It had a name on it.

"Brr...."

I can see the wise man breathing next door.

Yeah, because I agree. I'm honestly surprised myself.

The name written there was Mina & Kyo.

"Oh, my God! It's just a big reversal! The winner is Mina & Kyo, the representative of the small restaurant!!

Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Mina jumped on my back with a cheer that was just cracking, and Fitz, Dora, and Rock were all rushing towards me waiting to be played by me.

Honestly, I wasn't expecting this to work, but I was more than I expected.

However, in contrast to us, there was a person who spoke to the gourmet master with a calm attitude while still being shocked.

"I'm not going to be dissatisfied with the outcome of the match. Admit your defeat cleanly. But first, I want you to tell me one thing. Why their cooking won, why?"

There were no grievances and I saw pride in being a cook who simply wanted to know the factors that determine victory and defeat.

The Gourmet Master talks to the sage's hero.

"To answer that question, I want to ask your cook first, no, the person who made this. What the hell is this?

I immediately answered the gourmet master's question.

It's called soy sauce.

It is the black water that the gourmet master used to refer to when eating sushi. Soy sauce.

And it was referring to the sauce on Liva.

Yes, one of the two most versatile seasonings in Japanese cuisine. Soy sauce.

I believe that this is exceptional among a number of seasonings.

It may be too natural for Japanese people to understand the value, but when I traveled abroad, I heard that many people took soy sauce deliberately when I traveled abroad, remembering the loneliness of the taste of soy sauce with various dishes in their mouths.

The food culture in this world, for example, is similar to that in the United States overseas.

Everything is bold and bold. The taste has a strong personality, which is both an advantage and a disadvantage.

The number of condiments is overwhelmingly low because of the small amount of delicate care.

In other words, the small workmanship I prepared was its seasoning, soy sauce.

After making tea before, we succeeded in cultivating Jewel Beans, a bean monster in the legume family, and then we worked a little hard on making this soy sauce, and the shapes were completed the other day.

The sauce was also created so that it could be used in this competition with that application. This was done thanks to Mina-chan's cooperation.

Of course, this match was not sweet enough to win.

"Let me start by saying, wise man. As a single dish, your main dish was more delicious. But still, I dared to vote for these people because there was an overall“ attentiveness ”that went beyond the cooking alone."

What?

Sage brave eyebrows at the unexpected remarks of the gourmet master.

In response, the gourmet master presents her with sushi and tea placed in front of her.

Casalina noticed it when she put it in her mouth and occasionally drank tea.

"This is...."

"Yes, natural mouth lifting. You chose the seafood dish and served it. While it is true that your seafood dishes are exceptional, there is one drawback to seafood cuisine. That's what the seafood tastes like on the tip of the tongue.

Seafood dishes are some of the most flavorful ingredients in a number of dishes, and the more fresh the dish is, the more harm it can't avoid.

That's the smell that stays in your mouth.

Of course, if it's fresh, the percentage that remains is low, but no matter how fresh it is, there is certainly a unique taste of seafood in the mouth.

I like seafood and eat it occasionally. However, when it was raw after eating, there was something to call it even after the taste of seafood on the tip of the tongue.

In that case, what I do to rinse out the flavour is drink a dark tea.

"I value this water as the most hidden part of the food they serve."

Yes, this is what I came up with a month ago.

This hot spring is made from mountain delicacies that wash away the taste of seafood delicacies. Tea.

Ever since, Weedleaf, called weed, has been improved and now it has been established as a more flavorful tea than before.

Of course, to wash away the taste that I had been eating before, it was finished with drinking water.

"Whatever the dish, the taste of the previous dish remains when the next dish is delivered to the mouth. However, the bitter taste of this water washes away the taste left in your mouth before you take the next one to your mouth. This allows you to enjoy fresher dishes at the tip of your new tongue. Not only that, but with all the seafood dishes that produced the bitter taste of this hot water, there was a synergistic effect that just a drink would make the dish tasty. I've been a judge for years, but I've never seen them bring a way to enhance the taste of a drink rather than cooking."

Yes, that's what's called a word of mouth change born in Japan.

One of its representatives is tea. The gourmet master's old man gave me a proper recognition for the work I did.

"Their main thing is only this SUSI and Riva heavy. But the main thing behind it is a subtle lift called tea and seasoning. Their cooking was useless and caring. That's why I valued the care and voted for them."

"I mean, did you lose your mind?

"No, it's not. Casalina, your cooking skills are certainly up. But was there a“ new dish ”in one of your dishes that was unexpected, and more specifically worthy of this" culinary pioneering "?

Casalina unexpectedly changed her complexion.

"None of your dishes are so exquisite, that's for sure. But they're all just“ preexisting dishes. "However, if it was a" delicious tournament ”, you won, but here is a" food tournament "that" pioneers new cuisine ". You mistook the purpose of this tournament. So I valued them not only for food, but also for producing something new called soy sauce and tea."

Hearing the words of the gourmet master, the wise man nods as if he knew what his defeat was.

Yeah, or was that what it meant to be "pioneering food"?

Of course, I didn't realize that.

I simply competed with the knowledge of the earth, rarity and miniature craftsmanship, but it seemed to have grasped the spirit of the tournament.

Honestly, luck is a big factor, but I appreciate that luck.

"... I see. If only to say so, he would have won. However, I lost sight of the purpose of this tournament, and I ran to the point of losing... no, I don't care about the eaters, I didn't try to develop a new food."

That's how Casalina nods.

Perhaps we would have lost if this were simply a contest.

We won not only with condiments, ingredients, monsters, and cooking methods, but also with great elements of luck.

But if this is one of the evaluations I had at the Great Cuisine Games, I have to accept the results.

And it was the same with Casalina.

"How to hunt a high-ranking monster and finish it with the best dishes. He was always trapped in such efficiency and forgot to take care of the eating side."

That's how Katherine turns around and asks for a handshake.

"Loser, Kyo."

I held her hand, and here the first round of the Grand Cuisine Games ended.