Food Wars: Starting with Equipping the Greedy Wolf Pot

Huhuhu~

The rich, juicy meat juices flowed from the golden ratio shumai, creating a wonderfully flavorful broth that blended the tastes of four ingredients.

Even though his tongue was burning hot, he still clung to it tightly, unwilling to let a single drop of soup slip by.

Whew~ Whew~

Ibuzaki Jun's golden ratio shumai gave Xiangji's small shop a great start today, leaving an unforgettable impression on the customers who lined up.

Watching the people in front of them devour Ibuzaki Shun's shumai one after another, the customers queuing behind couldn't help but swallow hard, their stomachs rumbling.

When it was finally his turn, and he was just about to savor Ibuzaki's shumai, he suddenly realized that the shumai Sachi served was not the same as the one he had just eaten.

"Boss, what's going on?"

"Why is my shumai different from the one in front of me? I don't want this one, I want the one I just had!" the customer who got to line up shouted angrily.

"Then you can go now, next one." Sachi didn't even bother to lift his eyelids.

"You, you..." The customer who got to the front of the line was furious at Sachi's words, but he held back and didn't just walk away.

Why are you leaving? I waited in line all morning to get this shumai.

How can we not eat!

I can only blame myself for being unlucky today, as I didn't get to eat the shumai I wanted.

Blind box shaomai.

Random taste.

The unique features of Xiang Ji's shop selling golden ratio shumai have long been known, and now many people in the queue are talking about it.

……

While the customers outside were complaining about the slow cooking, Xiang Ji was enjoying Yoshino Yuuki's golden ratio shumai.

One bite and you’ll be enchanted!

The moment Xiang Ji bit into the shumai, he felt an unparalleled and intense wildness in the splattering meat juices.

Rural, rugged, simple...

Xiangji is like being in the wilderness of the American West. Yoshino Yuuki's ingredients and seasonings are incredibly wild.

The shumai uses smoked wild rabbit meat that has been thoroughly stewed, and the shrimp used are American swamp prawns, which have a very chewy texture.

The vegetable shreds are not made from a single type of vegetable, but rather from a mixture of garlic, onion, celery, and green bell pepper.

The rich spices bring out the flavors of rabbit, prawns, and wild chicken eggs, bringing out the wild and untamed flavors and character to the fullest.

Compared to Ibuzaki Jun's smoky golden ratio shumai, Xiang Ji believes that Yoshino Yuuki's wild game golden ratio shumai is even better.

"That's really amazing."

"Yuki, how did you come up with this combination? You actually used so many spices in the shumai." Xiang Ji asked seriously.

“Senior Xiang Ji, I actually came up with this combination from Louisiana cuisine in the United States.” Yoshino Yuuki stuck out her tongue.

"Louisiana cuisine is a combination of game and seafood, which happens to be one of my strengths."

Chapter 147 The Xiang Family Chinese Restaurant, Yukihira Restaurant, Sees a Rising Fame

The experience progress bar for the spice inequality increases by 1, 1, 1...

Compared to Megumi Tadokoro's cuisine, Yuuki Yoshino's game dishes and Shun Ibuzaki's smoked dishes provided more of a spice inequality experience for Xiang Ji.

The reason is simple: both Yoshino Yuuki's game dishes and Ibuzaki Shun's smoked dishes rely heavily on the use of spices.

Wild game requires a lot of spices to neutralize its gamey and wild smell, and smoked dishes need even more.

Smoked dishes rely heavily on the use of spices from the very beginning.

However, Tadokoro Megumi's local cuisine doesn't rely on spices as much as Yoshino Yuuki's and her partner's.

The characteristic of local cuisine is that it uses local, readily available ingredients and does not rely on imported ingredients.

Megumi Tadokoro's cooking in the storyline mainly uses common ingredients, mostly from Hokkaido, and rarely uses rare ingredients.

Of course, this is also closely related to Tadokoro Megumi's culinary style.

Heartwarming dishes don't rely on rare and expensive ingredients, but on flavor and the sentiment behind them.

However, such culinary talent is innate and cannot be learned later in life.

The most obvious example is Shao An from the TV series "Cooking Master Boy". He has been learning to cook from Master Abe since he was a child and has become a master chef in Sichuan, but he still can't make the kind of heartwarming dishes that Master Abe makes.

……

Following Yoshino Yuuki and Ibuzaki Shun, Sakaki Ryoko and Marui Zenji's cooking also gave Xiang Ji quite a surprise, especially Sakaki Ryoko's.

Fermented cuisine may sound like a rare dish, but it is actually one of the oldest and most widespread categories of cuisine in human history. It's just that modern industry has hidden the fermentation process.

The simplest way to make shumai involves the use of fermentation.

Even though he injured his right hand while cooking the sizzling sea bream and was unable to cook, Xiang Ji still obtained a lot of golden ratio shumai experience fragments from Tadokoro Megumi and the others.

But compared to the gains in the fragmented experience of making the golden ratio shumai, the biggest gain was the reputation of Xiangji's small shop.

Despite the fact that the judges invited by Totsuki Academy criticized the Totsuki students' dishes as worthless during the Autumn Election in the Food Wars! storyline, this may not be the case.

However, those who can be invited by Totsuki Academy to serve as judges are either gourmets who have tasted all kinds of delicacies or top chefs in the culinary world.

Ordinary people wouldn't have such a terrifying appetite and sense of taste. Even students who haven't graduated, the cooking skills of the Totsuki Academy students are a game-changer in these roadside shops.

Aside from the father-son duo of Joichiro Yukihira and Soma Yukimura, where else in Totsuki Culinary Academy would students come to run roadside shops?

Even though Tadokoro Megumi and Yoshino Yuuki's cooking skills haven't reached the level shown in the story, they are not ordinary Totsuki students; they all have the potential to become Totsuki graduates.

The fame of Xiang's Chinese cuisine and blind box shumai has spread wildly throughout Tokyo, and there has even been a TV station that did a special report on blind box shumai.

There's nothing we can do; this world is a world where food reigns supreme.

In the storyline, when Soma Yukihira invented the dish of fried chicken nuggets with violet flowers in the Violet Flower Commercial Street where Yukihira Restaurant is located, a TV reporter took the initiative to come to the commercial street to conduct an interview.

……

"Dear viewers!"

"The restaurant behind me is Xiang's Chinese Restaurant, which has recently become very famous in Tokyo. You can see just how many people are queuing in front of Xiang's Chinese Restaurant."

"And my palm is the blind box shumai from Xiang's Chinese Restaurant."

"Now, let Yurika show you the taste of this blind box shumai." Reporter Yurika Mita sweetly held up a shumai in front of the camera.

Did everyone see that?

"The shumai I'm holding now is a blind box shumai from Xiang's Chinese Restaurant. It has a very unique shape. Xiang's Chinese Restaurant sells different flavors of shumai every day."

"That's why Xiang's Chinese Restaurant's shumai is called 'blind box shumai'."

"I won't say any more."

"Now, Yurika, I'll start tasting it~" Yurika Mita said sweetly to the camera.

"Ahhh~ Ahh~"

The moment she put the golden ratio shumai into her mouth, Yurika Mita immediately blushed and let out a moan that would make anyone blush, which was definitely not suitable for children.

But there's nothing that can be done; the food in the world of Food Wars! is like being drugged, and food shows are naturally like that too.

……

"Oh, it's Yurika's interview?"

"Xiang's Chinese Restaurant? It's definitely a very popular restaurant in Tokyo lately. My colleagues have been talking about it a lot, but it's so hard to get a table. Otherwise, I'd like to try their shumai."

"Mr. Yukihira, when will your shop start making shumai?"

"Yes, that's right."

"Boss Yukihira, with your amazing cooking skills, your shumai is definitely no worse than the blind box shumai from Xiang's Chinese Restaurant."

The diners at the Yukihira restaurant watched Yurika Mita on the television, as if they were watching a boat sailing on the water.

"Shumai?"

“That won’t do. My shop isn’t a Chinese restaurant,” Yukihira Joichiro, with his long red hair, replied with a light laugh from inside the kitchen.

"Dad, what's wrong with this? It's just shumai. Are you scared, Dad?" Soma Yukihira, who was lying on his book after losing to Joichiro Yukihira in the competition, suddenly shouted.

"Dad, if you can't do it, then I'll do it."

"Oh, as expected of Soma, he's really confident."

"Soma, judging from your confidence, I believe you'll be able to beat Boss Yukihira one day." Upon hearing Soma Yukihira's words, the restaurant patrons all cheered.

……

Just as the guests were making their way around, Yurika Mita's report was coming to an end.

"Out of 10, Yurika gave the blind box shumai a score of 9.3. Fans of Chinese cuisine shouldn't miss it!"

"In addition, Yurika will tell everyone another secret."

"The blind box shumai at Xiang's Chinese Restaurant is said to have been conceived by graduates of Totsuki Academy."

"Then goodbye. See you tomorrow at the same time, Yurika will bring everyone to try other dishes." Yurika Mita's smile was incredibly sweet.

……

"Totsuki Academy?"

"real or fake?"

"The blind box shumai at Xiang's Chinese Restaurant was actually conceived by students from Totsuki Academy?"

"Ahhh~"

"In that case, we have to go and check out Xiang's Chinese Restaurant, since it's the cuisine of Totsuki Academy students."

"Okay, I'll take the day off tomorrow to queue up." Yurika Mita's closing words on her live stream were like a bomb dropped on television, instantly sparking a huge discussion.

Chapter 148 Soma Yukihira: What is Totsuki?

Totsuki Academy?

Upon hearing Yurika Mita's voice coming from the television, Joichiro Yukihira paused abruptly while washing the dishes, but quickly resumed his normal pace.

"Please wait a moment."

"Why do you all seem like completely different people after hearing about Totsuki Academy? Is Totsuki Academy some kind of amazing place?"

Soma Yukihira stared wide-eyed at the restaurant's customers, especially the last person to speak. He was the one who had just said he didn't have time because of work, but now he was saying he had to take time off to go.

"Eeh eh eh?"

"No way? Soma, haven't you ever heard of Totsuki Academy?" But the customers in the restaurant were even more shocked than Soma Yukihira.

It's unbelievable that there are people in Japan who don't know Totsuki Academy, and that Soma Yukihira is a chef.

"Totsuki Academy? I think I've seen it in newspapers and on TV before," Soma Yukihira said somewhat uncertainly.

"Wait a moment."

"Isn't it me asking you questions now? Why are you asking me now? What exactly is this Totsuki Academy?" Soma Yukihira stared wide-eyed at the restaurant's patrons.

Yukihira Restaurant caters to customers in the commercial district, and most of the customers are acquaintances, or you could say they've watched Yukihira Soma grow up.

Soma Yukihira, of course, had no barriers with the customers in the restaurant and did not need to be polite in any way.

"Really? Soma, you really don't know Totsuki?"

"Totsuki Culinary Academy is the top culinary school in Japan. Every year, the students who graduate from Totsuki become the top chefs in Japan." The diners were amazed as they explained to Soma Yukihira what Totsuki was all about.

"Oh, I understand."

"Totsuki Academy is a school that teaches people how to cook? I knew I'd seen that somewhere before." Before they could finish speaking, Soma Yukihira slapped his palm as if he had just realized something.

“I must have seen their recruitment ad somewhere,” Soma Yukihira said confidently.

The customers inside the restaurant: "..."

Wait, Totsuki Academy actually needs to advertise for its admissions? Is Soma Yukihira really taking this seriously?