Have you ever seen glowing food? That's why you draw a food-themed anime.

...

The beginning of episode two.

Totsuki Academy.

The female protagonist, Erina Nakiri, is using her God Tongue to taste the dishes of the other students.

She is very picky.

He only took one bite and criticized the oyster congee made by the other trainees as worthless.

"Oyster congee..."

"The smell was like bathing with gorillas from the Western Lowlands!"

The female lead is incredibly capable!

Not only does it possess a divine tongue, but at just three months old it can taste the ingredients and flavors of a dish with an accuracy comparable to that of a weighed item.

Her evaluation of a store can even directly affect that store's business.

When Xu Zhou got to this point in the drawing, he was momentarily stunned, scratched his head, and hesitated about whether to change a line.

"Isn't it a bit far-fetched to be able to tell if a baby's milk is thin or not by tasting it at three months old?"

"The description of this flavor is too abstract. If this is drawn out, won't it get dozens of negative reviews?"

Forget it.

If you can't accept this, what about the scene where your clothes rip off while you're eating?

...

Xu Zhou silently grumbled a few words to himself before continuing to draw.

Because the female lead, Erina Nakiri, was too frightening, everyone ran away as soon as they heard that she was the examiner, except for the male lead, Soma Yukihira.

Moreover, the exam questions were related to eggs, and Erina Nakiri looked arrogant.

"Then I'll have a taste."

"You're a second-rate chef, and your cooking tastes are at the very bottom of the culinary world..."

She looked down on the male lead, but after being scorned, the male lead was reignited!

Crack the eggs!

Chop the vegetables!

With a swift stroke, the knife fell like the wind!

When the male protagonist, Soma Yukihira, untied the bandages on his wrists, it was as if a seal had been broken.

"I made Yukihira Restaurant's secret recipe number 8: Egg Rice!"

"Of course it's not just ordinary egg rice!"

"I made a transforming egg rice bowl!"

The first half of the second episode is short.

After finishing half of the drawing, Xu Zhou immediately uploaded it.

A new recipe for collecting wish points has also appeared in the system.

[Imitation barbecue dishes: 135/1000 (2)]

【Transformation Egg Rice Bowl: 0/100 (1)】

The wish points for the replica barbecue dish were originally set for the afternoon, but the two customers only contributed 15 wish points each.

In the evening, perhaps due to the arrival of new readers, the number of views increased by a meager five points.

The prayer points are still too few.

We have to find a way.

...

Xu Zhou opened his comic book.

At a glance, you can see that Xu Kai's new comment in the comment section already has dozens of likes and dozens of comments.

[Xu Kai: Photo/This is the invoice, this store really exists! Everyone add me on WeChat, I can give you the address and take you there!]

"This is definitely going to get me criticized."

Xu Zhou clicked on his comment with great interest, and sure enough, the new readers who had clicked in and read the first chapter were mercilessly criticizing it.

[Can comics now be sold through product placement and earn money?]

Why are you making money all by yourself? Why the hell are you taking us all with you?!

You're telling me, this supposedly original, nonsensical recipe dares to sell for 1888 yuan a serving offline? Unbelievable.

The only comment from a reader that seemed like a positive review: [Wang Lulu: That's an exaggeration. Please improve it. The artwork itself is quite good, though.]

But this only source of warmth vanished when the first half of Xu Zhou's second episode was uploaded.

They became haters.

He also left a message in the "God's Tongue" section: "I am Shennong! Everyone run! Take a taxi and escape!"

Xu Zhou: "..."

What the hell did I draw that you still have to take a taxi to get there?

At a glance, one can see that she left a long essay of over a hundred words in the comments section.

Shennong is here! This book is poisonous, run!

Wang Lulu: I am Shennong! The author of this comic is suspected of having drunk two kilograms of fake liquor before creating it.

Not only does it contain original food recipes, but his food also glows with golden light. The most outrageous thing is in the second episode, where the female lead is supposedly blessed with a divine tongue, able to taste whether breast milk is too thin at three months old—that's ridiculous… One word: Run!

Several comments popped up at once.

[Thanks to Shennong, I've already run away.]

[This is too much! Too exaggerated! How could a dish be so delicious that it makes you blush? And the author even used a secondary account to praise themselves and give themselves rewards—aren't you embarrassed?]

[I can tolerate everything else, but I really can't stand this "God's Tongue" thing. You're telling me a three-month-old baby can eat other things? And this is supposed to be the "God's Tongue"?]

Wang Lulu replied: It's really toxic! The key point is that the recipe the author used in the second chapter was egg rice.

Isn't this baby food? My nephew's baby food is much more varied than this! You dare to brag about this kind of recipe?

"..."

As a content creator, Xu Zhou experienced severe PTSD when he saw the words "Shennong".

I put so much effort into drawing it, and you actually said my comics are full of poison!

Doesn't your heart ache?

Xu Zhou glanced at the wish value for the egg rice and saw that it was still at [0]. He then clicked on the homepages of several readers who had left comments in the comment section.

After looking around, only this [Wang Lulu] homepage is full of food-related videos, and also has various long reviews.

[Wang Lulu's comment on "From Vegetable Cutter to Chef": Ah! This vegetable-chopping training method is really effective!]

[Wang Lulu's comment on the 100th page of "From Vegetable Cutter to Head Chef": I've tried the recipe! It's delicious!]

"It's just you."

Xu Zhou, who was about to delete the Shennong post, stopped and started commenting furiously below.

"Didn't you see it's a transformed egg rice bowl? Is it just a regular egg rice bowl?"

"Other people use eggs bought from the supermarket, but the eggs I use are even more luxurious than those laid by chickens that listen to music!"

"Don't judge my transformed egg rice recipe by the standards of a regular egg rice recipe!"

"Let's eat something good."

After bombarding Wang Lulu with a barrage of comments, Xu Zhou launched a scathing attack across the comment section, showing no mercy whatsoever.

They launched into a tirade, their arguments were incredibly sophisticated, and they engaged in various private online exchanges.

"Besides being stubborn, what else do you, the author, know?"

"I also know that there is a shop in Songnan City that sells 'Transformation Egg Rice,' and it's really delicious. But you, my friend, can only look at it online."

"Only one 2.5-point restaurant has this dish, don't make me laugh."

"..."

"If it's really delicious, can it get a 2.5 rating?"

"What do you know? If you can't use scores to measure a person, what makes you think you can use scores to measure a store?"

After sending the message, Xu Zhou glanced at the prayer points with anticipation.

I've already used such provocation on myself; it worked yesterday, so it should work today too, right?

Everyone's calling him a coward, so why wouldn't he take a taxi to eat and give it a one-star rating?

Take a look.

really.

[Imitation barbecue dishes: 145/1000 (2)]

【Transformation Egg Rice Bowl: 28/100 (1)】

The wish value for both recipes began to rise slowly, with the egg rice recipe increasing from zero to twenty-eight.

"good."

"It should be about right when I wake up tomorrow morning."

Chapter 7, Second New Dish

Early the next morning, Xu Kai secretly went to the entrance to queue up by himself.

When he realized that there were only ten limited-edition servings available each day, he didn't hesitate to secretly delete the post he made in the comments section.

He also cleaned up the comments he had posted earlier. After cleaning up the comics section, he also deleted most of the comments he had replied to on the first day.

We must never let the people in the comic book comment section know that there really is a Yizhou Izakaya in Songnan City.

We'll keep it a secret as long as we can.

If others knew that there were only ten servings a day, would he still be able to get one?

He could easily take all ten portions by himself.

Xu Kai only sent a private message to a friend in the group who lived in Songnan City, whose workplace was relatively close to here, but who was just an office worker and not rich enough, after he had already secured a spot in the queue at the entrance.

perfect.

If you're not rich enough, you can't afford the price of 1,888.

Being close by will make it easier to help him buy things in the future.

[Xu Kai: Come help me queue up to buy some food. I'll pay for it. It's very close, just across the street from your workplace. I'll give you a 1888 yuan red envelope.]

[Ruan Mian: What kind of shop is this? Is it really that delicious? Why don't you just buy a second serving? Why hire someone to buy it?]

[Xu Kai: Are you coming or not?]

[Ruan Mian: Come on!]

[Xu Kai: You have to promise not to reveal the location of this store... No, I'm still not comfortable with that. How about we sign a confidentiality agreement?]

When Xu Kai sent out that sentence, he himself felt it was outrageous.

But just thinking about how delicious the food was yesterday made his mouth water again.

Only after Ruan Mian agreed did Xu Kai send over the shop's name.

[Ruan Mian: This place doesn't seem to be very well-known. I've never heard of it before. Is this the izakaya you were going to yesterday?]

Yesterday, Ruan Mian also saw the red envelope sent by Xu Kai and went to take a look at the "Food Wars!" manga.

Although it was only one episode, short and still in its infancy, the extremely absurd plot left a deep impression on her.