Chapter 88 – [Raccoon Man Beginning]

Shortly after ordering, the waitress brought champagne and pre-dinner bread.

“Here is the champagne and pre-dinner bread you ordered.”

We chose champagne, not wine… Oh, so we didn’t choose red wine, which is considered normal wine. All the dishes we ordered were different, but it was annoying to think about which wine would go well with the dishes, so we just poured champagne.

The carbonation of the champagne erases the taste of the remaining food in your mouth, so it will be good for the next dish. So I picked

The pre-meal bread came with a small brown baguette and round bread made with squid ink mixed with two types of butter.

One was butter that looked nothing special in a circle, but the other was divided into 3×3 squares, and some were pink butter.

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Is this kind of cheese? It was such a pretty color and shape that it was hard to touch just by looking at it.

I cut the bread in moderation and tried it with butter. First of all, the original butter was unsalted butter, and the savory taste was excellent. It was so delicious that I could just eat it and fill my stomach.

“This is salty”

“Okay?”

The square butter had a salty taste unlike unsalted unsalted butter. It has been said that sweet and salty combinations are the best. If you add a savory taste to it, the icing on the cake. Ah, but the square one seems to taste a bit like ham… Ah, is this pink, ham?

While chatting while eating half the bread, the appetizer came out.

“Basil sorbet, tomato concasse, and pea soup.”

I was on the side of basil sorbet, and Shion was on the side of pea soup. Sliced ​​red tomatoes are made into concasse, and paprika salad is placed on top of it, followed by green, creamy basil sorbet shaped like a long oval.

Except for the fact that Shion’s is plated a little, there seems to be nothing special about it on the outside. The scent was very fragrant and nice. It’s probably because of the addition of a few other spices.

“It’s surprising, it’s an appetizer, so even if you say that there’s not a lot of meat, you’re willing to eat something made of vegetables.”

“I sometimes eat like this too. Who do you know as a picky eater?”

Honestly you’re right

Shion is an extremely picky eater. I mainly like meat, sweets, salty things, greasy things, and the foods that people must eat if they want to live a short life. If Shion was a human, not an alien, his eating habits are not so good that he would have committed suicide long ago.

At least, I cooked it at home, so I tasted vegetables to some extent, but it was at the level of a person who only grilled meat and ate some wraps.

It’s an appetizer, so heavy dishes don’t come out well, so I’d avoid meat, but even though there would be fish, Shion chose that. I was honestly a bit surprised.

“I like beans”

“Is there anyone who doesn’t like beans?”

“Prison inmates will hate it”

“These days, beans are expensive, so it’s all a thing of the past to feed them with soybeans.”

In the old days, eating mixed grains in rice was thought to be proof of poverty, so it was because the demand for pure white rice was high. These days, people deliberately mix grains to take care of their health. If you just keep eating rice, you will get sick.

I tasted the sorbet. You might not be able to imagine the taste just because the herb called basil is made similar to ice cream. Originally, the world of cooking sometimes goes beyond imagination. I also make ice cream with vegetables, but is it different from herbs?

Strictly speaking, sherbet and ice cream are different because of the content of ingredients, but… Well, if you don’t know it, it’s there. The difference is that the ice cream is soft, and the sherbet has a slightly crunchy ice texture.

I don’t know why there are people who ate it when they were young. Ice cream with melon flavor and orange flavor in a round packaging called daerong daerong. It is also classified as a sorbet.

If you don’t know that, you can just think that the frozen Juicy Cool sold at the stationery in front of the school is a little softer. I hope there are people who haven’t eaten Juicy Cool.

“What is Juicy Cool?”

“No, don’t you know that?! Then, if you eat Double Biyanco ice cream, there’s white apple-flavored ice cream underneath that you eat with a spoon. That’s sorbet.”

“I’m kidding. When I was young, I also ate a frozen Juicy Cool that cost 300 won. I received 500 won allowance and took the remaining 200 won to try Metal Slug One Coin in front of a stationery store.”

“You’re different from me, so this will be the second playthrough. The generation from when I was quite young is similar to me.”

Roughly around the 1990’s. If it was before that, there was no way the generations would match like this.

Anyway, I cut basil sorbet in moderation with a spoon and scooped paprika salad and tomato concasse together and put it in my mouth.

The first thing I feel is the sweetness of cut tomatoes, and I feel only the pure taste of tomatoes by removing seeds and skins.

Next, the basil sorbet melts and gives off a crunchy taste, followed by the fragrance mixed with the sweetness of the paprika. Basil, tomato, and paprika are the main ingredients, but it’s delicious even without meat. A taste that would appeal to vegetarians. Oh, it’s a question of whether there’s dairy in the sorbet.

“Would you like to share some? I’ll give you a bite.”

“I will decline”

“…Hagishi, it’s a vegetable that doesn’t even have a shape left, so you’re just eating it.”

“No”

No what is not

Among the vegetables that Shion hates, the top picks are bell peppers and paprika. When garlic or onion is cooked, the spicy taste disappears, so I often eat it, but I don’t like green peppers or paprika because they have a bit of bitterness behind the sweetness even when cooked.

Tomatoes… I don’t like to just eat tomatoes. The only tomato Shion eats is tomato sauce made from ketchup or pasta sauce.

Huh? Isn’t ketchup the same as tomato sauce?

So, isn’t it an AOS game that is not much different from lol and hios?

“It’s good, meat is naturally delicious, so it’s natural that it’s delicious as long as it’s not ruined too much, but cooking vegetables this delicious is proof of your skill. Oh, would you like a spoonful of pea soup?”

“Here it is”

I scooped a spoonful from the soup bowl that Shion held out and put it in my mouth. The nutty flavor of green peas and the well-grinded texture come to mind, followed by the taste of spices that add flavor. In order to bring out the taste of the main peas, a rich spice was used as a companion.

This is good too Shion, who doesn’t eat a lot of vegetables, voluntarily ate them.

After the appetizer was finished and the mouth was satisfied, the next main dish came out at the right timing.

“Chicken sous vide and romaine lettuce. And Korean beef fillet steak and mushroom ravioli with garnish”

The essence of the Jagoro course meal is the main course. You can see the chef working hard to satisfy the customers. Moreover, the selection of materials is also wide.

You don’t have to worry about something not heavy like an appetizer, and you don’t have to think about sweetness like a dessert. Only the taste, the taste to satisfy the customer, is important.

I chose chicken sous vide, and Shion chose steak. Looking at the menu choices, Shion’s favorite meat, especially beef.

“Visual is good”

The chicken sous vide I chose is a chicken breast the size of two index fingers put together and a long piece of romaine lettuce cooked next to it. A transparent brown sauce was drizzled on top of it, and finally, a small chunk of black grain was placed on top of the chicken.

Zion’s steak looked like an ordinary steak if you only thought about how it was cooked, but the garnish with it was unique. Ravioli is a kind of pasta, but if you have trouble thinking about it, just think of Italian dumplings.

But it’s not just gyoza dumplings, it’s not just dumplings, the square and browned shells look like Hanetsuki gyoza… No, you don’t know what Hanetsuki gyoza are?

Hanetsuki gyoza refers to a method of making dumplings in a frying pan when making gyoza in Japan, and then cooking them in starch to make a crispy shell like pancakes on the bottom. The taste is not that different, but the visual is amazing.

“Shall we eat first?”

I picked up the tableware right away to fully enjoy the main dish. I first took a fork to the chicken and tried it.

The chicken was chicken breast. There is a perception that chicken breasts are tough. Of course, that’s natural, because chicken breast, which people usually encounter, has a high protein content and protein shrinks when cooked.

But sous vide recipes are different.

Sous vide is a method of cooking by heating ingredients in a sanitary plastic bag with water at a certain temperature for a long period of time. A few hours is the standard, and some take a day or two if it is long.

The advantage of this method was that it could cook softly even parts that would become dry when cooked, such as chicken breast. It’s going to take a lot of work, but a restaurant like this will probably have at least one sous-vide machine.

Purple! The chicken breast is so easy to tear!

“Chicken is art. I wish I had a sous vide machine at home.”

“Do you want to buy it?”

“It’s not something I’m going to do often, but if I’m going to do that, I’d rather use my ability to do it.”

The chunks of black grains on top were caviar, I put a little bit of caviar on the moderately cut chicken breast, and I also cut a little bit of romaine lettuce and put it in a bite.

The sauce wasn’t too salty, but it wasn’t too sweet either. Just the middle taste and moist chicken breast. And the caviar’s savory flavors intertwined and interacted.

This alone is delicious enough, but the romaine lettuce even adds to the crunchy texture. It feels like it has evolved from a complete body to an absolute complete body.

“The steak is delicious. It’s well cooked and the sauce is good.”

“What about garnish?”

“This is good too”

If there are two ravioli, I can steal it, and since the steak is the main, I can steal it. I don’t know if I’m giving, but I’m not willing to receive.

Let’s quietly enjoy my cooking.

I garnished my mouth with champagne, and again cut up chicken breast and romaine lettuce and put it in my mouth. The taste of the chicken breast is so good that the amount is a bit disappointing.

For a while, Shion and I could only hear the use of forks and knives. They tacitly agreed to enjoy each other’s delicious food.

After a while, I ate them all. These aren’t usually small amounts, and since we’re both gluttons, we eat them quickly.

At a meat restaurant, the two of us eat more than 10 servings, and although the taste is good, the quantity is small.

I soaked the remaining sauce on the plate with the lettuce and ate it sparingly. It was the same with Zion. If so, would you have ordered more single items?

I wasn’t hungry, but I wasn’t full either. Dessert remains…

“There’s a dessert bar over there”

“You want to finish eating dessert?”

“It’s free, but what about it?”

There was one bar where you could eat various kinds of small desserts, not desserts that were ordered separately. Of course, that’s free.

“I’ll go to the bathroom before dessert.”

“If it was like the old days, aliens would flatter themselves that they didn’t go to the bathroom.”

“I’m going to fix my makeup.”

“You’re funny. The topic of not putting on any lotion.”

A really healthy and pretty person doesn’t need cosmetics. I don’t know about beauty, but I’m proud of my health. When I’m reincarnated as a woman, I put on lotion.

Maybe if you buy a small cosmetic product, you can use it for a year. When going outside in winter, whether or not to apply lotion is Zion.

But if you ask me if I’m going to do errands… Well, I do. Only small things.

Shion’s body structure is similar to that of humans, but if you look closely, it’s different. One of them is the digestive system. Everything you eat is broken down and digested. It is not that there is no waste at all, but it is at a level that can be excreted through urine and sweat.

I don’t really go to the bathroom. Half.

Dessert hasn’t been served yet, probably because he figured out that Shion went to the bathroom. Originally, she would have come out enough, but seeing that she grasps it, it seems that she has done well in training the staff.

About 10 minutes later, Shion came back from the bathroom.

“It took quite a while?”

“I’ve been talking for a while”

“…….? With who?”

“It’s not a big deal”

Soon after, the last dessert came out.

“Strawberry sorbet and orange jelly.”

Dessert didn’t need a long introduction. Shion’s was a red strawberry sorbet with more icy grains than the basil sorbet I had before, and mine was a meringue-like whipped cream topped with orange jelly.

A small ball-shaped jelly was placed on top of the soft jelly, but it seems to have been shaped separately.

I scooped the jelly with the cream with a spoon and put it in my mouth. The cream was sprinkled with something like brown powder, but when I put it in my mouth, it smelled like cinnamon. The taste is strong, but the soft taste of the cream, the sweetness of the jelly, and the taste of the fruit juice that bursts when you chew the ball-shaped jelly cover the taste.

“Hey, this is good. Would you like a bite?”

“Give me a bite”

I don’t touch strawberry sorbet because I know what it tastes like, but I think it’s better to show Shion a taste of this.

Shion, who scooped out a spoonful and put the jelly in his mouth, put on a delicious expression. Shion likes most fruits, but if I were to find some of her favorites, she likes tangerines.

“Excuse me”

By the time you finish eating dessert. A man who did not appear to be a waiter walked up to our table. Even an ordinary person would have doubts, but the opponent was a fairly old foreign man.

There was no problem understanding the Korean language, even though it felt a bit awkward in terms of pronunciation. He bowed his head slightly.

“I’m Yannick Alleno, the chef at this restaurant. If you don’t mind, can I bring you a dessert? Of course, it’s free.”

“Is there such a service in the first place?”

“I would appreciate it if you would consider it as an expression of rudeness for calling Madame Mademoiselle.”

Madame means a married woman, and Mademoiselle means an unmarried woman. In English, it is the difference between Mrs and Miss.

I think Shion was involved…Was it like when you went to the bathroom?

She nodded her head, and Chef Aleno personally placed a plate on our table. Chocolate-colored round spheres are placed in a lump.

Then, the contents were poured over it with the brought kettle. Thick and light brown in color. It looks just like chocolate.

As the chocolate sphere melts, the contents inside are revealed, and ice cream like pure white cream greets you.

“It’s warm chocolate and coconut cream ice cream. I hope you two have a good time.”

With a light greeting, Chef Alleno moved away.

As he moved out of her sight, I asked her sneakily.

“What happened?”

“Let’s talk while we eat. Free is good.”

It shouldn’t be strange since Shion doesn’t seem to be in a bad mood.

We decided to talk while eating.