Chapter 962: Three-Meat Rice Bowl

"Gulp~"

The implicit threat in Broly's words made Yae Minezaki involuntarily swallow her saliva.

"Although I am a real estate developer's person, I won't be hypocritical about delicacies either; I won't say something delicious tastes bad, and likewise, if it truly tastes bad, I won't surrender under strong fists either."

"Rest assured, if our opinions differ afterwards, you only need to take me to a place you think has better dishes, and let me eat something more delicious than this."

"A word settles it."

"Of course."

Getting Broly's guarantee, Yae Minezaki only then relaxed slightly; she was truly somewhat afraid of clashing with this tall, sturdily-built fellow before her who was unreasonably so.

"It smells quite fragrant, but ultimately it's merely superficial; how could something like this possibly—"

Yae Minezaki speared a piece of the cut bacon mashed potato, and the moment she put it in her mouth and bit down, this real estate developer young lady's originally unwavering expression stiffened somewhat.

The bacon mashed potato, baked in the oven, had a crisp shell texture on the outside, emitting a crisp cracking sound when bitten into, while the inside was soft, delicate mashed potato.

"How, how is this possible? It's clearly just mashed potato, why would it have such a rich meat aroma, and within the soft mashed potato, mixed with a springy, chewy texture, how does that work?"

Coming back to her senses, Yae Minezaki quickly finished eating the bacon mashed potato piece on her fork, then began asking questions.

"The potato itself has a light taste, but its ability to absorb flavors is very strong; the meat flavor comes from the smoked bacon, and after being roasted in the oven, the bacon fat gets fully absorbed by the mashed potato."

Soma Yukihira didn't stint on giving an explanation either.

"Then what about the springy, chewy texture inside the mashed potato?"

"King oyster mushrooms; king oyster mushrooms pan-fried in oil have roughly that kind of texture."

The one answering Yae Minezaki this time was Broly; although he doesn't eat king oyster mushrooms much, Bonnie from the Akame ga Kill World likes eating various fungi and mushrooms, so he isn't unfamiliar with the texture of this mushroom ingredient after being oil-fried and cooked.

King oyster mushrooms are also said to be the "meat among vegetables."

"How about it, how is the taste of my cooking?"

Soma Yukihira glanced at Broly, then asked Yae Minezaki.

And Yae Minezaki bit her lip with her teeth, not giving an answer immediately.

"What is it, Miss Yae Minezaki, is this a very difficult question to answer?"

【Nonsense, if I directly answer that it's delicious, how would I still come persuade you to close shop, sell the store and land afterwards?】

"Since that's the case, then how about this, Mr. Broly, you taste it too."

Soma Yukihira took new cutlery, personally cut a piece of bacon mashed potato, and handed it to Broly.

Broly didn't stand on ceremony either, directly taking it, and his mouth was large enough to directly put the whole piece of bacon mashed potato into his mouth.

"The bacon is salty, fragrant, and rich; the mashed potato has a buttery milk aroma; the slight spiciness of black pepper enhances the flavor without stealing it; this bacon mashed potato is very delicious. Hmm, I've tasted at many restaurants, but those that can make potato this delicious are still comparatively rare."

Broly didn't stint on his praise, and while giving this evaluation, he had already taken the knife and fork from Soma Yukihira's hand, cut another piece for himself, put it in his mouth, and chewed.

That appearance of eating in big mouthfuls made the three black-clad bodyguards subconsciously swallow their saliva, and Yae Minezaki, who had eaten the bacon mashed potato, couldn't bear it even more.

"Stop, I admit it's very delicious, you bastard don't eat it all up, leave me a mouthful, this is a dish I spent money to order!"

In the end, Broly ate most of the bacon mashed potato, and Yae Minezaki only snatched back a small half, but even with only a small half, she ate quite satisfied.

"No, although it's quite delicious, there's no need to loosen your collar, looking like post-coitus, collapsing by the table, right?"

Looking at Yae Minezaki with a satisfied expression, collapsed sitting on the ground, Broly had a confused look.

"Well, sufficiently delicious food can indeed sometimes make people unable to help themselves, a bit carried away."

Soma Yukihira tidied the dining table at the side, tidying while explaining.

"So, this is a normal phenomenon in your world?"

Broly pointed at the woman whose clothes were slightly disheveled, looking like she had been drugged, and asked.

Yae Minezaki left; she was carried away by her three black-clad bodyguards.

Broly pulled out a chair and sat down: "Boss, can you still make me something good to eat?"

"I'm afraid that won't work; the bacon meat in that dish just now counts as the last meat ingredient in my family's restaurant; now if you want me to make you something to eat, I can probably only make you cold salad, or simple dishes like charcoal-grilled squid jerky, dried small fish."

"That works too."

", Customer, you really want it?"

"Is there rice to go with it?"

"Of course, I'll go cook it right away."

Soma Yukihira entered the back kitchen and started washing rice to cook.

After pressing the cook button, he started burning charcoal.

Clamping out the fully burned charcoal blocks, placing them in the charcoal stove, this young man took out the shop's dried goods.

A piece of squid jerky about the size of a human face, and some dried small fish the length and thickness of a normal person's pinky finger.

The dried small fish went straight to roast, while the squid jerky needed some processing before roasting.

"The squid jerky surface has some salt frost; during the sun-drying and storage process, it inevitably gets contaminated with some dust invisible to the naked eye, therefore it needs to be washed.

And in order for the roasted result not to be too hard, the squid jerky also needs to be soaked in warm water for a bit, about ten minutes, just let it soften slightly.

Hmm, can't soak too long; if soaked too long, the texture will become mushy, losing chewiness."

Soma Yukihira discovered Broly peeking at his processing of the squid jerky, so he spoke up to explain the reasons for his processing method.

"I see."

Broly nodded.

"Does the customer like eating sour?"

Soma Yukihira asked.

"It's okay."

"Then I'll clip a few for the customer, our family restaurant's homemade salted plums."

Placing the processed squid jerky on the charcoal stove to roast, Soma Yukihira turned back to the back kitchen to get things.

Soon after, the boy came out holding a glass jar.

Opening it, a very obvious plum fragrance wafted out.

Rich and complex with a salty taste, plus a unique fragrant aroma mixed in.

"Our plums, during the pickling process, have a certain amount of perilla leaves added; the aroma of these leaves mixed with the plum flavor smells very good, though eating them plain is a bit salty, but as long as you add a little white sugar to neutralize it—"

, saliva forms in the mouth, drool almost flowing out, Broly's throat gulped several times.

"Use chopsticks to pick up a little at a time, place it in the middle of the tongue and savor, yet it has a very good appetizing effect."

Broly did as told, using chopsticks to pick out a bit of plum meat, putting it in his mouth to savor; in an instant, the plum fragrance, salty taste, sweetness of white sugar, and the unique fragrance of perilla leaves bloomed in his mouth, Broly's stomach growled, truly quite appetizing.

"Is the rice ready?"

"Need to wait two more minutes, and the squid jerky isn't grilled yet."

Soma Yukihira sat on a low stool, picked up a palm-leaf fan and fanned the charcoal stove.

The charcoal stove temperature rose, and the moisture on the surface of the squid jerky was quickly roasted dry.

"By the way, Customer, do you like the squid jerky plain or barbecue flavor?"

"Is there a difference?"

"Plain is just dry roasted directly, barbecue flavor requires brushing oil, then sprinkling cumin powder and chili powder afterward."

"Only children make choices; I want both of these two flavors."

"Fine."

Soma Yukihira wasted no words, found kitchen scissors, and cut the squid jerky in half.

Half dry roasted, half started brushing oil.

"Ding~"

The rice was cooked, and the dry-roasted squid jerky was also done.

Soma Yukihira served Broly a bowl of mounded rice, then tore the dry-roasted squid jerky along the grain into thin strips by hand.

After plating, he placed the rice and torn squid jerky in front of Broly, then brought over a small dipping dish.

"Here there is soy sauce and mustard; eating the dry-roasted squid jerky with these two has a unique flavor."

Broly nodded and eagerly started eating.

A bowl of mounded rice only supported him for five seconds before disappearing into his mouth.

The soy sauce and mustard taste was a bit strong, making Broly's nose snort twice.

"Rice, one more bowl."

Soma Yukihira: "—

Is this rice-eating speed for real?

"Customer, eat your rice slowly, watch out for choking."

Soma Yukihira persuaded him a sentence, then took the empty bowl to serve rice.

And after the barbecue-flavored squid jerky was grilled, the rice had already been finished by Broly.

Looking at the empty rice cooker inner pot, Soma Yukihira was somewhat dumbfounded.

Just now, he looked at Broly's physique and cooked extra rice, even cooking his own dinner for tonight together.

But now, not only was the rice eaten up, the Customer over there also wanted a refill.

【Where on earth did this rice bucket come from, isn't his stomach able to hold too much?!】

His gaze involuntarily looked at Broly's still flat abdomen.

"What's wrong?"

Broly chewed the barbecue-flavored squid jerky strips, noticed his gaze and asked involuntarily.

"No, just, the rice is gone."

"No rice left?"

"Not exactly, just need to cook again."

"So I have to wait another half hour?"

"Mm."

"Then fine, by the way, Soma Little Boss, if I can get some meat, can you help make some dishes?"

"That's certainly fine, but the fresh supermarket closest to my home restaurant is quite far, and I need to clean up the back kitchen now, so I'm afraid I can't go purchase."

"It's fine, I'll go buy it myself, Little Boss just needs to exchange some money from this world for me."

Broly exchanged gold coins for over ten ten-thousand-yen bills, took the hand-drawn route map Soma Yukihira gave him, left the restaurant, and went to find a place to buy fresh ingredients.

Purchased chicken, beef, pork and other meat ingredients at the supermarket, found an empty alley nearby to take off, then landed, in less than ten seconds, returned to the front door of Yukihira Diner.

"Sorry, the restaurant is not open for business today."

Soma Yukihira cleaned up the mess in the back kitchen, heard the commotion outside, and directly shouted a sentence.

", then I bought meat back, wouldn't that be a waste of effort?"

Hearing the familiar voice, Soma Yukihira quickly poked his head out from the back kitchen.

"It's you, Customer, you actually came back so fast?"

Looking at Broly holding several plastic bags in his hand, Soma Yukihira's face showed a surprised expression.

In less than ten minutes, the person was back, somewhat beyond his expectation, this couldn't be directly taking a taxi back and forth.

"Mm, I'm very much looking forward to eating your meat dishes."

Broly nodded and replied a sentence.

"But you bought so much, can you really finish it all?"

Soma Yukihira looked at the somewhat bulging bags in his hand, and couldn't help but doubt.

"Rest assured, that bit I just ate has pretty much already been digested by me; what comes next is the real meal."

"Alright, but you might have to wait a bit."

"What's the matter now?"

"Processing meat ingredients always takes some time."

"I can help you prep."

"That's against the rules; where have you ever seen a customer come to a restaurant to eat and still have to help the shop boss prep?"

"But I want to fill my belly quickly."

"Then, alright, um, Customer, do you know how to cut meat?"

"Of course I do."

"Then you wash the meat ingredients clean first, then slice the beef into thin slices, chop the pork into minced meat with fat and lean alternating, debone the chicken and take the meat; of course, if you can't debone, that part I can do."

"Not needed, I know how to debone."

"Alright, then it's all up to you, Customer; remember to be careful with the knife."

Soma Yukihira nodded and began preparing the ingredients for the three meat dishes.

"By the way, what cooking do you plan to make?"

Broly poured the meat into the washing trough, asking curiously while washing.

"I'm preparing to make three kinds of rice bowls."

"Which three?"

"Beef Rice Bowl, Pork Hamburger Black Pepper Sauce Rice Bowl, and Boneless Yakitori Rice Bowl."

Soma Yukihira answered while slicing onions, and these onion silks were to be used on the first two rice bowls; as for the yakitori, it still needed some large onion segments prepared.

"Alright, the needed ingredients on This Side I've already all cut; your side's meat that hasn't been processed yet, you can hand over to me to process————"

"Not needed, the different meats, I've already processed them all according to your instructions.

Soma Yukihira, who had cut the ingredients and turned back preparing to help process meat ingredients, saw Broly wiping the already washed clean Kitchen Knife with a white Towel.

And on the Plate in front of the other party, were respectively placed the deboned chicken Bones, the boneless chicken pieces cut into chunks after deboning, the pork turned into minced meat, and the already sliced, even plated beef slices.

Soma Yukihira walked over quickly, directly pinched up a piece of freshly cut beef, and could actually see through from one side to the other.

Good grief, it directly transmitted light; to describe it as thin as cicada wings would not be an exaggeration, and moreover, every single slice was like this, extremely even, and this still isn't the main point; the main point is this thing appears to be fresh meat that hasn't been frozen.

Normally speaking, frozen meat is a bit easier to cut; fresh meat that hasn't been frozen isn't impossible to cut, but to achieve the degree of thin as cicada wings,

even and uniform, an Ordinary Person absolutely cannot do this.

What's more, this much was cut, at least seven or eight jin in quantity, and even, the other party still had time to debone the chicken, chop the pork into minced meat.

【Wait, deboning and cutting meat is one thing, but just now I seem not to have heard the sound of chopping meat?】

"Mr. Broly, are you also a Chef?"

Soma Yukihira had many doubts in his heart, but ultimately when they reached his mouth, they turned into just this one question.

"I'm not a Chef, I do security, just know a bit of cooking skill."

Broly answered honestly.

"With your knife skills level, I'm afraid even a top-tier Chef's knife skills cannot compare to you."

"I've trained."

Hearing this, Soma Yukihira realized, no wonder then.

"Next, leave it to me; I won't let your such good knife skills go to waste."

Soma Yukihira unwrapped the Bandage on his hand and tied it on his head, as if promising something.

Broly also didn't know what the other party was fired up about, but still handed over the subsequent cooking ingredient matters to the other party.

【Pork mince add seasonings stir in one direction until elastic, divide into 100g portions of meat patties, middle thin edges thick, put in oven to roast————】

【Chicken add cooking wine remove gaminess, add salt season base taste, and large onion segments skewer, put on charcoal stove, make grilled chicken skewers————】

【Onion silks sauté fragrant, add fatty beef rolls quick stir-fry until color change, pour in prepared sauce, medium-low heat cook two minutes let beef absorb flavor————】

Twenty minutes later, Soma Yukihira placed the three Large Bowls of rice bowls made with different meat ingredients in front of Broly: "Customer, Three-Meat Rice Bowl complete, please enjoy slowly!"