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Chapter 64 - Frozen Sea Bream Iceberg

People with anorexia don't really dislike food.

That's because they have lost their true love and dislike for food, it's just a contextual expression of their behavior.

Sometimes.

Looking at food is like looking at an ordinary object.

It seems like it's not for eating, but for looking.

Sometimes seeing food can even make them feel nauseous, disgusted, and completely lacking in appetite.

Like Erina and Mana, they are always unable to get along with food harmoniously.

But that urgent desire to taste the cuisine, coupled with a fear of food, often makes them overly obsessive about something, and even pursuing perfection.

Therefore, in Zane's eyes.

Erina's contempt for common cuisine is completely understandable.

He can go to roadside stalls and eat cheap, ordinary food like barbecue skewers, octopus balls, and so on!

However, Erina can't. She can't do what Zane can, just casually taste those common dishes.

The reason for this might be the influence of Azami's extreme education when she was young.

But more importantly, it's because the God's Tongue cannot be interested in these ordinary foods.

And because of the physical reaction that produces vomiting as soon as she tastes these dishes, it only intensifies her aversion to these foods!

In many people's eyes.

Erina's disdain for common cuisine.

Is simply a manifestation of being capricious, willful, and arrogant.

But only by truly understanding the God's Tongue, and truly understanding anorexia, can one understand that behind all of this, there are reasons that are pitiable!

...

Of course, just like Erina.

Mana, who possesses the God's Tongue, also behaves particularly obsessive and extreme in some aspects.

She once thought that all the food in the world was sinful, evil.

Before, she would walk straight into a cake shop.

But one day, she found that even the food she liked was becoming less and less appetizing!

At that time, even if she realized the seriousness of the problem and started forcing herself to eat, it was all in vain.

Those nauseating dishes, just taking a light bite would feel like countless little insects slowly crawling into her throat, invading her empty stomach, and her increasingly emaciated body!

So gradually, Mana's aversion to ordinary food turned into complete disgust.

She began frantically searching for cuisines that could satisfy her God's Tongue.

But after searching and searching, she finally realized that there was no longer a dish in the world that could completely satisfy her!

Therefore, she was very clear in her heart that when Zane's Comet Fried Rice appeared and successfully conquered her, her mentality would only become more obsessive.

Because she would severely rely on Zane, and love the dishes he made.

Maybe, one day in the future, if she couldn't taste the dishes he made, she would feel unbearable, even more painful than death!

In other words, as much as she used to dislike cooking.

From now on, she would become equally dependent on Zane.

...

"Don't worry."

"Besides Comet Fried Rice."

"I believe there will definitely be many more dishes in the future that will satisfy your God's Tongue."

"If you feel hungry, you can come to the tavern at any time. I will prove it to you with my own actions."

"The only chef in the world who can completely conquer God's Tongue, besides me, is none other!"

Seeing Mana's concern, Zane just smiled faintly and firmly replied.

And after hearing this strong and forceful statement, Mana couldn't help but tremble, looking at him with a burning gaze, feeling somewhat moved.

"Alright, then I'll be looking forward to it."

"I want to see how far your cooking can go under the influence of the God's Tongue."

After speaking, she turned and left the tavern.

Anne was a bit puzzled at the sight.

But she didn't think much. After inquiring about the price of the Comet Fried Rice, she quickly paid the bill.

Then, she hurriedly followed Mana out of the tavern in anxious steps.

In the end.

With the departure of the two, the tavern that had delayed its closing time was finally closed!

...

[Ding.]

[Successfully checked in once.

[Ding.]

[Congratulations, host, for obtaining a new special recipe, Frozen Sea Bream Iceberg!]

"Hmm?"

"It's actually this dish?"

Listening to the rewards given by the system.

It was actually another dish from "Chuuka Ichiban," and it was the Frozen Sea Bream Iceberg, which had the opposite meaning to the Reincarnation Spring Roll. Zane couldn't help but be stunned!

The so-called Frozen Sea Bream Iceberg is, as the name suggests, thinly sliced fresh snapper filet attached to a block of ice.

 In the original story, Leon also made use of a Heavenly North Star Wolf Ice Blade to fully bring out the flavor of the snapper by using the blade's cold air, creating a visually stunning effect! 

If the last Reincarnation Spring Roll was an extremely hot dish, then this Frozen Sea Bream Iceberg is an extremely cold dish. 

This combination of hot and cold, mature and fresh, truly brings out the two opposite extremes to the fullest! 

So in some ways, the deliciousness of this Frozen Sea Bream Iceberg is definitely comparable to the Reincarnation Spring Roll.

Getting this recipe naturally excited Zane. 

But thinking that he had to attend a reception with Sonoka at Shunkatei early the next morning, he quickly restrained his smile, then went to freshen up, and soon went to sleep.

With that, there was no more talk in the tavern!

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Morning.

In a cooking room at the Totsuki Academy that's similar to a laboratory, Alice started preparing molecular cuisine. 

She first separated the flesh and leaves of strawberries, then removed the leaves and cut the flesh into small cubes, adding fine sugar to make strawberry jam. 

Then, she blanched the leaves, added a strawberry-flavored cream sweet wine, sprinkled with powdered sugar, and cooled it down after drying. 

Next, the sliced flesh was placed into a vacuum bag, heated for 10 minutes, then placed into a blender, adding milk, light cream, condensed milk, softened gelatin sheets in sequence, sieved after beating evenly, and allowed to cool. 

It was then put into a siphon bottle, filled with compressed nitrous oxide, shaken, and foamed. 

After shaking evenly, pour into a Dewar bottle filled with liquid nitrogen to obtain an extremely fluffy strawberry ice cream. 

Lastly, after beating evenly and sieving, cooled with ice water, then added ingredients and colorants, poured in strawberry powder, and stirred. 

You could immediately see the strawberry flesh gradually solidifying into a syrup after the water dried, like strawberry syrup. 

Subsequently, a small piece of syrup was taken out, blown into the shape of a strawberry, then cut into small pieces with scissors, and melted under a food warmer. 

Finally, using the method of blowing glass, a strawberry shell was blown to complete the assembly. In this way, the fake strawberries made from real strawberries were completed!

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