The next morning, the interior designer came right after breakfast time. They directed the workers they brought directly to help them with renovating. So the whole day was spent observing the renovating team and giving an idea of how I wanted the shop to be, as I needed the shop to open and run by Sunday.
The day went by so fast and without knowing that 2 days had passed and now it was Friday. The worker had finished the simple remodeling of the shop by painting and rearranging the furniture to adjust it to the current interior vibe. Now the shop had a strong vibe of Korean tradition while also being serene, making one get lost in time just by the relaxing atmosphere.
As the worker had finished remodeling last night, what was left for now was to air out the room as the smell of paint was quite strong.
Now what was urgently needed was a good menu that could complement the shop.
Another thing I needed the most was what kind of menu should I have in the shop. It was because I needed to open it on Sunday at the latest. So, I didn't have time to prepare anything too fancy.
I prepared some of the tea leaves from the packet boxes that I bought several days ago, as I was planning to display the leaves of the tea I could brew in the shop inside a transparent jar and put it on the floating shelves behind the bar counter.
Just as I was focused on tidying up the tea leaves, another translucent window appeared in front of me.
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Quest
Type: Sudden Quest
Menu for Tea Shop
The shop needed a suitable menu, let's try
some suitable drinks and food for the shop's
opening menu!
Objectives: (?)
- Make different types of tea (1/4)
Hot Jasmine tea (1/1)
Jasmine iced tea (0/1)
Hot Green tea (0/1)
Hot Chamomile tea (0/1)
- Make complementary dessert items (0/2)
- Make complementary sandwich item (0/2)
⌛ — 30 hours (01:06:00:00)
Reward:
Exp, 3 System Coins, 10 skill exp
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Oh, another quest?!
Unexpectedly, another quest appeared right before me.
Because of the appearance of it, I checked my quest page on the system again. Turns out multiple quests could happen at the same time.
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Quest
Type: Initiation Quest
The Start of a Tea Sommelier
Objectives: (?)
- Open a tea shop (0/1)
- Serve tea to 100 customers (0/100)
⌛ — 10 days (06:12:34:15)
Reward:
Exp, 10 System Coins, ???
Warning:
Failing to complete the initiation quest
will result in penalties (teleporting into
??? Rank - Dungeon).
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Yeah, both quests were active.
I needed to test the menu for the shop anyway, might as well do it and finish the sudden quest too. Of the items needed in the quest, the easiest was tea and the hardest would be dessert items. So, I took Mom's recipe book to find some recipes that were suitable for tea that could be made in the shops.
I flipped through the pages of the recipe book and found two dessert recipes that looked easy enough and kind of complementary to the tea. It was mugwort rice cake and some Korean tangerine tea cookies. The ingredients weren't that hard to find in a regular grocery store and the steps weren't intricate too, so probably I was able to follow and create a decent result.
As for the sandwich, let's settle for some simple but good ones like the three-colored sandwich and the smoked salmon cream cheese sandwich.
So, I went to the grocery store again to buy all the necessary items for the menu taste test and the opening day too, as I planned to open 2 days from now on Sunday.
After I was done shopping, I went back to the house again. Sadly, I didn't meet Grandma Kim. She wasn't at her house at this time. So I made a mental note to go there this evening to let her taste the menu and tell her about opening day. She might be able to introduce the shop to many people here in the neighborhood.
I directly went to the kitchen to make the items for both the menu test and quest. The first one I made was the rice cake, as it needed to be chilled first. I mixed all the ingredients and started to knead when the dough was done. Once the dough felt nice and smooth, I elongated the shape and then made it slightly flat. I then stamped it with some cookie stamps that were also just bought from the grocery store.
After it was done, I steamed it and waited for about 20 minutes.
While waiting, now I made the dough for the cookies. Mixed some of the wet ingredients including some Korean tangerine juice and rind that fortunately was in season. Then I sifted in the flour and mixed until the dough looked as good as cookie dough. I scooped some of the dough with the scooper and put it on the baking tray. Before baking it, I put some sliced tangerine on top of it and baked it until it was crisp on the outside for about 10 minutes.
The sandwich was easy, as I just needed to prep the filling. For the three-colored sandwich, the green filling was chopped cucumber mayo, the yellow filling was chopped egg mayo, and the red one was ham. The fillings were stacked between some flattened white bread.
As for the smoked salmon sandwich, I just need to mix the whipped cream cheese with some chopped chives and parsley, smother the bread with it, and put the smoked salmon on top of it.
After all the items were created I took a look at the quest to see the progress there.
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Quest
Type: Sudden Quest
Menu for Tea Shop
The shop needed a suitable menu, let's try
some suitable drinks and food for the shop's
opening menu!
Objectives: (?)
- Make different types of tea (1/4)
Hot Jasmine tea (1/1)
Jasmine iced tea (0/1)
Hot Green tea (0/1)
Hot Chamomile tea (0/1)
- Make complementary dessert items (2/2)
- Make complementary sandwich item (2/2)
⌛ — 30 hours (01:02:41:05)
Reward:
Exp, 3 System Coins, 10 skill exp
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Thankfully all the food was acknowledged by the system, all I needed to know was the tea.
I clicked on the skill window with the possible ingredient needed right in front of me, and then another window appeared
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[#1 Recipe]
[Hot Jasmine Tea - Kettle]
Rank E
[Jasmine tea leaves (9/1)]
[Water (1/1)]
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[#2 Recipe]
[Jasmine Iced Tea]
Rank E
[Jasmine tea leaves (9/1)]
[Water (1/1)]
[Ice cubes (0/7)]
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[#3 Recipe]
[Hot Green Tea - Kettle]
Rank E
[Green tea leaves (9/1)]
[Water (1/1)]
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[#4 Recipe]
[Hot Chamomile tea - Kettle]
Rank E
[Chamomile tea leaves (9/1)]
[Water (1/1)]
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So, I clicked every recipe that I hadn't created yet. The hot one was served with the kettle like it was written in the recipe. If it was the same as the previous jasmine tea, the kettle would disappear when all of the tea in it was finished.
I also already expected all of the tea to have a certain buff.
The buff for the iced tea was [Mental Clarity - Critical Hit (2x) (00:05:00)], while for the green tea was [Enhance Mind - Reduce MP usage (00:03:00)], and lastly for the chamomile tea was [Body Strengthen - Increase body endurance (1x) (00:10:00)].
[Ding!]
[Quest Complete!]