"Taste my cuisine?" Mo Bai, who had lost his wits due to inexplicably making Special-Grade cuisine, gradually sharpened his gaze.
"This fellow is unconvinced! Get him!" Little Bai, who had been lonely for the entire cooking session, began clamoring to stir up trouble.
"Are you sure?" Mo Bai sized up Mark.
One had to know that the last guy who tasted his cuisine with an opposing identity had already entered prison singing 'Cool Cool', presumably already starting to feel the exuberant autumn chill crossing over the summer.
"Yes, I want to know where the gap lies between High-Star cuisine and Quasi-Special cuisine." Mark's words revealed his stubbornness.
"Let him taste it. As a chef, one also needs to accept failure calmly," Auxis said. "Moreover, with his strength at the High-Star Chef stage, there won't be any problems."
Mo Bai glanced at Chapelle, who nodded slightly to express agreement.
"Alright then, I happened to make an extra portion of Head in the Blue Sky Squirrel Mandarin Fish Tomato Pasta."
After Mo Bai fetched the pasta from the cooking station, Mark impatiently extended his knife and fork.
"Mmh! This taste!" Mark tasted the flavor of the pasta and immediately initiated a storm-style inhalation.
Watching Mark's expression of eating with intense delight, Mo Bai suddenly covered his face, six black dots sliding down his head.
"He ate my lunch, so what am I supposed to eat? A basket?"
This was very awkward.
In his moment of despair, he saw Bai Zishu curling her finger at him. Her bright and beautiful eyes, and the look of her lightly propping up her chin with a half-smile, made Mo Bai inexplicably associate it with Luo Ziyan's way of addressing Bai Zishu.
The term 'Vixen' was used very appropriately.
"What do you want?"
"Hmm."
Mo Bai: ?!!
What the fuck! Fe... Female hooligan!?
"Alright, I won't tease you anymore." Seeing Mo Bai's face full of fright, Bai Zishu laughed until her branches trembled.
"Do you want to eat lunch?" Like performing magic, Bai Zishu took out a plate of cuisine from who knows where.
King Crab legs, oysters, lobster...
Mo Bai, hungry in his belly, unconsciously swallowed his saliva.
"You aren't playing any tricks, are you?" Since their first meeting, Mo Bai had clearly perceived the aura of a fellow trouble-maker on Bai Zishu.
"How could I? I am sincerely apologizing to you." Bai Zishu's pair of watery eyes revealed a look of grievance, and her already charming voice became so sticky it gave people goosebumps.
"Hehe, using someone else's cuisine to apologize is truly sincere enough." Mo Bai forcefully retorted.
Who am I, Mo Bai? How could I bow and scrape because of a good-looking skin?
Bai Zishu's eyebrows twitched slightly while she fake-smiled, and the silver knife and fork she was handing to Mo Bai underwent severe distortion in her hand.
"..." Mo Bai's extraordinary vision, brought by his LV20 physical fitness, faithfully recorded how these two hard metal knives and forks, totaling two fingers in width, were twisted ninety degrees under the young girl's single fair and slender index finger.
His expression began to vanish.
"Cough cough, I mean—Sister, you are so beautiful, how could this younger brother possibly blame you?" Bai Zishu's increasingly bright smile made Mo Bai's little heart thump wildly.
That was not the collision of love crashing into the chest, but a full desire for survival stemming from biological instinct.
"That's right! It's all that fellow Mark's fault!"
"My Sister Bai has ice skin and jade bones, is a national beauty and heavenly fragrance, sinks fish and makes geese fall, hides the moon and shames flowers, is virtuous and kind, beautiful as a celestial fairy... (Here three thousand words are omitted)." Mo Bai felt he really had to thank his Chinese teacher from his past life. "If that fellow hadn't vainly attempted to have a toad eat swan meat, this shokugeki wouldn't have happened at all."
"Do you really think that?" The unfathomable smile on Bai Zishu's face became increasingly brilliant, and her palm, with skin like congealed fat, lingered around Mo Bai's collar.
It looked like an intimate action between a man and a woman, yet it made Mo Bai's hands turn ice-cold.
Mo Bai felt like a big white goose whose neck was being strangled by fate.
MMP! I said MMP! Did you hear that! MMP!
"That's right! It's all that fellow Mark's fault!"
"No, I'm asking about your previous sentence."
"Pre... previous sentence?"
My Sister Bai has ice skin and jade bones, is a national beauty and heavenly fragrance, sinks fish and makes geese fall, hides the moon and shames flowers, is virtuous and kind, beautiful as a celestial fairy... (Here three thousand words are omitted).
"..." Bai Zishu's sudden drift sprained Mo Bai's waist.
"Sister Bai is a Flying Immortal from Beyond the Heavens!"
After a silence, Mo Bai shouted with a tremor, his eyes filled with hot tears.
I, Mo Bai, never bow for beauty in my life—except for beauty with superior martial force.
"Alright, I won't tease you anymore. Eat."
Luo Ziyan's little gaze looking at trash from the side stung Mo Bai painfully, so he could only turn his grief and indignation into appetite.
What use do I have for this Domain of the Heart's Manifestation! I want to abandon magic and pursue martial arts!
I'll write down this grudge for now!
Mo Bai's resentful eyes met Bai Zishu's line of sight; the former immediately lowered his head and picked up the knife and fork.
"Mmh, so fragrant!"
Mo Bai saw a sea monster-level lobster that had landed on a fisherman's tribal beach from the sea deliver its prawn head after a fierce-as-a-tiger operation, finally drawing the curtains amidst the laughter and joy of the tribesmen roasting the lobster over a bonfire.
Inexplicably, he actually felt a shared sorrow for that sea monster-level lobster.
Perhaps this was the mutual appreciation between fellow sufferers...
Mutual appreciation my ass! Who is fellow sufferers with it!
Mo Bai shook the emotion of the fox grieving the death of the rabbit out of his mind.
"Is this spice with a strong tribal flavor that thing called Za'atar?" Mo Bai clicked open the recipe list in the Little Bai Mall. Although the five newly added recipes showed specific ingredients, the crucial ratios were not listed at all.
In Little Bai's words—"One has to eat eventually, right~"
The term Za'atar originally referred to Lamiaceae herbs like marjoram and savory in Arabic. However, overseas, when speaking of zaatar, it generally refers to a spice combination of the same name. The most commonly used are oregano, the sour Sicilian sumac powder, sesame, and salt. As a popular seasoning in Middle Eastern countries, it frequently appears on flatbreads and breads in Syria and Lebanon, and is also used for seasoning meats, salads, and even yogurt.
Although the name is Sumac powder or Rhus chinensis, it is actually ground from the dried mature fruits of the sumac tree.
"Adding this stuff to the curry? Hmm? He actually also added water used to soak seeds into the baked lobster to add flavor?"
"This Mark really has something." Mo Bai skewered a piece of baked lobster. Without tasting carefully, one could hardly taste the slight sourness hidden within the delicious lobster meat that cut the grease, lifted the fragrance, and enhanced the flavor. "The High-Star dish lives up to its name."
Buried in eating with great pleasure, Mo Bai did not notice the people around him whose expressions were gradually becoming horrified due to his mumbling.
"There's also dessert?"
"Umu~ Not bad." The rich aroma and sticky sweetness of the chestnut made Mo Bai's eyes shine brightly.
"The outer layer of chestnut paste is Taishan Huangpeng Chestnut with a sugar content of 27.25%, the red wine chestnut on top is the Tai'an Thin-Shell Chestnut which is fine, sticky, sweet, and yet not easily broken, and the syrup chestnut in the middle and the chestnut paste in the lower layer are Yanshan Chestnuts from the hometown of chestnuts."
"The ensemble of three kinds of chestnuts that can be called Hua nation famous products; the sweet and sticky melody that changes slightly and inadvertently in an intermittent manner is extremely wonderful."
"Young man, you have quite the eye~"
"You... are correct." Mark's sudden voice scared Mo Bai so much that he jumped up abruptly.
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