Crossover in the Anime World

An ordinary family restaurant opened in the commercial street, run by a family like many small restaurants.

Xingping Restaurant is run by a father and son. The son is a junior high school student, and the father is a master who hides himself in the world.

Duran and Denise changed into fashionable modern clothes, which did not match the atmosphere of the family restaurant. Especially Denise's shining blonde hair, even if she was wearing casual clothes, it made people feel that they should go to a large restaurant in the commercial district, rather than an ordinary commercial street restaurant, which was against etiquette.

There were not many customers in the store, because it was just four o'clock and it was not dinner time yet.

"Two bowls of barbecued pork noodles." Duran said.

"Here it comes."

Seeing such a special guest, the boss was full of energy and wanted to entertain the guests with a powerful delicacy.

There was a clanging sound in the kitchen, and the food was served on the table. Two bowls of hot noodles, with tender and juicy barbecued pork on top, sparkling.

The fragrance was like thousands of troops rushing into Duran and Denise's noses, killing in and rushing straight to their heads.

"Fragrant." Duran praised, picked up the chopsticks and began to taste.

The noodles were very chewy, the barbecued pork was very tender, and the soup was very refreshing. In terms of the standards of a family restaurant, this bowl of barbecued pork noodles can be said to be quite perfect, making the most of cheap ingredients.

"Two guests, this is a snack given by our store. I have newly researched roasted squid with peanut butter. After tasting it, I hope you can make a judgment." The middle-aged boss with long hair took out another plate of strange snacks.

The squid seemed to be the ancient gods descended, and the strange peanut butter on it was like the mud of the long river of history.

It was quite impactful just to look at it, not to mention tasting it.

Duran picked up one and put it in his mouth. The taste was like facing the ancient gods directly. The stickiness of the peanut butter and the toughness of the dried squid were like a set of combined punches, making it difficult for people to resist.

But who is Duran? He is a time traveler, and he has eaten more strange creatures than biologists know. Not to mention dried squid, even if it is really the ancient gods descended, he has to taste it.

"This snack tastes very strange, but peanuts belong to wood, and squid belongs to water. Water can produce wood, so the two ingredients react, and the main taste is covered by the wooden peanut butter. At the same time, water stimulates the lungs, and wood stimulates the liver, which can cause people to have strong liver fire and produce melancholy and separation, so the guests will not be in the mood to taste the food." Duran spoke inexplicably.

"..." The boss heard it and knew that this was the Five Elements Theory in Chinese cuisine. He also studied it when he was young, but it was too mysterious and mysterious, so he did not continue to study it.

Duran did it on purpose, because the world of food is like this. Two chefs compete, you compare ingredients, and others compare creativity, saying that cheap ingredients plus creativity are the best. You compare creativity, and others compare experience. You compare experience, and others compare technology. You compare technology, and others compare will. You compare will, and others compare emotional output. Finally, you compare emotions, and others compare character...

The victory or defeat of food is never about taste, but about something beyond food.

So Duran's evaluation is not about food, but about yin and yang and the five elements. As he said this, he picked up the snack, looked at the narrow layout of the small shop, sat down in the north seat, and continued: "I am sitting in the Kan position of the Eight Diagrams now. This place belongs to water, which can suppress wood. Take another bite."

Duran ate it and smiled and said: "It's delicious."

"Delicious?" The boss knew that this thing was a test product, and no customer said it was delicious. Could it really be related to the customer's seat? "There were customers sitting in this position to taste this test snack before, and they didn't say it was delicious." The boss asked.

"The changes of the five elements are very subtle, not only related to the direction. You come to see me, look at my expression, look at my emotions, and look at my sitting posture. In order to strengthen the water, I listen to the ingredients with my ears, stimulate the taste of the ingredients with fear, think about the ingredients with wisdom, eat with a half-sitting and half-standing horse stance, and even increase the secretion of saliva. In this way, there is no unpalatable ingredient, hahahaha..." Duran was full of absurd words.

"..."The boss was dumbfounded. Is this eating? It feels more exaggerated than the chefs in the kitchen, saying: "The guests only need to eat, and the chefs should be responsible for cooking. If everyone is as complicated as you, then the guests will not be able to eat at ease. It's too demanding to calculate the five elements and eight gossips one by one."

"No, no, no, I can make bad food delicious, and I can also make delicious food into supreme delicacy. I should promote it to every guest who likes to eat. Because there is no bad food in this world, only guests who don't know how to eat."

"I can't agree. I think this should be the chef's responsibility to explore the mysteries of the world of ingredients and study the wonderful harmony of the five flavors. If the guests can turn bad ingredients into delicacies by themselves, what do we need chefs for?" As a chef, the boss believes that the chef is responsible for cooking and the guests are responsible for eating, and they cannot violate etiquette.

"If a chef can understand the mysteries of the Five Elements and Eight Diagrams, he can make the food taste better."

The boss said: "I also studied it when I was young, but the Five Elements and Eight Diagrams are exaggerated and not that powerful."

Duran said: "It means you are not serious. Your cooking skills are still at the most basic level. You have not yet risen to the abstract realm and have not reached the realm of concepts."

"Sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty are all based on matter. Just like giving you a handful of salt, you can't use the five elements and eight trigrams to conceptually turn salt into sugar, nor can you turn ordinary beef into Wagyu. I'm afraid your theory can't change matter. At most, it can change your mentality. It's a psychological suggestion, psychology." The boss is also a genius chef, and he has a wide range of knowledge, including psychological cooking. He improves the five senses of the guests through suggestion, so that the guests can eat better food.

"No, no, this is the real technology. The chef can improve his cooking skills if he masters it, and the guests can eat delicious food if they learn it. The five flavors are harmonized, following the southeast, northwest, center, gold, wood, water, fire and earth." Duran said.

The boss stopped talking. There was no need to argue with the guest. The other party was obviously not an ordinary diner. It's just that I don't know what the other party's purpose is in coming to the store.

When the boss was young, he was also a great genius chef, world-famous, and a legend in the food industry. Just because he was tired, he came to this restaurant and met the daughter of the restaurant owner, and married into the family. From then on, he became the owner of this small restaurant, and he spent more than ten years in peace and stability.

But this kind of peace was broken by a phone call from an old friend some time ago. Maybe someone knew in advance that I was going to return to the culinary world, so they came to provoke me.

"Guest, may I ask your name?"

"Duran." Duran said: "Why, your restaurant still checks ID?"

"That's not the case. The chef never cares about the identity of the guests. If the guests want to eat, the chef cooks. It's that simple. But something happened recently, and I have to be careful. I wonder if the guests know the "Yuanyue Academy"? "

"Yes, it is a training base for noble chefs, a place dedicated to training chefs who can overcome the powerful. Chefs are very important to nobles. Not only can they make delicious food, but they are also a guarantee of safety. There are too many chefs who have influenced the world since ancient times. In ancient times, Yi Yin and Zhuan Zhu, who hid the sword in the fish, can be said to be assassins who can't cook are not good chefs, and chefs who can't assassinate are not good assassins." Duran said: "Actually, I am an assassin, or a chef for short."

"Sure enough." The boss knew that the other party must be a chef, otherwise he would not come to his store to talk at length. This is the intuition of the chef, and the chef will attract the chef.

"What do you mean?"

"You are here to pick a fight." said the boss.

"No, I am not. My wife and I are here to eat." Duran said, "By the way, I am going to open a store in the commercial street. When the time comes, I will inevitably have a price war with all the stores. You will cook with your heart, and I will cook at a low price. It depends on whether the customers care about their mouths or their wallets."

"Interesting, I accept the challenge." The boss was originally planning to close the business for three years, but before closing the business, he could still fight one last time to defend the glory of the commercial street.