Shiji: taste bud reversal

159. Children's 'Creativity' [2nd Update]

"Chuangzhen... Kohei Soma?" Hearing the child in front of her mention her opponent, Alice immediately became interested, only to see that she immediately picked up the carrot on the table, and used her superb carving skills to decorate it, and soon, a carrot robot that looked extremely beautiful appeared on the cooking table.

"Oh, sister, you're so good!"

When Shota saw Alice's 'masterpiece', his eyes immediately lit up, "Can this robot give it to me?"

"Take it if you like. Alice waved her hand very generously, she had a lively personality, and she seemed to get along well with the bear child.

"Thank you!" Shota happily put the robot made of carrots in his lunch box, but in this way, the already not spacious space suddenly became more narrow, he frowned and pondered for a moment, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he went to the lecturer to ask for a higher lunch box "Three-Eighty-Seven" and brought it.

Alice watched his movements curiously, only to see that he carefully placed the robot at the bottom of the bento box, then covered the layer and placed the rice on the top layer.

"Why do you want to decorate it like that?"

Alice suddenly asked, "Wouldn't it be better to put it on top and put it on the plate?"

"Hehe, that's not bad, but..."Shota touched the back of his head a little embarrassed, "I really want to surprise Keita, if you see it directly, won't you have that feeling of 'surprise'?"

"Keita?"

"That's my brother!"

Alice nodded, touched the head of the little boy in front of her, and said, "What a good brother." "

After finishing speaking, she muttered quietly, "If only Erina could be so frank..."

While the progress was going well, there was movement in the direction of the other children, and Alice came behind the next little girl and saw that she was stuffing food into the rice balls that she had never seen before.

"What is this?" Alice, who had seen this plastic packaging for the first time, leaned over to take a look, and the little girl smiled proudly and patted her chest.

"This is a coarse snack, the taste is sweet and sour, much better than the umeboshi, if you put this in the rice ball, it will taste very good!"

"Coarse snacks?" Alice looked at the bags of things with different flavors and shapes, picked them up and checked the ingredient list, maltose, flavors... Looking at the contents again, from the most normal round shape, to the shape of a starfish, to all kinds of animals, it really has everything.

"I want to make a bonto full of surprises to take home, so I have to make something ordinary on the surface!"

The little girl said as she rubbed the rice balls hard, although Alice thought her technique was very clumsy, but for a first-grade child, it was normal to be able to do this.

"I see... Coarse snacks... It's something I've seen. "

The more she looked at the children here, the greater the surprise in Si's heart.

When she saw that the children studying here were all children, she thought that they should not be able to make any decent 'bento dishes', after all, it is good to be able to 'look' at the age there.

However, the strange cooking ideas made Alice feel a little surprised.

For example, the 'bento' dish that looks like a huge rice ball and the abundance of ingredients to give a sense of discovery are added to it, or the method of using an insulated box to intercept the temperature of miso soup, although it looks clumsy, every child seems to be very happy.

Compared with the 'bento' cuisine in her cognition, it is simply a child's prank, completely messy.

But I have to say that such an idea looks quite interesting.

It's up to diners to find hidden ingredients and new ways to mix them... This is something that no other kind of cuisine can do.

Because of her perennial exposure to foreign cutting-edge technology, Alice is particularly puzzled about this, which of the two is more important, the fun and taste of 'bento'?

There is no doubt that taste is a prerequisite for a dish to attract diners.

On top of that, the character of the bento, which is the 'fun' that is full of the producer's energy, is also an important factor in the completeness of the cooking.

The 'taste' bento is just like the quick bento that was placed in the convenience store near the station, and it is just a soulless third-rate dish, and it may have a beautiful appearance, but that can't hide the fact that it is an industrial product produced on an assembly line.

Not to mention the 'bento', even if you take it out as a different kind of cuisine, it won't feel out of place in the slightest, because it's the same taste, whether it's eaten after work, eaten on an outing, eaten as a supper, or sold in a store... There's nothing wrong with that.

As soon as she thought of this, Alice suddenly recalled her previous thoughts, there is no doubt that when she first heard the topic of 'bento', her mind was how to combine the 'molecular cooking technique' that she is good at with the theme of 'bento', and her understanding of 'bento' was limited to 'cold food', and she wanted to make 'bento dishes that can cause a sensation' rather than making 'the best bento'0.........

If she continues to try to make dishes according to this idea, the dishes she will serve at that time will definitely be a kind of food that can make use of cold air such as 'sushi', and although she is absolutely confident in the taste, it can already be regarded as a kind of 'assembly line cuisine', but the cost of making it is higher, and it is difficult to make unless you have a lot of knowledge of molecular cuisine.

And if you add the flexibility of 'bento culture' to the taste...

It's not just a simple assembly line product!

"Looks like you've figured it out. "

Just as Alice was deep in thought, Shiraki's voice came from the side.

"Shiraki-kun?"

"Yesterday, because Ichishiki-senpai came to us for help, I, Kohei, and Megumi all came here for a day as temporary teachers, teaching these children how to make fried dumplings. Shiraki looked at the bear children who were constructing their own dishes in front of the cooking table and said, "Because we are children, we have a different understanding of cooking from our perspective, but maybe we had the same mentality when we first learned to cook." "

"Is that why Shiraki-kun brought me here today?" Alice asked softly.

"It's not. Shiraki shook his head, "The reason why I said that you are at a disadvantage in this 'theme' is not because your understanding of 'Ben 5.2 When' is one-sided, on the contrary, it is completely feasible to completely conquer the judges with taste, but your biggest problem is that you don't see Kohei's strength clearly at all, if in tomorrow's competition, all you can get your hands on is 'taste and form', then you will definitely lose in the first official selection." "

"Compared to him, you lack the most important 'practical experience', and this is precisely the reason why his cooking intuition is higher than yours, and Kohei has the 'wisdom of the set-time house' is much more powerful than you think. "

"The reason why I asked you 'the difference between bento and other dishes' is precisely because Kohei definitely thought about this in advance, and you didn't think about it further, in fact, if you have similar 'experience', you have no problem understanding 'bento' at all. "

"So, when you shouldn't, don't wave. "_

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