Tokyo life starting with painting

Chapter 72 This is indeed edible

The restaurant where Konoe Ryoka brought Higashinoji and the others was called Washokutei.

In Japanese, ‘Tei’ also means ‘restaurant’, which translated means Japanese restaurant or Japanese restaurant.

The door of this restaurant is very short, only about 1.9 meters tall.

In fact, the doors of restaurants in Japanese Sakaya Street are basically this short. Unlike the Chinese who are grand and elegant, the Japanese are more compact and delicate.

Konoe Ryoka opened the navy blue curtain with ease and walked inside.

This small restaurant called Japanese Pavilion covers a small area and has yellow tiles. There are only three tables on the right side of the aisle, and they are all single tables that cannot seat two people. It's a bar counter with low dining chairs placed next to it.

Obviously, this is a bar-style restaurant, where the chef prepares the food behind the bar and hands it to the guests after ordering.

There is also a menu written on white paper at the top of the bar.

The grilled fish set is 700 yen, the BBQ set is 750 yen, and the sushi set is 700 yen.

Feeling the chic home-like atmosphere in the restaurant, Higashinoji seems to be able to understand the mood of Inokashira Goro in "The Lonely Gourmet".

The so-called shop-finding on the street corner is probably this kind of state of mind, right?

Discovering delicious food in the seemingly intricate streets of quaint wine houses is what countless gourmets long for.

No wonder the title is "The Lonely Gourmet". Perhaps many people were infected by Inokashira Goro's semi-travel-like mood of not being disturbed by others, so "The Lonely Gourmet" was able to achieve results in the previous life. ?

But it should be more than that.

Each episode of "The Lonely Gourmet" begins with Inokashira Goro dealing with difficult customers, similar to a chat format.

Although the characters of the customers in the TV series are deliberately exaggerated mainly to add laughter to the audience.

But Inokashira Goro was struggling to deal with these strange customers. This also reflects the true portrayal of Japanese overtime workers who are busy in Tokyo and face all kinds of difficult parties.

What do you mean by ‘colorful black’, ‘first like this, then like this, and finally like this? ’ This is a familiar requirement for Higashinoji.

After all, some parties are really unreasonable.

"I kind of understand Inokashira Goro's mood," Higashinoji murmured to himself.

Then he heard Yumi Takahashi's curious inquiry next to him: "What's the best food? Lianghua?"

"Huh? I don't eat here often," Konoe Ryoka said sheepishly.

She was just about to explain something more.

Then Tonoji saw the chef uncle coming out of the back room, with a happy face when he saw Konoe Ryoka: "Hey, Miss Ryoka is here for dinner again? You haven't been here for two days. What I'm worried about is the salt roast. The mackerel thing?"

This too familiar way of greeting made Higashino couldn't help but glance at Konoe Ryoka again.

Konoe Ryoka's face was already red, and she nodded silently to the chef, indicating that she would just do it as usual.

Then Konoe Ryoka turned back and whispered to Takahashi Yumi: "The boiled fish set here is very delicious, but I prefer the salt-grilled version."

"Oh! Then boss, please give me a boiled fish set meal."

Takahashi Yumi raised her hand and gave instructions to the chef in white chef uniform.

"Okay, I understand, I'll prepare it for you. I wonder what the other two want to eat?" The chef asked Higashinoji and Fujiwara Aoi as he started to prepare.

Higashinoji thought for a moment and decided to order the same salt-grilled mackerel set meal as Konoe Ryoka.

After all, Konoe Ryoka is a frequent visitor here, so it’s definitely a good idea to follow her.

Fujiwara Aoi on the other side thought about it and ordered a barbecue set meal.

The four of them sat down and waited for their food to be served.

Fujiwara Aoi still looked worried, and would glance at Konoe Ryoka from time to time.

Attracted by her reaction, Tonoji glanced at Konoe Ryoka while drinking the thirst-quenching barley tea brought by the shopkeeper.

Then Tonoji was stunned.

Although Konoe Ryoka still looked the same, he could clearly feel that the other person's eyes seemed to be shining.

The so-called hungry wolf who saw meat is probably her current image.

However, considering that she still looked so limp, Higashino subconsciously crossed out the word wolf and replaced it with husky.

"Teacher Higashino."

Seeing that the food was about to be served, Takahashi Yumi also whispered: "I think you should pay more attention to Lianghua. She is really like that. Anyway, you can tell by looking at the two lumps on her chest, right? Nutrition." They’re all in the right place.”

Higashinoji responded with a smile, and then the food tray came up——

The first is Yumi Takahashi’s boiled fish set. The cod is cooked until the sauce is oozing with yellow sauce, and the surface of the snow-white fish meat is slightly burnt. It’s a good time to taste it.

Moreover, the store manager also sent side dishes and mushroom miso soup. The miso soup smelled fragrant and the soup was quite rich, which looked good.

Higashinoji nodded. Fortunately, the small shop recommended by Konoe Ryoka felt pretty good.

Next is Aoi Fujiwara's BBQ set meal. The small plate contains BBQ meat with light butter stains on the surface, and a carefully prepared dipping sauce next to it.

It looks delicious.

Higashikata was satisfied.

And then

Then Higashinoji saw the chef bring out a cooking plate.

"This is the grilled mackerel set meal."

The oil-stained surface is browned, and the mackerel body is cooked just right. Lemon and grated radish are placed next to it, which makes people's index fingers wide open.

But--

Higashinoji looked surprised: "Are there so many?"

Yes.

Isn’t this too much?

There are four pieces of mackerel alone, and there are various side dishes on the side, such as spinach mixed with sesame seeds and boiled hijiki.

The most important thing is the job.

Why is it so big?

Touyesi glanced at it and felt it was half as big as his head.

"Huh? Oh, this is not for you, the customer. This is specially provided only for Miss Lianghua."

The chef laughed, handed the cooking plate to Konoe Ryoka, and explained to Higashinoji: "Ms. Ryoka is really amazing. She looks so cute when she is small, but she has a really big appetite."

It seems they have a good relationship.

Konoe Ryoka's face was red and she didn't answer anything. She took the bowl and whispered, "I'm ready," and started eating.

"This is yours, guest."

The chef brought out Higashinoji's set meal.

This time it was more normal. It was just a wooden dinner plate with grilled mackerel body on it. There was only one fish, unlike Konoe Ryoka's bowl, which had four fish.

Higashinoji looked at the grilled mackerel set on his plate, then at Konoe Ryoka's grilled mackerel set, and then touched his head in confusion.

This is indeed somewhat edible.

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