The price of a dish.
It is closely related to the ingredients, production costs, and also to the chef's skill and experience.
A dish must go through multiple steps and stages, and each stage requires the chef's careful operation and control.
Therefore, the chef's culinary skills directly determine the quality and taste of the dishes!
In short.
Good ingredients.
If there is no good chef to prepare them, their inherent value is wasted.
And ordinary ingredients, in the hands of an excellent chef, can turn decay into magic, astonishing people!
Yes!
Undeniably.
The ingredients used in Zhang Fan's dishes are all very common!
Logically speaking, the price should not be set very high.
But in Erina's opinion, with his excellent culinary skills alone, the dishes he makes can all be listed as "sky-high dishes"!
…
"Not making money!"
"I really don't know what you are thinking?"
Seeing Zhang Fan's serious expression, with no hint of joking, Erina was only puzzled!
But he is the Shopkeeper, and how to price the dishes is his business; she, an outsider, couldn't say anything. Moreover, even if she argued with him on this matter, how much sense would she be making?
"Hisako."
"Please help me pay this 5000 yen."
"I'm a little tired!"
"I just want to get back to Totsuki Culinary Academy quickly and get some good rest!"
Then, after calming herself down slightly, Erina turned to Hisako beside her and said faintly.
"Okay."
"Lady Erina."
Hisako was slightly startled, then quickly reacted, and immediately followed Erina's instruction, taking 5000 yen from her pocket and handing it to Zhang Fan.
"Zhang Fan."
"Your dishes."
"Although they satisfy me, they still can't move me."
"Because the culinary philosophy you adhere to is completely different from mine, you and I are destined not to be on the same path!"
"I will use my actions to prove that in the future culinary era, only noble cuisine can lead everything. And your dishes will be completely eliminated and annihilated in the tide of the times!"
After speaking, Nakiri Erina, with a determined gaze, turned and left this Izakaya.
This trip brought her many unexpected gains.
She never thought that she would go to Spring Fruit Pavilion Western Restaurant tonight to sample dishes, and by a strange coincidence, she would meet Zhang Fan. Moreover, she witnessed that there really are dishes in this world that can conquer the God Tongue!
And this kind of dish was the commoner cuisine she had always despised the most!
"Thank you!"
"Our Lady."
"It's been a long time since she ate so happily like today!"
Seeing that Erina actually got up and left.
Hisako quickly thanked Zhang Fan.
Then she hurriedly followed closely behind Erina, leaving this Izakaya with her!
…
"Using beef."
"How much easier would it be to directly make beef burgers?"
"But you didn't choose to do that; instead, you used cheaper toast to make beef patties."
"And the ingredients for the fries themselves are very simple, just potatoes, but you actually used Tofu residue to make them."
"Once or twice, I can still understand!"
"However."
"Even that chocolate brownie."
"You used rice bran that even a dog would shake its head at."
"This makes it very hard not to suspect if you are doing this on purpose?"
At this moment, seeing that Erina had finally left, Kobayashi Rindo, who had not yet departed, said to Zhang Fan with a meaningful tone.
"What do you think?"
Zhang Fan, hearing this, just smiled mysteriously.
"Heh!"
"I knew it."
"With your ability, you can completely use more precious ingredients to make noble cuisine!"
"Although at first, I was very unsure if you could conquer the God Tongue with your dishes. But I had always been looking forward to it, and firmly believed that you could make dishes that would amaze everyone!"
"As a result, the three Western fast food items you made."
"Although they ultimately satisfied Erina, they still left me a little disappointed!"
"Clearly… you could have done better!"
Looking at Zhang Fan's "slouchy" demeanor, Kobayashi Rindo could only roll her eyes at him in exasperation.
She truly couldn't understand why Zhang Fan would go to such lengths to create these dishes in front of Erina!
…
"Everything."
"Must surely have winners and losers, good and bad."
"And the key difference between noble cuisine and commoner cuisine often lies in the ingredients."
"For Erina, who possesses the talent of the God Tongue, she naturally has extremely high demands for the freshness and taste of ingredients, so it is understandable that she despises commoner cuisine."
"But over time, she will, due to her cognitive bias, completely embark on a path of no return!"
Zhang Fan continued.
"So you want to help her in this way?"
"Tsk tsk tsk!"
"I didn't realize it, but you're quite a good person!"
Taking a sip of fruit wine, Longdan seemed to understand, and couldn't help but smile slyly.
"Huh?"
"She's not related to me, why would I help her?"
"The reason I want to use this method is just to see this high and mighty, tsundere noble young lady."
"Being ruthlessly stimulated to climax on the spot by the dishes I made with various cheap ingredients, and then using that to satisfy my desire for conquest, that's all!"
Zhang Fan was startled, then shook his head, and said truthfully.
"Pfft!"
"You… you…"
"I didn't expect you to have such a wicked side."
Upon hearing this, Kobayashi Rindo directly spat out the fruit wine in her mouth and began to look at Zhang Fan with a stunned expression.
She had just been thinking that Zhang Fan was actually such a great person.
That he would actually think of using his own methods to help Erina, who had gone astray, return to the correct path.
However.
She never expected it!
He just wanted to conquer her God Tongue in the way that would make Erina most uncomfortable!
Hmm!
That's all!
…
In fact.
Erina is a very stubborn person.
And interestingly, whether it's Zhang Fan's popularized cuisine or her high-end cuisine, these are different worlds and different eras' understandings of culinary art!
In Erina's eyes, even the simplest ingredients cannot make a dish that satisfies her.
But in Zhang Fan's view, Erina's noble cuisine is actually very boring, because both the ingredients and the cooking methods must strive for perfection!
But what good is even the most perfect dish?
Only dishes that the public can freely enjoy are true dishes!
Perhaps.
On such a controversial matter.
No one is right or wrong!
But today's encounter will completely change Nakiri Erina in the future, which is also an undeniable fact!