[Toriko Episode 24 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Someone once said...
that there is a consommé-flavored waterfall...
that has tender, white, silk-like noodles flowing through it.
A Consoumen Waterfall.
( This is a pun on soumen, a kind of thin white Japanese noodle. )
That there is sand so ravaged by the waves on an island,
that the grains form into shapes just like konpeitou.
( Konpeitou is a Japanese candy comprised of small jagged balls of sugar. )
And when eaten with the added flavor of the sea water, their taste becomes even more sugary.
Under the light of the sun, it is an island that sparkles with every color of the rainbow.
A Konpeitisland.
The world is in the Gourmet Age.
The age of seeking yet-unknown tastes.
Toriko and Komatsu visited the Full Stomach Capital, Gourmet Town,
with the objective of meeting a certain person.
Elsewhere, in order to get their hands on God, the pinnacle of all ingredients,
the Bishokukai schemed to have their Gourmet Cells evolve...
by aiming for the soup thawed from the ice continent.
The person Toriko was meeting with was...
the Gourmet National Treasure and legendary chef, Setsuno.
What will her special menu be!?
Century Soup...
A Time of Dreams!
Setsuno's Century Soup!
It'll take a little bit until the soup is done.
How about I make some Garlic Bird Oyakodon?
( Oyakodon is a dish made up of chicken and egg over rice. )
Really?! Go right ahead, Granny Setsu!
Amazing! She's doing multiple jobs by herself, easily.
But even so, she's doing them all carefully.
No, no, no, that's...
The Setsuno Dining Hall is open!
It's not a hallucination, right, Section Chief Seki?
Okay, why don't we drink some water while we wait, Komatsu?
Thank you very much.
It's delicious! What is this water?
It feels light as air and it goes down so easily.
It's water that sprung from Aqua Mountain.
Air Aqua.
That's amazing! Serving this kind of high class water as drinking water?
I should expect nothing less from the Setsuno Dining Hall.
And the menu is entirely made up of high-class ingredients.
Yeah. Setsuno's Full Course is...
For the Hors-D'oeuvre, Hundred Leaf Clover's Crispy Fried Sesame Tofu.
Hundred Leaf Clover's Crispy Fried Sesame Tofu
For the Soup,
Consomme Magma Stew
Consomme Magma Stew.
For the Fish Dish,
King Land Shark Grilled Sushi
King Land Shark Grilled Sushi.
For the Meat Dish,
Ashurasaurus Roast
Ashurasaurus Roast.
For the Main Dish,
ET Rice Balls
ET Rice Balls.
For the Salad,
Grana Lettuce Caesar Salad
Grana Lettuce Caesar Salad.
For the Dessert,
Oasis Melon Sherbert
Oasis Melon Sherbert.
And for the Drink,
Dohham's Gushing Sake
Dohham's Gushing Sake.
They're all foods cooked with Knocking Master Jirou's Full Course.
Those are all world-class, aren't they?
Supplying the ingredients for my Full Course is quite difficult.
I don't usually serve it.
Not unless I request Jirou-chan to get it.
The camera broke and the scoop got away...
I didn't have one gram of luck with this.
The chief's browsing the Internet for personal use!
He's making people write letters of apology when he's doing things like this himself...
The Setsuno Dining Hall is open?!
It's a scoop!
Department Chief, you did a mountain-sized helping of a good job!
Is that so?
Haven't I seen that camera some...
Hey, that's mine! Wait!
Paradise Rice!
Seasoned Algae!
And it's a top-class kind!
The egg with ten yolks in it! The Ten Yellow Egg!
Isn't this incredible, Toriko-san?!
All right.
Here you go, all done.
Garlic Bird Oyakodon.
Itadakimasu!
The garlicky taste of the Garlic Bird and the sweet flavor of the Ten Yellow Egg...
mixed with moist Paradise Rice, it's an indescribable deliciousness!
Granny Setsu! Seconds, please!
You sure ate it fast.
Let's savor it a little more when we eat.
Anyhow, this oyakodon,
I think I smell a hint of Sesame Chestnut in it.
Quite an attention to detail you've got there!
I added a tiny bit of crushed Sesame Chestnut in my soup stock.
I'm learning a whole lot!
Something like Seven Flavor Herb would go well with that, too, wouldn't it?
That's an interesting notion...
You've got a pretty good palate and good power of observation.
Together with the qualities of a curious power of imagination and eroticism.
No. Well...
Eroticism!?
She means you've got talent for erotic cooking, right?
What on earth kind of cooking is that!?
I see. Komatsu-kun, huh?
There's a child with a bright future ahead of him.
Okay, done.
My special menu,
Century Soup!
This is...
The legendary sou...
Eh, huh?
Um... It's empty, Setsuno-san.
Is its level of transparency so high that you can't see it?
You can smell it, can't you?
Uncountable ingredients suddenly leaped into my head!
All those ingredients are condensed into the soup stock!?
Section Chief Seki!
Why're all these people gathered here?!
Because you wrote about this on your "Seki-tan's Blog" site.
Excuse me. Out of the way, please!
That one mountain-sized serving of a good smell!
Looks like it's getting rowdy outside.
But you can't blame them. They're smelling a legendary soup after all.
Starting with many of this century's best ingredients cooked together for half a year...
and removing all the harsh taste so only the savoriness of the stock remains...
that is the Century Soup.
Now, here you are. Bon appetite.
It's here!
Itadakimasu!
I can't take it any longer...
What a clear soup!
Even though it's transparent like water, there's such a rich taste!
Awesome...
So how's the Century Soup?
Even though lots of different ingredients are packed into the stock, it's not heavy at all.
And the feeling of it going down the throat is refreshing.
I've never had soup like this before!
How 'bout you, Komatsu?!
What's up, Komatsu?
Komatsu!
Ah, sorry.
The taste was so moving that I got immersed in it.
So what'd you think of the soup?
It was earth-shatteringly delicious!
Thank you so much, Setsuno-san for such wonderful soup!
I'm glad to hear it.
The only ingredient in it I knew was Silk Bird remnants, though...
Am I right?
What's this!?
With only a few mouth fulls, he got one of the ingredients!
And there are Mineral Coconuts in it, too, right?
Oh, that's it! I thought there was some taste I knew there.
Just what I'd expect from you, Toriko-san!!
These two...
But... It also feels like something's missing...
You mean with its ingredients?
Toriko, Komatsu-kun.
Please come with me.
I'll show you around my preparation kitchen.
Your kitchen?!
The kitchen's in a different place?!
The tension's getting peta-peta!
Before that, Granny Setsu!
Can we eat the rest of this soup?
And can we eat other things after?
Hurry up.
Now then, just down here.
So there's a kitchen downstairs?
It's my first time hearing about it, too.
The upstairs kitchen is just a place for the finishing touches on the cooking.
My dining hall, the Setsuno Dining Hall, is actually mostly space for preparation.
Amazing!
This is the Setsuno Dining Hall's kitchen?!
Who woulda thought there'd be a place like this in the basement!
This is where you do all the preparatory cooking?!
I think you probably understand, Komatsu-kun.
You could say that the quality of cooking mostly depends on the preparation.
Yes.
This kitchen is underground, so customers can't see it,
but it's the most important place supporting the shop.
Normally only staff are allowed in, though.
Thank you so much, Sesuno-san. For showing us such a precious...
Come on, man.
It's only normal that there'd be living ingredients here.
But I didn't think there'd be wild beasts here!
The Spa Monkey.
It's soaked in hot water with yuzu...
( Yuzu is a Japanese citrus fruit. )
Spa Monkey (Mammal Beast) Capture Level - 37
and preserved at exactly 42 degrees,
creating the ultimate refreshing Japanese style soup stock.
The heat retaining mechanism isn't working right.
And that handle's been a little stuck lately.
Glance.
Out of the way, Komatsu.
( Ni Ren Kugi Punch = 2-Hit Nail Punch )
Uh, do you normally adjust that, Setsuno-san?!
Just who are you, really?
Wait, is this for the Century Soup stock, too?
Not at all.
Okay, wrong again.
Looking closely, all of these are incredible ingredients.
Peach Potatoes!
They say the skin is so slippery that it takes as much time to peel one Peach Potato as it does one taro potato.
They're really hard ingredients to handle.
And that's Gori Scallion!
Their cut ends have an adhesive effect, so if you don't cut hundreds of them, they won't come apart.
I see. The reason Setsuno-san only comes to the restaurant once a month is...
because the preparation takes such a large amount of time.
That's wrong, Komatsu-kun.
Come over here, hurry!
Is there any point to crossing like that?!
There.
U-Um...
Setsuno-san, why is it you only open the shop once a month, then?
I told you, it's the mood.
But when I say "mood" I don't mean mine.
It's the ingredients' mood.
The ingredients' mood?
Komatsu-kun, do you cook thinking that the chef chooses the ingredients?
How presumptuous...
If you think that, you're still only half a chef.
It's the other way around.
The ingredients choose the customers and the chef.
The ingredients do?
Day to day, I only ask how the ingredients moods are.
Whether the shop is open or closed all depends on the ingredients.
E-Even though... you do so much perfect preparation?
I think you'll understand someday, Komatsu-kun.
I'm sure.
Okay, we're here.
This is where the Century Soup is prepared.
It-It's huge!
This is the pot the legendary soup is boiled together in?
I've never seen such a big pot!
Setsuno-san, really, who are you?!
Come on, Komatsu!
Let's climb up, too!
W-Wait for me!
Amaaaazing!
I'm awestruck!
This is the Century Soup with the ingredients still in it?!
I'm surprised. Even before being strained it's this transparent?
That's because it has the lye boiled out of it continuously for a half year.
But to be honest, this soup is still incomplete.
It does have the ingredients Silk Bird remnants and Mineral Coconuts in it, like we thought.
There's Motor Onion in here, too.
What a lineup!
This is awesome, Granny Setsu!
Yes, isn't it?
But to be honest, this soup is still incomplete.
Now that I look closely, there're German Swordfish bones in there, too!
It's said that the strong smell and harsh taste of it doesn't stop for some months!
But it has no smell at all!
Awesome, Granny Setsu!
Yeah, right, it's really awesome.
But the Century Soup...
is still incomplete!
You're slow. Notice this stuff earlier.
What do you mean?
Century Soup is something that originally comes from the natural world.
Really?!
That's the first I'm hearing of it.
A long time ago, Jirou-chan fetched some for me.
Just that one mouthful was so delicious I could never forget it.
This is the soup I made trying to imitate that.
It's plenty delicious already, though...
But you're saying it's still incomplete?
It's not in me to reproduce it perfectly.
But it's delicious, right, Toriko-san?
Beyond delicious.
You're drinking too much, Toriko.
Do you think that the Century Soup in the natural world is...
even more delicious than this?
I wonder.
It's hard to explain that taste,
but Komatsu-kun.
Yes?
When you tasted this soup, you said it was missing something.
Yes.
Right.
That's the feeling.
The real deal needs another something.
And that taste is something I can't figure out no matter what I do.
No, I just said that impulsively.
I mean, I've never tasted the real thing or anything.
Why do you think I brought you two to this kitchen?
Of any country's presidents, wealthy people and gourmets...
not one of them has given an opinion on my cooking.
I've been charmed by you two's sense of taste and sensitivity.
I thought that if it's you two...
it might be possible to make this soup complete.
I brought you here to show you what the components of the soup stock were in detail.
But I... Someone like me can't complete that.
Wouldn't you like to try it?
The real Century Soup?
I wanna try it!
Is that right, Toriko?
How about it, Komatsu?
You wanna try the real soup, right?
Yes! I'd like to taste it!
The time is right!
The Century Soup only appears once every hundred years.
That's why it's called Century Soup.
Right now there's someone in town who knows about that information in detail.
And Bishokuya are gathering from all over the world, wanting to get their hands on the soup.
I'm sure you'd get hired in a heartbeat, Toriko.
Take Komatsu-kun with you and go!
Taste the real soup,
and make a magnificent Century Soup with those hands!
The information we got in town all leads to here.
I'm your newscaster, Tina.
Garlic Bird Oyakodon.
Didn't it make you want to eat it so much?
If I could even just have some rice with egg on it now...
Ah, I'm out of eggs.
But that's okay!
For now, I'll be introducing to you the rice with egg you don't need eggs to make!
Putting milk and shoyu on rice? Seriously?
Well, itadakimasu.
Yuuum!
Whyyyy?!
It has the taste of rice with egg!
It's mountain-sized good!
Seconds!
There's no more?
But I miss the taste of eggs so much...
Granny Setsu!
Now then, on to the next item of news.
It's a gathering place for those that chase dreams.
Men stand up and seek the delicacy that appears once every hundred years.
The Meeting Bar!
The Rivalry of Great Bishokuya!
Next time will be a mountain-sized portion of fun, too!