DIS
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DISGUSTING
Sumire Street Shopping District
Disgusting!
Tomitaya Bento
They don't go together at all...
Yukihira Diner
They're a devastatingly bad match!
Squid tentacles and peanut butter...
I can't help laughing,
it's so disgusting...
Soma.
Your friend's here.
Okay!
Let's do this, then!
Enjoy.
Dig in!
Thank you!
Oh, the cooking battle's on!
So Mayumi's the judge today?
You think...
...today's the day he'll...?
Shh! Mayu's thinking!
This one!
It's over!
Dad wins again today!
Yukihira Soma (15) Grade 9
Soma.
Yukihira Joichiro (38) Yukihira Diner Owner
You still need more training.
Looks like I've lost today.
Say that after you win at least once.
You're probably getting close to 500 losses now, aren't you?
Huh?!
Don't get cocky! That was only 489!
You're still getting close.
Shut up, old man!
His dad's Chinese fried rice is seriously the best!
To think we can eat food this good so close to home!
We're so lucky!
I can't get enough!
B-But yours was really good, too, Yukihira-kun!
I've never had such delicious Chinese fried rice!
Thanks.
I've also got a new dish ready that I just made up.
Would you like some?
Really? I'd love to try it!
It's flame-grilled squid tentacles dressed with peanut butter.
Huh?
Mayu!
Whoa, he's at it again!
He made another crazy one!
Here, dig in. It's so disgusting, you'll laugh.
N-No...
Yukihira Diner
No!
The flavor of the tentacles took a turn in the wrong direction.
It tasted so bad, I felt like my whole body was being groped.
That is what the girl said some time later.
Cooking is an endless wasteland...
A wasteland dotted with flavors both delicious and disgusting.
And I want to walk beyond that horizon.
Shut up, idiot! Walk there yourself!
Hang in there, Mayu! Are you okay?
The squid... The squid is...
Yukihira is always so happy making people eat his mistakes.
If not for that habit of his, he'd be a decent chef.
But the dried sardines
with strawberry jam that I made was still worse, huh, Soma?
Oh, yeah...
Dried Sardines With Strawberry Jam
That was a nastiness of epic proportions.
Right?
But the peanut butter tentacles are worse!
No way! Sardines with jam are worse!
Peanut butter tentacles are worse!
Yeah, with a dad like that, I guess he makes sense...
Mine was worse!
Coin Laundry
Yukihira Diner
An Endless Wasteland
One liver and garlic chives meal.
Could I get the meat and tofu meal?
I'll have today's special.
Got it.
One meat and tofu, and one special!
Got it.
Whew, I'm stuffed.
That was great.
Thanks for the meal.
Thanks for coming!
Thank you for coming!
Soma.
When you're done, kill the flame on the charcoal grill.
I should've shaken the pan three more times for that Chinese fried rice...
I'll be graduating from middle school soon.
After that, I'll be able to study cooking more.
I want to surpass Dad as soon as I can!
Then I'll take over as chef for this restaurant!
Welc—
Pardon us.
It looks like you're still open,
but please forgive us for barging in.
I'm an urban life planner, Minegasaki.
What would you like?
Huh?
Today, we recommend the golden eye sea bream sashimi, and...
No, I'm here today
to consult once more about the plan we discussed the other day.
We'd love to bring this comfortable and luxurious urban apartment building,
designed in the "Garden Residence" concept, to this town—
Oh...
In short, you people are land sharks,
and you want us out of here.
We've heard all this.
Go home.
We have no intention of shutting this place down.
Then...
Minegasaki Yaeko
I'll just leave my card here.
Call me anytime.
But, sir, given the times,
I'm sure it'll grow increasingly difficult to manage a small-scale eatery like this.
I hear many restaurants agonize every day over keeping up their stock.
We don't have that problem.
Is that so?
Yukihira takes the responsibility
Fried Chicken Meal Mabo Tofu Meal Pork Cutlet Meal Mackerel Miso Meal Grilled Fish Meal (salmon, mackerel, others)
Today's Special
of offering the meals our customers want.
Oh, how wonderful!
You're everything the service industry should be!
But if you can't serve what your customers want,
how will you take responsibility?
If that happens...
...we'll gracefully close up shop and go out of business.
You won't take that back?
Yeah.
Then I'll return later.
Dad! The salt! Throw the salt!
Nope. That'd be a waste of salt.
What do you wanna do now?
Hmm... Karaoke?
With what rules, then?
Mayu!
Hey, Dad?
Yeah. You home yet?
No, I picked up some stuff for breakfast.
What's up?
I'm out taking care of some things today.
Yeah? That's unusual.
I won't be home until tomorrow,
so you don't have to open the restaurant.
Okay.
Hey...
What do you plan to do after middle school?
You should know that. I'll study cooking at the restaurant.
I see.
What was that about?
And...
What's so important that he'd close the restaurant for a day?
My dad doesn't talk about himself much.
Now that I think about it, I might not know anything at all
about my dad as a chef.
Huh?
The meat is ruined?
Everything in the fridge is...
A burglar? No, a burglar wouldn't do this.
Oh, my!
Things here appear to be much more in order than yesterday.
Maybe it's because that ugly sign is covered up.
Ah... Somehow I'm in the mood to eat some meat.
That marbled steak I always have in Roppongi is just the best!
The juice just fills up my mouth.
Hey, little boy...
Make me the juiciest meat dish you can make.
Oh? Don't tell me you can't make it.
Your customer is asking for meat.
Can't you serve it?
Little boy, didn't you tell me yesterday...
...that if you couldn't serve a customer, you'd go out of business?
Your sign already looks much better.
It's perfect timing.
You should shut down this restaurant.
A juicy meat dish?
Is that your order?
Swear that you'll never enter this restaurant again,
if I serve a meal that satisfies your palate.
The battle's on!
Lunch Room
Yep, yep
Hmm...
Wait...
You ruined everything in the fridge like we planned, right?
Y-Yes.
We didn't leave a single scrap of meat behind.
I asked you for juicy meat!
What are you making, without any decent ingredients?!
Why?!
How did he...
...make such a perfect...
...pork roast?!
Let me answer that.
This is potatoes wrapped in
the thick-cut bacon I bought for tomorrow's breakfast.
It's "Gotcha" Pork Roast!
Potatoes?
"Gotcha"?
Roast?
That's right. First, I steam the potatoes...
Huh? What's this atmosphere?
Are you making a fool of me?
I told you to serve me meat!
There's no room for negotiation anymore.
Give this restaurant to me!
Listen to me! The chefs who find true success
work in first class restaurants or luxury hotels like the ones I've produced.
This is a failure!
If you ask me, this restaurant isn't even worthy of existing!
Yukihira
This one dish will tell you whether or not Yukihira
is worthy of existing.
Dig in.
Each time I chew,
the fragrant juice of the slow-roasted bacon
pours into my mouth!
You look like you're enjoying that.
Yukihira
This was made at the restaurant you ridiculed.
Shall I tell you the secret of this flavor?
I steam potatoes until they're soft,
then chop mushrooms full of fiber to soak up the oils
and onions to add sweetness, and knead them together.
Then I wrap thick-cut bacon around it,
and roast it slowly in the oven.
That makes the bacon crispy on the outside,
while the potatoes and mushrooms soak up
all the savory flavor and oils of the pork.
And so...
A sensual new texture,
crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside, is born!
A long time ago, when I made potato salad to serve a customer,
I made a mistake in plating it, and meat juices soaked into the potatoes.
That's where I got the idea for this dish.
From a mistake.
So what?
You can't call this a meat dish!
But... I can't...
...stop eating it!
I want to taste more meat juice!
Wh-What are you doing?!
If you want more, promise me
that you won't come after this restaurant again.
What? Who would promise that?
Oh, I see.
Then, it's a waste, but I have no choice.
I'll have to take this, and...
Wait!
I promise! I promise, okay?!
What?
Let me... um...
...have some more, please?
Meat juices!
Hope you liked it!
Yukihira
No matter what happens, I won't let this restaurant go under.
Yukihira is my castle for perfecting my cooking!
Dad...
Looks like something happened.
Nothing important.
I just had a rude customer.
Soma.
For two or three years, I'm going to...
...close this restaurant.
Yeah, you know... I'll have to apologize to our regulars.
Apologize to your son first!
An old friend of mine suggested working together.
Wha—
I'll be living with them for a while,
so I won't be back here.
But you can't just...
Hey, Dad!
As soon as I get my stuff together, I'm leaving.
Wait.
I'll send you some money to live on.
I said, wait!
I always... want this restaurant to...
It's time for you to go, Soma.
Go figure out what you've got.
Cooking school?
Educational Institution Totsuki Teahouse Culinary Academy Transfer Information
Why do I have to go to a school like this now?
It's perfect timing, isn't it?
I'm closing the restaurant, and you can earn high school credits there.
Just go study there for three years.
Paying to learn how to cook is so stupid.
A culinary school is just gonna be like...
Tremble Tremble
Okay, today I'll teach you a dish that you can make nice and easy.
Yes, sir!
Gaaaah!
I failed the advancement test!
Auuugh!
I'm done for. My life is over.
I beg you!
I'll donate ten million, or even twenty million!
Just take back my son's expulsion!
What's going on?
Totsuki Teahouse Culinary Academy
Dad
Oh, I didn't tell you?
That's Japan's top culinary school,
with a graduation rate of less than 10%.
It's a super elite institution.
DIS
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Disgusting!
What a terrible soup!
It tasted like I was peacefully standing under a waterfall,
when a jukebox came crashing down on me!
A jukebox?
That's deep...
I... I'm sorry, Lady Erina!
Honestly... I can't even laugh at this.
Not in the least.
End
Preview
Next time on Food Wars,
the second dish:
Menu God Tongue
"God Tongue."
Please enjoy.
The flavor of those tentacles... It actually felt a little nice.
Peanut butter tentacles...