Totsuki Resort 200 Breakfast Servings Task Hall A
All right!
Fluffy souffle omelette!
All done!
No one's taken a single one of them!
The souffle's... sunk!
That's right!
In a buffet, your dishes won't get eaten right away!
It's totally different from Yukihira,
where you can serve the dish at the right timing and temperature
to the customers' table.
At buffets,
customers decide when they'll come for a dish.
A souffle's texture can only be enjoyed the moment it's complete.
You can't appreciate the dish otherwise...
Crap!
No matter how hard I try,
the souffle sinks before the customers come for the dish.
Shit!
Not to mention...
Nakiri's dish is luring all of my customers away.
Nakiri Erina 200 Servings
Nakiri Erina, 200 servings, complete!
I suppose you understand by now.
In a buffet,
a dish's aesthetic appeal and the longevity of its taste are of critical importance.
In other words,
you chose a dish that is most ill-suited for this task.
It seems I can finally bid you farewell.
Enjoy appreciating my beautiful dish
until you run out of time.
Metamorphosis
The main ingredient is the egg.
Your dish must be worthy of acknowledgment by professional producers and staff.
You must serve more than 200 servings within two hours.
Those criteria for passing the test are not trivial.
Hall B
Now is the moment of truth.
Hall C
This will be a true battle for survival.
Hall D
Hall E
Shit!
I've had no takers after the 150th serving!
Here's some extra!
What's going on?
Okay, no pushing!
I hear she made some more?
After just one customer,
there was so much uproar that she took everyone around from me.
It's not just any egg.
I had no idea her dish held such a secret.
This isn't a raw egg!
The "white" is a gelee made from diluted seawater!
The "yolk" is salmon roe held together with gelatin!
What?!
This may look like a boiled egg,
but the "white" is a white asparagus mousse,
and the "yolk" is sauce hollandaise made from egg yolks!
The rich egg flavor
and the faint bitterness of the asparagus strike a perfect balance!
Then what's this "egg," still in its shell?
This? It's...
She stabbed it?
...a milkshake you drink with a straw.
I injected a milkshake
I made from eggs, milk, and caramel into the empty shell.
I-It's delicious!
Its mildness and the refreshing aftertaste
are a perfect complement to a morning meal!
Altogether,
I call this the Egg Plate in Three Forms.
It's a staggering masterpiece!
Each "egg" contains an entire universe of surprising flavor.
On this single plate...
...the flavors of the sea...
...the forest...
...and the entire land have been concentrated!
Wow!
I want more!
Give me one more!
Me, too!
Me, me!
Please let me have one!
You've got to be kidding me.
At that rate, she'll totally serve over 300.
Takumi Aldini, 200 servings complete!
All right!
Yukihira!
What is he doing?
Tadokoro Megumi, 200 servings, complete!
Phew.
Soma-kun?
Time Left
My lack of sleep is hitting me now...
Erina-sama's taken all my customers, so no one's taking my dish...
I'm finished!
Time Left
Calm down...
Calm down.
Two new customers!
Soma, serve them hand towels and appetizers!
Hurry up and clear Table 3!
Table 4 needs the bill!
That's too much all at once...
Appetizers, right?
Appetizers... uh...
And... huh?
What am I supposed to do?
It's all jumbled up in my head.
I don't know what I'm supposed to do anymore.
Ow!
Oww...
Listen, Soma.
If you find yourself in a panic in the kitchen,
analyze the situation.
Visualize each task you have to do,
and take things from there.
My condolences.
But this is the gap between your skill and mine.
Now do you understand?
Silence...
Uh, what?
Is he... asleep?
I have a little over 30 minutes left.
First, attract customers...
< 1 min
I need just about a minute to cook the omelette on one side,
1.5 min
then another minute and a half to steam it.
How many burners do I have...?
What's he muttering about?
I think I might scrape through.
No way. He thinks he'll get up to 200 servings starting now?
And how does he plan on doing that?
All right!
There's very little time remaining.
His chances are slim to none.
What are you going to do, Yukihira Soma?
Get the first one!
Win over the first customer!
That's step one!
What's this? Wow!
I know what this is!
It's called Eggs Benedict!
Oh...
C'mere!
Here, watch, little miss.
I'm gonna cast a little spell on this egg.
There.
Wow!
Wow, it smells so good.
Here you go!
It's jiggling.
Wow, so delicious!
It dissolved like bubbles in my mouth and vanished.
Isn't that like magic?
Huh? What's going on?
Isn't it just an omelette?
So what if he gets one or two at this point?
It won't change anything.
Here you go!
What?
What is this?
It tastes like an omelette,
but its texture is like a sweet souffle!
Wow!
Hey, look!
The surface is cooked,
but the inside has all these bubbles,
so it's really springy when you press on it with a spoon.
It's really bouncy!
What's going on?
Hey, let's check this out.
Here you go!
Another!
Okay, now I'm starting to get customers.
I'm not going to let this chance pass me by!
He still needs to serve over a hundred!
How's he going to do that in thirty minutes?
Time Left
It's impossible!
Ooooo
The battle's only just begun!
There!
200 servings, complete!
Oh, how disappointing.
I've run all out of ingredients.
I didn't think I'd be serving so many.
Very well.
You may wrap things up.
Thank you!
Bye, bye!
I can't believe that bitch.
She managed 380 servings!
Now I'm bored.
Maybe I'll go check in on Erina.
Oh, come to think of it...
I wonder what happened to him.
Yukihira Soma-kun.
Put the lids on,
and while they steam,
finish prepping the ingredients for the next batch!
He's so fast!
His hands are a blur!
All right!
Beat the egg whites,
then add egg yolks and heavy cream.
Season with salt and pepper...
Seasoning, good.
The batch's just about done steaming.
Plate...
...with special tomato sauce and parsley.
Thanks for waiting!
Hey!
The next booth over looks pretty amazing!
You're right!
He took my customers!
Hall A
Despite the significant workload,
he's ratcheting up the pace as he goes.
Every time he finishes one batch,
he's further optimizing his preparation.
Delicious!
It's melting...
Wow! It's so fluffy!
They're going fast.
The crowd's only getting bigger.
It's attracting more and more people.
There's something called live cooking,
where food is prepared right in front of customers
instead of taking prepared food to their table.
Doing so heightens their expectations for the dish,
and watching ingredients turn into a finished dish is exhilarating.
Wow!
He's churning them out!
He's so fast!
So cool...
Yukihira is attracting his customers
by putting on a fantastic show.
He's entrancing them with his skills and his cooking.
That's how he's turning things around to his advantage.
Hall B
Sakaki Ryoko, 200 servings, complete!
Ibusaki Shun 200 Servings
Yoshino Yuki, 200 servings, complete!
Yay!
Marui Zenji 200 Servings
Yeah!
I passed!
Isami Aldini 200 Servings
I wonder how Bro's doing.
Five minutes remaining!
Time Left
Takumi Aldini 200 Servings
Yukihira...
Tadokoro Megumi 200 Servings
Soma-kun...
Wow.
Yukihira Soma, 200 servings complete!
Time Left
Time's up!
Stop!
Yukihira Soma 200 Servings
What? What's with that smug face?
Barely scraping through is nothing to be proud of—
I'm so surprised!
I thought you'd only manage eight servings at the most!
But you managed to pull through by putting on that circus act!
Huh?
Talk about a final push.
Indeed.
What this task requires
is the ability to envision the situation.
A hotel breakfast, and a buffet at that.
The key is the ability to imagine what kind of dish
such a situation would require in great detail.
And one more thing.
Given that unexpected emergencies constantly arise in kitchens,
there is one ability that is absolutely critical.
He gave himself a huge handicap with his menu selection,
but he overcame it with impressive flair, by using his ability to adapt on the fly.
He's an interesting diamond in the rough.
On the other hand,
Nakiri Erina 407 Servings
there was the student who served 407!
Nakiri Erina was the only student who cracked the 400s.
And there was that student
who used up all her ingredients and served 380.
Still, you'll never win the top spot
if your cooking relies on a circus act like that.
What you need is workmanship rooted in cutting-edge theory,
like my own cooking, for example.
I believe I haven't introduced myself yet.
I am Nakiri Alice.
Nakiri Alice First-Year, High School Division
I'm the one who'll stand above all of you. Remember that.
Nakiri Alice...
Nakiri?
Yes, Erina and I are cousins.
I lived with her until I was five.
Miss, there you are.
Oh, what good timing!
Come!
Explain my upbringing to Yukihira Soma-kun.
Oh...
Um...
Miss Alice is Miss Erina's cousin, and—
I already said that!
Never mind! I'll continue!
My father chose Denmark, my mother's homeland,
as his base of operations when he founded Nakiri International.
It is an all-encompassing gourmet research facility
ranging from research on cutting-edge food preparation techniques
based on molecular gastronomy, to research on cerebral physiology
to clarify the mechanisms behind taste and smell.
I was there until I was 14,
then came to Totsuki...
...to crush Erina
and become number one at Totsuki.
My cooking will never lose to a chef
who only values cutting-edge techniques.
How mean!
You've always been this way!
When I was three, you took my toy.
When I was four, you tasted the cake I made for you, and said...
Disgusting.
Heartbroken
And I'll never forget how,
when I was five—
Wh-What's that have anything to do with this now?
Not to mention you, Yukihira Soma-kun.
You talked big at the entrance ceremony,
but performance arts in food belongs to a bygone era.
As proof of that,
you barely scraped by a task requiring 200 servings.
Heh heh
Yeah, I was really sweating there!
Being ignorant is scary!
I really messed that one up.
But...
I did learn from experiencing failure.
You're more complicated than I thought.
In any case, I won't lose to you guys!
I'll look forward to the time I can defeat you in a direct competition.
Sounds good.
I'll take you on when that happens.
Yes...
Well, until then.
Yukihira!
Soma-kun!
Oh, God! I was so worried!
How can you be so reckless?!
Huh?
Oh, sorry...
This is to those of you who completed 200 servings!
The next task is scheduled four hours from now.
Until then, you are free to do as you wish.
Y-You've got to be kidding!
We can only get three hours of sleep?!
That's right...
The camp...
...isn't over!
I'm finished...
I can barely move my legs...
I want to lie down...
I'm totally spent...
Huh?
Wh-Why are we suddenly being summoned to the lobby?
There's nothing listed on the schedule.
Huh? Wait, the last time that happened...
Don't tell me there's another task like that coming up...
Good.
It seems all of you are here.
Not again!
Before I get into why you're here, I'd like to say a few things.
At this point in time, 352 students have dropped out,
and only 628 students remain.
This may seem cruel,
but this training camp
is a microcosm of what it means to choose cooking as your career.
You'll need to stay calm when facing the unknown,
and commune with your ingredients.
If you become a chef, there will be pressure.
You'll have to endure countless nights filled with anxiety and indecision,
adapt to a wide range of situations,
and overcome those challenges.
This life is akin to wandering alone through a wind-torn barren wasteland.
The more you climb, the more you will stumble,
and the more your goal will become unclear.
Before you know it, you may reach a standstill after reaching the pinnacle
and lose sight of how to return.
But I want you to remember one thing...
Here at Totsuki, you are with others who would tread the same wasteland.
This fact will sustain you once you sally forth and go on alone.
I wish all of you the best of luck from the bottom of my heart!
Now then,
let us begin the final program of this camp.
I knew it!
Welcome!
The final program consists of a modest banquet
to celebrate the conclusion of the training camp.
We will have all of you enjoy
a full-course meal prepared by the alumni.
Let me now say to all 628 of you who survived:
Congratulations for passing the training camp!
Enjoy to your heart's content!
Yeah!
Seriously?!
I can't believe it!
This isn't "modest" by a long stretch!
We're probably the only people in the
whole wide world who can eat something like this.
I'm glad... to be alive...
Marui's finally kicked the bucket!
Please sit down, honored guest.
Thank you.
So good...
Don't cry, Yoshino.
Cooking school?
Educational Institution Totsuki Teahouse Culinary Academy Transfer Information
Why do I have to go to a school like this now?
Paying to learn how to cook is so stupid.
Is something wrong, Soma-kun?
Oh, nah...
Just thinking this school might be more interesting than I thought, after all.
Huh? What do you mean?
Nothing. It's personal.
Okay, let's eat.
Okay!
This year is shaping up to be very interesting with regard to that upcoming event.
Yes. Something to look forward to.
These diamonds in the rough will be facing off against each other in a major event:
the Autumn Elections.
To Be Continued
Preview
Next time on Food Wars,
Whoooosh
the fifteenth dish:
Huh?!
What?!
Menu The Man Called the Demon
"The Man Called the Demon."
So yummy!
I'm going to meet a better chef than me!
Rawr.