My Restaurant's Guests are All Abnormal

Chapter 267: Chapter 127: The Soul-Stirring Meal

"Manager, this is Mr. Stan’s payment for the meal. I’ve put it here~" Betty placed the bag Mr. Stan left on the table, then left.

Chen Ze, curious, picked it up to take a look. Menma and Suki Umita’s dishes were already prepared and had Betty serve them, so now Chen Ze could take a long-awaited break. ƒгeewёbnovel.com

"What’s this?" Chen Ze was a bit perplexed because what lay before him was a rather unique little jar.

The jar wasn’t large, it could even be described as somewhat small. Chen Ze estimated that it was roughly the same size as a can of Coca Cola.

Out of curiosity, Chen Ze took it out and unscrewed the jar to have a look. Inside was a light brownish-yellow viscous liquid that emitted an enchanting aroma.

Chen Ze took a chopstick, dipped a little into his mouth, and then instantly realized what this thing was.

"Honey?" Chen Ze was very surprised. It was the first time he had tasted honey from another world.

Unlike Earth’s honey, this honey was even sweeter and left a lasting aftertaste. Chen Ze had only dipped a little, but he felt his mouth was filled with honey flavor.

Chen Ze couldn’t help but lick his lips. He had never tasted such delicious honey before; no wonder Mr. Stan said he would definitely be satisfied.

Now that he had such magical honey, Chen Ze could start considering making some delicacies with honey.

"Then let’s make some honey-glazed barbecued pork... Eh? Wait a minute, if I can make honey-glazed barbecued pork, why don’t I just make that dish?" Chen Ze suddenly thought of a particularly good dish, one he had always been eager to try.

Chen Ze still remembered when he was young, watching TV with his parents and seeing Stephen Chow starring in "God of Cookery," and the Glutton’s Delight Rice that Stephen Chow made at the end of the movie had harvested Chen Ze’s salivation.

It also made Chen Ze quite fond of ordering beef balls, even if they only tasted like ordinary beef balls, he would still choose them.

"Ah, the Glutton’s Delight Rice... I remember it required barbecued pork and barbecued pork sauce, then I’ll pair it with a fried egg and some greens..." Chen Ze nodded, certain of the method, wondering if he had remembered it correctly.

Rice, a fried egg, and greens were not a challenge at all. Chen Ze felt that the key to Glutton’s Delight Rice was the selection of barbecued pork, and now, with such delicious honey, making a tasty honey-glazed barbecued pork should be no problem.

"Let’s start marinating the pork first, and meanwhile get the seasonings ready." Chen Ze clapped his hands and began making the honey-glazed barbecued pork.

"Oh my, this dish is just too amazing!" Menma held her face with a blissful expression. Such delicious cuisine, simply heavenly.

"Menma, eat slowly." Suki Umita watched Menma with a concerned face, now basically aware that Menma was not just his hallucination.

This also meant that Menma did indeed appear before him as a spiritual body, even if it was a grown-up Menma, it was still Menma.

Although he had tried to find his old friends, he believed only Poppo believed him, the others must have thought he was mentally troubled...

The thought made Suki Umita instinctively clench his chopsticks tighter. He didn’t care what others thought of him; as long as Menma stayed here, stayed with him, that was more than enough.

"Umita, you should eat faster, the food here is really super delicious!" Menma urged, pushing Suki Umita’s shoulder.

"Alright, alright, alright." Suki Umita looked at Menma’s smile, his thoughts becoming even more resolute.

If Menma’s wish came true, then she would become enlightened, and an enlightened Menma would disappear, right?

Suki Umita scooped up a spoonful of rice and ate it, his emotions becoming more tangled. He didn’t know whether clinging to and entangling Menma like this was a good thing or a bad thing for her.

Chen Ze set aside the marinating pork, all the other seasonings were nearly ready, and now he just needed to wait for the pork to finish marinating; otherwise, Chen Ze wouldn’t be able to start making the God of Cookery’s Transcendent Pork Rice.

"How nice it would be if I had those legendary kitchen utensils from ’Young Chef’ that speed up the processing of ingredients. Then I could cook even faster," Chen Ze smacked his lips.

Some dishes can’t just be made whenever you want or even if you know how to make them; they require time for fermentation or marination.

Take, for example, Huaxia’s ancient Daughter’s Red, which was buried in the ground from the moment a daughter was born, with time casting its magic within, exchanging the parents’ years for the beautiful wine at the moment of her marriage.

"I’ll go home after selling these takeouts tomorrow," Chen Ze propped his chin, watching Menma and Suki Umita outside.

"I wonder what my mom and dad would feel if they knew I had a vampire girlfriend," Chen Ze chuckled; it would sure be interesting, but he still had to let the two old folks see for themselves, otherwise they probably wouldn’t believe it.

"Manager, check, please," Suki Umita waved, and Chen Ze came out with a beaming smile.

Chen Ze didn’t ask for much. The world where Suki Umita and Menma were was basically the same as Earth, so Chen Ze didn’t request any ingredients but instead accepted a thousand yen.

Chen Ze personally thought this was a very appropriate amount. Although Suki Umita was somewhat reluctant to part with the contents of his wallet, he still paid Chen Ze for the meal.

"Menma wants to go back to sleep in," Menma tugged Suki Umita’s hand.

Chen Ze glanced at her; it was obvious that Menma still hadn’t revealed what was on her mind, and Chen Ze was also well aware that unless he intervened, Menma’s fate was sealed.

"Manager, do you think this is good or bad?" Betty, while cleaning up the tableware from Menma and the others, suddenly asked.

"It’s good, I guess." Chen Ze looked at the banknote in his hand; clearly, it would probably just end up gathering dust in Chen Ze’s cupboard.

"But they are still going to separate..." Betty sighed. She, along with Alisa and Lindsay, had gone to see Director Hastur’s ’Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day’ and had cried their eyes out.

When Menma had come in earlier, Betty, who had rewatched the anime, barely held back her tears, though she managed to control herself.

"People always leave." Chen Ze returned to the kitchen, his spirits dampened by Betty’s remark. Humans are such emotional beings.

A bunch of dark lines appeared around Chen Ze, looking particularly downcast.

"When the dawn light pierces your chest, I wish to utter the most enduring of confessions..." Chen Ze sighed and then opened the lid to check the pot. Good, the pig tails weren’t ready yet.