Chapter 605: Chapter 465: Armpit Sushi
"Hastur, what would you like to eat?" Chen Ze wiped his hands, feeling a bit odd about cross-dressing in the evening, but since he had promised Hastur, he naturally didn’t have much of an objection.
"Um... I’ve heard that there’s something called sushi in Japan, right?" Hastur looked at Chen Ze, resting his hands on his chin, with a cute and clueless expression.
"That’s right, there is sushi. Why, do you want to eat that?" Chen Ze was not surprised, considering Hastur could read memories and had read those of a famous voice actor.
"Not exactly, but I heard there’s something called ’maiden’s armpit sushi.’ Manager, do you know about it?" Hastur blinked her big eyes, while Chen Ze’s mouth twitched.
Chen Ze seriously suspected that Hastur was doing this on purpose. He hadn’t really heard of "maiden’s armpit sushi," but he knew that rice balls made under the armpits of a beautiful girl existed, and supposedly they sold quite well.
"...That... I do know about it, but are you sure you want to eat something so bizarre?" Chen Ze looked at Hastur with a skeptical eye.
He even wondered if Hastur had not read the memories of that voice actor, but instead some perverted otaku, because eating armpit sushi seemed to require a certain mental fortitude that Chen Ze thought most would find rather difficult to muster.
"Exactly how is that thing made?" Hastur asked another question.
"Are you sure you don’t know?" Chen Ze looked at Hastur, deeply suspecting that she was just pretending, given that she knew the name and, as a shop owner, it would make no sense not to look it up.
"Yeah, I’ve been super busy lately~" Hastur acted cutely.
"...." Chen Ze rolled his eyes, now certain that Hastur knew but was pretending not to.
"Hehe, if the manager doesn’t know, it’s fine." Hastur smiled.
"Who said I don’t know? I just don’t want to use Betty’s armpits to make that thing," Chen Ze said blankly, looking at Hastur; she was clearly playing him.
"Eh? Manager, what are you going to do with my armpits?" Betty felt very innocent, getting shot out of nowhere.
"It’s none of your business." Chen Ze said somewhat speechlessly as he looked at Betty and then back at Hastur, who was laughing quite happily.
"So, Mr. Hastur, what do you actually want to eat? If you are so fond of perverted dishes, I can make you something like golden nugget cuisine," Chen Ze said to Hastur, asking once again.
This time, Chen Ze decided not to dwell on it; if Hastur dared to ask, Chen Ze wouldn’t hesitate to serve those perverted dishes right up.
"Then, let’s go with curry pork cutlet rice, and also bring me some authentic fish roe sushi, salmon sushi would be fine too." Hastur toned it down a lot, she certainly didn’t want to eat any armpit sushi, nor did she have that kind of interest. freewebnovel.cσ๓
"..Alright then." Chen Ze felt a bit disappointed; he thought Hastur would be more direct, but instead, Hastur changed her mind at the last minute.
When he returned to the kitchen, Chen Ze began preparing what Hastur wanted to eat today. Curry pork cutlet rice was naturally the easiest to make, and he cooked it very quickly. Before long, it was ready, and he had Betty take it out.
"Oh, and add a matcha cake to the order; it’s a giveaway," Chen Ze remembered the nine hundred and ninety-nine matcha cakes sitting in his warehouse. These things still needed to be given out quickly.
"Got it, Manager," Betty nodded, then happily scurried off, her little tail wagging behind her.
"This gal seems to be in a great mood today," Chen Ze watched Betty’s retreating figure, feeling a bit curious.
But then Chen Ze stopped worrying about it and decided to start on the fish roe sushi that Hastur had ordered.
There are two ways to make fish roe sushi, one is naturally with fresh roe, and the other is with caviar. Chen Ze hadn’t bought roe before, so he took out the caviar, planning to use it to make a dish of fish roe sushi.
"Tsk tsk, what was I thinking when I decided to buy something so expensive?" Chen Ze looked at the small box of caviar in his hand and shook his head, deeply questioning whether he had been out of his mind to purchase such expensive caviar.
Caviar, particularly sturgeon roe, is considered the best, and the most expensive caviar can even cost up to twenty thousand US dollars for a box, and there are even some specific ways to eat it.
That is, to scoop it out with a non-metallic spoon and then place it on the back of your hand before eating it. However, Chen Ze had researched this way of eating and hadn’t found it validated; he guessed it was just some fancy method invented by pseudo-aristocrats wanting to showcase their noble air.
Actually, even if you’re eating the most expensive caviar, the best way to eat it is simply to use a non-metallic spoon to scoop it up, with no need to place it on the back of your hand.
But Chen Ze wasn’t so fussy about it; in his view, this caviar was just a little fuller in the grains and tasted slightly better.
However, Chen Ze himself couldn’t really enjoy it; he found the taste of caviar a bit strange and felt that he preferred shrimp.
"Well, that means this fish roe sushi is now ready," Chen Ze wiped his hands, having arranged the sushi in sets of two on a plate, making the preparation quite simple.
Next, it was time to make the salmon sushi. But compared to fish roe sushi, making salmon sushi was even simpler, easier than making curry pork chop rice, so Chen Ze finished it in no time.
"Betty, come and serve the food," Chen Ze clapped his hands in satisfaction, finding sushi production quite straightforward.
"Right away, Manager," Betty promptly slipped in, but after serving the dishes, she came back.
"What’s up?" Chen Ze looked at Betty, feeling a bit puzzled since he had already made breakfast for her too.
"Um... Manager, I was wondering if you have a certain type of fish?" Betty looked at Chen Ze somewhat sheepishly.
"Fish? What kind of fish?" Chen Ze quickly went through his inventory in his mind; he indeed had fish, even quite a lot.
However, it still depended on what type of fish Betty was asking about, as there were some that Chen Ze didn’t have.
Being an inland city, Sun Moon City isn’t close to the sea, so transporting some marine fish there can be troublesome. Plus, Chen Ze hadn’t specifically sourced from coastal cities, so if Betty asked for bluefin tuna, Chen Ze really wouldn’t be able to produce it.