Volume 4 Snippet 1.3 (1/2)

Volume 4 Snippet 1.3

Taking the order, first Haruna handed one of each of the sugar soy sauce/miso sticks (one per leaf) to her before pouring lots of sauce on the fairly heated dango and setting it on its own leaf and handing that to her as well.

「Your cooking never skips a beat, lady. One set for me too.」

「Same here. Also, I’d like that meat wrap onigiri you mentioned and curry bread.」

Things always sped up after the first customer came in. In fact, thanks to yesterdays’ achievements, the idea that there was some rare delicious food around here was quickly seeping into the community, with some oddballs showing up to swipe some for themselves.

「It’s strangely soft……」

「They’re a little sticky, so make sure you eat without getting them stuck in your throat.」

Haruna cautioned the customer who had taken their first bite expressing their thoughts. As the dango weren’t really different from mochi, you had to be careful when digesting.

「Everything’s usually salty sweet, but this is on a whole new level.」

「I like this miso flavor.」

「I like the sauce over here」

「Soy sauce is supreme」

「The meat wrap onigiri’s also crazy good. Soy sauce is really something else, eh?」

The food was getting quite the acclamation. Some customers couldn’t quite handle the softness or stickiness, but even they were highly likely to favor the meat wrap onigiri, with an additional approval of soy sauce.

「Lady, I’d like one more round on the meat wrap onigiri！」

「Coming right up~」

Easily selling out the 45 doma meat wrap onigiri, Haruna had managed to carve her footprints in Forre’s rice culture.

The third day was chinese dumplings.

「And here’s another strange one.」

A customer murmured puzzedly at the bread-like item with steam emanating from it.

「How’s this one differ？」

「The inside is different. I can’t describe anything very well other than the curry bun……」

Haruna went into contemplation as the customer pointed at the four different varieties of steamed meat buns.

「The meat bun here is comprised of ground meat and onion with soy sauce added, and the curry bun is practically the same as the curry bread. But I guess it would be a little smaller inside than the curry bread? The pizza bun is made of ground meat and cheese with tomato sauce, and the seafood bun has its ground meat as shrimp with scallion.」

「What’s the price？」

「It’s 20 doma for a piece of each, all around the board.」

「I’d like a meat and a seafood.」

Hearing about the soy sauce base, the male customer chose the meat bun and seafood bun. He appeared to have taken a real fancy to the soy sauce from the day before.

「Then I guess I’ll go for the curry bun and pizza bun. Maybe we could share half of each of ours？」

「Yeah, why the heck not?」

The other man with him ordered what the first man didn’t order, and the first man agreed to his proposal. They both felt they may as well go for all the varieties if the food was to their liking.

「The bread-like material on the outer area is super fluffy.」