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It still bugs me that Hans doesn't wear a hat, or even just a headband, to keep his hair out of the food. Don't they have restaurant inspectors in Japan? I mean, they should be about due for a visit by the Health Department.

Travel times. We are accustomed to traveling across a continent in hours by air, days by land. And so to not hear from someone for a week when they're expected to return from a visit is alarming (they should have given him a business card at least). But to the isekai people, travel takes a lot...

You must make an original dish. Today's theme ingredient is . . . MILK! Allez cuisine!

Rubber bands. I know they use tomatoes often in isekai stories, and Aitheria is known for potatoes, but these are definitely "New World" products, as is rubber (latex blobs were investigated by the British, and they were found to be useful for removing pencil marks by rubbing, hence the name...

Some of the business-oriented stories here remind me of Spice and Wolf

Nobu's might use Panko in their tempura prep, which would be impossible to create in the isekai. Panko is made from bread cooked in a unique way using electricity. I think that a current is run directly through the dough to give crumbs made from it the unique 'crystalline' texture and...

Truck-kun strikes again? But that's doing it the hard way . . .

Shinobu always seems like a nice and friendly waitress, but at times she goes full-on as the heiress of a big restaurant family. Her authority cannot be denied.

Some reincarnated overworked salaryman who has come to live a slow life in the countryside?

In the first chapter Hans makes much of the lavish use of plate glass in Nobu's door. He assumes that such an expense indicates an expensive restaurant with a high-class clientele, despite the location by the stables-district. There are a number of things like this that one might consider in an...

Black and red lacquered boxes. Clearly for this occasion they didn't go with a local box, but instead got Japanese ones.

Chapter 29 of Izakaya Gen has the gourmet minstrel poet mention Izakaya Nobu by name. The last page of that chapter also has a convenient map of the continent with the locations of both Gen and Nobu in their respective kingdoms!

I recall in one installment there is a listing of mysterious restaurants that have appeared and disappeared in their world. The spy agencies were tasked with researching them. It's a surprising number. I hope that the disappearances were not at the whim of a kami, but perhaps because the...

Pastries and coffee are the raw materials of creativity

Megane-ko is very cute!

Thank you. I was unaware of the distinction (don't hit me. I'm just ignorant!)

Hans will need to go on the chef's equivalent of a "martial arts training trip" where he will visit dojo across the continent and overseas to learn new techniques. They might learn that there's an island nation with familiar soy-based ingredients like miso and shoyu, and he will go there to...

The daytime crowd reminds me of the grilled eel bento episode.

Embarrassed Shinobu is very cute there.

So, the local versions of Nicholas, Hans, and Berthold, plus some other guy. The betrothal negotiations in the Imperial Capitol at Nobu's was a really fun arc.