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No worries. It's a fairly minor spoiler all things considered.

Do pardon me, but the dish throwing hasn't happened yet in this timeline. That'll be next Volume.

I also lean more towards the Ultimate Hotpot. Partially because I prefer that rowdy style of hotpot, and partially because I think it's outrageous the judges are allowing Kaibara to submit the pike conger hotpot even though he can't produce it.

Nishi Kenichiro of Kyo-Aji. His inclusion in this showdown marks the first time Oishinbo has made a real person a recurring character. While he won't be the last, he is the most prominent, especially since this isn't the only time he returns. This appears to be Kariya's way of giving Nishi...

This is a great observation, cause what you've picked up on is the same thing Kurita has noticed in Yamaoka. For a few volumes now, Kurita has been getting less and less sure of Yamaoka's position. She's starting to question if Yamaoka's claims are entirely true, and that maybe his telling of...

When Yamaoka finally explained the full Ultimate Hotpot, it definitely brought to my mind the Chinese New Year's hotpots. We also kinda just put whatever we want (or whatever we have) into the hotpot and eat it like in the chapter. It's a very carefree and bustly dining experience. Even the...

Did I need to show every single ingredient in the Ultimate Hotpot? No, of course not. But I still wanted to.

Absolutely. Hotpot is just the most common one. Pork dishes are fairly popular, like roast pork belly or vinegared pork trotters. You could find roast chicken, roast duck, even fish. Some families observe religious vegetarianism for the New Year's morning, so you'll also find vegetarian noodles...

Kariya was so enamored with Hechikan the person, he seemingly decided to bring him forward in time, just so he can physically interact with his Oishinbo characters. This guy's been writing fanfics way before it was cool.

Hotpot! For diaspora Chinese like me, hotpot is an indispensable component of the Chinese New Year. It's when the whole family gets together at a large table and eats of the same pot. In that sense, the hotpot is actually quite similar to an American Christmas turkey dinner. Fun fact about the...

If it makes you feel any better, I think most Chinese people are similarly hesitant to eat brains like this. I haven't met anyone excited at the prospect of eating brains and most of them see it as a barbaric thing to do, so in a sense, it's surprisingly respectful of Oishinbo to depict it as...

It was definitely an exercise translating all those wordplay-based auspices. Hopefully it came across well. This sort of thing is pretty common in East Asian cultures. Here in Singapore/Malaysia for example, we do something called 'lau sang' (it has many other names) during Chinese New Year...

While I'm here, I'd also like to inform of the upcoming upload schedule. Next week, we will enter a 5-part story, and like the last couple of times this happened, I will be uploading a chapter a day until the end of that story. The upload dates will be as follows: 6 Sep (Sun): Usual Chapter 9...

As a glutinous rice dish, the Japanese mochi is one of the most ubiquitous and familiar across the Anglosphere. So allow me this chance to shine a light on the Southeast Asian (specifically Malaysian, in my case) glutinous rice snacks, what we refer to as 'kuih'. Kuih are like a class of...

If you would allow me this opportunity to talk about my absolute favorite eggplant dish: This is fish-fragrant eggplant (鱼香茄子, yú xiāng qié zǐ). A Sichuanese stir-fried eggplant dish in a starchy fish-fragrant sauce (not made of fish, just made for fish). Often cooked with pork mince. This...

Interesting to think about it in terms of the branching web of life. I haven't eaten sea pineapples myself. I think the furthest animal branches I've eaten are the echinoderms (sea urchins and sea cucumbers) and cnidarians (jellyfish).

...your move, sea pizzas. I do enjoy chapters like these where we explore a rarely-seen food item. It's always nice to learn something new.

I think they meant meat floss, which is a common topping here in Southeast Asia. We call it 'bak hu' where I come from. It's essentially desiccated pork. Very rich in flavor and definitely something you can just eat on rice like furikake.

This was a really fun chapter. It makes me wonder if I have my own shameful food. I probably do, just haven't realized it yet. It also makes me wonder where Kariya got all these other shameful foods. Did he just ask friends and family? Maybe asked around the Shogakukan office? The shameful...

Ah, I could clarify that part actually, hopefully with more delicate language.