Isekai de Café wo Kaiten Shimashita - Vol. 1 Ch. 1

[MangaDex]

 

[Askun]

the last bit... Isn't it to rude??..... that the worse moment to end the chapter...

But rather than drop this immediately.. i think i may considering this after reading the next chapter..... and give this a second chance.... ?

 

[pratomoastan]

well she said it tough :v
about the food :v

 

[pratomoastan]

@Askun em why do you want to drop it ?
isn't this a good one ? ><

 

[MangaAddict69]

Oh man, I loved that last page.?

 

[southaccel]

Oh boy, it's another japan food is the best episode

 

[riflow]

I like the premise of this manga but I really hate the way they've gone about it, usually there's a charm with these other worlds in that the food is good (if they're in a nobles place) or fine (commoner) not just literally.... The worst thing ever. Or like maybe it's not enough for the main because they want the taste of home.

Missing your food or wanting to introduce new recipes or the like is less just.... Insulting? Than literally assuming a magic filled world (at about our modern living standards no less) wouldn't be capable of making very well used old recipes in a western setting.

And I see that snipe at the UK. ? I don't know rubs me up the wrong way. Will keep reading regardless though.

 

[Fuko]

Ironically this is what happens when you go to Japan.

 

[killercool]

another japan food is the best episode

Weelll, it will probably end up going that way, but from personal experience...

The skyline shown in the "went traveling" flashback at the beginning of the chapter looked like London, at least to me. And, traditional English food... It's terrible. Boring, bland, horridly greasy (meat pies - just meat, fat, and pie crust). Or cloyingly sweet. Modern, updated versions can be good, but the traditional ones are pretty bad. But as a tourist, I (and the people I've talked to about it) tend to hunt for stuff that we think personifies an area. Historical food, so to speak.

It's so weird, since so many Scottish (haggis), Welsh (sausages) and Irish (champ) traditional foods are much more interesting. Lots of Indian and Asian food, too. So, it's not a "British" thing, it's an "English" thing.

*Edit*

Thinking about it, in the West, we tend to take for granted the abundance of herbs and spices that, until the expansion of the New World and colonization of the Far East, just weren't available. But they've been in use in Asia and India for thousands of years. Realistically speaking, if a person really did transmigrate to a European-styled medieval culture, the food would be (relative to modern tastes) terribly bland and boring. Even black pepper, which is in (literally!) every kitchen, came from India and was prohibitively expensive for a long time.

 

[redpandamaniacal]

From what I've heard (and seen sold in stores), it's relatively common for Japanese people to bring instant food (soup, ramen/yakisoba, or whatever) when traveling abroad. There's sort of an aversion for some folks to eating the local food, perhaps. Not sure if this is in part a result of nationalism.

Personally, I think the main draw of going to new places is eating the food there.
Even in England I've had some occasional good tasting food.
(Cadbury makes great candy though.)

 

[Askun]

@pratomoastan .. Well ... is just the mix feeling i have after reading this.. i want to know what going to happen but at the same time.. i don't really want to know.. cause... idk.. feel like every comedy manga i read just made me cringe instead of laughing...

Yeah i'm weird right ?...

i mean that last bit... supposed to be made ms laugh.... right??

 

[furopoi]

RIP british people

 

[Chet31]

Hah wow. That is one awful way of doing things. I sympathised for a few pages with the MC when she got tp'd and reacting like a normal person to the circumstances. Then its the way they deal with food culture which is just awful to a point of me being borderline scrapping this, like Askun said.

Also, British pub culture+food is beyond god damn amazing.

 

[boag]

@Fuko Japanese cuisine forded 1 mirrion times!
@Askun its beyond rude, they a grown lady in, clothed her, fed her and provided shelter without asking her to become a maid or something.

 

[Harry_Dong]

@killercool
Thinking about it, in the West, we tend to take for granted the abundance of herbs and spices that, until the expansion of the New World and colonization of the Far East, just weren't available. But they've been in use in Asia and India for thousands of years. Realistically speaking, if a person really did transmigrate to a European-styled medieval culture, the food would be (relative to modern tastes) terribly bland and boring. Even black pepper, which is in (literally!) every kitchen, came from India and was prohibitively expensive for a long time.

You're absolutely right. I think it's fair to say that the accessibility of things were very different in the past, and likewise in a fantasy setting based off a similar time period. An example that I can think of on the top of my head would be when the British couldn't get enough of that sweet sweet lemonade imported Chinese tea (teas which contributed to the deeply ingrained British tea-loving culture) that they flooded the country with opium to get the Chinese addicted, which eventually led to the opium wars--all just so they wouldn't have to pay them in silver... Or that time when they went to war again when their expensive teas were dumped into the Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party, escalating into the American Revolution. Like many teas, spices, and other unique products grown in a certain climate, they just couldn't be produced as easily in western countries, and were considered expensive luxury goods in the past, rather than the commonly accessible and affordable items that we tend to take for granted nowadays. One should not underestimate the power of food and culture, or people's willingness to fight to the death for it. Wars were literally started over it (or at least the trade of it), and some trade wars are still on-going today. I doubt this manga will go that in depth though, but the slice-of-life cooking is still good enough on it's own.

 

[ultraleaf]

this first chapter felt like before the first chapter prologue or something

 

[Nozomi]

"Tasha" is actually a short version of "Natasha", which in turn is an affectionate or diminutive for of Natalia iirc ... while the short versions for Anastasia I have seen are "Stasia" [pronounced STAY-zha] or "Nastya".

The tl notes showed the characters literally spelling something like "Shia" ... kinda interesting to see how they got to the name sound....

 

[GodGinrai]

This chapter needs some more proofreading. I saw multiple grammar mistakes and as @Nozomi pointed out, "Tasha" is not short for Anastasia. (it would have been better to just leave it as Shia than to make it a completely nonsensical nickname)

As for the story, I think it could be decent. I just hope the food she introduces is not just tons of Japanese dishes. I dislike that the food is somehow gross; There's no way that with that level of magitech that they would not have the freedom to experiment in cooking.

 

[crazybars]

This manga is setting up some European situation that never existed in real life. No spices equal bland food? Really? Have you actually been to Europe Author?

Where's the cheese, dairy based foods, the sausages, pickled foods that real Europeans eat? Yes no potatoes or tomatoes, but really, no mention of European specialties like Ham, Jerky, Pies etc? REALLY? They spent months preparing for winter, Europe had plenty of time to make tasty preserved foods like the rest of the world. Also, if the food is bland, WHY DON'T YOU COOK IT IN ANIMAL FAT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE DOES.

Also, does the author not understand butter is life and Olive oil and Eggs are great in Europe? Or that Raisin bread in Europe where wine and grape cultivation was common? How about Fruit pies and traditional fruit based drinks and foods? Or beans yeah? You would be surprised how good beans taste when cooked correctly. Actually, how about anywhere that bread is made was probably good at finding ways to make it tasty.

And if the bread is so hard. . . . . DUNK THE DAMN BREAD IN THE SOUP. Everyone does it JUST DO IT. MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE. NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE, JUST DO IT!

 

[krizhek]

I have the long ill fated hope that the staff hates her and she's been getting the worst of the worst.

But we know that's not to be. In the real world the staff hates her because she always has a sour face when eating their non-japanese might as well be cave man foodstuffs.