Oishinbo - Vol. 35 Ch. 322 - A Meal That Moves The Heart

[MangaDex]

 

[Pleialdebaran]

Inspector Nakamatsu is the best character in Oishimbo. Never a boring or pretentious story with him

 

[BippidiBoppetyBoob]

Inspector Nakamatsu is the best character in Oishimbo. Never a boring or pretentious story with him

He’s like my favorite recurring character in the series. I also like Tanimura a lot, too.

 

[CosmicWitch]

I wish just once the answer to a failing restaurant would be something like logistics or an issue with service, instead of some wabisabi intangible like "seeing the face of the chef" in the food.

although a part of me loves the idea of a professional photographer getting a half-chub off of a kiwi on an unglazed plate.

 

[BippidiBoppetyBoob]

I wish just once the answer to a failing restaurant would be something like logistics or an issue with service, instead of some wabisabi intangible like "seeing the face of the chef" in the food.

although a part of me loves the idea of a professional photographer getting a half-chub off of a kiwi on an unglazed plate.

I don’t think we’re ever getting something like that, tbh. I will say the facial expressions in this chapter really made me laugh. Kyogoku’s initial reaction to the kiwi on the plate actually made me laugh out loud. I don’t think I’ve laughed out loud at this manga in ages.

 

[LavTheBurger]

I wish just once the answer to a failing restaurant would be something like logistics or an issue with service, instead of some wabisabi intangible like "seeing the face of the chef" in the food.

although a part of me loves the idea of a professional photographer getting a half-chub off of a kiwi on an unglazed plate.

Like on one hand, food can cause that. I can eat my pancakes, moms pancakes, and grandmas pancakes. We cook em the same cus we all learnt from grandma.

I can still pick out whose is grandmas. So in that way, I "see" the face of the cook.

On the other, I know who makes my favorite order of fried chicken Kaarage at the Japanese spot. I know his face, I know he cooks well. I do not know his name but I know thats sure his work alright. I dont need to think of the man when I eat to appreciate the effort.

" Your food is good, nutritionally its perfect, the tastes are good, but you dont come through in it "

Ok and?? This chapter is less his restaurant is dissatisfactory and more Arakawa and Kyougoku are just straight up depressed? GO SEE A PSYCHOLOGIST, BOTH OF YOUSE.

 

[Diabeetiz]

Seeing the photographer cream himself looking at kiwi on plate has gotta be the funniest thing in years

 

[d_a_renoir]

I remember seeing that whole "Face of the chef" thing in Shokugeki no Souma. Oishinbo is clearly a big thing in Japan, and I've seen Kaibara make funny cameos in other series before, so I wouldn't be surprised if Souma's creators took that idea from this series.

I think that's pretentious, LOL. What even is "seeing the face of the cook"? Like, obviously different hands and habits naturally could produce slight differences because a lot of cooking is done by instinct, especially if the idea is to innovate and not be stuck to the same recipe. But most people are just gonna judge by "I think this shop's sushi is better than that shop's sushi", or "the service/environment here is better". Not many people particularly cares for a unique flavours or menus.

 

[LavTheBurger]

I remember seeing that whole "Face of the chef" thing in Shokugeki no Souma. Oishinbo is clearly a big thing in Japan, and I've seen Kaibara make funny cameos in other series before, so I wouldn't be surprised if Souma's creators took that idea from this series.

I think that's pretentious, LOL. What even is "seeing the face of the cook"? Like, obviously different hands and habits naturally could produce slight differences because a lot of cooking is done by instinct, especially if the idea is to innovate and not be stuck to the same recipe. But most people are just gonna judge by "I think this shop's sushi is better than that shop's sushi", or "the service/environment here is better". Not many people particularly cares for a unique flavours or menus.

I think it works in Food Wars cus itreats itself like a shonen battle manga as heightend reality, and the face of a chef is treated as " This is dish so strong with individuality, you can TELL " oh its this chefs work ". Souma loses cus his dish is good, but any good chef could make it. Kurokiba loses cus any good seafood cook could make his. Hayama wins because only his skill and sense of smell could make THAT dish.

There IS some truth to that, but its more your own familiarity that makes it so, like I mentioned with my Grandma. I could pick her food out of a row but I've also had her food across 31 years of my 31 year old life.

its a sort of "psychological vagary" that....works for a cooking manga, but is kind of just preference showing its head.

 

[d_a_renoir]

I think it works in Food Wars cus itreats itself like a shonen battle manga as heightend reality, and the face of a chef is treated as " This is dish so strong with individuality, you can TELL " oh its this chefs work ". Souma loses cus his dish is good, but any good chef could make it. Kurokiba loses cus any good seafood cook could make his. Hayama wins because only his skill and sense of smell could make THAT dish.

There IS some truth to that, but its more your own familiarity that makes it so, like I mentioned with my Grandma. I could pick her food out of a row but I've also had her food across 31 years of my 31 year old life.

its a sort of "psychological vagary" that....works for a cooking manga, but is kind of just preference showing its head.

My point still stands in that I think that as a concept it makes no sense and will not work in real life. It's just pretty words to make the manga more dramatic.

Never mind Oishinbo, even in Souma I still think it's forced, because I can also argue that someone who has learned enough about spices can also do the same thing that Hayama does. Having that "super good sense of smell" is meaningless because the aroma that he smells would be completely different to how it smells like to everyone else. Plus, I think scents only makes so much of a difference to how the food actually tastes. It's only kind of excusable because in Souma it's shounen magic battle and there's way too many unrealistic things in there, so I don't take it too seriously.