@SuperAIDS I'm perfectly okay with it as long as it's not presented in a way that Japanese food is superior to all other cuisines, and thus everyone in the new world will instantly fall in love with it, should the MC manage to recreate it. In this chapter we saw him enormously enjoy the local food he was offered, but then reminisce about rice. That's fine and realistic. If I moved abroad, there would most certainly be some food from my home country I'd miss.
Trouble flag sucessfully raised, thank ya merchant dude.
I like this somehow easygoing rhythm of this series, hope it don't go the harem-quest-demon lord way we have too much of this already.
@jinc93
It's not a trope actually, but more of a cultural touchstone. For the Japanese a meal isn't a meal without rice on the table, to the point that the word for rice (gohan) is also used to refer to a full meal.
While it is a little irritating to have every Isekai protag look for and happen to rice in a completely different world, it's also a sign of how important it is to the Japanese that rice needs to be on the table during every meal.