Tensei Shite Inaka de Slow Life wo Okuritai - Ch. 62 - Where is the Rice?

[IMACOP]

Obligatory japanese country in medieval european fantasy arc. Oh well, at least it's not school arc.

 

[kaminomikan]

Frigging japs and their obsession with rice and bidets.

 

[RamNubb]

I was ready for the rice adventure, i was having a nice time but, I've read all the chapters now nice... 😐

 

[TokenOtaku]

Half of these comments are cooked.

 

[dowiet]

Oh well I guess they are going to Kagura first after all

 

[CountryMage]

Whatever world it is, they lack the knowledge the MC possesses. Regardless of whether it's something they should know.

Salt is like the national spice where I live (Sweden). But the blandness is usually justified by claiming Europeans didn't have some specific spices that are ubiquitous in Japan. Which completely ignores the large variety of foods with strong tastes that can easily spice food up. A lot of roots are both spicy and nutritious.

It's also ignoring that a lot of food, cooked properly, isn't bland even without any additions, let alone just salt. It just tastes bland to people who've burned out their taste buds with too much spice, or to people who have no idea how to cook without their spices. Unlike Medieval Europeans.

As far as the spices go, stories usually justify it with them having other more valuable uses. Sometimes common cooking herbs are instead being used for their traditional monster warding uses, or have magical properties that make them ideal for magic potions and crafting weapons.

 

[AnotherDuck]

As far as the spices go, stories usually justify it with them having other more valuable uses. Sometimes common cooking herbs are instead being used for their traditional monster warding uses, or have magical properties that make them ideal for magic potions and crafting weapons.

One, I very rarely see that as a justification, and two, it doesn't really hold up anyway. If they have more valuable uses, people would just grow more of them. Value depends on scarcity, and scarcity is much less of an issue if you can grow them yourself.

It's not like, say, meat from pigs and cows, since those require a lot of upkeep. You can just grow more to feed more of them, but at those quantities it significantly starts to affect the time needed to care for everything.

 

[basicusername117]

My god, they're still cooking. Wake me up when the plot starts or the manga ends, whichever comes first.

 

[Doomer]

"slave boy, why haven't you made any more of my favorite rice dish? get to it!"

 

[Liquidxlax]

get that rice!!
Honestly mans tackling the most important thing for any asian, Rice sources

honestly life would kinda suck without your favourite foods. I'd miss potatoes and rice.

 

[captain_crunch]

If he's going to get rice, I m expecting hes going to get soy sauce and other trope ingredients, if he hasn't already. Forgot what all the things he's cooked so far were. I think a previous one was fried bread.

 

[K422R]

Obligatory japanese country in medieval european fantasy arc. Oh well, at least it's not school arc.

Ah, the old classic. I'm convinced that those low-effort, low imagination arcs are born out of a conspiracy brought on by a bunch of editors who feel the dire need for the characters to be "relatable". You just can't relax after a long day of school, cram school, courses, whatever, if your favourite OP manga character isn't forced to suffer through mind-numbing courses and fight against some tropes chosen by a diceroll.

 

[Gudachiz]

I hope this leads to somewhere good. This trope of rice being the best food ever is getting annoying.

how is it annoying? its literally a staple a lot of asians can't live without, its not about it being the best food but a necessity

 

[Miserys_End]

Thank u always for ur great work...
^^...

That's one hella long distance...
XD...


His region climate n the field r not suitable for the paddy to grow + he still need to find the paddy seed first + fine tune the paddy seed so it can grow on his region climate n field + teach the farmer to grow it, if he grow the paddy from the seed till harvest using his magic = more troublesome thing coming to him...

iirc they grow wheat and animal fodder locally so climate is similar enough. There is also river near by to flood and irrigate the field, only real hurdle to growing their own rice is getting a viable stock of seed.

Construction of the rice paddy shouldn't even be that difficult. Training would be the hardest part, namely because the MC Would need to put in effort rather then just avoiding anything that would endanger his slow life without responsibility.

 

[TheProtectorOfPureHeartedGirls]

Time to hitchhike.

 

[Gudachiz]

We are sorry japan man, your rice is in another castle country.

OTOH wouldn't it be easier to just grow your own rice rather then depending on inports? With all the abilities the MC was born with it should be a relatively simple process to set up a rice patty close to the river and train a few farmers to grow it for you.

Not only does growing his own solve his rice fetish, but also enriches the diet of locals.

they're more than likely growing the rice there to get the grain and see the required soil conditions needed

 

[Gudachiz]

so he been working on "space magic"


teleport soon to land he never seen?

pretty sure he can probably do that soon, after he's been to the place, there's too much risk involved whenever manga's take on space magic and they just magically know where it is, its bad enough most isekai has an op mc, being able to travel anywhere without having been there first is already too much of a risk since it takes away discovery parts and may cut the manga shorter than it is, also removes any potential plot points and character introductions from the travels, slow life manga from what i've seen thrives on prolonging stuff but makes sure to keep the interest there by making the discovery fun

 

[Gudachiz]

Not only does growing his own solve his rice fetish, but also enriches the diet of locals.

its not a Fetish western man, its a necessity, we asians are one with rice, you can take the asian out of asia but you can't take the rice out of an asian

 

[Miserys_End]

its not a Fetish western man, its a necessity, we asians are one with rice, you can take the asian out of asia but you can't take the rice out of an asian

Considering there are many Asians that prefer bread over rice, your arguments fall flat and proves inadequate as proof it's not a food fetish. Point in fact, how often do you see rice so glorified in xainxia, wuxia, or even manhwa. Yes there are some, but it's rarely so overt, and most times seen as more of a cultural jab aimed at those with said food fetish.

 

[Gudachiz]

Considering there are many Asians that prefer bread over rice, your arguments fall flat and proves inadequate as proof it's not a food fetish. Point in fact, how often do you see rice so glorified in xainxia, wuxia, or even manhwa. Yes there are some, but it's rarely so overt, and most times seen as more of a cultural jab aimed at those with said food fetish.

where?
I'm Asian, my friends are all types of asians too from southeast asian to east asians, majority of the asian races and groups I know of, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipino(Largest consumer and importer of rice in the entire planet), Malay, Singaporeans, Indonesians all have rice for one as a staple.
"preferring bread" is different from constantly consuming rice
I Love burgers and pizzas, but I can't live without having rice in my system, that doesn't mean I have a rice fetish, it just means my system is too used to rice that there's something missing without it for long.
I've tried other culture's food staples, I think the closest one I could use as a substitute was my partners where she eats grits instead of rice
Potatoes are nice too but the amount of food you can pair it with is pretty limited also takes longer to cook and you can't just leave it alone to cook, you can leave rice alone to cook in a rice cooker and even without it the fire you need to maintain the warmth of the rice isn't much, i've tried both on a stove and on wood.
there's so much convenience that comes to just consuming rice that its hard to live without it
saves you on meat too since you can spread the meat sauces onto it and it becomes a part of the meal and that's plenty here in Asia considering how hard it is to earn a living, a mcdonalds worker in the US earns more than an office employee here if they just both started