Ch.71 Meat, Meat, Meat Salad, Roasted Whole Meat, And... Plums?

As we open the menus, we see a bunch of food names with their pictures.

As the restaurant mainly serves alcohol and meat dishes, the ratio of the dishes served with meat and without is 9:1. There are very few dishes that do not contain meat.

"The menu at this bar is almost identical to that of the Swordsman's Guild."

"Certainly."

"Well, it's coming from the same chain store."

As Takemaru-san said, the bars in almost all guilds except the Explorer's Guild are all the same chain establishments.

The main store is located in the Swordsman's Guild, followed by the second and third stores.

I wonder which guild used a different store.

"I see. So that means the name of this store is the same."

Shuuto-san closed the menu and checked the name of the restaurant written on the front. It's definitely the same.

If he turns around he'll see the store name written in big letters though.

Also, it was in a position that could be seen from the entrance (between the partitions)... I guess he was looking elsewhere, probably looking for a seat or something. Yep.

"What to choose...?"

Sakidori Midori-san is looking at photos of salads and wondering which one to choose. Oh, this page only has salads.

Hearing her murmuring, Takemaru-san lowered his gaze to the menu.

"Oh, is it something for everyone to eat? There will be a lot of meat, so wouldn't something light be good."

"Hmm, then Caesar salad should be good. Or cold shabu-shabu salad."

"It seems you can choose what to pour over your cold shabu-shabu. If you want something refreshing, I recommend ponzu sauce instead of sesame sauce."

"Well, it's refreshing, but if possible, I'd prefer a salad without meat in..."

Takemaru-san stops mid-sentence and freezes.

His gaze shifted from one picture of salad to another, and then to another, and when he had finally looked at all the salads, he turned his face towards Sakidori Midori-san.

"Oh, have you noticed? Most of them have some kind of meat in them."

The salads at the bar are amazing.

Usually, salads are mainly vegetables. They are served with just vegetables and dressing. Or, if you're so inclined, they can have a little bit of meat, like roasted meat.

However, most of the salads here are meat-based, with one-third vegetables and two-thirds meat.

"I've never ordered a salad here, so I didn't know."

"The meat encroachment rate is amazing. As you'd expect from a bar."

Meat encroachment rate. I'd never heard that term before, but it sounds spot on.

We're worried that eating only meat dishes would make us feel heavy, so we decided to choose a salad to refresh our mouth, but for some reason, there was meat in the salad too. Encroachment is a good word for this situation.

"Ah, that's it. Aren't the first two you chose good enough?"

"Caesar salad and cold shabu-shabu salad? got it."

"Takemaru-san, do you prefer sesame sauce? Or ponzu sauce?"

"I'm a sesame person. What about Vester?"

"I prefer ponzu sauce. What about Sakidori Midori-san?"

"I prefer plum shiso dressing."

Wow, when I hear that name, it made me drool...

"The acidity does makes it refreshing and light. It'll definitely go really well with meat."

"Yeah. It's also because I like plums. Now that I think about it, I don't see many dishes that use plums. Do you know why?"

The reason? I know the answer.

Apparently, plums flower, which are grown for ornamental purposes, are a specialty of a certain island nation floating in the sea.

I seem to know a lot about it, you say? It's because an NPC I met when I played this game in my past life was from there.

They were merchants who came to this continent by ship to sell goods from their home country. Of course, they had to go to the guild and get permission to do so.

One of the things I learned from talking with them was information about plums.

The fact that plums are a local specialty of the country, that they are divided into those for eating and those for looking at, and that the island nation has so many plum trees that they can produce a lot of fruit, so the price is cheap, that's about it.

I don't know if they aren't grown in large quantities on this continent, or if plum trees don't exist in the first place, but I've never seen anyone selling plums other than merchants who have come from across the sea.

In short, since there are few people selling plums, there are not many plums for sale.

It's a rare food that can only be brought from there, and there is a limited number available, which means the price goes up.

It is necessary to create delicious dishes using new ingredients. To do this trial and error, you need a large amount of ingredients. However, they are expensive and hard to come by.

In other words, there are few restaurants that have been able to bring it to completion as a dish. It's at a level that it wouldn't be weird for it to be served in a high-end restaurant.

"Well, the main reason is that plums are expensive. Was the restaurant you ate at a high-end place, Sakidori Midori-san?"

"Ah, maybe. I remember just popping in and looking at the menu, and the prices were higher than other restaurants."

"Any dish that uses plums will have some HP bonus too."

"It's about time you stopped talking about plums, just hearing it makes me salivate. I'm hungry so more of them would come out."

"It's dangerous for me to talk about it too."

Both of us chuckled. Just imagining something sour does make you feel that way.

I wonder if it's because the brain is reliving the stimulation it felt when eating something in the past.

"Now, changing the topic, what else would you like besides salad?"

Using my telekinesis, I flipped through the menu and returned it to the first page.

It seems I've grown enough to be able to flip pages without problem.

"Well, first off, do they have karage and fries?"

"I'd also like a whole roasted Madness Chicken."

A whole roast sounds good. It feels more like a Christmas party than a celebration party, though.

"We don't have pizza here... What about sweet and sour chicken, Takemaru-san?"

"I'm interested in the soft-boiled egg and Madness Chicken salad..."

"Steak pasta is good."

At the moment when the conversation stopped, the voices of the three people sitting across from me could be heard.

It's not that they didn't approach me and talk to me in consideration. They were talking and carefully looking over the menu.

Shuuto-san wanted pizza, Mimia-san's interested in the meat salad, and Kaito-san couldn't stop looking at the voluminous, high-calorie steak pasta.

When people get too hungry, their eyes get all crazy. The 3 of them shouldn't be that hungry, but they looked like dogs who'd been denied access to delicious food.

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〘Bar〙

A place that serves alcohol and food that goes well with it.

The bar in the guild mainly serves meat dishes, with around 10% of the dishes on not containing meat at all.

In bars outside the guild, meat dishes and non-meat dishes are split evenly.

You must be an adult (20 years old) to drink alcohol. Children cannot drink or order alcohol.

If you start sulking and acting violently, you might end up being dragged out of the store by a muscular attendant.

〘Madness Chicken〙

As the name suggests, It is a chicken that goes into madness.

A monster that always has bloodshot eyes, a loud cry and is very noisy.

If anything other than its own species approaches, it will become violent and scream.

Although it looks the same as a chicken, it is twice as large as a chicken. Its claws are sharp and will poison you if you are hit by it.

If you listen to that screaming for five minutes, you will become deaf for a day. It's not going to break your ears completely, but it is still dangerous.

There is also a chance that the listener might be put in a state of confusion.

It is recommended that you always bring your own earplugs when you are hunting them.

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