AWTY 138 - My Other Car is a Dead Horse (Restaurant to Another World)

They called me the genius of culinary innovation, but the truth is, it's all a sham. Hello, and welcome to our week there yet in exploration and education and anime. I'm your anime idiot, patrick dugan.

I am an anime expert, D hollander.

And I'm bern mccullough, your anime queen. A queen what? It's a character and Final Fantasy night fruit. Your party, the Blue Magic magician, they are a non binary chef. A chef from another way.

Relevant.

I also love Final Fantasy Nine. It's my favorite.

I feel like that's not one that you hear a lot about.

I feel like this is getting a little resurgence. People are realizing I wanted to believe that final Fantasy Games. And there's something else. Whatever Final Fantasy Games, your favorite is whatever you play as a child, regardless of how actually good or bad it is, everyone's favorite is whatever they play. Most people it's seven. Some people it's 8910. No one cares after twelve.

Yeah, the same with pokemon of like, what's your level of how many pokemon there should be? whichever one I played first. That's my guiding line.

I love all of those boys. They're all my friends.

I started with pokemon on Gen One, but I think my favorite is three. All right, here we go. No, I think Two is my favorite generation of pokemon, the designs and stuff. I think Three is my favorite to play because I had enough quality of life upgrades that it was actually nice. But also the main character saucer named Brendan. Ha ha.

Oh, there you go.

Yeah. Anyway, can you tell we don't know what anime we're watching today?

Yeah, chefs from different worlds, you say? Do go on.

You said ten minutes ago before you rambled. Yes. Today we were watching an anime called Restaurant to Another World. Do either of you know anything about it?

No.

Same.

Martian diner.

The title reminded me of the bed and breakfast for spirits, one we've considered in the past, so I wonder if it's something like that with spirits.

Also got a little polar bear cafe vibes to it. I think we came across this when we were looking at Polar Bear Cafe or something akin to it, and yeah, I saw it and I was like, this seems chill. This seems like a very relaxing show with going to be very highly detailed rendered pictures of food on the table.

Say no more.

And I dragged D Two through gans and penguin drum last time. So I'm like, you know what? I need to earn some brownie points back. I need to redeem myself.

And our last attempt at a gentle show didn't go the way you wanted to.

Talk?

Bingies crossed, but yeah, not too much known about it otherwise, but yeah, hoping for some chill little restaurant vibes. Maybe it'll be like Food Wars, but not nearly as horny.

Why not?

Maybe we'll see. Only time will tell. Sorry. I think I hear something. Table for three. aughtie. I have a table for three for aughtie. Okay. I think that's us.

Yeah.

Sorry, we have to go. Our table is ready. We'll be back in just a minute.

And bring it. Wallet. I filled up a bread. I'm so full.

Shoot. That's so good.

But it was the most delicious bread I've ever had. And it united my kingdom, changed the world.

This is Dilic Restaurant, where money isn't an issue and you have, like, two customers at most.

Yes.

And it's just like, I can cook. You can enjoy the food. We enjoy the atmosphere. And then we go home and no one yells at me and I cry in the cooler or later.

We're all just having a good time together.

It's just nice, chill vibes.

No one's asking to speak to the manager because there's only one and or two employees on the neck, and it's pretty clear who's in charge.

I want to speak to your manager. I don't know what that is. Anyway, episode one details on this stuff. Yeah. Episode one opens with a young man asking his grandfather it's voiceover, so we don't actually see it. And we're just getting painting shots of, like, a city in, like, modern day Tokyo and a young man's asking his grandfather about the menu of the restaurant, talking about the specific items. And, like, why is it called a restaurant? It's like, well, any food dish mainly prepared, like, culinary dishes outside of Japan, it's considered Western. It's not specifically from the west, but it's just a broad, all encompassing term for restaurants. And we get a few shots of people, like, eating in the restaurant, and it zooms in on a picture of two chefs. I'm assuming one of them is talking right now because we don't see them actually dogging to the picture. And then we see, I guess the hostess leaving for night. She's like, see you later. And the chef's, like, picking up the sign from our front. He's like, all right, I talk to you later. And, like, close enough for the night. And he sounds just like that. He's voiced by Chris Sabbot, who went a really weird way with this character kind of talk flags in.

Very silly.

I was surprised watching the dub, that it was Chris savit because it is like a smaller anime. And I'm just like, oh, it's all might because it's just his all night voice.

No wonder I thought he was so hot.

Driver's ancient Voice I watched the first.

Two episodes of Japanese, and I watched the third one dubbed, and I was like, oh, suddenly I like this chef.

Much more much more interested.

I'm embarrassed now to get shrunk paternal vibe from this chef for some reason. So then, yeah, the restaurant closes for the night. We get the opening, and it seems like a pretty standard opening, and then the title drops. And then we get some, like, crazy butt rock guitar wrists from like a sonic game. And I was like, yo, all right.

It'S all over the place.

I was on forward with the song. I listen to it every time. So I come back from the opening and we come back to a chef bringing out teriyaki chicken to a customer as a grizzly guy with, like, a topknot sort of a robe on. And he's enjoying the food. And then a few other customers are there and they start discussing what's the best dish. He says, teriyaki chicken's the best with rice. And then the one's like, oh, no, pork cutlet's the best rice. And then one's like, nah, curry's the best with rice. And they're all basically just arguing about what goes best with just rice. Side dish. And the one guy kind of looks like a samurai. The one guy kind of looks like a wizard. The one looks like a barbarian. And one of them's just a lion man. He's just a full on lion man.

There's a lizard man, too.

Oh, yeah. And then the lizard guy gets introduced. He's just running his own business.

Yeah, he's just chilling.

He really has no input. He's like, yeah, this food's good. And everyone else is yelling around him.

I'm here to be furry father. Excuse me, scaly.

Well, the wizard's like, well, if you're going to insist so much at the teriyaki chickens good, maybe I'll just take a pit for myself. And he's like, samaria catches this chopstick and he's like, the fight? No. What? No, this is my food. So they're arguing over the food, and the food drops to the floor and everything everything gets tense, and everyone pulls out their weapons. I'm like, it's going to get ugly in here. And then the chef comes out from behind in the kitchen and he says, do you know my rules? No violence. If you guys are going to start tearing stuff up, I am never going to cook for any of you ever again. And that's enough for them to calm down and behave themselves, because that is a huge threat. Apparently. Stuff comes down a bit and we cut away and we see a shot of a dragon flying around, fly around the countryside and then up to a volcano top. And the dragon flies in into the giant gold hoard piles that they have just filling the volcano. And she's talking to her little demon butler as she transforms into a human form, saying she's getting ready for her treasured. Treasure. Her treasured moment. And of course, as she transformed, she's just naked for, like, a good long while. She's like, wasn't expecting it from this show. Yeah.

This first episode sets weird hordes expectations that don't really pay off in the next two episodes.

Yeah, I was kind of surprised. Yeah. So she transforms into a human naked, and then the mother's running off to get her dress. And among all the gold piles and all the treasure, we just see a doorway that says Western Restaurant nicoya. And it's got a little cat on it.

Meow.

And it's just a door, like, by itself, not attached to anything. And the demon runs off and gets, like, a very fine dining dress. She puts it on, and she picks up a big pot and walks up to the door and opens it up. And sure enough, she's in the restaurants, and the chef comes out. I looked them up. They never give him a name. They just called the chef Master because he's like, the master of the restaurant.

I wrote down in my notes, like, a spot, like, Chef. His name is Dash. And then I waited. And I waited. And I waited.

The chef this time we didn't forget it. They just never give him a name. But yeah, she walks in with a big pot into the restaurant, and he's like, hello, miss. The usual. She's like, you know, it beef stew. It's like, okay. I was surprised for how elegant and fancy she looks. She's just getting beef stew.

Sometimes you just want a down home favorite.

I included my finest tucks and tails, and I would like your finest milkshake and grilled cheese.

Please bring me mine duckies. Thank you.

Tendies Porphy and the mutton sticks.

Chop chop, on the double.

So she sits down and he brings out beef, too. And of course, it's an anime about food. It looks amazing. And I cried while I ate my Pop tart while I watched the show. I was like, grocery.

So glad I had breakfast before this. I would be dying if I did not.

I genuinely have no food in my apartment. This one was painful. And so she eats the beef stew. And yeah, it's her usual. She loves it. This shit's tasty. Everything is he's a master chef. And she's like, we're going to skip over it. Anytime anyone eats in the show, there's a good, like, three or four minutes of them just describing and reviewing the food like they got a thesaurus out or just going to town and descriptor words. So, yeah, she's eating the food. She loves it, and she says it's the only and she's the only one in the restaurant. I mean, she she says sometimes she scares the other patrons, so it seems like she might get a little special treatment. Also, she's a giant fogging drag, understandable?

And while she's not a giant dragon, she's a very intimidating, beautiful lady.

And she enjoys herself. And Chef comes out, he's like, I'll double the meal. She's like, yeah. And she just throws down the pot. She's like, fill it off. And he's like, all right, one more gan. We go in again, and she thanks him for the meal. I think she pays.

Yeah. paiman is about 50 50 in this show. Half the time he's like, nah, you're fine.

Yeah, we do.

When you're here, you're family.

We do. See her hand off some gold so that's good.

Yeah, she pays, but she has enough of it. And yeah, she takes a big pot and walks on out. And as she walks out, the door disappears behind her. And once she's back outside, she throws in the pot, transforms back into her dragon form, and it eats the beef stew from the pot again. I don't know why I feel like you could probably pace it up better in a human form than in a full ass dragon. Okay.

Yeah, because she just, like, dips her tongue in to just lick it up like a cat. It's like, I'll be gone in three licks. You are so big.

I just wanted her to plot like, a huge bendy straw and just drank from it. Yeah. And then we cut away. We see the next day, the chef's waking up at 04:00 a.m..

This poor man. It seems like he never sleeps.

Yeah, because yeah. time's weird. We don't know what his time is in the restaurant. Yeah.

I couldn't tell if it was sort of like when he's dreaming, he's in the fantasy restaurant, and when he's awake, he's a regular chef. I didn't know the full deal going on.

Skipping ahead a little. It seems like during the week, he's a regular restaurant in whatever city he's in, and then on Saturday, he's just going to fantasy land because they make a note of saying, like, it's only on the day of Saturday this restaurant appears, and it's once every week.

Yeah.

So I'm thinking I'm thinking maybe Sunday is his day off, and then Saturday is his field trip.

That makes sense.

So the next day, we see the chef going downstairs and yeah, the one shot we have is just laying on, like I don't even know what it's called. It's just a small bed, like, on the ground in, like, an attic. Like, there's nothing here. This guy has no life outside of the kitchen, literally. And he goes down to his restaurant, and he finds a girl sleeping on the kitchen floor. And she's blonde. Yeah, she's blonde, and she's got horns. And her name is alida. And he also notices that I just had soup for most of my nose. She calls a night sauce. I really hope she didn't eat a full pot of just sauce, because I feel like that's bad for you physically.

I believe this pot that she eats is corn potage. Is that what he like, porridge?

Yeah. So he notices that she ate all of it. He had a pot, like, brewing overnight, and she just ate the whole thing. He's like, well, what's your deal? Why are you in my kitchen eating my food? And this is where we get a little backstory of the girl. She's like, oh, my name is alita. I sleep in an abandoned building in this fantasy world, and I was starving cold, and everything sucked. And then all of a sudden, I smelled this great smell and it led me to the store that was just in the middle of nowhere. And I came in and just started eating because I'm hungry. And then I guess I passed out. She said it was, like, so magical that it must be a dream. So she's like, if this is a dream, there's no root percussions. Let me just go to town and do whatever and no, just a magical door.

Usual casual.

I don't know why she didn't see this coming. It's so standard. And she says she passed out here. And she also explains that she's a demon because she's got, like, a little hat on and her hat falls off and she just takes it off. She's like, I'm a demon. Most demons have some sign that they're a demon. Some part of their lineage carries over from their parents, who's one of them is usually a demon. And some of them are giant creatures with hulking wings and mouth full of sharp, razor sharp teeth. Some are covered in scales with huge tails. Some have, like, horrible eyes and, like, twisted figures. I got horns. Otherwise I'm a cute girl.

Cosplayable don't worry, fans.

I was like, standard animate girl with horns wife. And she's like, I'm a demon, but I'm not any stronger than a typical girl. I'm literally just human in every way but horns. I was like, great, I'm a human.

But just a sprinkle of fantasy to keep it interesting.

I'd really love, like, a sentient ooze as like, the waitress.

Or if she was just like, should.

I stair head.

But not like monsoon massume, like slime girl, like actual just.

Like a pile of slime.

Just a pile of slime.

A gelatinous cube. Yeah, just a real oozing through the path of the restaurant.

You really have to want that extra self aware because when you reach it, you're going to burn your hand. So, yeah, she gives her her backstory and she says she tried to blend in with the humans, but she was, like, working as a waitress in this one inn and her half fell off. She got out it and everyone ate's demons. So they rushed her out. And that's why she's, like, homeless, starving. And the chef realized, he's like, okay, well, I'm hungry now. I'm going to make me some breakfast. I'm going to make you some breakfast. You want to sit down and join me? And she's like, oh, I can't. He's like, all right, you're staying. So he also says he just wants someone to eat with. He wants company. He is lonely. Give this man a life outside of the kitchen.

What he does is give.

He's earned it. So he sits down and cooks her, like, a special breakfast that's off the menu and of course, looks delicious. And right before they dig and she says, like, a little prayer to the demon god, which I thought was great, she's like, oh, sorry I did that. That's probably weird for you. I mean, yeah, but, like, whatever. I respect all religions, even demon gods. And after they're done eating, he's like, you know what? You said you used to be a waitress. Could you use some help around here? You want a job? It'll be once a week in the day of Saturday, but it'll be a 14 hours shift. But I'll give you free meals and I can pay you. And she's like, I diggity. Yeah. So she accepts gladly. He's like, all right, I got a uniform here for you. Convenient, you can also clean up because you're covered in dirt and disheveled and been sleeping outside for who knows how long. I got a shower room, too, so you can clean up in there. It's copious amount of tid time as well. Yeah, a little more of that. So she cleans up and she's got a little like yeah, I'd say it's a made outfit as a waitress while she learns the ropes of the restaurant. He's like you're here. No one. It's going to be a slow day. I can teach you the nuance of the kitchen and everything. And while she's learning that, the dragon senses a recent addition to her treasure and flies off. You wonder what that means. And then we see a little montage of alita learning, getting paid and leaving cleaning tables and stuff and learning where all the equipment is. She gets paid, like, 14 silver or something. And, yeah, she hits back to her abandoned building that's destroyed all around her, and she sleeps on a bale of a.

Lose some.

Yeah, she's got to save her money.

It's great. Like, she's got a job, but also, like, it's one day a week, so.

It'S like, I got a paper round.

But apparently the way she reacts to her wages, it sounds like a lot for that one day, so that's good.

Yeah, you never know if dnd has taught me anything. That's like $100.14 silver. And while she's asleep on her hay, we see the dragon fly overhead or shadow swooped across her. And she seems to cast a spell, because alita gets a red glow around her while she's asleep. And we hear the dragon say, no one in the world would dare damage my treasure. So it seems like she might have put a protection spell over alida now that she knows she works with the restaurant. So a little comfort.

Don't worry, we will treat this character well.

You can get attached. She won't die immediately.

Oh, thank God.

That's episode seven wink.

But yeah, we pick up in episode two, following the same formulas throughout. We see an adventurer, a treasure hunter. She's sitting in, like, an inn in a small town, and she's studying a journal she has from a recently deceased man, and it speaks of the treasure that can only be found on the saturn day once a week. So she checks out of her inn and she goes to the mines where the journal says she can find the treasure. She finds some goblins and easily slays them and finds a hidden entrance and sees a door, a path to great riches, and a restaurant. Oh, interesting. Who would have seen that coming? But yeah. So she steps in expecting to find gold and riches galore, and just finds a kindly old man being like, yeah, have a seat. I'll be with you in a SEC. So she is, of course, baffled. She's like, okay, I'll sit. She's offered a meal and is astounded to find living people in this mine. So alida puts, like, water on her table, and she's like, oh, what a concept. I didn't order this water served freely before a meal. What's? Bread?

I love that aletta isn't, like, incompetent, because I feel like that kind of character is typically like, oh, a cute MOA girl working at a restaurant. She's going to spill the food and whatever, but she's just good at her job, and I like that.

Yeah, it was nice that they were like, yes, she does have restaurant experience. We aren't going to spend eight episodes going, oh, did you want the chat? Or like, a newspaper? Oh, just write it on my forehead.

You're supposed to bring them bread, not crackers.

Oh, shuck.

It all looks the same to my demon eyes.

I love how low our bar is for characters. They are competent or they are nice. That's all I need to immediately be attached to this character.

Wow, this moai character broke one stereotype. I love her.

I love her.

An inspiration. All anime, take note. So she's given a menu and is like, okay, I am a treasure hunter. Let me spend the least amount of money, because that's how gathering wealth happens. She sees, like, the daily special on the menu, and it was the cheapest thing. She's like, yeah, I'll have that also. What is it? I don't know. I saw the price tag, and the chef is like, oh, yes, this is usual from this door. There are many magic doors that lead here, but you found a specific one. So the special is a mince meat cutlet.

It's a fried hamburger.

Yeah. croquette and yeah, just like the description of the meal. She's like, Food like this my world has never seen. Is is this perhaps the treasure? Was it the meals we made along the way? But following the format, she served a meal and spends a couple of minutes just writing poetry about it. The meat, it is minced. So small in this minced meat cutlet. Interesting. Fried, you say? And she just eats it delicious. Naturally, of course. So as she's finishing the meal, got to have more. Send me with togo Boxes. I just can't stop eating this.

We go like it.

So as she's just really digging in, some of the regulars that we saw in the beginning of episode one come in and they see her, and they're like, stranger eating the special. I see. Okay. So they settle in and the adventurer is given a meal to go. And they're like the chef is like, don't worry about paying me. I know you were expecting to find money, so I'm not going to take money from you. Also, since you're here, I assume the regular who usually gets this is dead. So I hope you will become a new regular. You're welcome any time.

I need to fill the role in my party. This is jrpg. After all.

But yeah. So they refer to her as like cutlet too. As like the the second cutlet of the line. And she will take the man's place and continue the legacy of going to this mine for the treasure. Beautiful. Wonderful. Let's do something very similar. So the second half of this episode, we we see a fine fortress, a big castle on a hill, and the lord, Lord solomon, he's he's notified that a traveling swordsman is here, and he wishes to speak with him. The renowned swordsman has trained so many. He's such a legendary warrior, he's honored to be visited. So he comes in and it's one of the regulars at the restaurant. It's swords guy. Swordsman he's the swords guy. So he comes in and he's like, my Lord solomon, I have something for you. A gift. And he pulls out just a beautiful, like, ruby encrusted sword. And solomon's. Like, who? The legends, they're true. Let me tell you a story, my good fan. So he got a flashback when solomon was younger. He was he was a soldier in the mothman wars.

Incredible.

Beautiful. yo, we got mothman. fuck. Yes.

Like, the monsters they had to fight truly did not matter. So I'm so glad they just really went for it. And we're like, yeah, no moth men.

Cool.

Werewolves. nah. vampires overturned mothmen. Yes. That's who we got to fight. That's who we got to protect this kingdom from.

That's the ticket.

I agree that they pick something that's good, that they pick something interesting. Flight. I'm a little disappointed because in the flashback of the war, it's like what's the word? It was like a drawing, like an ink drawing, and it wasn't that detailed. I'm like, man, I want to see more mothman.

One definitely has to come to the restaurant right later on.

Come on, just give me one.

You can't tease us like this.

Calligraphy. That's what it was. It looks like calligraphy anyway, but yeah.

So he was on the front lines and and the fortification was being overrun by mothmen. So he had to go on a perilous journey to warn the greater kingdom and get reinforcement. So he and his horse rode out alone just as soon as there was like, a ceasefire goes through the desert and oh, no, his horse was bit by a mothman, so he got poisoned.

Mothman. Good food, dead horses. I love this anime.

Oh my god.

So he drops everything and only carries the message. And he left in such haste that he has no food. But he perseveres and continues on foot. But as he's slowly dying in the desert, naturally, when you don't have food or water, he's like, oh, I would trade my life for a sip of door. Oh, where did this thing come from? So naturally, being of nobility, he opens up the door and is like, you surf. You must serve your master. Give me your finest food and drink. Chef's like, yeah, that's the idea. That is what this restaurant does. So he gives him a warm welcome, and I love this so much. He's like, okay, let me get you water immediately because you were dying in the desert. So the chef, he's given water and the menu, and then he chooses to slowly peruse the menu rather than, like, gulping down the water when you're just dying 2 seconds ago. But he sees, oh, can it be this menu they have? My hometown, my seaside home, has the dish of shrie shriek. Fried shrieke, you say?

I can't believe it. They have it.

Shripe.

Shripe.

He's just so amazed because he's like shrimp. So he's like, yeah, we couldn't even transport it to neighboring towns. They would just go bad so fast. We're in the middle of a desert. How does this happen? So he's like, I got to know how this is. Two fried shripes, please. And he orders it. Absolutely amazed. Another three minute speech on breadcrumbs on a dish of the sea.

He goes into a lot of detail, like turning the wheat into bread, into breadcrumbs to then batter and fry. I was like, Christ. It like, it looks good, but good.

Guys, thank you for just reading the recipe.

Process.

But yeah, so he has it, and of course, amazed. So delicious. He orders like, five more plates.

He eats the tail. He eats the whole last tail.

He's just going for it. But yeah, so he's just chowing down, finally gets his fill, is like, oh, fuck. When my horse died, I dropped all the excess weight, so I have no money. Well, shit. Hey, buddy, you know how I yelled at you to serve your lord? Yeah, sorry about that. I left my wallet in my car.

Sophomore.

And when I say car, I mean dead horse.

My other car is a dead horse.

Oh, no hurry. Pull up a custom license plate frame website.

So he's like, the chef, being the chilliest man in the world is just like, no, I got you. You were dying in the desert. That's fine. I'll give you some food. But he's like, no, I'm a man of honor. I'm a man of my word. I will leave you my ancestral sword. This is my collateral. I will return and bring you back the money I owe you. And he rushes out because he's still on the clock. There's still moth men. To warn about. And as he's leaving, the chef is like, oh, no, you can't just come back. It's once every seven day and he's gone. He didn't hear. He doesn't know the schedule. He can't jump yelp for the hours. Oh, no. How will he find him? The answer is he doesn't. He makes it all the way to the kingdom. And he's made a hero for valiantly warning the kingdom in time. And they're able to repel the mothman attack. So he's given this fortress as a thank you. And the swordsman, being a regular at the restaurant is like, this sword seems familiar. Let's go give it to my boss man. But he brings the sword back and tells him of the restaurant, and it's once a week schedule, and he's like, I can taste the shriep again. And immediately is like, take me there. We're going right now. I will never forget this place. But yeah. So they return, and destiny is fulfilled. He's able to close his tab.

Yay.

And that's episode two.

I love the idea that he's so cocky and both him and the chef and the others in the ocean are like, look at this idiot mispronouncing. This commonly used food item. It's clearly shripe. It's like shrimp, man. It's like, okay, give me the shrimp wink. Like, weird. Really playing it up.

Yeah, like it's a novelty menu item. Yeah, give me the applebee's flaming skewers.

So in episode three, we open on aletta, eating some pasta, and the chef is like, yeah, it's not on the menu. And she's like, oh, well, it should be. It's delicious. And she says something about night sauce. We talked about it before. I don't know what that means. It's never explained.

It's what she calls booze. That's how she falls asleep. I mean, she wandered into a random door, ate food that was there, and fell asleep. That's a pretty drunk thing to do.

Yeah, and I mean, it could make sense. Night sauce. And then like, maybe this particular pasta sauce has like, white wine in it or something, and she can taste it. Who knows?

I just googled night sauce, and the first thing that comes up is sworded story of the pudonesca, the prostitute pasta sauce. Yeah, this is going on after this is after the podcast. I got a deep dive on this one.

So the chef asks her what she would name it, and she says, Night Pasta. Okay. And then we get some info about this guy named Thomas, and he popularized wheat products and pasta in the magic world, but his secret to his popular wheat dishes is our world, the material plane. So he and his grandson are at the door, they're getting ready to go into the restaurant, and his grandson says, a restaurant to another world. And I'm like, oh, fuck, they did anything. You said it. So they go in andaleta greets them, and Thomas asks if the chef is there, and she goes to get him, and he sits down to wait to speak with him. And his grandson is kind of looking around, being like, wow, this feels like our world, but also a little different. So the Chef comes out and says hello to both of them. The grandson introduces himself. His name is sirius. And the Chef says he's going to bring them some coffee. And sirius is like, I can't believe we're actually in another world. Wow. And then as his grandpa points out that things are the same, but a little different. Just like he already noticed.

They do things with a little twist here.

Aletta brings them their coffee, and Thomas puts some sugar in his and tells sirius to do the same before it gets cold. And then the Chef brings them a box of money.

Ah, my favorite dish. Delicious.

Why didn't the Dragon order this?

And then they had brought him a bag. So he takes the bag, and he says he's going to do inventory on such bag. And they open the box, and yeah, it's just filled with money. It's proceeds from the restaurant as well as payment for the bag. And sirius is like, that seems like a lot for both of those things. The bag wasn't very full, Grandpa. And Thomas explains that the bag is full of ingredients from their world so the Chef can taste them and make new dishes to suit the tastes of the magical people. And he says his predecessor did the same thing. And there's a flashback of the Chef talking about the differences between their food and Japanese food, and he just wants to make the food as good as possible and bring everyone joy.

Cute.

What a man.

Yeah.

Good man, we got some Uncle iro vibes coming from this guy.

Yeah, yeah, very much so.

So the Chef comes out and he says, all right, thanks for this bag of of treats. I'll serve you anything you'd like. And Thomas orders a large spaghetti with meat sauce for the both of them. So he brings it out. Thomas digs in. Then sirius does too, and he loves it. He goes into his spiel about the details of the sauce. Makes me really want pasta. Pasta is one of my favorite foods. So versatile.

You can do anything.

He thinks about the vegetable that makes up the sauce and how similar it is to a crop they have in their world. And we just see these, like, cube tomatoes.

Oh, fuck. They live in minecraft.

I love I love that that they didn't make it different. They're just cubes. So Thomas asks him how he likes the dish, and sirius is like, oh, I don't understand how they can serve a dish with a flavor profile like we haven't even thought of. And then sirius looks at the menu and realizes that all of their pasta dishes, like the company's pasta dishes, are just what is served at the restaurant. And he's like, grandpa, you didn't. And the delivery of the line, I did, and I'd do it again sent me. I laughed so hard because it's just this old man being like, yeah, I did.

Hell, yeah, I did.

I'm breaking every reality, stepping on all these butterflies.

Grandpa's got no shame, and I respect the hell.

I mean, if the Chef is cool with it, and he seems to be, they're just sharing food.

See, our world has something called the mothman effect.

He's like, yeah, I liked the food, and I wanted to eat it in our world, too. And now I've spread it around the world for everybody to enjoy. So Thomas offers serious some parmesan cheese and some spicy pepper sauce. And sirius loves it. And they're chowing down and they finish their meal. They leave, and the door disappears. And Thomas explains that it shows up every week, but he goes every four weeks. But sirius is like, well, I can come back sooner, right? And Thomas is like, yeah, of course. So he's already excited about what he might try next time the chef's a.

Dealer, he gives the first one for free to get you're always coming back.

I mean, not a bad business plan when everyone is like, fuck, I need to come back. This is literally better than gold.

Yeah. When the food is that good.

Yeah, I mean, they've got a system going. So then we see some fancy old dude receive a message about a port. I didn't pay attention to what happens. It doesn't even matter.

It does not.

Port, like the wine. I don't know. I'm just in food mode.

I was like, man, this guy really looks like Christopher Lee. And I kind of got sort of that thought for a while.

So something about the port, but he doesn't want this little girl to be left alone. And this little girl is Adelaide, his granddaughter. And he is Emperor wilhelm. Emperor question mark, I think.

Sure.

And he's like, hey, Adelaide, are you enjoying your time here? And she's like, yeah, I do. I am. I love it here.

I'm literally a princess. Don't have many complaints.

Yeah. And then we see her, like, sleeping in bed that night, and a maid is telling the emperor that she's probably really lonely with no other kids around, and her mom isn't there because she's pregnant. So adelaide's with her grandfather. So we see him take her to the restaurant, but this is a flashback. She's older now, and she remembers very little about the restaurant. She remembers the experience, but doesn't remember exactly what she ate or anything like that.

When my grandma took me to sizzler.

What is this place? What do you mean? Endless salad bar.

It will live in my mind forever.

So she gets to a room and starts coughing, and I'm like, another sickly girl. uhoh and the maid is like, oh, my God, are you okay? And she's like, yeah, I'm fine. I'm just tired from the trip. Whatever. And the maid leaves the room, and Adelaide throws herself on the bed and starts crying. So the maids are discussing her illness, and the maid that was with her felt really bad about the way she reacted. And we find out that this disease she has doesn't spread easily. But there isn't a known cure yet. So they just hope she has to. They have to hope that she gets better.

I hate to live in a world where there's a pandemic or something going on.

They said it doesn't spread easily. That's the very opposite.

Oh. So they're better. Okay.

That's the only saving grace.

Fake herald.

The next wording she's reading. And one of the maids has brought her, like, breakfast pastries, but she's like, oh, I don't really want to eat that. And then the maid leaves to make her something else, and the door arrives, and she thinks she's seen it before, so she goes in, and then we get another flashback. And when she came with her grandpa when she was little, the old chef was still there, still training the chef that we know. So back in this time, she's at a table and asks aletta where she is. And then the chef, like, pops his head out of the kitchen, and he's like, oh, I know you. You're, princess. Adelaide. And she's like, yes, I am. And there's another memory of the two of them eating. And she holds up her spoon, but it's, like, a little blurred because she still doesn't remember, and we don't know what she was eating. So she's like, grandpa, what is this? It's so good. And he says, you know it's clouds. Because he doesn't know either. Yeah, so she gets a menu, but she just hands it back to aletta, and she says, I would like to eat clouds. And she's, like, a little embarrassed about it. She feels a little silly for asking, and aletta is confused, but the chef.

Remembers, like, to eat clouds? The fuck you talking about?

That is such a buck wild thing to ask for. So it really stuck out in my mind. I know what you're talking about.

So it's brought out, and it's a chocolate parfait, and she thinks it's beautiful and delicious, and she eats it all up, and the clouds are like, there's ice cream at the bottom, so that's the clouds. So the chef tells her that the door is there every week and that this time I will not charge you, but next time I will have to. And she's like, that makes sense.

Fair enough.

Work.

And so she leaves, and the chef is, like, talking about her grandfather, and he says that he's, like, the guy who made the empire what it is today. He really built it up. Next day, Adelaide is looking at some flowers in the garden, and the mate is concerned. She's like, you need your rest. And she's like, oh, I feel much better today. So that's nice chocolate is bookure.

Yeah.

There's a very short after credit scene. It's like, not important at all. But the restaurant is busy and like, sirius is back and he just gets the same thing as last time, but this time he's trying an iced coffee. And then Adelaide is also there and they have different parfaits, and she's excited to try a different one.

I was wondering about it. It was that best moment. I was like, does everyone just get the same thing? Is that why the guys in the episode Won't were all arguing about their food? Because it's the only dish they ever get. It's like they only get teriyaki chicken.

Or they only get he'll just make whatever people want. I feel like people should branch out.

If I've had a restaurant, the meal was that good, I'd risk whatever allergies I have and just try everything.

This is a magical restaurant. I assume you at least have a magical epipen.

If you're in the pasta business and your whole thing is bringing new pastas into your world, maybe you should try some others.

I feel like you shouldn't have a usual, but yes, that's it. R weave there's. Yes.

It's just mellow vibes. Mellow vibes. It passed the I didn't think it was going to pass the initial hornyness check, but it did.

It's just that first episode.

It's very much let's bring the culinary excellence of Food Wars. Take out the hornyness and put in the episode structures of sweetness and lightning of just like, oh, traveler. You would just want one particular dish. Cool. Goodbye.

Focus on that.

Yeah. It's delightful. Very repetitive. So this is very easily like a laundry show or just something in the background because you don't need to hear the, like, three minute explanations on oh, they fry chicken and it tastes good. Wow. But yeah, it probably won't keep your attention for long periods, but if you just need to zone out or relax or destress, at least so far, it's going to be hard to go wrong with this show.

Yeah. I do like shows like this where it's like parts of episodes. Like, focus on developing different characters, especially because in this, they don't give you too much information about shit that you don't care about. It's kind of just like sweet stuff. And then they go to the restaurant and you find out their favorite food, and then they leave. And that's enough.

Yeah. And mentioning the character developments like we see in that last episode, like, oh, regulars are starting to run into each other. So you get the introduction of.

The.

Introduction of characters and like, okay, they're having a significant moment. And then they just pop up and you're like, hey, a friend. And it's nice that they do have that. It's once a week. So for every customer, it is a special thing. You can't just go to every day and just turn into a teddy from bob's burgers. They're just in there all the time.

And getting in the way.

It's like, no, everyone considers this sacred. We all have this reverence for it and we're all learning to be real chill people to each other and just very nice.

Yeah, I did like that it was like dope once a week thing because you do have those things in your weekly schedule. It's like, oh, boy, it's Friday. You know what that means? And you got something to look forward to. So it makes sense why all the customers endure it so much, especially if it is that good. Otherwise you're eating like whatever, you hunt it that day. You're eating like rabbit for the third day in a row. And it's like, holy fuck, if I get some good caesar salad and a cutlet god, I can understand why it's such a big deal.

My tomatoes are too damn square.

I missed the round ones of the other world.

I stacked them too high and the ones on the bottom got crushed. But yeah, I would agree. It's very much an empty head chill. Like a wind down show. Like really no plot whatsoever. It seems like it's all in the same world. Like the fantasy world seems to be all the same world. Or at least every character we see wasn't too drastically different. There wasn't like a transformer walked in from, like, cybertron. Like there wasn't a weird futuristic cyborg or something. So it all seems in the same fantasy realm. So I'm guessing the door just appears randomly throughout that one world. But it would be neat. Well, I'd say it'd be neat if it was like different worlds of various kinds. But then you have like some weird skin, hard flesh monster. rollins, what do I feed this?

My ideal meal, just 1000 bees.

Boy, I'm so sorry, sir.

Have you tried honey?

Can you bring my favorite usual dish? Sure. The concept of emotions. Yes. Thank you very much. All right.

Human flesh. Sorry.

But yeah, it's very much like just a chill zone out and yeah, like model like they give every dish is nice and clear that they like, you know, it's a very clear Japanese culture. They respect food and the cooks and all that stuff. But like, I can only hear someone talk about how fried cullen has made so many times.

Yeah, especially because there is just like a lot of these are just fried meats. So it's like, oh, they put this in oil again.

Okay, let's mince meat color. And like the first 2nd episode and then the next episode is temporary shrimp, which is fried shrimp. It's like, we're getting a lot of fried stuff here. But yeah, I enjoyed it. And I was going to say something else and I forgot. Oh, well, it wasn't important.

Delightful all around.

Went through a doorway. It is Saturday as we record that's true.

Also, I do love how beautiful the women are in this show. I think they're all designed very nicely.

Real pretty and sometimes treated respectfully. So they had to buffer for an episode. But they got there.

Yeah, that dragon was very respectful. She wanted to be naked that long. I remember, though, when they brought out the money with the coins, I watched another show that shout out got be named that would go into excruciating detail about a lot of world building bullshit that had no consequences on the story. So when I saw them bring out the money, I got like flashbacks. And I tend stuff of like, oh, no, the grandpa's going to talk about like for every copper piece that's 13 and a half silver pieces that translate strength and go into the nuance of the currency of the world. I was like, oh no. And then the kid is just like, oh, cool, money. I was like, yeah, it's pretty neat. I was like, oh, great.

Settle down, Patrick Rothfest. We don't need an economics lesson.

And I got so scared when, like that stuff I was like, oh no. And then it just kept going because this show is chill and simple and just to look at pretty food and that's all it is. Nice.

Well, do we have a food thing continuing into next week? Possibly. We have a recommendation from conan J on Twitter. This show has been mentioned briefly in a furry segment, but we're going to be watching Spice and Wolf. If there's a show you would like us to watch, you can send your recommendations to us. Our email is rweebeveria@gmail.com or you can reach out to us on Twitter and Instagram at rweebaria on both. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Mr. Patrick dugan and listen to my new music interview show I'm producing. Besides now it's on YouTube and podcasts.

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You can find me on Twitter at abts. Brendan. It stands for Almost Better Than Silence, which is a video game podcast I also do. And this weekend you can catch me down at the local Japanese restaurant, trolling over croquettes. God damn, are they tasty.

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So long.

The shripe is made of people.

Oh, no.