Playing house in the anime world

Kakyoin Noriaki had only heard it from others. It was said that the Atobe chaebol donated a large sum of money to replace all the facilities in the junior high school with new ones, etc. So even though Atobe said a lot of very arrogant words at the opening ceremony, he was not excluded by everyone.

But that is ultimately a junior high school matter and has nothing to do with their high school department.

Moreover, when the eldest son of the Atobe family enters the high school department, it is not certain whether he will still be in Hyotei. Even if he is, Noriaki Kakyoin will have graduated from Hyotei by then.

So he just heard these things and forgot about them, not taking them seriously.

Now that Kenji Hagiwara mentioned "Atobe", he remembered it again.

But it’s nothing, just some gossip after dinner.

After sharing gossip along the way, they finally arrived at the restaurant where they had made a reservation in advance.

This store is a small project invested by the Atobe Zaibatsu. As an employee benefit, Kenji Hagiwara and Sakunosuke Oda each have a membership card of the store, which allows them to get discounts on weekends and holidays.

This restaurant specializes in Western-themed cuisine, and its cooking style combines traditional Japanese cuisine with Western cuisine.

As you can expect this is an expensive fine dining restaurant, but they have a membership card and the prices are much cheaper after discount.

Moreover, this restaurant is semi-self-service. You only need to pay the price of one portion for main course and dessert, and then you can eat as much as you want. Other items need to be ordered separately.

This is very friendly to big eaters like Rengoku Kyojuro, and also very friendly to children who love desserts.

A few people asked for a private room. There was a park outside the window and the scenery was pretty nice.

"It's actually possible to order directly online. This is quite rare nowadays!" Kenji Hagiwara felt very curious when holding the tablet used for ordering.

Although technology has become more and more advanced, many convenient technologies have only been developed slowly, and it is especially difficult to popularize them in daily life.

After all, business is aimed at the general public, and many people may not be able to accept emerging technologies.

Moreover, many elderly people are not very familiar with new technologies, so it is very difficult to apply new technologies in their lives.

However, many large companies are still very enthusiastic in this regard. For example, the Atobe Zaibatsu has many high-tech products, and the company itself also attaches great importance to research in this area.

Could it be that the Tomobe Zaibatsu invested here?

Moreover, each person has one tablet, and the waiter will distribute a number of tablets according to the number of people dining.

Kenji Hagiwara studied the tablet and found that it was not an ordinary tablet, but a tablet specially made for taking orders. All the software in it were new to him. There was software for taking orders, software for evaluation and feedback, software for introducing the story of the restaurant, and software specifically for introducing each dish.

They played with the tablet for a long time before finally starting to place their orders.

"What staple food should I choose? Pasta, bread, rice..." Kenji Hagiwara didn't expect that there would be so many types of staple food to choose from.

And he lets you choose a major category, and then you can order any staple food under this major category.

For example, if you order "rice", then you can order all rice-based staple foods, such as fried rice, sushi, seafood rice, bibimbap, etc.

However, these staple dishes are relatively ordinary and relatively vegetarian. If you want to order the ones with a lot of toppings and meat, you still need to order them separately. After all, if you order whatever you want, you don’t need to order other dishes at all. Just ordering "rice" will fill you up.

"I want this rice!" Rengoku Kyojuro is an absolute rice lover, so naturally he ordered rice.

"Then I'll try this noodles." Kenji Hagiwara chose noodles.

Since we don’t usually cook any pasta other than instant noodles at home, we’ll just have noodles this time.

Matsuda Jinpei chose rice, and Morobushi Kagemitsu thought about it and also chose rice.

Oda Sakunosuke also chose rice because he saw many kinds of curry rice that he had never seen before.

Kakyoin Noriaki chose bread because he saw a lot of very interesting breads in it and wanted to try them.

Aiko Gojo is still the person who is easily attracted by "rebellious" food. The first thing she saw when she opened the menu was the "dumplings" option in the staple food.

There is also the option of "xiao long bao" next door, but in her experience, if you want to eat delicious xiao long bao, it is better to go to a specialized Chinese restaurant.

But dumplings are relatively safe, and many of them look interesting...

Because it is a semi-self-service restaurant, dumplings can be ordered individually, and Aiko Gojo ordered one of all the varieties.

"15 different kinds of dumplings..." Zhu Fu Jingguang was amazed as he watched from the side, because the flavors of those dumplings really sounded interesting.

However...some of these flavors always feel like dark cuisine.

"Aiko, you really like this kind of weird and innovative food..." Hagiwara Kenji recalled the Ice Cream Hell Ramen from a long time ago.

They later tasted it together and found that it was indeed not bad, but the idea was so shocking and the visual impact was very intense.

And it is indeed just as Aiko Gojo said, it is such an impactful idea, but the taste is not as stimulating as imagined. Isn't this a failure of innovation?

But don’t be fooled by Aiko Gojo’s outrageous pursuit of exciting cooking remarks. When she cooks for herself, the dishes she makes are always very conventional and she never innovates recklessly.

But she is indeed very receptive to innovative cuisine, which is not surprising if you think about it carefully, because no one in the family is particularly good at cooking, and everyone is just starting to learn cooking. Although Gojo Aiko has taken cooking classes, the dishes she learned are all very basic, and the taste is normal and delicious.

And when everyone has learned the basic cooking and starts to go further, some strange dishes are likely to appear on the table.

That's why they are so accepting of those dark dishes, especially after they met Momoi Satsuki, their acceptance becomes even higher.

But now that they have a chef named Zhufu Jingguang who is said to have very good cooking skills, I think their meals will be able to get a big upgrade in the future.