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[gastronomics]

[ The video starts on a single glass:



It's set on a counter next to a sink. ]

Caramelized bacon with crystallized egg yolk, to end on a dessert note of anti-griddle-frosted mango sabayon. It's good but..

[ It's not good enough. She sounds disappointed in herself. Her hand comes and slowly pushes the glass of breakfast into the sink, where it goes to waste. She goes slow enough that it almost looks like a tragedy when the perfectly crisp bacon hits the sink and breaks in its fragility, the mango sabayon tripping down the sink slowly like the spilled blood of breakfasts in some kind of breakfast war. ]

Everyone's worlds have so much more to offer in advancing my cooking and I haven't taken enough advantage. Tell me about your world's cuisine, please! In particular, breakfast. We'll worry about the other meals later, one step at a time.

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[kyoken]

[Of course, she gets to do all the cooking stuff while he's on the phone making arrangements for their upcoming project. Very fair, Alice.]

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[gastronomics]

[ Once she's off the video she comes over to him. Get off the phone, silly head. She's just going to prod his sides lightly at the same time with her index fingers until he pays attention to her. Ryo, come cook with her. ]

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[black_black_heart]

I'm from a real basic Earth with real basic stuff. So, not much help there.

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[zenoh]

[ Ayame is chillin' at a coffee shop when she sees this video in the net. Watching the depressed Alice throw away the perfectly looking sabayon almost made her gasp. And that poor bacon... ]

Hello again. I assume you're from a planet Earth? If so, I have little knowledge of new cuisines to offer you. Cooking is something I'm new at. However, a subarchway left behind by my colleague does offer a variety of Earth-based foods, particularly Emirati cuisine.

[ She's had food from different universes, but sadly she doesn't think she's good enough to describe them with words. She just ate them. ]

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[youfool]

[Gee, that looked novel! And such strange and interesting words, too. He'll have to look up what "anti-griddle-frosted" means.

And down the drain it goes, falling just as fast as his expression. Alas, poor breakfast-drink-thing, killed before your providence.]

Goodness, was it as bad as all that? Was there no means to give it to someone who'd have enjoyed it regardless of imperfections?

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[gastronomics]

Hmm... well, what's your favorite then? There's no sense in ignoring what I already know if the group here has preference for a certain kind. There are all kinds of regional breakfasts even in basic Earth, it's not all bacon and eggs.

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[gastronomics]

You should still share your knowledge! Just because I'm from an Earth doesn't mean I know all of earth's cultures. Anything might be inspiring. What sort of Emirati cuisine do you like?

[ That might be good to know. She's never really worked with that culture's food. ]

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[gastronomics]

[ It's pretty much exactly what the name says it is- it lowers the temperature instead of raises it. ]

It wasn't bad at all, but it wasn't worth selling at the restaurant and if I give away food all the time I end up attracting the wrong kind of crowd...

[ She gave free food to Mercury all the time before his evil half tried to kill her. The only reason she's not as livid about it is because he also saved her, but that doesn't make her comfortable just pulling losers in to eat her test food any more... ]

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[truesmiles]

I must admit that looked better than what I could come up with.

[And considering he has a cafe, he did limit himself on what he could cook, which was mostly desserts.]

[gundesign]

Wha...?

[She can't deny that Jeb would make it taste delicious, though. Maybe even delicious enough for this woman's standards -- but she doesn't voice this. ...right. She should probably something else.]

My world's breakfast is pretty simple, you know? Eggs made in different ways, hashbrowns, pancakes, waffles, bacon, sausage, toast, English muffins, that kind of good stuff. [But... hm.] Hey, have you ever heard of a breakfast pizza?

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[captain_by_the_book]

I can't say anything about the taste, but it looks impressive. I would like to try it.

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[zenoh]

[ Ayame takes a moment to ponder and recall the limited amount of Emirati foods she had the chance to eat. She mostly stuck to one dish in particular, since she wasn't as adventurous before than she is here in Genessia. ]

I can only recall having one kind of local breakfast dish there, which is essentially just a version of pancakes called a chebab. If I remember correctly, the ones I've had in a particular restaurant added saffron, rose water, and cardamom into the flour. Date syrup and sesame seeds are added as the final touch.

[ Thinking back about it just made her hungry again. Ayame sighs quietly, feeling a tinge of regret that she didn't try more of the local stuff when she had the chance ]

The dish I had the most is the kabsa. Simply put, it's a dish with slow-cooked meat on top of rice and mixed with a variety of spices. The meats range from chicken, beef, fish, goat, and even camel which I've had. It's quite delicious. The way they cook meat in a clay pit oven dug on the ground is something I haven't seen before as well.

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[reachnotflexibility]

[What even is that? Human food is strange.]

Back home we have something called Pulan Toast. It's similar to your French Toast from what I've been told.

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[kyoken]

[Are you serious, Alice. If he doesn't make the arrangements, they don't get done in a timely manner. He continues to talk on the phone while she prods him, trying to push through it to get this done.]

[gastronomics]

So super-American breakfast?

[ That seems to be what most people are familiar with here. ]

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[gastronomics]

You're welcome to stop by Nakiba once I perfect it. This one wasn't good enough for me, and I'd never put anything on the menu that doesn't make my customers melt.

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How is it made? What's the difference between it and French toast?

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[gastronomics]

Of course it does. I wouldn't be an award-winning gourmet chef if I couldn't make something at minimum this visually impressive. It's a different category than cafes.

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[gastronomics]

[ That would certainly be a different kind of flavor than most of the things people here requested. It seemed like the majority of people here for whatever reason leaned toward American breakfast styles, which is pretty strange since everyone's from different worlds.

Slow-cooked meat on rice isn't very breakfast-y, though it certainly sounds like a different cooking method than she's used to. She wonders if they could try something like that to get a different flavor.. maybe not a pit in the ground, but a portable version of it? Things to think about. Alice looks like she's listening intently, only looking away from the video to write down a note or ideas. ]

Do you know what the oven is called? Are there different kinds of chebab like how Americans do pancakes or Europeans do Belgian waffles and crepes? Or do they have a standard ingredient set typically?

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[gastronomics]

[ Okay she stops prodding him, but only to go across from him with some lobster that he picked out this morning with a handheld smoke gun. She's holding it hostage. Who knows what flavor is in there?? She might flavor this lobster with lavender!! Only Ryo can save the still living lobster from an experiment!!! ]

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Well different kinds of foods as well. You do more variety, whereas I just do desserts.

[He is tempted to just see how creative he can be though when he was the time and has nothing else to do.]

Though I do wonder how do you come up with ideas?

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That's the fun of a rotating menu, after all.

[ Plus, there's an exclusivity to having dishes that can only be eaten for short periods of time. It keeps people coming back because they don't want to miss what's next.. but they also miss out on the people who just are looking for something familiar. It's like comparing apples and oranges, which is why she doesn't consider Fai competition really. ]

For me personally, I cook with the idea that I want to bring a new experience to anyone who eats my food. I want think to see food differently than they ever had before, and to do that, I think about the properties of a food on a molecular level. Once you know their molecular properties, you can think about all the different chemical reactions different segments of their compounds can create. That's how I think of different ideas. Like making chocolate into a substance that's as soft as a cloud that melts as soon as it touches your tongue like a fallen raindrop, or making a carrot soup that bursts in your mouth like a flavorful grenade instead of a gentle caress. My inspiration is the new and unexpected- it's why I try to learn about new things whenever I can instead of sticking to what I already know.

[zenoh]

[ Alice's small barrage of questions were to be expected, but it still caused Ayame to pause slightly. But she can appreciate the interest that Alice is giving off, Ayame just feels kind of bad that she wouldn't be too helpful in her answers ]

The oven is called a tandoor.

[ Tandoor is said with an accent. Luckily for Alice, even in Genessia they sell modern versions of a tandoor. No digging needed, and it works just like a modern rotisserie. Ayame's experiences with tandoor-baked foods are just intentionally traditional ]

As for the chebab, I'm not sure. I've only had it in one particular restaurant that was ran by a good acquaintance of mine. Aside from the added ingredients I've mentioned, it is made just like a regular pancake. I'm sorry if I couldn't answer that.

There is the regag, however. Which you could say is the local counterpart for a crêpe. The dough is put on a hot flat, resulting in a flaky texture, then eggs are added, with anchovy sauce and vegetable oil. Some people add cheese and meat fillings in their regag for a more satisfying meal.

[ She grew up eating rice a lot, and aside from her high calorie intake, she likes to eat kabsa in the mornings. Ayame was lucky she was in a city that never sleeps, so those can be made 24/7 ]

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[truesmiles]

So you put a lot of thought into it that really most people wouldn't even begin to consider?

[It was something he could at least understand, but not something he would ever do personally, but it was always impressive never the less. Lots of though, which might have been more than what he did. He did based on what he thought would be interesting and would work together.]

What would chocolate that would be soft like a cloud and melt be called? Would it be like foam or something else completely?

[gundesign]

Yeah, more or less. [She laughs.] But hey, can you blame me? I'm from Massachusetts! You don't get much more American than that, you know?

[Well, she's from a Massachusetts, at least. Tori's sure that with each varying version of Earth-- the US in particular-- there's differences. ...maybe she should find out sometime.]