The menu consists of white rice, miso soup with deep-fried tofu and okara, grilled fish, various tempura, meat topopo, chikuzen-ni, sweet omelet, kiriboshi-daikon, steamed egg custard, tsukudani, and oshinko.
The amount of each dish was kept small so that the guests could enjoy a variety of tastes.
"This is also delicious.
The tempura also included vegetables such as pumpkin, eggplant, shishito pepper, sweet potato, prawns, squid, and squid. And prawns, squid, white fish, and chikuwa (bamboo wafers).
"This tempura of this is very different and tasty!"
Surprisingly, the tempura of the bamboo rings was well received.
"I like this one ......"
Cocona said she liked the sweet omelet.
Daikie seemed to like the chawanmushi and asked the golem maid to teach her how to make it later.
"The rice at Jin's is delicious. Is it the way they cook it?
Zion says, but Jin honestly doesn't know what the difference is. Then Peridot1, a five-colored golem maid, said, "Perhaps it's the water,
"Perhaps, the water is different. Isn't the water in the where you live, Mr. Zion, hard water?"
"Hard water? What is that?"
Theon did not know about hard water. Neither Maricka nor Rhodes nor ...... anyone else there seemed to know.
(Oh, I guess it wasn't in the ......<> section. ......)
Jin adds a supplementary explanation.
Hard water is water with high mineral content and soft water is water with low mineral content. I think the water of the Nordic Federation has a high calcium and magnesium content.
Jin concluded by saying that he did not know the exact proportions that separate hard water from soft water.
For reference, in modern Japan, water with less than 100 milligrams of calcium and magnesium per liter is considered soft water, and more than 100 milligrams is considered hard water (there is also a standard of 1 20 milligrams per liter).
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The old man explained the situation to Zion and the others, and they seemed to understand it.
"I see. So if we remove the impurities by purification, we can cook better tasting rice.
"That's true, but if you remove them completely, the taste may disappear.
That means distilled water doesn't taste good.
"It's difficult. ...... Well, I'll try some things when I get home."
"I'll see what I can do when I get back.
The water in Leusert, the capital of the Shoro Kingdom, is also hard water because of the subsoil water from Lake Tosmo.
Especially when it passes through calcareous bedrock, it contains high calcium content.
It is also said that hard water is suitable for so-called "Western-style" stews. It is said that this is because it is easier to remove the scum from meat.
Soft water, on the other hand, is suitable for cooking in general, but does not provide minerals.
"I wonder to what extent the water of the Laurentian continent also contains minerals. ......"
Jin did not pay much attention to this.
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The old man explained that the reason was that the taste of the food would not be reduced to an extreme level.
"I see. I see. ...... So you are saying that Zion's sense of taste is superior."
"Why is that so?
"No, I didn't even notice ...... or rather didn't care, because I noticed a difference in the taste of the rice."
"Well, I guess so. ...... Well, I'll take that as a compliment from Jin."
The dinner ended in a generally friendly manner, although there were a few moments like this.
"......Tomorrow, I'll invite Ludmilla and the others to come over here and take Daikie and the others to ...... or..."
Either one of these will be left to the doppelgangers, Jin thinks.
"Well, I guess we can just leave Horaijima to the doppelgangers while we take Daikie and the others home."
He is busy, but he feels that it is fulfilling and typical of him.
"It's the season of the teacher, isn't it?
Jin smiles to himself, thinking that as a <<>, it can't be helped that he is running around so much.