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Well. I know how to make it.

[But will she? Nah.]

You should have just asked me seeing as how I'm the one who told you about it~

Well, give me your name next time!

[Tooootally not his fault. Never mind that he technically never even asked.]

Or at least give me the recipe next time ya talk up good food, so I don't keep wakin' up hungry for a week!

Fair enough~ I'm Yuukko Ichihara.

Alright. I hope you have a pen an paper ready because I'm going to give you the best ramen recipe I know~

Red Savarin. [There. That takes care of that.]

Alright, no slip-ups this time. Start talkin' and I'll start writin'.

Oookay~

So ramen is more complicated than just putting everything in a pot and boiling it. But we'll get to that.

First you need some pork and salt. You can use chicken too.

For the soup itself you need... ginger, garlic, cloves, green onions, soy sauce, sake, sesame oil and of course water.

So this is what you do. You salt your meat and then you put the water, ginger root, garlic, green onions and salted pork, in a pot and boil it. Skim off any fat. Then change to a low setting and let that boil for an hour or so. Eventually you strain it and save the meat and the liquid too as it's part of your broth.

Ramen noodles don't take very long to make so all the topping stuff is important. Boil your eggs, cook your meat, chop up your vegetables. That's all the time consuming stuff.

So now it's time to finish up your broth. Boil the broth again and add soy sauce, sake, salt and sesame oil at low heat.

Then cook your noodles! Once they're done cooking you put them in a bowl, pour your broth on top then add all your toppings which can be anything really. Eggs, seaweed, and green onions are popular but whatever really suits your fancy. And don't forget your meat either.

It takes more work than a packet you get at the store but all good food does!

[This.

Was all sounding a lot more complicated than he was expecting. And he was only passingly familiar with a few of those ingredients, at that.]

And here I thought gettin' it all from the ocean was gonna be the hard part! Maybe there's a good place in this new place to get some'a those ingredients... and maybe a spice rack.

Might take a while too. Lotta the people down there are kinda... pushy. S'not just me, right?

Make it your great quest then. A goal~ Mine is to create a garden with all the different plants we find around here and wherever we may go next. Yours can be to someday craft the most perfect ramen dish. A noble and delicious journey.

[She laughs mostly because it sounds like something she'd have someone else do.]

And I don't know. I find everyone pleasant. They can get a touch odd if you're on your own so I try and keep one of the children close by. Normally one would get nervous around large groups but this place feels quite the opposite. Keep good company and you'll find the natives to be in much better spirits.

...A bowl of noodles ain't much for a 'great quest', is it? I saved the world once back when I had my mecha. This is just a really weird snack run.

[He'll never stop missing his mecha.]

But I guess I gotta find more people to walk around with if I'm gonna get anything done down there. That or hope I find a beach where the locals won't be such a hassle.

...How's that garden thing going for you, anyway?

The only ramen I know of is merely noodles and water, boiled for several minutes and mixed with a small flavoring packet.

Therefore, I would recommend throwing your ingredients in water and boiling them. See what happens.

That's the thing- I don't have any ingredients yet. I only barely know where to start!

I know it's a noodle soup of some kind, and I know it's got... uh... fish, and cakes, and seaweed, and I think eggs were involved. Didn't sound like the kinda thing you could fit in a packet.

Well, I am speaking from an American point of view, rather than with the experience of one from it's country of origin. No doubt we have cheapened the true recipe, as we are known to do in the great U.S. of A. and packaged it at .25 cents a piece.

But if you don't have the ingredients, whatever they may be, I would recommend you gather them before worrying about what to do with them.

I dunno what kinda place you're talkin' about, but the food probably ain't much good if it's that cheap. [Or... what sounded like it was supposed to be cheap.]

Well, that's why I'm here askin'. For all the things I heard about ramen, the recipe wasn't one of 'em.

A country known for its cheap food and obesity problem. I imagine many would agree the food isn't very good.

Ah. Well, that's a bit of a problem now isn't it? Have you considered investing in a cookbook?

Tried it. Couldn't find anythin' back in that weird mansion or around here. Good to know it ain't just in that one witch's home world, at least. B'sides, I'm not that good of a cook, but I figure this one just might be worth a shot.

Then again, I've never really... fished before, either. At least not the way it's done around here.

...Isn't that how most soups are?

[Like, he just dropped a squirrel, pelt and all, into a boiling pot and it all worked out fine...]

That's what I thought, too, but apparently this one's gonna be all complicated.

[Maybe this was why his sister did most of the cooking back home.]

And seein' an ocean for the first time's weird enough without havin' to figure out how to get seaweed and stuff from it.

Weird.

[What a tedious soup... Why would anyone even want to bother...]

Seaweed isn't hard to get. Or fish.

Not that hard to get? And just how 'm I supposed to fish without my mecha?

I don't know what a mecha is, but you just use a fishing pole or a net, stupid.

You don't know what a mecha is and you're callin' me stupid?! What the heck do you think the harpoon gets mounted on?

[In fairness, his experience 'fishing' was something a bit bigger in scale...]

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[Hrk.]

I'm not stupid. I know you just need a stick with a line and hook on it. You just hold it. It's not hard.

A stick. A stick and a line. Held in your hands.

[He'd gone from being offended to being baffled.]

Y'know you're just askin' to have that break the moment that beastie starts pulling back down below the clouds, right?

[clouds...]

You're not fishing right.

[This fact is important to establish first.]

You fish fish out of water. If you hook a beast big enough to break your rod, you kill it. ...Or die. If you're bad at things, or not careful.

[or something.]

[It takes a little while before the response arrives this time, but those gears do eventually start turning the right direction.]

Right. Gotta remember these places are a bit different from what I'm used to. Never done this kinda thing by hand before. Or in water.

[Dangit, just when he was starting to get over missing his mecha.]

And I'm guessin' I'll be stuck fishin' up the smaller stuff this time, too.

Not fishing in water...

[That's a background mumble, something not necessarily part of the conversation even though it's related. What a ridiculous thing to do? How could it even be called fishing?]

It isn't hard. I can do it. And show you how, I guess. We can get enough for your weird food even if they're small.

It's kind of a long story, but y'know how that island with the witches on it is just floatin' in the middle of nothing? Somethin' like that. Most of my fishin' was done in the clouds, not the water.

Might take ya up on that offer, too, but probably gotta find the rod and net first. Shouldn't be too hard to find with a real ocean by this new place, right?

Mm.

[...]

They're fish people...

[Is this going to be illegal?]

[...Huh.]

...They are, but they're different from the ones swimmin' in the water, aren't they? So they wouldn't be mad, right?

They ain't hearin' this, are they?

Mrrmn...

[he doesn't know anything about ocean laws... fish people didn't exist in his world, outside of extremely unfortunate situations involving a deadly plague and the mutations it brings about.]

I don't think it works for them. No weird...thing. [Signet, the mental image helpfully supplies.] Right...?

[being real, he hasn't gotten too close.]

[Well, at least he's not publically incriminating himself here.]

Augh, just when I thought I'd have a shot at this. When're we gonna find another ocean if this turns out to be some kinda weird crime?

A real ocean, not that little puddle at the edge of our usual island.

[mental equivalent of a shrug. search him, dude, he's just as new, here.

also it's worth noting that the palai are technically lizards and are terrified of the fish people... lalli's fantasy racist and just lumps them all together.]

Does it matter that much...?

[You're talking to a dog who hasn't seen much of either, as if he'd be the one to nitpick.]

Of course it does!! If I can't make this stuff I'm never gonna be able to stop wondering how it tastes!

Okay. But not making it right now doesn't mean you'll never make it. Just do it later.

Later?! What if we don't get another world with ocean like this one? I can't exactly fish into sky off of our usual island!

And even if I could, APPARENTLY THAT'S DOIN' IT WRONG.

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