God of cooking

Chapter 31: A well made dish and good food (2)

It does not belong to me. It is translated by KobatoChanDaiSuki  

Of course, considering that Chloe's cooking level was 7, it wasn't weird for a 6 points dish to appear. Because if her condition was bad, that kind of dish could be made. But taking that into account, there seemed to be no dissatisfaction on Chloe's face. Because if she knew that she had failed, there would be no way she didn't put on a disappointed face.

And Chloe wasn't such a bad chef as to not differentiate whether she had failed her dish or not. That's why it was more confusing for Jo Minjoon. How could she have such a light face after making a 6 points dish?

Jo Minjoon looked at the soup with doubting eyes. It was at that moment. Someone touched Jo Minjoon's back from behind.

"What are you doing and not seating?"

It was Kaya. She served the grilled scallops directly on a plate. So on the table were placed the soup, pasta and the main dish, the scallops. It could be said that it was closer to a Korean formal dinner than a course cooking.

They were eating by themselves so there was no need to keep the order of the serving. Jo Minjoon sat on the place. Marco put the dough in the oven and opened his mouth while walking towards the table.

"It looks like a buffet."

Kaya smiled without saying a word. And Jo Minjoon looked at her dish. Maybe it was made with her usual skills, but her grilled scallops was 7 points. The exterior of it was seared like a custard pudding applied with butter.

However, what Jo Minjoon ate first was the potato soup. In the first place, this dish had the main role, so it was an obvious thing to eat it first.

The soup wasn't as thick as cream soup, but rather it was like korean or 's(삼계탕) soup. When he drank a spoonful of the brownish soup, the clear flavor and the scallions aroma roamed around the mouth.

It was tasty. But just that. A flavor where you seemed to have tried it elsewhere. It wasn't subtle nor strong, but the flavor was just at the middle of those.

"Wow Chloe. This is delicious."

At the voice of Kaya, Jo Minjoon couldn't help but get surprised. Kaya was the type to not talk much, but she was also worse at doing compliments. That's why when Jo Minjoon saw that the soup was 6 points, he thought that Kaya would surely talk bad about the dish.

However, the results were the opposite. Jo Minjoon drank the soup with a dumbfounded face. This time, he also ate the mashed potato along with buttercups. It was just that much. It was good to eat it as a meal, but the strong impression of Chloe couldn't be felt as usual.

And at that moment, Jo Minjoon thought.

'Why must I feel impressed by a dish?'

Maybe he was thinking about useless things. Thinking about it, Korean meat restaurants didn't receive those high points. Remembering the times when he was in Korea, he remembered that they were mostly 5 or 6 points.

But it didn't mean that the meat wasn't delicious. There was no one that was dissatisfied with the meat. It was good food. Although it was just roasted meat to say that it was cooking, but there would be nobody that would say that it wasn't food.

At that point, Jo Minjoon started to question the scoring system. At first, he thought that it was a system that scored the points of a food, like the name implied. But would that score represent everything of that dish? Because he thought like that, the word 'cooking' started to bother him.

"Minjoon? Why that expression? Is it not tasty?"

Jo Minjoon, that was immersed in his thoughts for a while, woke up by Chloe's voice. She was checking him with a worried face. Jo Minjoon laughed awkwardly. In that instant, many things passed through his head. It was about wanting to express honestly or not.