What she was in charge of were the fishes would that serve as the main dish. There was nothing aside from fish, since On The Lake was next to Lake Michigan and took on the shape of a restaurant specializing in seafood. But despite that, they don’t only use fish caught in the lake.
‘It’s a sort of concept.’
Seafood that’s sold in a restaurant next to a lake. If you were a customer, it was a combination that would make you feel some kind of romance. Jo Minjoon slightly looked at Kaya and asked.
“How was the meal?”
“How was what? The food?”
“That’s also it but…….. You told me last time that you have never gone to a restaurant in your life. This place seems quite fine. Do you feel like it became a good experience?”
“…….Ah, right. It was the first.”
Kaya frowned. Thinking about it, it was her first restaurant experience, but thinking about this being a mission, she couldn’t properly enjoy it. She felt depressed. Kaya said in a mortifying voice.
“Today’s null.”
“Why? You didn’t like it?”
“There’s no way I would. This place is full of cameras, so I can’t eat without even being able to bend my back.”
“Isn’t it normal to eat without bending your back?”
“I don’t like eating while putting on a dignified air. Putting your head in the dish is the normal thing. Just moving the fork is uncomfortable, so how will you eat?”
“Then why didn’t you bend it?”
“If I ate like that, those bastards will badmouth me again. That she shows that she couldn’t learn and eat. Although it’s true, I still don’t like it.”
Kaya pouted her lower lip and got depressed. Jo Minjoon looked at her lips that seemed like a beak with eyes that seemed to be thinking about something else and then, he said with a soft voice.
“If I got a chance to be in charge a restaurant, I will make you eat however you want.”
“…….And when are you going to do it?”
“I wonder. Even if I get in really late, I will be able to do it in 20 years.”
The normal age when chefs got in charge of their own restaurant was on their early thirties, if they were fast. Of course, there would be some cases that geniuses became owners of a restaurant that already got a Michelin star in their twenties, but you needed many cases for that to happen. Skills was an obvious thing, but you also needed popularity and funds. It was a case that was so rare it could be counted with your hand.
“Thinking about it, I should be able to get in charge of one immediately. The winner of season 1, they said that he/she recently became a head chef of a restaurant. But although they have a separate owner…….For someone that came from the market to become that much, you said it all. If I win, I will be able to do that for you quite quickly.”
“…….Victory is mine, though? Don’t talk about other things and keep talking about the restaurant thing. If you get to open a restaurant, where are you going to do it? ……It isn’t Korea, right?”
“I don’t know. Taking into account the familiarity of the ingredients and the eating habits, it will be the best to do it in Korea……..”
“You have more fans in the US. How about just opening one here?”
Kaya said with quite a gentle voice. Honestly speaking, marriage immigration was nonsense, so she wondered if he worked in the US as a chef, it would be possible to immigrate for the job. She didn’t like it that Jo Minjoon went to live to a place that you wouldn’t know when war will happen.
However Jo Minjoon looked like he didn’t understand Kaya. He looked at her with weird eyes.
“But why are you so suddenly speaking about this?”
“No, just so.”