Vinegared white rice with sliced raw fish on top, are you familiar with that dish?" [2]
"Eh? For real?"
Hearing me, Nanahoshi suddenly brightens up.
But Sylvaril shakes her head.
"No, I don't, but I do prepare rice often."
Nanahoshi looks disappointed.
But now I'm excited.
As long as we have rice, then any side dish would do.
"How about adding chicken egg and flour in cold water, mixed well; add in shrimp, squid, and vegetables; then boil it all in hot oil?"[3]
"I've never heard of that before either, but we do have flour and eggs..."
We have eggs!
In other words, I can finally eat that! [4]
Well, no sushi and tempura.
Then probably no sukiyaki either.
We need cooking wine, rock sugar, and soy sauce for that.
It won't be the real thing, but with ingredients, I think we can come up with something close...
So it comes down to soy sauce.
The taste of Japan I long for comes down to soy sauce.
"Then, a sauce made from fermented soy beans. Does that exist? Soy sauce, anything like that?"
"Not in the castle."
Sigh, none.
Sure enough, this world, no soy sauce.
"But I have heard that sort of seasoning exists in Biheiriru Kingdom [5]. I can ask Arumanfi to check."
"Yes! Please!"
Even troubling Arumanfi is fine.
If it can be found, then he has to find it.