Jo Minjoon replied briefly. There was no need to talk long. It was perfect. Those short words held all of his feelings. Honestly, if he added something more to that, it would be comparable to a leftover. It had all the points cooking needed to have.
At first glance it seemed like a simple word, but to make that kind of dish you needed a huge amount of experience, effort, and care. Those were obvious things for those who loved to cook. Chloe put a dumbfounded face for a moment, but soon said with a soft voice as if she had understood.
“You should have enjoyed it a lot.”
Jo Minjoon replied with just a smile. It was a smile full of happiness. At that moment, Chloe looked at his smile absentmindedly and turned her head. Kaya said with a sharp voice.
“Don’t laugh. You pig.”
“Now, I need permission to also laugh?”
“My stomach hurts. I ate it when others eat more delicious things than me.”
“You are really spoiled. Your friend can eat delicious things.”
“I hate it even more when a friend does that.”
Kaya talked like that and glared at Jo Minjoon. He just laughed and sat on the sofa in the lobby. The other participants chased away the depressing mood and approached him. They could only be curious about the three star. The questions poured like a waterfall.
“What dishes came out?”
“Did you meet the chef there? What did he say?”
“How much did the course cost?”
Jo Minjoon raised his hand as to telling them to calm down. He opened his mouth with a sickened face.
“Why are you only asking me? Ask something to the others too.”
“…….Your taste is sensitive, so you will be able to clearly feel it. Express it for us.”
“I wonder. Even if I felt it, i’m not confident in expressing it…….’
“Fine. Then at least tell us the score. How was it?”
Of course this question. It was as he expected. Didn’t Martin also focus on asking him the score? Jo Minjoon replied with a smile. He didn’t hit around the bush.
“10 points, there was one.”
Along with those words, almost at the same time, sighs of amazements were heard. They looked right next to them how Jo Minjoon scored the dishes. Even 7 and 8 points dishes were already outstanding ones, but for it to be 10 points. Even listening to it was a far-off field.
The conversation proceeded for quite a while. Maybe because the atmosphere didn’t get down, they overdid it a little. But just because of that, they didn’t make up the interest and expectation. The three star was the dream of every chef. Although the price was the price, because there weren’t many that amounted, normal people wouldn’t be able to get recruited. That was reality.
And because they were participant, it was no different at all. They had the dream to cook, but most of them had normal jobs that wasn’t related to cooking. Wasn’t Chloe a normal college student?
They talked even after midnight. In the middle of that, they made some snacks because they were hungry. Because they wouldn’t be given a mission for at least some days. For the rhythm of the routine of life to get ruined one day wasn’t that big of a problem.
As night came, there naturally was alcohol bottles next to them. The flavor wasn’t so good because it was for cooking uses, but it was enough to keep holding a long conversation.
“Would we be able to make it……….?”