"I originally thought she was a food lover, but after further questioning, I found out that was not the case."
"She told me that she had an older brother who ran away from home and came to Tokyo when she was very young."
As he was talking, Yushan Kazuto paused, and Ebina Koichiro's eyes flickered a little, but he still forced himself not to speak.
"Her last impression of this brother was a piece of news that was sent back to her hometown in Akita three or four years ago - he was working in a restaurant in Tokyo."
"So on weekends, she would go to various restaurants in Tokyo in the hope of finding this brother."
"Nana! Are you talking about Nana?" Ebina Koichiro finally couldn't help but speak.
"Yes, her name is Nana Ebina." Hayama Kazuto responded.
"Actually, the reason I came here to look for Mr. Ebina was because of your sister's request." Yushan Kazuto said.
Ebina Koichirō blinked slightly, but turned his head away, supported his chin with both hands, and thought for a long time.
Memories of his hometown in Akita surged in his mind, and Ebina Koichiro realized:
"So, Nana is old enough to go to high school now?"
In Ebina Koichiro's memory, Ebina Nana was still the little girl who was not even as tall as his waist. No matter how he imagined, he could only imagine Ebina Nana in junior high school. He didn't expect that she was already a high school student.
"I've been away from home for too long, so I might be a little confused about time." Yushan Heren said.
Ebina Koichirō nodded, then looked back and calculated the time. He realized that he had been away from home for nine years without realizing it.
Another year passed, and ten years had passed. Nana Ebina was old enough to go to high school. Now that she thought about it carefully, it seemed normal.
Seeing Ebina Koichiro lost in his reverie, Hayama Kazuto couldn't help but smile: "Well, some of the things just now were made up by me."
Ebina Koichiro couldn't help but look up and stare at Hayama Kazuto. Everything that Hayama Kazuto said matched up with everything, but the other party suddenly said that he had made it up.
"It wasn't that difficult actually. When I first met Ebina, I asked her why she came to Tokyo to study."
"She said that the quality of education in Tokyo is better, and secondly, she has a brother who ran away from home and works in a restaurant in Tokyo, so she wanted to come to Tokyo to find him." Yushan Kazuto said.
Ebina Koichiro couldn't help but look at Hayama Kazuto. In his opinion, there didn't seem to be much difference between Hayama Kazuto's previous and subsequent statements.
"It's just that, by some coincidence, I'm a regular customer of black bean ramen."
"When I heard your name from Ebina's mouth, I remembered that Uncle Kurodou once complained about you to me."
Ebina Koichiro couldn't help but blink. Is everything really such a coincidence?
"So I took Ebina to Black Bean Ramen and asked Uncle Black Bean about you. But the result was that more than a year ago, or two years ago, you left Black Bean Ramen and opened a restaurant in another place by yourself."
Hearing this, Ebina Koichiro could not help but lower his head.
After arriving in Tokyo, even convenience stores were unwilling to hire him because of his Japanese accent.
In the end, it was Uncle Kurodo who took Ebina Koichiro in, and also passed on his unique skills to him. It can be seen that Uncle Kurodo was training Ebina Koichiro as his successor.
However, after completing his studies, Koichiro Ebina left Black Bean Ramen.
If we were to say who Ebina Koichiro feels the most guilty towards, it would be Uncle Black Bean. Otherwise, he would not come back so often and glance at the Black Bean Ramen sign from afar.
"Uncle Black Bean doesn't know where your restaurant is, but he told us that sometimes you will return to the vicinity of Black Bean Ramen."
"So I asked Uncle Hei Dou to inform me when he found your whereabouts."
Hearing this, Ebina Koichiro's pupils couldn't help but shrink.
He thought he could come back without anyone noticing every time, but he didn't expect that he was discovered by Uncle Hei Dou countless times.
"I was able to find you this time because Uncle Black Bean told me a few days ago that he found you near Black Bean Ramen."
"After some investigation, I found your residence. It just so happened that you ordered fresh food delivery, and I happened to know the deliveryman, so I discussed it with him and temporarily took over his job."
Although Hayama Kazuto's words had been embellished, they were basically true. Ebina Koichiro finally understood how Hayama Kazuto had found him.
"However, I'm a little curious, why did you stay in the house for a whole week to research new dishes? Doesn't your restaurant need to be open?" Changing the subject, Yushan Heren couldn't help but speak.
What is certain is that Koichiro Ebina has never lived here before, after all, this room looks relatively new. Koichiro Ebina's restaurant is definitely not nearby, otherwise Uncle Kurodou would not have noticed it.
What Hayama Kazuto was more curious about was why Ebina Koichiro moved here and the location of the restaurant he ran.
Ebina Koichiro couldn't help but glance at Yushan Kazuto and whispered
"You probably haven't told Caicai about me yet, right?"
"That's not the case for now." Yushanhe said.
Hearing this, Ebina Koichiro couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. To be honest, he hadn't figured out how to face his family yet.
Continuing to escape is definitely not a good choice, not to mention that Yushan and others have already discovered him, where can he escape to?
After a few seconds of silence, Ebina Koichiro finally said, "My store is closed."
Yushan Kazuto couldn't help but blink slightly. He didn't expect that Ebina Koichiro's shop had closed. Could it be that it went bankrupt due to poor management?
But after the store went bankrupt, it seemed a little unreasonable that Koichiro Ebina was still able to rent such a house. Thinking of this, Yushan Kazuto couldn't help but look at Koichiro Ebina.
"It's just closed, not bankrupt." Looking at the suspicious look of Yushan Kazuto, Ebina Koichiro couldn't help but explain.
"I see." Yushan Heren nodded. There is a difference between active closure and passive bankruptcy.
“The new store is still under renovation, so I can only research innovative dishes at home.”
Chapter 1809: Koichiro Ebina's New Restaurant
After chatting with Koichiro Ebina for a while, Yushan and others found out that after leaving Black Bean Ramen, the other party went to Hamamatsu to open a restaurant.
In the past two years, the restaurant in Hamamatsu has been doing quite well, but Koichiro Ebina has always had a Tokyo dream in his heart, so now he has returned to Tokyo again and rented a well-located shop near Taito District.
"The location of the new store is not far from where you live, right?" Yushan Heren asked.
Koichiro Ebina shook his head. One of the important reasons for renting here was that it was not far from Xindian.
"So, you are now researching innovative dishes for the opening of the new store?" Yushan Kazuto asked.
"Yes." Ebinago Ichiro responded.
Tokyo is a big city after all, and the competition among the catering industries is incomparable to that in Hamamatsu.
Although Koichiro Ebina is confident in his craftsmanship, it is difficult for a new store without any special features to grow big and strong in Tokyo.
"So...what kind of cooking are you researching?" After thinking about it, Yushan Kazuto couldn't help but ask.
Seafood mushrooms and Chinese cabbage always seem to go a little bit against each other, and they are usually only added together when eating Sukiyaki.
"Dumplings." Ebina Koichirō said with a slight blink.
During the two years in Hamamatsu, Koichiro Ebina actually learned some new dishes. In Hamamatsu, the most famous dish is Hamamatsu gyoza.
"Dumplings?" Upon hearing this, Yushan Kazuto couldn't help but blink his eyes, imagining the taste of adding all the ingredients purchased by Ebina Koichiro into dumplings.
After simulating it in my mind a few times, I feel that this combination seems pretty good, but it doesn't seem to match the traditional Japanese way of eating dumplings.
"I've eaten seafood mushroom ramen at Uncle Black Bean's place, and it seemed to be a combination of these ingredients." After thinking about it, Yushan Heren said.
Koichiro Ebina couldn't help but lower his head. He did combine the methods of ramen and Hamamatsu gyoza.
"Is there any finished product? I can help you taste it." Yushan Heren said.
"Yes, there is..." Ebina Koichiro hesitated.
The fact that he is still purchasing ingredients only means that Koichiro Ebina's new dish has not been successfully tested. In this case, he is not very willing to let others taste it.
"Then bring it here. I'm a little hungry too." Yushan Heren said.
Ebina Koichiro couldn't help but glance at Hayama Kazuto. Although Hayama Kazuto seemed to be a little familiar, he guessed what Hayama Kazuto was thinking and got up and walked into the kitchen.
"It's a little cold, so the taste might not be that good."
Soon, Ebina Koichirō came out of the kitchen with a plate of dumplings and placed it in front of Hayama Kazuto.
Looking at the golden dumplings in front of him, Yushan Kazuto couldn't help but blink his eyes. It was indeed the way Hamamatsu dumplings were made.
He picked up one and put it in his mouth. The dumpling skin was not very crispy anymore, but after biting it open, the filling was still very delicious and juicy. As Yushan and Ren ate, he couldn't help but frowned slightly.
Looking at the reaction of Yushan Kazuto, Ebina Koichiro couldn't help but feel a little nervous. Did his culinary innovation really fail?
Actually, there isn't any major problem, it's just that the seafood mushroom is not a good match with the pan-fried method.
The seafood mushroom was originally called jade mushroom. The Compendium of Materia Medica records: "Jade mushroom grows in the early cold, is clean and lovely, and is slightly chewy when made into soup."
How can an ingredient that is slightly tough even when cooked into a soup be pan-fried?
In fact, the best way to solve this problem is to replace the seafood mushrooms with a mushroom that has a softer texture and there will be no problem.
However, Koichiro Ebina repeatedly tried to use seafood mushrooms, and he must have taken a fancy to the characteristics of seafood mushrooms themselves.
Seafood mushrooms are delicious, crispy and tender, and even have some crab flavor. They can enrich the taste and texture of dumplings and add a bit of luxury.
However, the slightly tough texture is not easy to solve. After frying, it even feels like chewing cowhide.
"With this taste...why not consider making dumplings?" After thinking about it, Yushan Heren said.
"Dumplings?" Ebina Koichiro couldn't help but blink slightly.
Japanese dumplings are mostly fried dumplings, and boiled dumplings are rare.
However, as a practitioner in the catering industry, Koichiro Ebina knows well that in China, the birthplace of dumplings, boiled dumplings are far more popular than fried dumplings.
"The inspiration for this combination of ingredients should come from Uncle Black Bean's seafood mushroom ramen, right?" Yushan Kazuto spoke again.
Koichiro Ebina nodded. Even though he had been away from Black Bean Ramen for more than two years, Koichiro Ebina felt that the cooking knowledge he learned from Uncle Black Bean still had a lot of potential to be tapped.
"But the seafood mushrooms in Uncle Black Bean Ramen taste much better than the seafood mushrooms in your fried dumplings." Yushan Kazuto said.
Hearing this, Ebina Koichiro couldn't help but blink slightly, but that was the fact and he had nothing to refute.
"In fact, this is the characteristic of the food. The seafood mushroom itself has a certain toughness, and the pan-frying process amplifies the taste of the seafood mushroom."
Although Japanese fried dumplings are steamed first and then fried, for seafood mushrooms, as long as they shrink to a certain extent, they will start to cook.
"If it's dumplings, it's a good way to incorporate seafood.
The resilience of the mushroom was avoided, and you should understand the principle of playing to one's strengths and avoiding one's weaknesses." Yushan and Ren said.
When Ebina Koichiro heard this, his eyes lit up. According to Yushan Kazuto's method, it seemed that the toughness of the seafood mushroom could really be removed.
"Moreover, the innovative cuisine you want to research now should be launched as a specialty dish. Although not many people in Japan eat dumplings, there is no problem if it is just a specialty dish." Yushan Kazuto said again.
"If you still plan to make fried dumplings, I suggest you change to a different type of mushroom. At least seafood mushrooms are not suitable for making fried dumplings."
Listening to what Hayama Kazuto said, Ebina Koichiro nodded, but he did not expect that Hayama Kazuto could talk so well about cooking.
"By the way, when will your new restaurant be able to open?"
After taking a look at Ebina Koichirō, it seemed that the other party had fallen into the world of cooking, so Yuyama Kazuto had to speak up and pull him back to the real world.
"August, August," said Koichiro Ebina.
"August?" Hayama Kazuto blinked. "By then, Ebina will be back in Akita for the summer vacation."
Chapter 1810 Stories Come from Life
Hearing this, Ebina Koichirō fell silent again.
To be honest, his mind was still a little confused and he didn't know how to face Nana Ebina and Akita's family.
To be fair, he hoped to meet Nana Ebina.
But after running away from home for so many years, he no longer knows how to get along with Nana Ebina.
This situation is actually very common. Many relationships do not break up even though one party has served years in prison. Instead, they break up soon after being released from prison.
This is a problem of life inertia. Once there is a change in daily life, all kinds of discomfort will arise.
When he thought that the little girl in his memory had grown into a graceful young lady, Koichiro Ebina couldn't help feeling a little upset.
"Can you please not tell Nana about me for now?" After more than a minute of silence, Ebina Koichirō finally spoke.
Yushan Kazuto couldn't help but glance at Ebina Koichiro. In fact, he could see that the other party also wanted to meet Ebina Nana.
However, due to personal reasons, Ebina Koichiro has not yet made up his mind about how he will get to know Ebina Nana again.
"Actually, if you have any inconveniences, I can just pretend that what happened today never happened." Yushan Heren said.
Yushan Kazuto knew that his appearance had actually disrupted Ebina Koichiro's life.
Although he still misses the past in his heart, he does not necessarily have any concerns about it.
