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==Stage 2==
==Stage 2==
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|rowspan=2|Eating shouldn't be a miserable experience. Good food exists to be enjoyed by people!<br>"Sorry, but I'm not hungry."
|Eat with your best smile and whet the other person's appetite!
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|Don't overstep yourself and refrain from nagging.
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|rowspan=2|The first thing a glutton does upon reaching their destination is naturally to fill their bellies. <br>The problem is that there's just oo much to choose from; restaurants with enticing signboards are everywhere.<br>In that case, where should we go first?
|Let's go for a familiar restaurant. Relaxing food eases the fatigue of travel.
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|Of course we should visit a restaurant we've never been to before. Anticipating the unknown is the soul of fine dining.
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|rowspan=2|I'm sorry, but the restaurant has closed for good. The webpage didn't update in time.<br>This is what you hear upon arriving at your destination after enduring half an hour of the blazing sun beating down on you.<br>The hunger and fatigue are beyond words.
|Call a cab while ordering take-out.
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|This is just a trial, the path of gourmet cuisine is never-ending “147 On to the next restaurant!
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|rowspan=2|This is the best food I've ever had!!!<br>"There's better in other countries."<br>"Ehhhhh!?"
|One must travel great distances for good food.
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|My hunger isn't enough for me to embark on a lengthy trek.
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|rowspan=2|You encounter a restaurant with an ambience that's hard to sum up in words. The queue for it is so long that it wraps around the block.<br>The signboard shows pictures of delicious food, which just so happens to be of the kind you like.
|The restaurant next door lets you sit anywhere you want and it's pretty good too.
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|Queue up! Just make sure you don't get in the wrong queue by accident!
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|rowspan=2|After much difficulty, you are finally seated in your desired restaurant.<br>The waitress taking your order seems to recognize you.<br>She asks about your identity.
|Proudly state your name and leverage your status as a food taster to get preferential treatment.
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|Gloss it over and sample the restaurant's true level of skill.
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==Stage 3==
==Stage 3==
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|rowspan=3|I've just gotten off the plane.<br>"Would you mind rating the in-flight food and the airport restaurants?"<br>"Certainly."
|Bad.
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|Very bad.
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|Extremely... Actually they weren't too bad.
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|rowspan=2|A roadside stall!? Is THIS where we'll find that fine dining you were talking about?<br>"But they're a common sight here, you know?"<br>"But... The hygiene here is just awful!"
|Delicious.
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|Stand firm and refuse to eat.
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|rowspan=2|Do you know what's the scariest exotic dish in the world?<br>"Let me think..."
|Surstromming?
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|Shredded potato fried with ginger floss?
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|rowspan=2|Wok hei? What's that?<br>"It's not a very well-defined term. In general, it's why people think cooking food on a hot wok, with oil, over a charcoal flame tastes better than with an electric wok."<br>"How does that even work..."
|Try some and see if you can tell the difference between the two.
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|Not scientific, not interested.
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|rowspan=2|Who exactly invented such an inhuman eating utensil, anyway?<br>"Um, if you're having trouble learning how to use it, you can try using an assistant program."<br>"My palm joints are having bugs BECAUSE I used an assistant program! Chopsticks are too hard to learn!"
|Let's just use a fork and spoon.
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|I'm going to master them today, by hook or by crook!
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|rowspan=2|"The recipes here are so weird; one spoon, half a bowl, to taste, what the heck is up with that, can't they be more precise?"<br>"Well, you might ask that, but... That's how everyone cooks around here, you know?"
|I'm going to investigate the secrets they might hold.
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|I can't accept this!
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==Stage 4==
==Stage 4==
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|rowspan=2|I've got it! I know why the restaurant opened in such a secluded place!<br>"...Hm?"<br>"I told you, right? People will go a long way for quality!"
... Roadside rental is very expensive, you know.
|The boss just feels that too many customers is a pain.
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|Leave immediately
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|rowspan=2|This is your first time at a Chinese restaurant and you receive the menu from the owner.<br> However, only one thing is written there -<br>Order what you want.
|So you can make any kind of dish?
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|Is this a takeout place?
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|rowspan=2|Do you remember how to prepare the ingredients?<br>"Of course! Peel the shell, remove the bones, wash, soak and rub the meat. How could I forget?"<br>"I'll let you handle them, then."
|No problem, leave it to me!
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|That's not enough, I want to cook hands-on!
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|rowspan=2|I can order ANYTHING I want? Then I'll have-"<br>"MIllau rattles off dozens of dishes and is politely refused.<br>The owner advises against stuffing herself and instead suggests eating until she's 80% full.
|Cite reasons and argue.
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|Listen obediently.
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==Stage 5==
==Stage 5==
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|rowspan=2|"Why do you link food so closely to historical culture?"
|Because food is linked to history, from the tip of the tongue all the way to the heart.
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|It's one of those things unique to an agriculture people.
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|rowspan=2|I've always thought you all had an abnormal passion for food.<br>"Perhaps that's what everyone here has in common."
|We all want to plant something.
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|We all want to see what can and can't be eaten.
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|rowspan=3|What is food to you?
|A survival essential.
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|A comfort in life.
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|Homesickness.
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|rowspan=2|"Is there any food that's off-limits for you, Miss? Or that you don't like, perhaps?"<br>"IAre[sic] they particular about anything food-related here?"
|The sweet and salty camps of Chinese cuisine often end up feuding.
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|Spicy vs non-spicy food is a very nuanced topic.
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|rowspan=2|I've done some investigations before, but I'm still amazed to see it with my own eyes.<br>"What do you mean?"<br>"The Eight Great Culinary Styles! I can't believe you guys could pull off so many variations on a single style of cooking!"
|We practice medicinal cooking too, you know.
|-
|There are even more styles of cooking, a total of 24.
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==Challenge Stage==
==Challenge Stage==
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