The Archmage’s Restaurant
Chapter 103

# 103

Chapter.25 Couple and Dakgalbi

“Excuse me.”

“Yes, welcome.”

“Are you still in business?”

Late at night.

As the business was about to close, a couple came into the store. It occurred to me that they might be a married couple, but since they looked young, it would be wrong to make hasty guesses.

Moreover, the guess itself is meaningless. Whether you are a married couple, siblings, or lovers, it has nothing to do with business.

“Sure. Please sit here.”

I showed the two people to a common table. Then the woman gently pointed to the bar table. This is the side with the iron plate.

“Can’t I sit over there?”

“No, it doesn’t matter. Then come this way.”

As requested, I guided the two people to the bar table in front of the iron plate. man and woman. The couple sat down and looked around the restaurant.

“But usually you don’t come here late at night unless you’re a regular, so how did you come? Because of its location on a hill, it is not a place where you can just take a walk.”

“Oh, that’s… It’s a shame, but I ended up here after visiting several restaurants in Gray City. “I also heard a rumor,”

the man answers my question.

“is it so?”

“yes.”

In that situation, the woman who had been looking around the store cautiously made a different request this time.

“Can I take a quick look around the store?”

It’s an unusual request, but it’s not something to wear out.

“Yes, that’s right.”

When I gave permission, the woman got up from her chair and began looking around the hall, observing it closely. Then he glances and checks the kitchen.

Something stirred at the sight. A look at the interior and kitchen. If so, there is no other reason than this.

“Are you newlyweds? Are you looking into opening a restaurant?”

“How do you do that?”

The man sitting there jumps up from his chair with a very surprised look on his face.

“sorry!”

“I’m not here to steal anything, but it’s natural to visit various stores and conduct market research. I don’t care, so feel free to look around. But, are you going to order the cooking?”

“yes? Of course! thank you!”

The man kept nodding his head, and the woman continued to look around the restaurant with a curious look on her face. There is no reason to stop that action.

Even if more restaurants open, it doesn’t mean it will harm me. Because I run a restaurant strictly as a hobby.

“What kind of food do you cook with this iron plate?”

“Karin, it’s impossible to use such expensive-looking tools with our funds.”

The man shakes his head and grabs the woman’s arm. Then the woman also shook her head.

“You can make enough money to use it later.”

“On our topic… . “Isn’t it nice to just eat and live?”

“Is that so… .”

The woman called Karin bows her head in agreement. Why are there so many couples who lack self-confidence?

“The woman is right. If you have cooking skills, you can be successful. “It’s easy to put down a steel plate like this in no time.”

“Is that so?”

The man looked up at me with slightly expectant eyes.

“Who is doing the cooking?”

The man looks towards the woman. Cooking seemed to be for women.

“I know how to cook a little… . “My husband and I are planning to go back to our hometown and open a small restaurant.”

“Oh, isn’t Grace City your hometown?”

“yes… .”

The woman nods.

“Well then, let me show you how to cook on a teppan first.”

This couple seems really lacking in confidence. To run a business, even if you have confidence, it’s not enough, so why is your mindset so low?

I put Palen Q Sal on the iron plate. This is the Palenque prepared for the so-called chicken ribs.

This is the menu of the restaurant that is being promoted these days. The response has been quite good and it is quite popular. It’s not difficult to do.

First, mix the chicken with red pepper paste and various seasonings. In the case of dakgalbi, the taste of this seasoning is the most important part.

It’s called secret seasoning. In my case, I use aged vinegar to capture the flavor of the chicken.

It’s good if the chicken is slightly submerged in the seasoning. Because you have to add various vegetables.

For vegetables, choose cabbage, carrots, and sweet potatoes. Cabbage is essential, and carrots and sweet potatoes are not necessary, but the sweetness of sweet potatoes goes well with dakgalbi, so it is best to add all of them if possible. Once that is reached, all that remains is to fry the field on an iron plate.

Cheeeeeeeee!

The chicken ribs begin to sizzle in the heat of the fireball. The scent that comes out at this time seeps into your nostrils and stimulates your appetite.

“Wow, this is… !”

“It smells good!”

“Yes, you can make it spicy, but today I’ll show you something that’s not spicy.”

I eagerly rummaged through the dakgalbi with the intention of showing off to the juniors at this restaurant.

A vegetable called ipu leaf here. There is no vegetable on earth that is completely identical to perilla leaves, but the scent of this ipu leaf is similar to perilla leaves, so I always add it to chicken ribs.

And finally cheese.

Cheese freshly produced at the farm is the highlight of our house’s dakgalbi. Dakgalbi mixed with cheese was receiving a particularly enthusiastic response from people around the world.

I really like Lurin too. When the dakgalbi comes out, it’s so hard to scrape off the iron plate to eat it.

The couple in front of me also started staring at the iron plate, as if they were so amazed by the white cheese that melted and stretched out on the dakgalbi. Once the cheese is sufficiently melted, it is time to eat.

I serve it with a creatively baked baguette.

What I recommend is to eat the chicken ribs, vegetables, and cheese on a baguette all at once. Like ssam.

It’s good to eat stir-fried rice later, though. This one was more popular with the people here. Dakgalbi, cheese, and bread go well together.

“ruler. “Try it.”

When I pointed to the ready-made chicken ribs, the couple started drooling.

The man takes the dakgalbi to his mouth first.

“Wow, this is really delicious.”

The man let out an exclamation first, and the woman also ate the chicken ribs with cheese and started making an ecstatic expression.

And he looks at me with an admiring face.

“I wonder how to do this… ah… .”

“Karin, how many times have you been kicked out for saying something like that? We just eat our own home-cooked food… .”

“That’s true, but… .”

“Uhm, two minutes. You said you were planning to open a restaurant in your hometown. Did you come up with the funds to do so?”

I was very uneasy about the two people’s behavior, so when I asked them, they nodded at the same time. Even though he was not confident in this topic, he seemed very confident in this part.

Well then, I’m glad.

“Hmm, may I know if there’s a story behind why you’re going back to your hometown? “If you tell me, I can teach you how to cook it.”

Looking at the attitude of the two people, I am curious in many ways. Just curiosity to hear the story. Teaching me how to cook one by one is not work.

“Really?”

“As long as they are sincere enough for me to teach them how to cook.”

“I am confident that I am sincere!”

The man jumped up and clenched his fists.

“but… There is no story. “We are both orphans.”

Then the woman began to open her mouth first.

“Are you an orphan?”

“yes… .”

The two people put down their forks for a moment with distant eyes and began to sigh.

Their names are Millie and Karin.

Since they were both orphans, it was very difficult for them to make a living from a young age.

What happened naturally and inevitably was a pickpocketing gang run by gangsters.

However, even there, they were not treated as human beings because they committed crimes. Even if you pick-pocket, they don’t give you money.

Just the bare minimum of food to fill your mouth. If you succeeded in pickpocketing, all you had to do was give it to them.

For Millie, it was her lifeline. Perhaps because she felt sorry for Karin, who was always starving because she was not good at pickpocketing, Millie began to always share her share with Karin, and the two became close friends.

They are just happy to have something in their mouths. Karin became a choreographer in a small building where orphans were gathered, and from then on, she secretly stole food from the kitchen and gave it to Millie, repaying her kindness as a child.

But that life soon came to an end.

This is because around the time Karin celebrated her 12th birthday, she was sold to a slave trader by gangsters. Two people who have been together since childhood. The two people who were so precious to each other broke up like that.

“There’s no story to this? It’s a big enough story, right? So how did we meet again?”

It’s in front of me because the two people met. This means that the two people overcame the greatest sabotage by gangsters led by slave traders and pickpockets.

Usually, if you get involved with a slave trader, it can’t end well. But Karin was sitting just fine in front of me.

It is true that since I have lived a miserable life, I feel glad when I replace people who have lived similar miserable lives.

“that is… “It’s thanks to the war.”

“War?”

“yes… .”

The story of the two people began again.

Millie never forgot Karin for a moment. When Millie became old enough to do manual labor instead of being a pickpocket, she ran away from the city and went to the city where Karin was sold. I worked day and night, just looking for Karin.

Was that effort rewarded? Millie barely found a clue. Of course, even if I found him, I didn’t have the power to take Karin away. What power do orphans like yourself have?

All Millie wanted was to confirm the fact that Karin was alive and well.

That’s Millie’s only wish.

That wish came true like a miracle. Karin was sold to a nobleman and became a slave doing chores, and her daily routine was mainly to help cook in the kitchen.

She would occasionally come out of the large mansion to take out the trash, but Millie repeatedly lurked in mansions where slaves could be purchased, so her efforts were rewarded, and she was finally seen a few years later.

The scene where Karin comes out to take out the trash.

From then on, the two became friends, only meeting when Karin came out to take out the trash.

They just make eye contact and look at each other passionately before parting ways. The moment of meeting lasted only about two minutes.

But Millie loved that moment, and Karin also waited for that moment, the only time of the day.

Meanwhile, a great disaster struck the city. Of course, it was a heaven-sent opportunity for Millie and Karin.

“Well, the city was turned into a mess and the mansion was destroyed when the dragon fought the dragon. I heard later that it was because of something called a dragon war… .”

“Yes, that’s why we hold up that war and dragons as our lifelong benefactors. “Because they let us escape.”

When Millie said that, Karin gave a look of agreement.

“No one was chasing me during the war, so I just thought that now was my only chance, so I held Karin’s hand and ran and ran. “When I came to my senses, it was this Great City.”

So, does this mean that it was a relationship created by war? It was surprising that there were people who appreciated the war between Black Dragon and Red Dragon.

“so… Since then, I have saved money by doing everything I can in Gray City. So I was finally able to go back to my hometown. “It’s not the hometown where pickpockets used to be, nor is it Gray City, where people work to death, but the hometown where Karin was born.”

“okay. Well, as I said before, teaching people how to cook is not difficult. However, because this teppan dish contains palen cue, it can only be found in Grace City. Palenque itself is a specialty of Gray City.”

“Oh, I see… .”

Karin lowered her head as if depressed.

“The only thing I learned while working at the mansion was cooking. So, I will compete with the food I am good at. Then Millie!”

“Okay, if you fail, you can come back to Gray City and work hard. Die. Even if we spend less time together, if we join forces… .”

It was a couple whose vitality was strong.

It’s not bad. They are a nice looking couple.

So, again, I’m just telling you how to cook.

“Actually, there are many dishes that can be substituted. They are delicious too. Teaching you how to cook is not a difficult task. Instead, you can buy the dish I taught you here and eat it. “If you buy it.”

It is more comfortable for both parties to receive help rather than one-sided help.

“Are you sure?”

“yes. I will teach you how to cook this dish that can be made even in a small kitchen. Please try to succeed.”

“thank you!”

The two couples bowed their heads at the same time. Thanks to you, my spicy grilled chicken ribs are getting cold.

“That’s the food you paid for, so are you going to let it get cold like that?”

“Oh, I’m sorry!”

The couple lowered their heads again and took the chicken ribs to their mouths again.

I can teach you as many dishes as possible using uva, which is easily available, such as stir-fried pork and pork rice bowl similar to dakgalbi.

The same goes for pork belly.

Sapgyeolsal could easily become the restaurant’s signature dish.

The two people put the delicious dakgalbi on bread and started to bite into it. Each time they did that, the cheese stretched out.

Because the couple’s faces looked very happy.

I also wished for success.

The day passes like that.