Most of the dishes on the Yukihira family's Family Restaurant menu were Japanese cuisine, which suited local tastes.
The dishes on Seiya's family restaurant menu, on the other hand, were almost entirely Chinese cuisine. Despite the differences in flavor in a foreign land, it had managed to keep pace with, and even faintly suppress, Yukihira Restaurant. That alone showed just how good business at their restaurant usually was.
Of course, the main reason the family restaurant had done so well was that Seiya's mother was simply that capable.
But ever since Seiya's mother had returned to her hometown a month ago, business at their restaurant had worsened by the day.
Whether in cooking skill or the taste of the dishes served, Seiya was naturally nowhere near his mother, a major figure in the Dark Cooking World.
Quite a few people who had come because of the restaurant's reputation left bitterly disappointed after tasting Seiya's cooking.
The only customers who still came to eat at Seiya's place were nostalgic regulars and Seiya's friends and classmates, like Kurase.
However, if a restaurant could only retain customers through nostalgia and personal connections, it would not be far from closing down.
To be fair, while Seiya's cooking was nowhere close to the casual dishes his mother made, it was by no means inedible. It was even better than that of many ordinary Family Restaurants.
But the issue was that his restaurant was on the same street as Yukihira Restaurant.
As the saying went, comparisons hurt. Family Restaurants charged roughly the same prices, and Wenren Restaurant was not far from Yukihira Restaurant.
The people who came to eat were neither fools with money to burn nor lovestruck Japanese girls like Kurase. There was no need to say how they would choose.
"Sigh, that guy is