The Gourmet City, also known as the Food City, was a tourist destination built around food, with entertainment as a secondary attraction. It was a popular place for people from all over the world.
Today, the Gourmet Hunter Toriko and Komatsu, a chef at a five-star hotel, had come here together. After spending the day exploring and eating to their hearts' content, they arrived at Setsuno's Dining Hall right on time that evening.
Toriko, the Gourmet Hunter, and Komatsu, the chef, were sitting upright on little stools in their formal clothes, patiently waiting for the elderly owner of the "dining hall"—Granny Setsuno—to prepare their meal.
The old woman was no ordinary restaurant owner. She was one of the world's finest chefs, ranked second among the world's chefs and honored as a national treasure of gourmet cuisine. Naturally, they wouldn't dare behave carelessly in her establishment.
"..."
"Oh, right!"
"Toriko, didn't Annie go with you to the Jungle of Area 5 to look for BB Corn? We heard about it when we went to look for seasonings."
"So, did she come back with you?"
As they waited, Komatsu suddenly remembered something and turned to ask Toriko.
"Of course she did!"
"Speaking of which, Komatsu, you probably don't know this, but that awful Annie took the biggest ear of corn for herself!"
"She didn't give me a single kernel. It was so unfair!"
Clenching his fist, Toriko grumbled, clearly still bitter about the little girl's outrageous behavior.
"The biggest one?"
"!!"
"No way! Do you mean it was even bigger than those two ears, each over five meters long, that you brought back?"
Komatsu knew that Toriko had brought back two enormous ears of BB Corn. After Komatsu had carefully cooked them until they popped, the guests at his five-star hotel had