The Breeding Center, cafeteria.
"Hiss..."
"So spicy!"
"So hot!"
Amid all the cries of "so spicy" and "so hot," they kept digging into the Mapo Tofu without hesitation.
Numbing, spicy, fresh, fragrant, tender, piping hot, and perfectly intact.
As Li Wei's cooking improved and he became more practiced at making Mapo Tofu,
his Mapo Tofu had grown even tastier than before, its vibrant colors making it incredibly enticing.
Incineroar, who had come to mooch a meal, nearly used Flamethrower.
Kane's dishes were all the sort that could command very high prices.
Especially with the word "Kalos" attached...
As the most economically developed city in the entire Pokémon world, Lumiose City naturally enjoyed certain advantages.
His second dish was steak with red wine sauce, followed by pan-seared sea bass,
then cream of lobster soup, cream of mushroom soup, cream of pumpkin soup, pasta carbonara...
Kane whipped up all five sauces with ease.
By contrast, Thor was much more down-to-earth, with dishes that leaned toward home cooking.
Clay-pot ginger-braised duck, clear-broth noodles with pickled greens, dried shrimp and egg noodles, hot-and-sour shredded potatoes, steamed sea bass...
This had to do with Thor's teacher, Leze.
The Anderson Restaurant was a fine-dining establishment, whereas Leze only ran a small private kitchen in Veilstone City.
The difference in talent was on full display.
Thor's cooking wasn't even as good as Kane's.
His seasoning and heat control were noticeably inferior to Kane's; only his knife skills could keep up.
Hard work could make up for shortcomings in knife skills, but seasoning and heat control depended on individual talent, especially seasoning.
After they were hired, Li Wei could also see this in their personal skills.
In cooking, the twenty-one-year-old Kane was at the top tier, while the sixty-five-year-old Thor was only at the advanced level.
Although Li