Heath rubbed his chin. Lava Eel seemed like a very interesting ingredient. After all, eel was quite tasty, and using it to make eel rice was a pretty good choice. Heath had eaten eel rice before, and Unagi Kabayaki Rice tasted very good. This world had eel rice too, but it was too expensive, so Heath had never been willing to spend the money on it.
After all, the price of one serving of eel rice was enough for Heath to eat something else three or four times. Once versus three or four times was a huge difference. Anyone who had lived through hard times could tell the difference between those choices. Heath felt that as long as he could fill his stomach, taste was not the first thing to pursue.
Affordability came first, while delicious food was something to pursue only after establishing a certain financial foundation. But as a chef, Heath knew very well how to make tasty food from cheap ingredients, even food better than dishes made with top-quality ingredients.
Heath even knew that some chefs could use very cheap tofu to make a dish that tasted as good as sea cucumber. Heath had that level of skill too, but he had not tried making it yet, because it was rather time-consuming.
"Young man, do you still have that tasty thing from last time?" A somewhat familiar voice rang out. Heath looked up and saw the old man he had met one morning before, standing in front of him with a smile.
Heath racked his memory before remembering that the old man had ordered a Jianbing Guozi last time, and that his tastes were very strange: they could change.
Heath glanced once more at the dialogue box above the old man's head. His preferred flavor was still