However, after making the pogranate dessert this ti, Min-joon felt like he could understand why she was so picky to so extent. Although his cooking level was still 7, he ca to learn another point of perspective that he must have when cooking, naly understanding of the place and custors.
Custors feel cold rather than delicious when they eat ice cream in a cold place. Likewise, Janet and Javier had to take into account the fact that this was a restaurant above all, and they needed to understand the course that they would serve.
But Min-joon thought he couldn’t tell them what it was. The reason Rachel didn’t explain it directly to them was because she wanted them to find it out for themselves. Even if he was conceited enough to tell them what it was, they would learn nothing unless they realized it by themselves.
“I have never thought molecular cooking was such an essential elent,” Havier said with a sigh. These days, bubble sauce was used in most restaurants, but there weren’t many restaurants that used it a lot like Rose Island. Was it the trend of the hotel kitchens that were sensitive to the trend of the tis?
Min-joon smiled, looking at Havier, and said, “Why are you sullen? Do you want to take my place in molecular cooking?”
“No, I don’t think that’s for . It looks like molecular cooking is tireso when I watch you doing it.”
“If you can feel fun when you are doing it, you feel delighted rather than annoyed when you are in the thick of it.”
“Well, I think you can feel like that only when you have made it successfully. You know what? In my case, I can’t even flavor powdered sauce right, but I’ve never seen you fail in it. What’s the secret?”
“Well, maybe it’s concentration.”
“Damn it! That sucks!”
Havier shook his head as if he was fed up with it. He was long sick and tired of Min-joon’s praise of concentration. Whenever he asked Min-joon how co he was so good at cooking and tasting food, Min-joon used to say, ‘Just concentrate!’
Min-joon looked at Janet and Havier with a smile, “Hey, to be honest, you guys don’t have to seek my advice, do you? You are good at cooking. At the audition, I saw you guys and even admired that you were better than . It’s not because you lack skills when Rachel doesn’t approve your dishes. As for molecular cooking, honestly, I’m not sure about how she thinks about it. These days, molecular cuisine is in vogue, so she might think it’s essential for our custors’ taste.”
Min-joon pointed at Anderson. He was busy cooking sothing at the table for so ti.
“Look at Anderson. He’s just focusing on doing what he has in mind without giving up at all. I think he has probably taken the most plates to Rachel for review. But he has never asked to coach him about molecular cooking. Maybe you need to take his stubbornness into account sotis.”
Anderson stuck to the traditional way of cooking while Janet and Javier switched their attention to molecular cooking. It seed that Anderson was reluctant to cook molecular food from his rival Min-joon rather than disliking it. Anyway, what was important to him was that he was pursuing his own path.
At that mont, Janet and Havier looked at sobody behind Min-joon. They were looking at the spot where Anderson was cooking a mont ago. Min-joon also turned his eyes at him, curious about what was happening. He looked uneasy because Anderson was standing behind him. Holding a bowl full of frothy sauce, Anderson opened his mouth.
“I’m going to make Parsan cheese in the froth, but it won’t get any shape no matter what. Can you help ?”
Min-joon said with a sigh, “Hey, Anderson, even you…”
In fact, Min-joon praised his stubbornness and focus on traditional cuisine to Janet and Havier only a mont ago. He looked at Anderson with a dissatisfied expression, but Anderson didn’t care. He said, showing the bowl to Min-joon shalessly, “You won’t help ?”
“Wait. I was speaking to Janet and Havier.”
“Then let join and listen, too.”
Anderson replied calmly and went to their side and crossed their arms.
Janet was trying to hold back her laughter as if she thought him funny.
Min-joon said with a tired look, “Hey, tell first what you think your problems are. I don’t think you failed because you didn’t do molecular cooking in your dishes.”
“You’re right. But so of our nus here don’t use molecular gastronomy,” Havier said with a nod.
Janet said, “Well, we want to learn molecular cooking from you for a simple reason. Rachel won’t care much about whether we’re making dishes in the traditional way or doing molecular cooking. I do think she really cares about whether our dishes reflect our unusual innovative creativity and skill.”
“But why is she so interested in molecular cooking?” Havier asked.
“Because of creativity,” Janet responded briefly.
Min-joon signaled to her with a glance to continue.
She continued, shrugging, “Authentic cooking has been developing for hundreds of years. If you bring creative cooking out of it, I guess fusion cooking is the best answer. But you know, the recipe I have made right now is a bit far from fusion. So, if I want to satisfy Rachel’s taste, I think I can do it the quickest way by switching to molecular cooking. Ti is running out.”
“I agree. You don’t have much ti to think about a new fusion dish. Havier, how about you?”
“I agree with Janet. If I learn molecular cooking, I think it will be useful not only this ti but also in the future. So, I’m going to learn at least so basic skills in molecular cooking this ti.”
Min-joon’s eyes turned to Anderson this ti.
He said calmly, “I just need to learn only one thing. I need a foam recipe for the recipe that I have co up with this ti. I’m not as vague as these guys.”
“What are you talking about? I’ve never been vague about my goal,” snapped Janet, staring at him sharply.
Anderson asked, turning his mouth up slightly, “Then, tell how you are going to apply molecular cooking to your dish after learning it?”
“I have an idea, of course.”
“Look, you can’t say it confidently.”
“Hey, don’t pick a quarrel. If you are quarreling like that, I’m not going to tell you anymore.”
Folding his arms, Min-joon spoke strictly. Janet reluctantly shut up as if she wanted to bla Anderson, but she also knew Min-joon’s way of dealing with them. If they start quarreling, he would leave the place without any hesitation.
Janet said in a subdued voice, “Okay, go ahead, Min-joon.”
“Sure, teacher!”
“What did you say?” Asked Janet.
“Call teacher,” Min-joon said with a smile.
Min-joon’s coaching for Anderson, Janet, and Havier was not a one-ti event.
When they had so preparation ti such as break ti or Sundays, other demi chefs always tried to learn molecular cooking from Min-joon.
The sa was true of Anderson, who initially only wanted to learn from Min-joon how to cook the foam sauce for his cooking. Obviously, Anderson got hooked on molecular cuisine, or he must have realized he needed to learn it, too.
“When Min-joon took over the molecular cooking section, did you expect you would face this kind of situation?” Raphael asked Rachel, looking at the demi chefs with an interesting look.
It was the hot topic of Rose Island these days that the demi chefs were absorbed into learning molecular cooking with Min-joon Cho as their teacher.
“How can I predict it? But I just know by intuition that when the cooks of similar abilities et, they can take each other as a teacher,” said Rachel, “But they have not yet taken each other as their teacher yet. Only Min-joon is their chefessor.”
She continued, “Sotis the subject you’re teaching can be a teacher to . Raphael, you know it well.”
Raphael nodded as if he understood what she was talking about. He then looked at her.
She asked, watching him move his lips without saying anything, “Why do you have that look on your face? It seems like you want to ask sothing. It’s very unusual that you hesitate to ask questions, given your personality.”
“Well, is that the case with the head chefs, too? I an when you said your student could be your teacher later. I can’t ignore what you said.”
“Are you scared I might say you can be my teacher?”
“It would be an honor if I could be your teacher. But I’ve one such teacher in mind. He is the guy who has helped you get out of your seclusion in ten years.”
It was clear to her who Raphael was referring to. Instead of answering, Rachel made a bitter smile. Raphael asked in a cautious voice, “I wonder if you took Min-joon not as your student, but as your teacher. Is that true?”
“Well, there is one thing I have realized as I grow old. Even a stone on the side of the road can be my teacher you know. Is there any law that prohibits Min-joon from being my teacher?”
Raphael said, “Well, that’s a different story. What you expect is that you want to learn sothing from these less mature chefs. You want Min-joon with a perfect palate to make up for sothing that you don’t have, right?”
“What’s wrong with that?”
“Of course, you can learn from Min-joon. What if he loses his perfect palate in the future? He won’t be able to keep it forever, as you know. As he gets older, his taste will get a little dull. Do you think his tongue is really an exception?”
“It doesn’t matter if his taste becos dull. If I once realize the world of a perfect palate at least once in my life, I can rember it for the rest of my life.”
Rachel looked at Min-joon gently.
Raphael continued to ask, “By the way, do you really need to rely on Min-joon? You haven’t been influenced by Min-joon at all. You have impressed the gourts with your own abilities. Sooner or later, Michelin’s gourts will probably co up with the sa impression, saying sothing like, ‘The forr Rose Island chef is back.’ Isn’t that enough? You have restored your old glory, haven’t you?”
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