[Note: The author is mentioning onion pancake and rice liquor, which are something unique to Korea. These suggest Riley was Korean in his past life.]
With the food brought to the table, Nainiae just stared at flat shaped food and asked Riley,
“What is this?”
“It’s a flat fried dough.”
“Flat fried dough?”
“It’s also called onion pancake. Well, this world doesn’t have such a name for this. The name is good enough.”
In fact, the menu had it listed as ‘Flat fried dough.’ The food was made of flattened flour dough that was fried with various vegetables and seafood.
“Now, shall we eat?”
Riley gave a piece to Nainiae and also recommended a black sauce that was on the table.
“You could dip on it. You can eat it without the sauce too.”
It was only right that a world had a type of food that was becoming of rainy weather.
This food at Rainfield was exactly that, and it was a famous specialty food from the city. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶
“In that case, thank you for the food.”
Nainiae carefully picked up a piece with a fork and brought it toward her mouth. The piece had steam rising from it. She started to chew.
“Ah…”
Crunch!
Along with the sound, Nainiae’s eyes opened wide.
Not able to wait any longer, Riley asked,
“How is it?”
“Um! Um!”
She was not able to speak because she had food in her mouth, but she nodded multiple times with her face slightly turning red from excitement.
“You are saying it is delicious, right?”
“…!”
Although Nainiae blew it to cool it down before eating, it seemed the piece was still too hot. She was still not able to speak. Instead, she just nodded once again.
Nainiae swallowed what she just chewed, and explained her impression about the food that she just ate,
“By how it looks like, I thought someone threw up on the table… Unlike how it looks like, it is pretty tasty.”
“Threw up? That’s harsh.”
Riley cracked a smile.
Certainly, the food didn’t look exactly like how it was in Riley’s past life. The version in this world looked rather crude, so he could see how it could look like that to Nainiae.
“It’s really delicious! Especially the crunchy part toward the edges!”
“Hey, don’t go eating just those parts.”
Those edges were Riley’s favorite parts as well.
“The insides are tastier. Eat the insides. They are soft and moist.”
“Ah, yes…”
Nainiae wanted to taste more of the crunchiness of the edges, but she had to give in to Riley. So, instead of the edges, Nainiae started to focus on the insides.
“Excuse me. The rice liquor is here.”
“Ah, it’s here.”
It was around the time when Riley and Nainiae had eaten about half of the food. A waiter with a friendly smile brought the drink that Riley ordered with the flat fried dough.
“Young master, this is?”
It was a white liquid. It almost looked like milk. Noticing the mysterious liquid, Nainiae looked at Riley.
Despite Nainiae’s question, Riley omitted a response. Instead, he just drooled while staring at the food and the drink on the table.
“…”
On a rainy day, a rice liquor was perfect with a flat fried dough.
The rice liquor at Rainfield was made from the rain, so it was famous for its exquisite taste.
‘Huhu… Sera is not here. Today, I really get to drink it!’
A rainy day, flat fried dough, rice liquor.
The three things were perfectly set. Corners of Riley’s mouth were tilting up on their own.
“Young master. This is an alcoholic beverage…isn’t it?”
After fully preparing himself for the drink, he was about to quench his throat with it, but he flinched his shoulders after hearing Nainiae’s question.
“…”