"Please go out with me!" "What!" "?" "Could you possibly have feelings for me?" "What?" "Thinking back, that must have been a confession." "Ouch!" "You really don't get women, do you?" "I'd like to have a meal here as an official guest." "If I'm not satisfied by my meal here," "I'll take "Le Petit Chou", this restaurant's name." "Is everything gonna be okay, Eisuke?" "Yeah, is it?" "Didn't you insist in using the name?" "You said you don't want to change the name because you're succeeding your mother's restaurant." "I won't change the name." "Shit." "So, I won't lose." "Definitely." "Mariya?" "Oh, right!" "Can I stay over at your place tonight?" "Yeah, of course, man!" "Why don't we go for a drink now?" "Let's go!" "Let's go, let's go!" "Bye, Eisuke!" "Bye!" "Bye." "Okayy, what should I drink tonight?" "You guys are such a close group, as always." "What are you doing?" "You shouldn't be here this late." "You smell like alcohol." "Here for Valentines." "You were out drinking this late?" "Yes, with my girl friends." "Did you know?" "If your boyfriend is a chef, the two of you won't have time anymore to have fun and drink yourselves dead drunk." "Shall we drink together now?" "I haven't eaten dinner, and I have some cheese and wine that I got as samples." "I'll stay with you till morning." "Say." "Hm?" "Did you miss me?" "You're asking me that?" "People say I don't get women, but" "I don't think you get men, either." "I kept thinking about it." "What you meant by "break"." "I just wanted to calm down and think." "I just thought maybe we don't need each other anymore now." "But..." "I love you." "I still need you." "Hey... can you pull down my back zipper?" "My chest hurts." "No..." "Huh?" "What?" "Uh.. oh, nothing." "Don't tell me, in the last two weeks you've started to hate me." "That's not it." "But..." "Then, say that you love me." "I can't do that." "See?" "You hate me, after all." "It's not that." "It's just..." "Then, say it." "(Someone is eavesdropping on us!" ")" "Good evening." "Good evening." "Uhh... it's cold at night, so..." "I can't believe he heard everything I said." "So embarrassing." "Stop laughing." "I love you." "There's no way I'd ever hate you." "You dummy." "We met at an awkward moment." "(3 years ago)" "Ow!" "I'm sorry." "Are you okay?" "Yeah." "My eyesight isn't great right now." "I'm really sorry." "What happened?" "I was performing outdoor concert and got a shock from the electrical equipment during the rain." "I was beaten by my boyfriend when we were on a date." "Just kidding." "Um, a sty." "A sty on my eyelid got worse." "Tachibana-san." "Yes." "Are you sure you don't want to report this matter?" "Yes, it's okay." "Okay, we're going to examine you now." "This way." "(Meiwa Bank" " Fujimidai branch)" "Thank you." "Has your sty healed?" "Huh?" "I think you better break up with that guy already." "After that, he opened an account with our bank, and came in every once in awhile." "When my black eye healed, I broke up with my boyfriend, and started going to see Eisuke's live performances." "I wish Eisuke would chase after his dream a bit more." "You're still up?" "No." "Don't move!" "What are you doing?" "Chie, what are you doing this late?" "What's this?" "Omelette." "I just learned how to make it, so I'm practicing." "Hot!" "You're clumsy, so be careful." "Sasuke!" "Bring her the medicine box." "Oh, in the kids room." "What are you going to bring her?" "The toy box?" "So hard!" "So bitter!" "Hello." "Taku-san?" "Part-time?" "That's right." "Actually," "Shiroyama-san introduced me to a new band, so I might not be able to come in occasionally." "So, she'll replace me at those times." "Please take care of me." "What do you mean?" "You didn't tell me about this." "Don't look at me like I'm a molester!" "I'm not!" "What?" "I came to help you here." "Chie-chan knows about this place and the food quite well, so it'll help us alot." "I have no choice." "But, just so you know, I..." "I know that you're strict about work." "And that you're a rude guy who doesn't apologize even though you've touched a girl's chest." "Good that you know that." "Everyone, look at this!" "Look at this." "Here, here." "Our place is on the MogSearch!" "Hm?" "What's MogSearch?" "You're a chef and you don't know about MogSearch?" "It's a public comment webpage on gourmet stuff." "Look." "There are 2 comments." "Le Petit Chou..." "Despite the cute French name, there's nothing French about the interior design of the place." "For some reason, they play rock songs that are easy to get into and the staff were all young and look like musicians." "They have various types of guests too." "What?" "It's a bad review!" "Look like musicians?" "I'm a real one!" "However, what's weird is that I felt comfortable there." "The cuisine was unexpectedly delicious." "Especially the pork rillettes and the main course, Wagyu Beef Shiogama in Cuts." "Not to mention the cauliflower puree seasoning was excellent and is higher quality than the mediocre 'genuine' French cuisine." "The rice is arranged like breasts and there are other puzzles in this place, but somehow the place has a mysterious charm that makes me want to go again." "This is great!" "I was the one who tore off that cauliflower." "It's so exciting to see these comments." "Yeah, we have to be grateful." "It's promotion for this place." "Alright!" "Come here!" "Here!" "We are finally being acknowledged by society bit by bit." "Yeah!" "There are people who understand our charm in this world!" "Yes, there are!" "But our ability is not just this." "The challenge day is in another 2 days." "Let's make good food and give good service." "And we'll crush down that creepy owner!" "Alright!" "Alright!" "Huh?" "Challenge day?" "Aso Tokio is that famous man who owns many high-class restaurants, right?" "Is it gonna be okay to have a fight with such person?" "I'll win." "If he steals away our restaurant's name too," "The fact that I quit rock and opened a restaurant, won't mean anything." "Le Petit Chou was my mother's dream." "That restaurant is your mother's dream, and not yours." "So, fight it hard without getting too worked up, okay?" "Bye." "You're dating such a pretty woman." "I guess such women truly exist in this world." "Women who loves useless men." "Just like your mother." "What do you mean?" "Bastard." "I'll beat you up." "It's too early to get excited." "Tomorrow is your fight." "I'm looking forward to it." "Shit!" "I definitely won't lose." "Translator - yanie" "Editor - enggrrl" "Le Petit Chou, I'll take this restaurant's name." "The day to fight that owner is finally here." "Hm?" "1, 2, 3." "A black truffle!" "When I heard you were going to have a fight," "I sold the book of paintings I bought in Nice a long time ago." "I was only able to buy 1 with it, though." "Thanks, Pops." "You know..." "I'm very happy that you're succeeding your mother's restaurant like this." "Good luck." "It's such an evil scent." "With only one of these, the flavour will improve." "Aso-san is going to Yamate Eisuke's restaurant?" "That's right." "Why does he keep challenging such a guy?" "He's just curious about him." "Nothing to be concerned about." "Seem like, Eisuke is back with his girlfriend." "That's good." "He can devote himself to cooking now." "You don't have to act strong, Chie-chan!" "No, I mean." "I meant nothing to him, after all." "He even said things like that to me in front of everyone." "He really doesn't look at me as a woman." "I don't think so." "Huh?" "Just leave it to me." "I've been singing the songs he wrote for 5 years." "I know his romantic patterns." "But, then, what should I do?" "I told you, why don't you work part-time there?" "I even work part-time at his place." "How shameless of me." "But..." "Looks delicious." "Alright." "Potato puree and the chicken liver are ready." "Oh right." "During the band contest at Kichijoji temple, the other band's fans threw raw liver at us." "Yeah, Eisuke was so mad at that and kept saying, "Shit!" "Crap!", huh." "But I'm grateful to him." "I can get married thanks to him." "Seriously?" "For real?" "Her parents finally accepted me." "We're planning to hold a ceremony in spring." "Is that so?" "Congratulations!" "To be honest, I think any name would be fine for this restaurant." "But, let's fight it hard together tonight for Eisuke's sake." "Hey, is it true that Eisuke has broken up with his girlfriend?" "Who did you hear that from?" "Since Eisuke babysat him, my son has come to love Eisuke." "He's good at cooking too." "So he's asking me to make him his papa." "He'll be an at-home-dad during the day, and a rock musician at night." "That's the best way, in my mind." "So, where's Eisuke?" "I won't let you see him." "Today is an important day." "And not to mention, he's our chef now." "Oh really." "That's too bad." "If only you guys had passed the Million Face audition, you might have been able to reach your musician's dream." "He didn't break up either." "What?" "Really?" "So, she likes Eisuke-san, too..." "What about me?" "No, nothing." "Hey, you!" "No, I mean..." "Rockers usually suffer terrible ear damage..." "Huh?" "You know, cause we keep listening to loud music." "So, maybe my eardrum... kinda broken." "So, I might mishear what people say..." "I misheard it as a confession..." "Misheard?" "I mean..." "Just forget about it, okay?" "I'll forget that touch of my hand too." "Huh?" "What are you saying?" "You don't get it!" "?" "I'm apologizing to you." "You were apologizing to me!" "?" "That was too hard to understand." "Can't help it." "I don't know how should I apologize to you." "What?" "No, just thinking, you're so clumsy." "Though, you're so good at cooking." "Hello!" "Oh, Sis, you're here!" "Chie-chan." "You look nice with the apron." "I've been waiting!" "Carry it over there." "Okay." "Okay." "Place it here." "Say, why did you quit rock and want to become a chef?" "What is it?" "All of the sudden." "I mean... you'd be more popular among girls if you're a rocker." "Well, since you asked, it's because I promised." "Promised?" "I promised my mother." "If I didn't make it in music by the time I'm 30, I'd take over her restaurant." "But my mother died and the place was taken away..." "So I started this place, keeping the name." "So, I definitely have to protect this restaurant's name, "Le Petit Chou"." "Good morning!" "Oh, you're all here." "Is it a meeting about tonight's dinner?" "Alright!" "Let's get ready!" "Let's work hard to protect the restaurant's name and for Eisuke's sake!" "Welcome!" "I have made a reservation." "Mr. Aso, we've been waiting for you." "Please, come in." "This way." "I think I saw him before somewhere." "Was he on TV?" "He looks creepy, for some reason." "Welcome." "Welcome." "Tonight..." "Enough with the formal greetings." "Let me have the meal." "I'm feeling quite hungry now." "Very well." "Get me the menu." "I'll order the full course of the day." "Full course?" "Is there such a menu in this place?" "Brillat-Savarin said in his book, "The Physiology of Taste"," ""Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are."" "Let me tell you, too." "Let me have the meal you make and I'll tell you what kind of restaurant this place is." "I got it." "Full course, right." "We'll start with the hors d'oeuvres." "Get the burdock ready." "Cook half of it with frit and the other half with butter." "OK." "Roger." "Oh, and you..." "I'm Mutsuko." "Right, Mutsuko-san." "I want you to make the dessert." "It won't be a full course meal without dessert." "Dessert..." "I'll work on it." "Thank you for waiting." "Here's the Melba toast with tarafuku spicy rillettes." "What is this?" "It's delicious." "Such a smooth texture and it has sweetness." "The scent of caper and poivre rose gives a punch, and the unique flavour feels so good from the nose to the throat." "Wow, what a comment." "Reminds me of "Oishinbo" (The Gourmet) manga." "Eisuke-san's cooking is amazing, indeed." "The abundant scent of the burdock is nice." "I feel the land's grace." "What a surprise." "The contrast of the fried and the marinaded parts is wonderful." "It's juicy." "The sauce is good, too." "The grilled lotus root has an excellent consistency while being chewed." "The balance of the pork and the potato," "The blanchir and roasting level of the cheese is interesting." "It has good elasticity and is pretty juicy." "It has no unpleasant smell, due to the addition of the black truffle's enchanting scent." "What a nice mariage." "What a delicious scent." "It's frustrating, but it was delicious." "I didn't see a single espuma, but it feels refreshing, instead." "You must have aimed for that." "Espuma?" "Oh, it's a car or something like that, right?" "It's a style of cooking." "To make foam out of the ingredients." "It's quite a trend these few years." "No aim or anything, it's just because we don't have an espuma machine here." "I knew it." "Also, you should have at least 1 sauce main plate." "I see." "I'll pay attention to that next time." "I'll tell you my conclusion." "The cuisine here is delicious." "However, this is not a French restaurant!" "However, this is not a French restaurant!" "There are some casual French restaurants, indeed, lately, that I don't even want to call 'Bistro'." "But even if I'm being polite, this place is a 'bouchon'." "A drinking bar." "No such thing!" "We're cooking with basic French style..." "Basic French?" "So you're seriously thinking this place is exactly the same as the 'Le Petit Chou' which Chef Yamate Hanako made?" "Look at this mixed and random concept of the interior design." "The guests who used to come to the previous restaurant would definitely not like this." "The only thing the same is that cryptic painting." "You don't even wear a chef's coat." "The table's position arrangement is a complete mess." "And there are traces of stains on the tablecloths." "The service is completely unreliable for a French restaurant, too." "The empty plates are picked up fast, but they come out late." "Cooking the main course takes time and you can do nothing about it, but the fact you let the guest feel that way, shows the service is lacking." "Thanks to that, the guests coming here look low-class." "I can't believe there are guests coming here wearing track suits." "He's talking about me?" "It's not your fault." "It's the restaurant's atmosphere's fault." "I've been here for about 3 hours and yet, not even half of the seats are filled." "Of course, that's because this place is uncomfortable." "There are some faults in the cuisine too." "It's appearance." "There's no flowers and nothing that would make the guests feel pleasant." "Any dish you serve has some rough part just like the countryside dishes." "Did the cuisine Hanako-san made look like that?" "Hm?" "Do you think Hanako-san wished to open this kind of restaurant?" "You think she's happy in heaven now?" "How laughable." "In other words, this is not the successor of" "Le Petit Chou that Yamate Hanako started." "It can't be!" "Not even a bit!" "You don't have the qualifications to use the same name..." "Not at all!" "The bill, please." "Yes." "If I may comment on the dessert, it tasted like what a housewife, who has a hobby in making sweets, would make for her child's birthday." "Hey, that's not fair." "Why are you judging everything based on your own standards?" "Friendship, huh." "As expected from the bandmates." "What did you say!" "?" "Kenta-kun." "Aso-san, you're such a distressed man." "I can see it." "How Hanako is happy now to see" "Eisuke and the others working hard for this place while having arguments everyday." "You don't know..." "People's feelings... and parents' love." "I think it's the opposite." "What does a man like that know about cooking?" "You might be right." "My mother abandoned and neglected me when I was a child." "Mom, I'm hungry." "Not like this chef here," "I have never tasted delicious meals made by my parent." "But I have become an adult, established a company and built a fortune so far in the gourmet industry." "Last month, Gasterea's sales was 2.8 times of Hanako-san's" "Le Petit Chou's sales." "Alright then, as promised, please take off that name board within this week." "And change this restaurant's name." "For the new name..." "I suggest..." "You made me full, so I suggest "Harapeko(Hungry) Kitchen" or "Harapeko Canteen"." "Those names would be good for your place." "Wait a minute." "That's..." "Yeah, you bastard." "Love and friendship is nice." "It has such a lovely sound." "But what can you do with those, actually?" "I'm not a chef." "I'm a businessman." "I'll do anything for business." "You must be tired." "Are you going to stop by at our restaurant?" "Yes." "Sir, are you okay?" "I'm sorry, man." "It's my fault." "It's not." "It was my mistake." "You guys didn't do anything wrong." "Everything was my responsibility." "But I think it's fine." "Let's just accept it that we are that kind of place." "Rather than the high class French restaurant," "I love this kind of place a lot more." "Yeah, me too." "Your cooking is the best too, anyway." "That's right." "We don't have to change the name." "Just ignore that guy." "Yeah, let's ignore him." "Alright." "Alright." "What's most painful for me, wasn't the fact that I won't be able to use my mother's restaurant's name anymore, but the fact that everything that guy said was true." "Sorry, Mom..." "I can't protect it." "I can't do anything..." "Three days later..." "So we'll seriously go with this?" "Yeah, he said he should keep his promise." "We have a new name for the restaurant." "Actually, I was the only one who insisted to use Mom's restaurant's name." "Even though we changed the name, there were no particular comments from the regular guests." "Somebody edited our place name too, in the MogSearch..." "There's nothing different at all." "Just that, I..." "I..." "Let's watch a movie." "There's a romantic movie that looks good." "A midnight show..." "Are you okay?" "You know, Eisuke..." "My father told me before." "If you like, you can help out my father's company." "What do you mean?" "Actually, he wanted to talk to you about it when you turned 30." "He said, you could pursue your dream in music, while working at his company." "I didn't know you had promised your mother that you'd become a chef." "It's not that I'm suggesting you to do that." "I'm just saying that you still have other choices besides restaurant work." "Young master." "Higashi-san." "This was left over at the old kitchen, so I kept it with me." "I should have handed this over to you earlier..." "This..." "No, actually, to be honest," "I wanted to take these recipes for myself." "But the more I read into it, the more I felt that this book was a present from Hanako-san to you." "I see." "I should've cooked this one like this..." "A simple fruit sauce should work too, then." "How was it?" "Today's pot-au-feu?" "When you seriously want to start cooking, then you can come back here." "Okay!" "Lunch is ready!" "Eisuke-san." "I want a new type of vegetable." "Red cabbage and brocolli sprout." "And, if you can, iceplant and micro tomato." "We have red cabbage and micro tomato, but... iceplant and sprout?" "Let's try to make them." "I got new seedlings from the market." "I heard it's a trend for Spanish cooking." "Right!" "It's currently popular in Northern Europe." "Wait a sec." "I'll take a look." "Sasuke!" "Okay, next is the fish supply." "Eisuke-san, you seem so energetic today." "Yup, I am." "What's this?" "Omelette." "You taught me so I tried to make them." "They look like shit." "Hey!" "Um... please be gentle with the comments." "Not bad." "Really?" "It's good." "My dream was to have a delicious meal with my boyfriend in a nice restaurant." "So I was thinking of going to your mother's restaurant with my boyfriend someday." "The day we first met was to take a look at the place." "The day we first met?" "I'm looking for a restaurant named Le Petit Chou." "Le Petit Chou." "You pronounced it wrong." "So I was very shocked that the restaurant had closed down." "So I didn't have a choice but to step into the strange restaurant with the same name." "But the dishes were so delicious that it really surprised me." "Delicious." "Surprised?" "Don't exaggerate it." "This might be an exaggeration, but that restaurant, Eisuke-san's cooking has changed my life." "So..." "I guess I like you, after all." "Not the romantic kind of like..." "But as a friend..." "Well, can't say we're friends either, since we're a few years apart." "But, it's really fun to talk with you about cooking or vegetables like this." "I've never had that kind of guy friend, and..." "Anyway, so..." "Please keep going with the restaurant and do your best at it." "Well, I guess you'll keep going at it anyway, without me having to say it." "You might think that it's none of my business." "But it's just that you didn't look happy that day." "Me too." "I like you too." "You're a nice girl." "I've never had a female friend like you either." "Really?" "Yes." "So it's only me?" "Yup." "That..." "That makes me happy." "So happy." "Yamate-kuun!" "Can you take a look at the vegetable?" "Yeah, coming!" "Thanks." "I'm so happy." "Tsuyoshi, put the spinach inside the mixer." "Roger." "Kenta, slice the scallop and fish." "Okay." "Update the homepage for me." "I'll try." "Also, from now on, we'll make home-made bread." "We'll bake it here." "Help out." "Very well." "Why are you suddenly so energetic today?" "I've finally made a decision." "That this is my dream." "I'll be a genuine French chef now." "Not for my mother but for my own sake." "We'll be big in the food industry, make this place a number one French restaurant, and beat the hell out of that guy!" "Morning, Chie." "What happened?" "I feel happy but it's so painful!" "Who is that?" "Just a suspicious old man." "I didn't expect he'd come here." "A new part-time worker?" "Stop it, it's embarrassing." "Shut up." "Are you a French chef?" "To be honest, I had enough of this!" "I think it's better to be apart." "If you apologize to me now, I'll forgive you!" "Who would do that?" "I'm quitting!"