Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi

Ch 85  — Sweet and Sour Chinese Miso Stir-fry with Eggplant

I bought cloth bags and bottles at a general store before I returned to the inn to start fulfilling Lambert-san's wholesale order for delivery the next day.

Once I got back to my room I opened Net Super and started buying soap, 10 packs of 3 cheap soap bars and 10 packs of 3 rose-scented soap bars.
After that I bought 10 large refills of rinse-in shampoo, 10 large refills of regular shampoo and 10 large refills of conditioner.
Each refill pack would fill three of the glass bottles I had bought from the store.
I also bought hair wraps.
Each pack of hair wraps would fill two jars so I bought 15 packs.
I had to buy 30 jars from the Net Super to put the hair wraps in.

I put all of the items in my Net Super cart and clicked on “Buy”.
The total came to about 30 gold coins.
Once I had fed the required coins into the Net Super screen a large cardboard box appeared in front of me.

I started with the cheap soaps, removing each bar from its other-world packaging and putting it in a cloth bag, 30 pieces in all.
I did the same with the rose-scented soap.
After that came the rinse-in shampoo, decanting each refill pack into three of the glass bottles I had bought from the local store before corking each one.
That made 30 bottles of rinse-in shampoo.
I did the same with the shampoo and conditioner refills.

“Fuuu, thank goodness that's finished.” I muttered, looking at the 90 bottles and 60 cloth bags lined up in front of me.
I looked in the box again and noticed there was still more items left.
“Oh, there's still the hair wraps to do.” I opened the packs and put four hair wraps in each of the 30 glass jars I had purchased from the Net Super.

“Well, I finally finished.” I sat back, relieved.
“The smell of soap and shampoo though, it makes me want to take a real bath, not just wipe myself down like I've been doing since I got here.” When we got paid for the Mithril Lizard's subjugation I was going to buy a bathtub and have a proper Japanese soak.

Looking out of the window, I saw it was began to get dark.
“Is it that time already?” Dinner, I decided.
I picked up Sui's bag and headed down to the beast stables.

* * * * *

I was in the mood for a feast.
I decided to start off with ground meat, an easy and tasty dish.
Going to Net Super I bought tubes of the sweet-and-sour Chinese miso that I've used before, that's what I needed for Chinese-style sweet and sour stir-fried ground meat.
Oh, and eggplant too.

I cut up the eggplants about 2cm square in their skins then fried them in a pan until well-done.
I added the minced meat (three parts Bloody Horn Bull beef and seven parts Orc General pork) and kept frying until it browned nicely.
Cooking for Fer and Sui I added lots of ground meat.
I put sweet-and-sour Chinese miso in a small amount of water and mixed it thoroughly then added potato starch to thicken it before adding it to the contents of the frying pan.

Really tasty.
I served up Fer and Sui's portions over rice because it's especially delicious when you eat it that way.

“Here you are.” I put the bowls out.

“Well, that smells good,” said Fer, drooling.

“It really does -” Sui-chan agreed.
The two of them started to eat.

“It's delicious when it's sticky like this…” Fer mumbled.

“Yes Yes-” Sui agreed.
The potato starch makes the sauce thicker, you see.

Watching them gobble down the sweet and sour stir-fry I'd made I realised it wasn't going to be enough for those two.
What else…
hmmm, I had some cheese-filled chicken cutlets ready in my Item Box.

“Still hungry? Here, eat this.” I passed over some chicken cutlets.

“Oh, it's the tasty food with white stuff in the middle.
Sui likes the white stuff-” Sui seems to like cheese, doesn't she? I decided I'd cook more dishes using cheese when I got the time.

“Seconds.” ordered Fer as he finished his stir-fried sweet-and-sour Chinese miso ground meat over rice.

“Sui also wants more-.” Oh, Sui-chan, too? I fed them some more cheese-filled chicken cutlets while I made another two servings of sweet spicy Chinese miso stir-fried ground meat rice bowl.

“They're ready.” I said, handing over the the freshly-cooked stir-fry.
While they were eating that I made some more Chinese sweet-and-sour miso stir-fry just for myself, cutting back on the amount of meat to just a cup-full.

I took a mouthful…
the fried meat with sweet and sour sauce plus the eggplant made a delicious combination.

“Seconds here.” Fer ordered.
Shouldn't that be thirds? Whatever.
Okay then, I pulled out some more cheese-filled chicken cutlets from my Item Box.

“Sui wants to eat something different this time, the ground-up fried meat filled with white stuff-“

“That's hamburger with cheese in.
Is Sui wanting to eat that?”

“Yup.
It's delicious, full of white stuff-” Sui really likes cheese.

“Well, just a little.” I fried up some cheese-filled hamburger for her.

“Thanks, Aruji-” Sui-chan is definitely cute.
Of course when Fer smelled the cheese-filled hamburger I cooked for her he wanted some too so I had to do it all over again and then when I smelled it myself…
I made mine with ketchup, mixing it in the frying pan with the juices from the hamburger then I took a bite.
Cheese-filled hamburger truly is Justice! Gulp.