w2 sunday night curry group

[clockpunk]

[ so after all that and just Everything In General chrono has commandeered the kitchen and is just fucken

going to town on a ridiculous amount of vegetables. there's already two piles of meat off to one side before anyone else arrives - one beef, one chicken - as well as rice cooking, which is giving off a fresh, enticing smell. chrono barely looks up unless spoken to.

his kitchen skills are practiced, methodological, clearly someone who has done this many times before. though maybe not commonly at this sheer volume.

you can pop in early to help with the preparation, or arrive later when the scent of spices and onions and meat has started overtaking the building. up to you!! feel free to talk amongst yourselves as well. ]

Comments

[dijun]

Cooking is a skill that is wise to cultivate, I find. It will do him some good to learn.

[ might make him feel more useful and give him a distraction when it's Bad, too. ]

Mm, that's correct. A source of my discomfort, before, when we were asked to strip. But I think it's time to break that habit.

[clockpunk]

[ that's exactly what chrono's doing, so!!! ]

Hate to break it to you, Zhongli, but I think the profiles gave away the whole "not human" stuff way before this. [ nodding. ] Startin' here's a good way to ease into showin' it, right?

[dijun]

Oh, no, I am aware. But when you've held onto a habit for hundreds of years, it's hard to break it overnight.

[ once his hands are washed, he takes the pealed potatoes and starts to deftly cut them down into the sizes chrono wants, all familiar and deft motions with the knife on the board. ]

[clockpunk]

Sure, I get it.

[ sort of. not the hundreds of years part, but. habits.

his eyebrows rise, impressed, at the knife skills. ]

Woah, nice. What kinda stuff do you usually cook?

[dijun]

[ a slide of the knife, and he moves the pieces aside to start on another potato. ]

My favorite dish is bamboo shoot soup, both to eat and to make. I looked into the recipe books of the library, and I think the closest comparison that those of you from Earth might know of, to Liyueren cuisine, is Chinese?

[clockpunk]

Bamboo shoots are definitely Chinese on my Earth, yeah.

[ getting back to cutting the carrots. parallel play lookin type thing over here. ]

I really like Chinese food, but I'm not that practiced at cookin' any. Bamboo shoots are super tasty.

[dijun]

[ we love parallel play in a very large kitchen where you don't have to be on top of each other. ]

I would have assumed you and Akihiko were from Inazuma, back in Teyvat, but Miss Koharu told me that names like yours tend to come from Japan. [ at least in the case of chrono's last name. ] Very interesting to see the similarities, yet differences.

[ a nod, though. ]

It is especially delicious when allowed to slow cook in the soup, with pork belly and dry-cured ham, with the pork belly sliced but still attached to bone to flavor the broth.

[clockpunk]

Liyue's names and places sound real similar to Chinese in general, too. Inazuma, huh? It means "lightning". [ amused. ] I'm from Asakusa, in Tokyo, which is the capital city of Japan. Asakusa has this famous place called Kaminarimon, "thunder gate".

[ yum............... ]

If you want some help cookin' sometime too, I'll always be down to help.