Fermat’s Cuisine (フェルマーの料理)

Your best time ever? Amazing.

I really am amazing!

How about you?

It was really busy this week.

You haven't been yelled at recently, right?

I guess the sous-chef Hotei.

Faster!

- Oui . - Oui .

Magoroku! You're not just in charge of the sides! You have cleaning!

Yes. Sorry.

Jean. Help out with the soup.

You are a team!

-Work as a team! - Oui .

Gaku. Check the stove.

Yes!

-The sauce will burn. -It still has time.

Use your ears! It sounds like it is burning.

-Yes. Sorry. -Gaku.

Don't just use your brain to think. Feel.

Yes!

Sous-chef? Is he like the boss?

The boss is the head chef. Chef de cuisine.

That is that guy.

Kai Asakura.

Kai focuses on the finishing touches.

He is immersed in his own world.

In his place, the sous-chef directs the action in the kitchen.

I guess he would be number two.

So part of his job

is yelling at us in place of the head chef.

My math can't keep up with him.

But you'll need to beat him eventually.

Beat?

Weren't you told that

you and Kai Asakura would change the history of cuisine together?

I was.

That means you need to hurry up and become number two.

Do I really?

Did you just realize?

I don't like competing.

It's scary to imagine.

But thanks.

I'll do my best.

I thought it was a normal rice omelet,

but this egg is really tender yet solid.

Yeah. It's delicious.

The scent of the butter rice really wafts in the air.

The bain-marie method?

This is an uncooked rice omelet.

I wanted to make the egg as tender as possible.

I used the bain-marie method instead of cooking.

The optimal temperature was 85 degrees.

I stirred at a rate of 200 cycles per minute.

I slowly applied heat while stirring it.

Once the texture became thick, I removed it from the heat.

I'm in love.

Gaku! This is too delicious.

Thank you.

Gaku turned out to be an unexpected gem.

Thank you for today.

We look forward to your work.

Please leave it to us.

Excuse us.

The rest is up to you.

Why did you leave this hotel job to me?

I'm not a player anymore.

I'm just a businessman.

Are you sure…

you won't do it anymore?

I've seen everything there is to see

as a player.

Kai?

We're closed today. What is it?

What is it? I came to try out a recipe I made.

I see.

Well then.

I'll go home.

You won't try it? You usually try my new recipes.

Sorry.

Next time.

Egg over rice?

Try it.

Thank you.

-Amazing. -This is also an uncooked rice omelet.

I made it based on your workers' meal.

The rice turned into risotto.

I turned up the creamy texture.

I see.

I overlooked the one part of this dish

that can never be overlooked.

-Yes. -It's like rounding off pi to 3.

-Huh? -Pi.

To make it easier to calculate,

some people just use 3.

But if you do that,

the circumference of a circle becomes equal

to the circumference of a regular hexagon.

That is not right.

That is how large a gap there is

between our cuisine.

Plus, if you eat the risotto with this white truffle.

That aroma…

You never use premium ingredients.

So?

What next?

-Next? -What do you want to become?

Well…

I want…

to become like you.

Oh.

I want to become like you and get closer to the truth of cuisine.

-That's my goal. -In that case…

There are many rivals you must toss aside.

Toss aside?

The whole idea of tossing aside or battling

isn't really for me.

You always know how to disappoint me.

Can you really become like me

if you keep acting like that?

I also want to become like Kai.

He is a French chef that even my father in Kyoto knows.

I really want to be like him.

Thank you.

-How about you, Pena? -Same for me.

If your name spreads across Tokyo,

it will be heard around the world.

Tokyo has…

the most Michelin Stars in the world.

Wow.

-Hotei? -What?

He wants to start another restaurant someday.

-Another? -Hotei had his own restaurant before.

Owner and chef.

It even had a Michelin Star.

Amazing.

Then why are you cooking here now?

Hotei?

After I heard Kai decided to open a restaurant in Japan,

I closed my own restaurant.

It holds great value to work under him.

Exactly!

It is important to work under Kai.

Then we all

have the same goals.

We really are teammates!

Restaurant K will be in charge of supervising the catering at a party

at The Kahala Hotel.

It's a luxury hotel. Super luxury.

However.

I'll sit this one out.

You will think of the recipes.

Wait! What do you mean by that?

For dessert…

you're in charge, Hotei.

Oh. Okay.

As for the other course dishes…

it'll be a competition.

Appetizer, soup, main. You can make anything.

Prepare the dish you have the most confidence in.

Only one will win.

The winner will represent K and prepare the full course.

Do you understand what this means?

You'll make a name for yourself.

Got it?

- Oui . - Oui .

Okay.

As usual, we have a full house today.

Let's give them a perfect and efficient service.

- Oui . - Oui .

MATHEMATICAL OLYMPIAD

Gaku.

You want me to fight…

to toss them aside…

I'll make the workers' meal.

I'm okay.

Me too. Good work.

Thank you.

I won't be needing them too.

I want to think about the competition alone.

Gaku.

The battle has already begun.

Are you scared of the competition?

Yes.

Honestly, my hands are shaking.

Why are you so scared?

It brought me back to when I did math.

I just enjoyed solving hard problems when I was a child.

But once I started aiming for the Math Olympiad,

everything became about winning or losing.

I dislike…

competition.

I realized this then.

If you don't participate,

you can't win or lose.

That's true.

I guess that is one option.

Thanks for the meal.

Yes.

Sit.

Okay.