Tokyo, Japan / キッチンスタジアム (Kitchen Stadium) / Saturday Night

[dojima_hime]

She had found Robin.

Yurika was just going to glee a little bit more about that. She had found Robin!

...okay, Robin had found her, and she hadn't been at her best, but still. The little pyro was alive. Sakaki was back in the office, albeit on crutches, and Karasuma and Micheal were up to full speed. She hadn't been able to convince Robin to come back, but now she had a search area to go with.

Which meant Yurika was taking the damn night off. Point of fact, she had threatened to cook for whomever called her phone before tomorrow afternoon. She and Romeo were going out, dammit, and this was possibly the most unusual date they had come up with.

And the most entertaining.

"Tonight's mystery ingredient is.... PEPPERMINT CANDY! Allez cuisine!"

Yurika just grinned and leaned back in her seat. "This is awesome."

[OOC: FOR THAT BOY]

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[withoutverona]

"Aye," Romeo nodded gravely, reaching into his coat pocket for a stick of gum. The mention of mint gave him a craving. "Unless they make us test the food."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"What, no sense of adventure, aijin?" she teased. "If they offer us some, we have to try it."

"You're very lucky they didn't make us emergency judges, since you're here with the scandalous socialite Dōjima heiress," she continued, bumping his knee with hers. "Then you'd have to eat it on television!"

[withoutverona]

"My sense of adventure is across the ocean, I'm not too ashamed to admit that," Romeo claimed. "And I hope they don't spot you. I'd not want to be the Dojima boyfriend who spit out some minty delicacy on camera."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Reno would try it with me," she sulked, batting her eyelashes at him outrageously. "So would dear cousin Benvolio."

Mostly because she'd get them drunk, no doubt, but details.

[withoutverona]

Romeo smirked at her. "Neither of them has spent two years trying to feed themselves in Japan, dearest."

They were getting glared at by the old man in front of them, who apparently spoke English and did not like having his national cuisine disparaged. Romeo murmured an apology.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Mayo pizza for you this week," she whispered, settling in to watch. "...did he just rub candy on a shark fin?"

[withoutverona]

"With extra seaweed on the pizza?" Romeo asked, craning his neck. "I think so. And now he's cutting a slit to stuff more candy inside."

Weird.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"And soy sauce," she promised. "Do we think he's going to fry it or put it in a soup?"

Shark fin stuffed with candy. Was it any wonder that Dōjima loved her country?

[withoutverona]

"I might eat it fried," Romeo volunteered thoughtfully. "Or he could leave it raw and -- by Jesus, is that salami?"

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"I have no idea." Horrified fascination. Utterly horrified. "With what looks like pickled ginger."

[withoutverona]

Well-done, chef! Now Romeo was getting nauseated, and he desperately cast his eyes around the stadium. "The chef in red is making ice cream," he observed. "That is what one does with peppermint."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"What kind of entree can be made with candy, anyway?" she mused, craning her neck to try and see the ice cream making. "Or with candy as an ingredient? It would be too sweet!"

[withoutverona]

Romeo shrugged halfheartedly, keeping an eye on what he hoped would remain nice normal ice cream. "As if I cook," he said.

Then: "Mexican food -- it has chocolate, sometimes. Doesn't it?"

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Peppermint tacos," she deadpanned. "That...might not be horrible?"

[withoutverona]

Romeo stared at her with some horror. "And that, my lady, is why neither of us cooks."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"We cook!" she protested between giggles. "Ramen! We cook ramen! I can even do it on the stove and add an egg and everything!"

Which was about two steps up from tossing it in the microwave, but it counted as cooking.

[withoutverona]

"And you make the best ramen the world has ever seen," Romeo teased. "You know better than to put peppermint in it, for one."