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Caren Ortensia (Hortensia) ([personal profile] showsnopiety) wrote in [community profile] pawnstorm2016-06-07 10:40 pm

[Open] The Mapo Tofu affair

Who: Everyone! If you can smell it, you can find it!
When: 6/8-610
Where: Hall of Glory Parlour in Caissa
What: Caren found out she can make mapo tofu and is sharing with everyone. Heaven help us all.
Rating: So far none but will change when things happen.





THe Halls of Glory smell a little different today. Instead of the usual fare that the others might know from the weekly menu, there's a different scent. Something that may remind heroes of Airy, Ma Jiang dishes, or maybe, more simply, of home.

This was the result of Caren's cooking and some hunting on her part. And the results may be quite appealing. There are pots of rice, still steaming, and various bowls filled with the result known as mapo tofu. Some of them are spicer then others, and she hasn't seen fit to label which are very spicy, and which are quite mild. The only thing she has labelled, with a rim of green around the bowls, are the vegan variations, for those who can't, or do not, eat meat or meat by products.

Consider it a game of spice roulette. Because there are other bowls as well, with crushed cucumber-hot pepper salad, spicy tofu, and something that has spewed spinach and garlicy noodles within. But hey! You may be able to cool off with one of the pots of tea around the place-or with one of the rare tubs of ice cream of various flavors, kept chilled with an icy spell.

The cutlery and bowls are disposable, and there are trashbags to clean up after yourself. She's not going to do it for you!

But hey. Who can say no to free food?
hymnals: that wants to grow (i fought the perfect storm)

[personal profile] hymnals 2016-06-10 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ Adra, too, is stubborn. His very name means 'inescapable', after all. So they'll get along fine. ]

I'm sure it will. In the meantime, and even afterward, I'be glad to keep instructing you.
sealeted: (Default)

[personal profile] sealeted 2016-06-10 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
I'll definitely find some way to properly thank you for this.

['Thank you' just seems so flimsy, right now.]
hymnals: i got mine (you'll get what's yours)

[personal profile] hymnals 2016-06-10 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ He shakes his head. ]

Not necessary. Just do your best--for yourself, and the people around you. That's all I ever like to see.
sealeted: (from these stars)

[personal profile] sealeted 2016-06-10 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Does it have to be necessary? I want to.

[She feels comfortable enough to give him a soft poke in the side.]

You just heard me say I was stubborn, didn't you?
hymnals: mirroring your stare (i'm the face that you have to face)

[personal profile] hymnals 2016-06-10 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ That he did not expect. He stiffens a little, coughing in surprise, and his long ears fold--like a cat's. A spirited girl! ]

Yes, my people have superlative hearing.

[ He makes a show of rubbing his side, trying to mask his earlier, involuntary reaction. ]

All right, then. If you think of something, I'll gladly receive it.
sealeted: (is the view)

[personal profile] sealeted 2016-06-10 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
[....she kind of wants to touch his ears now, but it doesn't take a genius to see that actually doing that would be super inappropriate.

She shoots him a thumbs-up instead.]


It might take a while for me to settle on something, but look forward to it, Sensei.
hymnals: and you will not owe (i will not take from you)

[personal profile] hymnals 2016-06-10 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ Atta girl, Hakuno. RESIST THE IMPULSE. ]

I will.

[ He leans back against the wall, closing his eyes, smiling faintly. Sensei -- he's heard that before. It's a musical term to him, and he knows it means 'teacher'. Exactly the role he likes, and honestly, thanks enough for him.

But for now, he's gonna take a little nap. Don't mind him. ]
sealeted: (the moonsea)

[personal profile] sealeted 2016-06-10 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
[It means teacher and doctor, technically, so it's a doubly-suitable label for him.

Tuckered out from too much food and her first real expenditure of mana, Hakuno makes the drowsy decision to follow her new instructor's example and drifts off next to him, secure in the knowledge that there really probably isn't anybody interested in trying to kill her if she falls asleep outside her assigned room.]