The Great Demon King 192

Chapter 192 – [Raccoon Man Beginning]

On the market side, people who can speak a little Korean or English were selling goods, as if they were doing business with tourists. First of all, what greets you at the entrance is a feast of savory, spicy, and colorful food from street vendors.

“Yayaya, look at that. There are scorpions and spider skewers.”

“Uuuuu00uuuuu00uuuuu00uuuuu00e Why are you eating something like that?”

“I will eat it because it has its own taste. And both are unexpectedly savory.”

I eat pretty much anything, unless it’s naturally suited to my body. Shion is a picky eater, but he still eats when given to him. If meat and vegetables are in front of you, you only eat the meat, but if you stir-fry the meat and vegetables and serve them together, you will eat them all.

However, this is bound to differ from person to person. Even if I taste it, I won’t eat it twice unless it’s quite delicious.

“Let’s leave those things alone and eat something else first. There are many other things that are still delicious, so why do we have to eat something like that?”

“Okay. I won’t eat that.”

Even if it’s not like that anyway, there’s a lot to eat. Whether it is truly a country of gourmet, there are not one or two street vendors.

There were some familiar dishes and some unfamiliar dishes. First of all, we bought a proper one from the skewer corner that sold scorpion skewers and bit each other in our mouths. I am squid, and Shion is grilled shrimp.

“Tasty?”

“It’s okay. It’s just grilled and coated with soy sauce so it’s good enough to eat.”

“Don’t come out and eat strange food when I’m not there. If there is one advantage in China, it’s that bastards who play with food are punished with death. But places with poor hygiene are not good.”

It’s not like the weather of the continent or the country of alchemists for nothing. Among the street vendors I see now, there are often dishes made with dirty or inedible items.

Of course, I have no interest in eating such things on purpose. But it’s annoying to talk about public affairs, so I just ignore it and move on.

Bastards who play with food should be searched for.

“It’s a Chinese market, but they also have takoyaki.”

“Everyone has to carry 3,000 won in their wallets because you never know when and where you will meet a takoyaki vendor.”

“Honestly, it’s not bad, but I don’t think coming here to eat something like that. Let’s try something else first. Hey, there’s some boiled crab over there.”

Looking at the shape, it doesn’t look like a blue crab, but there was a place that sold boiled crabs the size of a palm. I can see the reddish shell, but the way they gather the tongs together is like a lump, giving me some kind of peace of mind.

You know that feeling when something unexpected fits perfectly. It’s like that feeling when you’re organizing things in the closet and it fits into the last box.

“Give me one of these.”

When I asked how to eat it, he said that he ate the whole shell. The skin is crispy because it is separately seasoned and grilled and then fried in oil.

I bought one and cut it in half with Shion, so I could really eat the crab with crispy skin. It’s nice that you don’t need to rub it in.

“This is delicious”

“If you like crustaceans but don’t like eating them raw, you would be happy if you could eat the shells as well.”

“To be honest, it’s annoying to eat.”

“So if you do, I’ll apply it all.”

It’s not like some kind of mother bird feeds her chicks.

I giggled and walked around the stalls again. There was also a lamb skewer, but it seemed a little different from the ones sold in Korea, so I bought one and ate it. It had a pretty good taste, probably because it caught the smell well.

Then, as I passed by a street vendor, I smelled a strong smell that I could not just pass by.

“Durian! There is durian! Eat durian!”

“……Durian?”

“Call”

At a durian street vendor with a strong smell, a woman holding a large machete-like knife was vigorously dipping durians, peeling the skin, and removing the flesh.

Buy a bag and share it with Xion. Although it smells a little bit, it has its own taste. Really tasty durian is not what you would expect from a street vendor like this, but I bought it because it looked edible.

When you take a bite of the cut chunk, the creamy texture stands out. Ignore the rising aroma and eat it, and you will feel the faint taste of coffee.

“If you are looking for a fruit with this greasy texture, it’s about avocado. Avocado is more savory than sweet.”

“It’s pretty good”

“I can eat this kind of food, but why can’t I eat stinky tofu?”

“There is no guarantee that people who eat skate well will eat Cheonggukjang well. In the end, it’s a matter of taste.”

“It’s a preference. Will you respect it?”

“And durian likes this creamy feel”

“Well, you like oily things.”

Even though I thought I had passed a lot of street vendors, there were still a lot of street vendors lined up in front of my eyes.

After all, there is plenty of time. I came here with the intention of hanging out until the night, so let’s move slowly.

“Hey, look there. They sell tteokbokki too.”

“Why is tteokbokki in China?”

“I guess there are people who eat it.”

No matter how much we can eat, our stomach has a limit. 80 sushi as if you are allergic to sushi… No, we might vomit if we eat about 800.

Since we’ve come all the way to China, let’s leave what we can eat in Korea and eat something else. So I didn’t even eat takoyaki before.

“How about that?”

“What is it? Is it made of intestines?”

“It looks like you’re boiling a thousand leaves and then rubbing them in the sauce? It must be giblets noodles.”

“Let’s buy a bowl”

What was sold at a street vendor was a dish made by boiling celestial leaves, slicing them into thin and long pieces, and mixing them with seasoning. The offal dishes have a lot of smell due to the nature of the cut, so you can’t eat them if you don’t pay attention to handling, but people seem to be buying them to see if they’re popular.

We also decided to buy a bowl and eat it. The seasoning lump on top with a bit of soup looked red like gochujang… Though the level of spiciness would be different.

“What Sichuan cuisine is it?”

“When it comes to spicy, I have a lot to explain, but with spicy, there are hot, spicy, and pungent…”

“So what flavor is this?”

“Spicy and tingling side”

These days, simply adding a lot of capsaicin and saying that it is spicy is like playing a joke on cooking, so you have to grind the ones you made and turn them into hamburger patties.

It’s like that, but tear gas is also cooking. Of course, many of the Korean soldiers have already tasted it, but where is the bastard who eats tear gas because it is delicious?

Really spicy is the spicy that makes people feel good. It makes the body warm except sweat, and that kind of spicy taste is addictive. If you praise capsaicin, it is not addictive, it is just addictive.

“Well, it’s a bit tingly. Isn’t it a bit spicy?”

“That’s much better. I like it because it takes away the lingering spicy taste.”

“I ate a lot of delicious food too, but I still have a long way to go to catch up with you in terms of gourmet food.”

“It’s all about the field you’re interested in.”

Shion says it’s a little spicy, but it’s actually quite spicy. It makes you want water and milk right away, but it still has a charm that keeps going in your mouth.

I just finished a bowl of giblet noodle soup and was thinking about eating something sweet this time to calm my tingling mouth, but a street vendor was selling Bingtang Hulu.

“No, this?!”

“You know?”

“It’s Bingtang Hulu. It’s a historical dish that I ate deliciously even in the Moorim days. Why, if you watch a lot of anime, there’s an apple candy you eat at Japanese festivals. It’s similar.”

“Oh, then I’ll figure it out.”

Bingtang Hulu is a dish made by sticking hawthorn berries on a skewer and applying syrup made from starch syrup and sugar to harden it.

At first glance, it may be similar to the apple candy that has been compared to Zion. The main material, hawthorn, is also named after the mountain apple tree, and the fruit is even called a flower apple.

However, apple candy contains various ingredients other than starch syrup or sugar, but Bingtang Hulu contains only sugar and starch syrup. So the taste is quite clean.

“Give me four”

“Yes, it’s 4 yuan.”

There were also Bingtang Hulu made from other fruits such as tangerines and kiwi, but the best one was hawthorn fruit. Me and Shion held one in each hand and ate the shiny hawthorn fruits one by one.

With one bite, the crunchy texture of the syrup and the sweet and sour taste of the hawthorn fruit spread throughout. It resembles an apple, but has a slightly different taste, but it has a strong sour taste that goes well with the sweetness of the syrup.

“Mmm, this is delicious”

“It’s sour and sweet. It’s just the taste you like, right?”

“Do you know that I’m not a child and only like sweets?”

“For that matter, I think they prefer dipping their steaks in store-bought steak sauce rather than sprinkling with salt.”

“Wouldn’t it be boring to just eat?”

“But if you put sauce on it, does it taste like sauce or meat?”

“Then shouldn’t we have to go into dipping vinegar in the sashimi?”

“Other people don’t know, but I’ll make it clear. Dipping sashimi with vinegar is honestly eating it with vinegar flavor.”

Chojang has a strong taste. Therefore, if you dip sashimi in vinegar, the original taste of sashimi disappears and only the chewy taste disappears. Some people still feel the taste of meeting, but for normal people…Well.

Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Everyone has their own taste in cooking, and what they like is different. I also hate mint chocolate, but I don’t hate people who eat mint chocolate.

You know the saying, hate the sin, but not the people?

Hmm, in this case, the sin is mint chocolate.

“Wait, two of them.”

“……?”

While we were eating well and enjoying ourselves, someone started talking to us.

Uniform outfit like a Korean police officer. It is a Chinese public security that I have seen before in Tiananmen Square.

A man who looked a little older, not young, in his early thirties, was looking at us with a slightly suspicious look.

“Are you a foreigner? What’s the relationship between you two?”

“…First of all, we both come from Korea, and we are husband and wife.”

Slightly high-handed attitude and arrogant attitude. No matter how strong the power of Chinese public security is, it feels a little strange to see foreigners doing this.

There are many troubles because of Shion’s default form, but once you know the circumstances, even if you look at me with the eyes of a pervert who lusts after a child, that kind of gaze is unexpectedly rare.

Where have I ever felt this…

“A couple?”

“My wife looks young, but she’s a perfectly fine adult. She’s on her honeymoon and here’s her passport.”

“Hmm… Is your wife a force user?”

“Yeah what”

He checked our identity by looking at our passports. Shion was once registered as a Force user, so that was also listed in her passport.

It was rare enough to say that Force users went abroad, but it was not nonexistent. He seemed to think for a bit, then asked where we were staying.

“Where are you staying?”

“…….Jin Shangri-La Hotel. But why are you asking that?”

“No, recently a special order came down from the upper level. There are no charges, so you can go.”

He handed us our passports again and left. I looked at his back for a while and then frowned.

“I’m going to have to go crazy. Special instructions from the top are bullshit.”

“Was it a lie?”

“If there were really some instructions, the police in Tiananmen Square would have come to us. I’m with you, so I won’t be noticed by other people?”

There are people who have never seen Zion, but no one has seen it only once. Even in her default form, her beauty is as unique as that of a doll, so even a child draws attention.

If I saw it on the road, I couldn’t look back, so I was going to drive in reverse and see it again.

“It smells annoying… Shion, don’t go out when I’m not around”

“All right”

I have a premonition of irritation as if something is brewing.