History Sandbox / BizarreRestaurant

* BadassInANiceSuit: Seo Taeji wears one which also acts as an active camouflage suit and is the first to finish level one of the "Bizarre Food Challenge" that claimed the appetite of many hunters.
* MysteriousWatcher: look over on the rooftops to secretly keep an eye on Eunha during her visits to the Warrior's Restaurant

* BadassInANiceSuit: also acts as an active camouflage suit, the first to finish level one of the "Bizarre Food Challenge"

* BitchInSheepsClothing: The guide of the ISAC blacksmith Seo Narae hides her animosity well for Seungwoo's unusual request of forging a kitchen knife (chapter 20)
-->'''Narae:'''

* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: Unlike his [[DeceasedParentsAreTheBest father]], Seungwoo never mentions his [[MissingMom mother]], not even once, which can either mean that he grew up with a single parent or doesn't think the best of her.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Seungwoo occasionally reminisces over his father who was no longer with him. He deeply misses and has nothing but good memories of him and was the one who inspired him to cook meals both delicious and bizarre.
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Seungwoo has three god titles representing his achievements: The God of Swords (From attaining the highest level as a swordmaster), The God of Victory (From defeating the Demon Lord and never losing in battle) and The God of... Bizarre Cuisine (That one's [[LethalChef pretty self-explanatory]]).

* {{Sadist}}: As a SupremeChef, he ''could'' make Tera's cuisine delicious and still keep the power-ups but where's the fun in that? ...wants others to suffer

* CutenessProximity: before Seungwoo shoo them out reminding that the restaurant was not a cat cafe

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Seungwoo shorten his name to "Nabi" and has been called that ever since

* PowerFist: Unlike their 87 equipment brethren, a pair of shy magic gauntlets picked Nabi to be their owner instead of Seungwoo who was elated to have his very own weapon. Nabi takes great care of it with routine polishing and maintenance.

* ImplausibleHairColor: the only one in the series to have blue hair contrasting everyone else's natural hair colours, inherited from her mom

* MagnetismManipulation: His combat specialization although we have yet to see this in action.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Dalsoo admires Seungwoo's looks and physique to a degree that can't be passed off as EvenTheGuysWantHim with Taeshik telling him "I respect your tastes but please remember the reason we're here", implying his sexuality. Aside from that incident, Dalsoo doesn't have any camp traits and is still determined to shut Suengwoo's restaurant down somehow.

** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanodichthys_dabryi Lake Skygazer]]'s Destruction is the devious successor to Ragnarok. The fish itself is known as "fishermen's worst nightmare" for its dirt-like taste and texture, pungent odor lasting hours on end and numerous small bones to choke on. Once Seungwoo works his (dark) magic, ... killed a BlobMonster said to be an interdimensional bio-weapon that consumed its home planet... PlanetEater... and speculate... potential six-star

** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanodichthys_dabryi Lake Skygazer]]'s Destruction is the devious successor to Ragnarok. The fish itself is known as "fishermen's worst nightmare" for its dirt-like taste and texture, pungent odor lasting hours on end and numerous small bones to choke on. ... killed a BlobMonster said to be an interdimensional bio-weapon that consumed its home planet... PlanetEater... potential six-star

!!Contains the following tropes: (-/56)

* GladiatorGames: Seungwoo was forced to compete in multiple deathmatches at some point in Tera, imprisoned in the colosseum
* GoodIsNotNice: Renato is the [[TokenGoodTeammate most virtuous of Seungwoo's party]] and didn't ask for anything upon defeating the demon lord as going on an adventure with their friends was enough of a reward. ...That said, they take being good and doing the right thing very seriously such that their titles are the god of resurrection and ''punishment''

%%Reference - https://mangakakalot.com/chapter/wb930536/chapter_1

%%Main character gets transported to another fantasy world by a godess. He lives there for 9 years and finally succeeds in killing the demon lord and saving that world. The godess grants him and his companion a wish. Main character wants a restaurant in the real world where he can serve the dishes from this fantasy world, not because they are good but the food of this fantasy world is considered the worst in all realms. He wants others to go through the sane misery he went throught. The godess grants him his wish and he opens up his restaurant and starts getting some peculiar customers.

-->''':'''

* DietEpisode: chapters 26 and 27, getting pudgy from binge-eating pizza and movie marathon

* MasochistsMeal: [Continue] definitely not for the faint of heart... practically a death sentence
** porridge, the unnatural glowing colour of fluorescent mouthwash, chewing down on lead, Min continues eating it to cure his ailments and become stronger until he gained a tolerance to try other Bizarre Foods

* PowerUpFood: deconstructed, at the cost of abysmal taste, negative systematic effects and even death if the body cannot withstand

* {{Sadist}}: he could make Tera's cuisine delicious and still keep the power-ups but where's the fun in that?

* AmbiguouslyGay: Dalsoo admires Seungwoo's looks and physique to a degree that can't be passed off as EvenTheGuysWantHim with Taeshik telling him "I respect your tastes but please remember the reason we're here", implying his sexuality. Aside from that incident, Dalsoo doesn't have any camp traits

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''Bizarre Restaurant'' (''Gwesik Restaurant'' or ''괴식식당'') is a 2022 fantasy {{Manhwa}} written by Shin Hyun Beom and Mezzed K and illustrated by Jaera.

!!Contains the following tropes: (14/70)
* AllThatGlitters: The gimmick to most "Bizarre Food" is that it doesn't look anything out of the ordinary to four of the five senses but once you actually eat it, it's multiple war crimes committed on your tastebuds. Seungwoo even uses his [[SupremeChef superb cooking skills]] to hide its true nature including the equally awful characteristic smell Tera's food usually has. Kwak is a prime example of the trope, looking so appetising that it makes anyone's mouth water and constantly sparkles in the light but to those who actually tried it, a death sentence seems more favorable than taking another bite.
* BaitAndSwitch: Right before the power outage in chapter 17, Seungwoo was watching a movie that seems straight out of a romance drama when it took an unexpected turn:
-->[The two leads stand in the middle of a romantic winter landscape]
-->'''Woman:''' What do I know? I...For 200 years, I waited for you!
-->'''Man:''' [Holds the woman's hand] For the past 200 years, I've searched for you. To say this to you...
-->[Suddenly the man's soft expression turns serious and grim as he brandishes a knife]
-->'''Man:''' I'll kill you. My parents' enemy.
-->'''Seungwoo:''' [Drops popcorn] WAIT, WHAT?!
* EarlyBirdCameo: Seungwoo ordered a "pudding slime" from his former party member Renato in chapter 7 and kept it inside the newly dug-out basement of his restaurant. It made its first and [[WeHardlyKnewYe only]] appearance in chapter 35, having slowly grown and producing pudding from eating leftovers.


* EpicFail: The thirty-five hunters who tried the "Bizarre Food Challenge" have bitten off more than they can chew, literally.
** They dismissed the first-level dish kwak as an easy win, especially the endurance specialist, but the pancake proved to be more of a battle than any S-rank monster could give. Unsurprisingly, none of the hunters made it more than a quarter of the way through the pancake before collapsing into a comatose-like state. Kwak 1, Hunters 0.
** They later did a second attempt the next day but this time fully prepared such as wearing winter coats stuffed with heat packs for the winter spirits and [[HotSauceDrinking chugging down hot sauce]] to numb their tastebuds. This did absolutely nothing and in fact, only made the hunters way more miserable than the last time as the kwak was physically and systematically attacking them on the inside. Kwak 2, Hunters 0.
* FluffyTheTerrible: Franchberk Baby Food may sound like the least intimidating of the Tera dishes but its effects of increasing one's vigor to quickly develop their fighting spirit are devastating. A few of these meatballs transformed the mild-mannered, FriendToAllChildren, fluffy polar bear Pero into a ferocious, instinct-driven, battle-junkie that [[BearsAreBadNews uruks]] were meant to strive as. And this was supposed to be fed to ''young children'' in Tera.
* HotSauceDrinking: One of the tactics the hunters employ for the Bizarre Food Challenge as they each chugged down a bottle in an effort to numb their tastebuds and bypass the Kwak's awful taste. Alas, all the hot sauce did was burned their stomachs which further hampered their progress of eating the kwak if they didn't drink it.

* MasochistsMeal: Basically every single dish in Tera where they value PowerUpFood over actual good food and any ingredient there is deadly in its own right. When Seungwoo opened a restaurant back on Earth, he carries over the cuisine as his specialty called "Bizarre Food" and using his skills as a SupremeChef, "improves" the dishes by making them [[AllThatGlitters look and smell heavenly]] but its taste has undergone the deepest depths of hell. What's worst is that after getting past the taste, there's the matter of the body suffering intense physical and systematic changes that may or may not kill the consumer.
** Reus Steak comes from the elder red dragon, Keil Reus, who ruled over his kind for thousands of years and served as the demon king's right-hand man so he wouldn't be someone else's dinner [[DefiantToTheEnd without a fight]]. Despite being long dead and butchered, the steak started screaming bloody murder while frying which Seungwoo passed off as nothing to a concerned Baek. It becomes more foreboding as Baek found it impossible to cut through its impenetrable flesh and when he finally took a bite, an [[FireBreathingDiner uncontrollable fire spew from his mouth]] and knocked him unconscious for an entire hour. That was the power of a 3-star dish and the first course of more "Bizarre Food" yet to be served.
** Kwak, a crispy scallion pancake reminiscent of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pajeon pajeon]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6zleme gözleme]], was previously underestimated as the first level of the "Bizarre Food Challenge" but as of now, only ''two'' people (Min and Taeji) have passed. Instead of potato starch, Seungwoo uses [[{{Treants}} Ent]] starch containing enough poison to render anyone half-dead, replaces regular scallions with winter spirits which enshroud a persistent chill of sub-zero temperatures and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking is mixed with lukewarm water to give a gross, mushy texture]]. The first challenger who specializes in mental and physical endurance couldn't stomach more than one bite before passing out and the remaining thirty-four hunters were left in a similar nauseous, comatose state. This is not even at its fullest potential as Seungwoo adjusts the three-star dish to a low one-star since he wants to run a restaurant, not a funeral home.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Seungwoo has three god titles representing his achievements: The God of Swords (From attaining the highest level as a swordmaster), The God of Victory (From defeating the Demon Lord and never losing in battle) and The God of... Bizarre Cuisine (That one's [[LethalChef pretty self-explanatory]]).
* NonIndicativeName: Bizarre Restaurant isn't the name of Seungwoo's restaurant but it's derived from a {{Portmanteau}} of the Warrior's Restaurant (The actual name) serving up "Bizarre Food" (Tera's cuisine).
* OnlyOneWhoLikesSpam: The people of Tera are the only ones able to truly enjoy and appreciate their own cuisine despite it being declared the worst, most intolerable food in the ''entire multiverse''.
* OurGodsAreDifferent: Gods are either born as one, such as the Goddess Gaia, or humans who earned it through leveling up which Seungwoo and Renato did. Once a person reaches level 99, they gain a title and powers related to their achievements and then earn their second title at level 199. Seungwoo is an unusual case given that he has ''three'' titles at level 256 which he didn't know about until he went back to the pantheon.


* PowerLevels: The [[PowerUpFood food]] in Tera is ranked by the number of red stars in which the more stars a dish has, the higher status effects the consumer receives but it is also directly proportional to how horrible the taste is and the likelihood of ''death''. The star tiers are listed down as followed:
** 1-star: The level at which most hunters on Earth can tolerate. Such dishes include [[ComfortFood clam chowder]] (The current lowest tier since it actually tastes good) and [[AcquiredPoisonImmunity kwak]] (Adjusted from three stars for the Bizarre Food Challenge).


* ShoutOut:
** After finishing the porridge for the first time, Min slumps over his chair akin to the famous pose from ''Manga/TomorrowsJoe''.
** One of the female customers admiring Pero the polar bear Uruk wonders if he likes coca cola, referencing the soft-drink company's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_polar_bears animal mascots]].
* SlowAndSteadyWinsTheRace: The trick to eating Kwak is to take small but manageable bites and make full use of the thirty-minute time limit rather than swallowing it whole due to the small portion size as most would do and fail. Seungwoo hinted at the beginning of the challenge that quantity doesn't matter but only Seo Taeji figures it out as he puts it best in his analogy:
-->'''Seo Taeji:''' Instead of food, let's think of this like an attack. My defense is 3 and let's suppose the kwak's attack power is 100. Is it better to get hit at full power once and receive 97 damage right away... or is it better to split it and get hit ten times over a period?
* SoupIsMedicine: Seungwoo's porridge he whipped up for Min has the properties of a high-level HealingPotion but tastes nastier than any medicine known to mankind which is on-brand of being a Bizarre Food. Min is extremely grateful, however, as the porridge let him regain his original strength and cured him of all his aliments.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** In chapter 17, a rogue gangster with [[ShockAndAwe electricity powers]] attempts to [[EnergyAbsorption absorb a nearby power plant of its energy]] to defeat Min but didn't take into account that his body wasn't built to withstand that much electricity. As such, Min didn't need to fight him since the gangster ended up [[SelfDisposingVillain short-circuiting himself]] and cause a minor power outage in part of the city.
* TemptingFate: Those who underestimate the "Bizarre Food Challenge" or say Seungwoo's cooking doesn't look too bad will [[InstantlyProvenWrong shortly end up looking like they need the ER]].
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Seungwoo's pudding slime makes its appearance in chapter 35 after being alluded to 28 chapters prior. Unfortunately, it was assimilated in the same chapter by [[BlobMonster Formula Zero]] in a failed attempt to regain their [[PlanetEater former mass]] and becoming the new pudding slime in its place.
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Main character gets transported to another fantasy world by a godess. He lives there for 9 years and finally succeeds in killing the demon lord and saving that world. The godess grants him and his companion a wish. Main character wants a restaurant in the real world where he can serve the dishes from this fantasy world, not because they are good but the food of this fantasy world is considered the worst in all realms. He wants others to go through the sane misery he went throught. The godess grants him his wish and he opens up his restaurant and starts getting some peculiar customers.

''Bizarre Restaurant'' (''Gwesik Restaurant'' or ''괴식식당'') is a 2022 fantasy {{Manhwa}} written by Shin Hyun Beom and Mezzed K and illustrated by Jaera

!!Contains the following tropes: (13/70)

** They dismissed the first-level dish kwak as an easy win, especially the endurance specialist, but the pancake proved to be more of a battle than any S-rank monster could give.

** One of the female customers admiring Pero the polar bear uruk wonders if he likes coca cola, referencing the soft-drink company's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_polar_bears animal mascots]].

* DietEpisode: chapter 26 and 27, getting pudgy from binge-eating pizza and movie marathon

* EpicFail: [Continue] Unsuprisingly, none of the hunters made it more than a quarter of the way through the pancake before collapsing ...instant KO, on average,...Kwak 1, Hunters 0.

** Ragnarok, ripped your physical body and soul asunder, OminousCube, GeometricMagic 5-star
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanodichthys_dabryi Lake Skygazer]]'s Destruction is the devious successor to Ragnarok. The fish itself is known as "fishermen's worst nightmare" for its dirt-like taste and texture, pungent odor lasting hours on end and numerous small bones to choke on. ...Ragnarok style, killed a BlobMonster said to be an interdimensional bio-weapon that consumed its home-planet... PlanetEater

* ExhaustedEyeBags: go away overtime after eating Seungwoo's porridge

* ImplausibleHairColor: the only one in the series to have blue hair, everyone else has natural hair colours, inherited from her mom

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: gets that a lot, doesn't listen to any of his songs

* FriendToAllChildren

* AmbiguouslyGay: Dalsoo admires Seungwoo's looks and physique to a degree that can't be passed off as EvenTheGuysWantHim with Taeshik telling him "I respect your tastes but please remember the reason we're here", implying he might be gay.

!!Contains the following tropes: (11/70)

* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Seungwoo cooks Bizarre Food in hopes the hunters of Earth will become stronger...kwak

* AllThatGlitters: The gimmick to most "Bizarre Food" is that it doesn't look anything out of the ordinary to four of the five senses but once you actually eat it, it's multiple war crimes committed on your tastebuds. Seungwoo even uses his [[SupremeChef superb cooking skills]] to hide its true nature including the equally awful characteristic smell Tera's food usually has. Kwak is a prime example
** Kwak, appetizing... make anyone's mouth water by looking at it, constantly twinkles/glimmers/sparkles

* EpicFail: [Continue] They dismissed the first-level dish kwak as an easy win, especially the endurance specialist, but the pancake proved....instant KO, on average, none of the hunters made it more than a quarter of the way through the pancake before collapsing...Kwak 1, Hunters 0.

* FireBreathingDiner: Baek's first taste of Seungwoo's cooking

* GoodIsNotNice: Renato, the god of resurrection and ''punishment''
* HotSauceDrinking: one of the tactics, burned their stomachs which hampered their efforts to eat the kwak

** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanodichthys_dabryi Lake Skygazer]]'s Destruction is the devious successor to Ragnarok. The fish itself is known as "fishermen's worst nightmare" for its dirt-like taste and texture, terrible smell/pungent owner for hours and many small bones to choke on, ...Ragnarok style, killed an interdimensional BlobMonster said to be a biological weapon that consumed the planet it was on, PlanetEater

* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: settle on finding worthy wielders with a Bizarre Food Challenge

* {{Slapstick}}: physically pain

* HiddenDepths: loves fishing and watching movies

* OlderThanTheyLook:

* {{Sadist}}:

* {{Sadist}}: but where's the fun in that

* StraightManAndWiseGuy:

* ExhaustedEyeBags:

* StraightManAndWiseGuy:

Eunha's bodyguard ([[NamedAfterSomebodyFamous not]] [[the singer]])

* MagnetismManipulation:
* MysteriousWatcher:

!!Customers

* TheGodsMustBeLazy:
* JerkassGods:

* AmbiguouslyGay: Dalsoo admires Seungwoo's looks and physique to a degree that can't be passed off as EvenTheGuysWantHim with Taeshik telling him "I respect your tastes but please remember the reason we're here", implying he might be gay

* {{Gonk}}:
* HarmlessVillain: they had the chance to do anything villainous

!!Contains the following tropes: (10/70)

* FluffyTheTerrible: Franchberk Baby Food may sound the least intimidating of the Tera dishes but its effects of increasing one's vigor to quickly develop their fighting spirit are devastating. A few of these meatballs transformed the mild-mannered, FriendToAllChildren, fluffy polar bear Pero into a ferocious, instinct-driven, battle-junkie that [[BearsAreBadNews uruks]] were meant to strive as. And this was supposed to be fed to ''young children'' in Tera.

* AllThatGlitters: The gimmick to most "Bizarre Food" is that it doesn't look anything out of the ordinary to four of the five senses but once you actually eat it, it's multiple war crimes committed on your tastebuds. Seungwoo even uses his [[SupremeChef supreme cooking skills]] to hide its true nature including the equally awful smell Tera's food is characterized to have. Kwak is a prime example

* DeconstructiveParody: food/cooking genre, the focus is not how delicious the food is but whether you can ''survive'' it at all, serves as a deconstruction of PowerUpFood

* ForceFeeding: shoved the rest of the Reus steak down his throat

* GilliganCut: the next panel has a sign at his restaurant challenging hunters to the "Bizarre Food Challenge" where the prize is an ISAC-certified artisan's weapon of your choosing
* GladiatorGames:

* HotSauceDrinking: one of the tactics

* MiseryBuildsCharacter:

* PlanetEater: Formula Zero, BlobMonster bioweapon originating from the former planet Gernia, absorbs everything in sight, grow in weight and covered the entire planet in slime

* SoupIsMedicine: Seungwoo's porridge he whipped up for Min has the properties of a high-level HealingPotion but...

After a long and arduous journey of forty years in the world of Tera, our hero Yoo Seungwoo and his party finally defeat the ultimate demon lord. The goddess thanks the hero but he...sick and tired and wants to go home

!!Contains the following tropes: (8/69)

* TheGhost: Seungwoo ordered a "pudding slime" from his former party member Renato which has yet to be seen as it is kept inside the newly dug-out basement of his restaurant and slowly growing from eating scraps.

* AcquiredPoisonImmunity:

* AllThatGlitters: The gimmick to most "Bizarre Food" is that it doesn't look anything out of the ordinary to four of the five senses but once you actually eat it, it's multiple war crimes committed on your tastebuds. Seungwoo even uses his [[SupremeChef supreme cooking skills]] to hide its true nature including the equally awful smell Tera's food tends to have.

** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanodichthys_dabryi Lake Skygazer]], feels and tastes like dirt, terrible smell/pungent owner for hours and many small bones to choke on, fisherman's worst nightmare...Ragnarok style, killed an interdimensional BlobMonster said to be a biological weapon that consumed the planet it was on, PlanetEater


* MedicinalCuisine:

* TemptingFate: Those who underestimate the Bizarre Food Challenge will end up looking like they need the ER. ...

* SelfDisposingVillain: electricity gangster
* {{Slapstick}}:

* SoupIsMedicine: HealingPotion

* SuperDeformed:

* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Seungwoo occasionally reminisces over his father who was no longer with him. deeply misses and has nothing but good memories of him, inspired him to cook meals

* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: all 88 of Alister's weapons are drawn to him, the Elf Item Killer, the seventh time this happened, rack up a total of 500 unique elven equipment in storage

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Seungwoo shorten it to "Nabi" and has been called that ever since

* ArtShift:

* DietEpisode: chapter 26 and 27

''Bizarre Restaurant'' (Gwesik Restaurant or 괴식식당) is a 2022 fantasy {{Manhwa}} written by Shin Hyun Beom and Mezzed K and illustrated by Jaera

* AllThatGlitters: The gimmick to most "Bizarre Food" is that it doesn't look anything out of the ordinary to four of the five senses but once you actually eat it, it's multiple war crimes committed on your tastebuds. Seungwoo even uses his [[SupremeChef supreme cooking skills]] to ...true nature, hides the equally awful smell which would be a major red flag

!!Contains the following tropes: (7/68)

* NonIndicativeName: Bizarre Restaurant isn't the name of Seungwoo's restaurant but it's derived from a {{Portmanteau}} of the Warrior's Restaurant (The actual name) serving up "Bizarre Food".

** 1-star: The level at which most hunters on Earth can tolerate.

* AllThatGlitters: The gimmick to most "Bizarre Food" is that it doesn't look anything out of the ordinary to four of the five senses but once you actually eat it, war crime on your tastebuds... Seungwoo hides the smell which is a major red flag

* BreakingTheFourthWall:

* MasochistsMeal: [Continue] definitely not for the faint of heart... physically/systematically ... .. practically a death sentence...

* NewLifeInAnotherWorldBonus:

* OurGodsAreDifferent: humans can become gods once they pass level 98 and gain titles [every 100 levels]

** 1-star: ... Such dishes include clam chowder (The current lowest tier since it actually tastes good) and [[AcquiredPoisonImmunity kwak]] (Adjusted from three stars for the Bizarre Food Challenge)...

* ShoutOut:
** Pero, coca cola polar bear

* FoodPorn: half the food he makes

** 1-star: ... Such dishes include clam chowder (The current lowest tier since it actually tastes good), [[AcquiredPoisonImmunity kwak]] (adjusted from three stars)...

* AmbiguouslyGay: Dalsoo admires Seungwoo's looks and physique to a degree that can't be passed off as EvenTheGuysWantHim and Taeshik even tells him "I respect your tastes but please remember the reason we're here", implying he might be gay

!!Contains the following tropes: (6/67)

* EpicFail:

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Seungwoo has three god titles representing his achievements: The God of Swords (From attaining the highest level as a swordsmaster), The God of Victory (From defeating the Demon Lord and never losing in battle) and The God of... Bizarre Cuisine (That one's [[LethalChef pretty self-explanatory]]).

* PowerLevels: The [[PowerUpFood food]] in Tera is ranked by the number of red stars in which the more stars a dish has, the higher status effects the consumer receives but it is also directly proportional to how horrible the taste is and the likelihood of ''death''.

** Kwak, appetizing... anyone' mouth water by looking at it, constantly twinkles

* BitchInSheepsClothing: The guide of the ISAC blacksmith Seo Narae hides her animosity well in Seungwoo's unusual request of forging a kitchen knife (chapter 20)

* DimensionalTraveler:
* EpicFail: The thirty-five hunters who tried the "Bizarre Food Challenge" have bitten off more than they can chew, literally. They dismissed the first level dish kwak as an easy win, especially the endurance specialist, but the pancake proved....instant KO, on average, none of the hunters made it more than a quarter of the way through the pancake before collapsing...Kwak 1, Hunters 0.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim:

* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: The stockpile of elven equipment

** dehydrated meat roast, the ultimate diet dish, puts the "die" in "diet", hard gut-punch, under-leveled while battling the demon lord, burns calories and lose weight, 4-star dish
*** large raven meat (rarer than dragon), Flame Spirit King's Crystals (salt substitute, explodes if mana is not managed properly, each grain equivalent to a grenade), ent starch from alswear region (sugar substitute called "Taste of Sin", sweet variant that was prohibited until few hundred of years ago, destroys any savory flavour while explosively amplifying all effects), crypto fruit (super spicy, consider a weapon, excellent effect on heart health, helps burn fat)

** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanodichthys_dabryi Lake Skygazer]], feels and tastes like dirt, terrible smell/pungent owner for hours and many small bones to choke on, fisherman's worst nightmare...raganarok style, killed an interdimensional BlobMonster said to be a biological weapon that consumed the planet it was on, PlanetEater

* OurGodsAreDifferent:
* PlanetEater:

** 1-star: clam chowder, kwak (lower tier, adjusted from three stars)... The level at which most hunters on Earth can tolerate
** 3-star: Reus Steak, lamb chops... what the average Tera citizen eats daily

* PowerUpFood: deconstructed, at the cost of abysmal taste, negative systematic effects and even death if the body cannot tolerate

** The Ultimate Diet Dish

* TastesBetterThanItLooks: {{Inverted}}, catch people off guard, assault on the senses

** After finishing the porridge for the first time, Min slumps over on his chair as the famous pose from the last panel of ''Manga/TomorrowsJoe''.

* SlowAndSteadyWinsTheRace: The trick to eating Kwak is to take small but manageable bites and make full use of the thirty-minute time limit...the first dish of the "Bizarre Food Challenge", tempting to swallow in one gulp due to the small portion size, as Taeji puts it in his analogy
-->'''Seo Taeji:''' Instead of food, let's think of this like an attack. My defense is 3 and let's suppose the kwak's attack power is 100. Is it better to get hit at full power once and recieve 97 damage right away... or is it better to split it and get hit ten times over a period?

** a gangster with electricity powers, absorbing the energy of a power plant in an attempt to defeat first order, body wasn't built to withstand that much electricity, Min didn't have to fight him as the gangster ended up [[SelfDisposingVillain short-circuiting himself]] and cause a minor power outrage to a part of the city

* UnconventionalFoodUsage:

!!Restaurant Staff

* StraightManWiseGuy:

* ShockAndAwe:

* StraightManWiseGuy:

* ImplausibleHairColor: the only one in the series to have blue hair, everyone else have natural hair colours, got it from her mom

uruk

* AmbiguouslyGay: Dalsoo admires Seungwoo's looks and physique to a degree that can't be passed off as EvenTheGuysWantHim, Taeshik even tells him "I respect your tastes but please remember the reason we're here", implying he might be gay

!!Contains the following tropes: (5/67)

* OnlyOneWhoLikesSpam: The people of Tera are the only ones able to truly enjoy and appreciate their own cuisine despite it being declared the worst, most intolerable food in the existence of the ''entire multiverse''.

* AllThatGlitters:
** Kwak, appetizing, constantly twinkles

* EpicFail: The first thirty-five hunters to try the "Bizarre Food Challenge" have bitten off more than they can chew, literally. They dismissed kwak as an easy win....instant KO, on average, none of the hunters made it more than a quarter of the way through the pancake before collapsing...Kwak 1, Hunters 0.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Seungwoo has three god titles representing his achievements: The God of Swords (), The God of Victory () and The God of... Bizarre Cuisine (That one's [[LethalChef pretty self-explanatory]]).

* TastesBetterThanItLooks: {{Inverted}}, catch people off guard
* TemptingFate: those who underestimate the Bizarre Food Challenge will end up looking like they need the hospital/ER

** After finishing the porridge for the first time, Min slumps over .... famous pose from the last panel of ''Manga/TomorrowsJoe''
** coca cola polar bear

* SlowAndSteadyWinsTheRace: The trick to eating the first dish of the "Bizarre Food Challenge" Kwak ...small portion, make use of the thirty-minute time limit, small but manageable bites
* SmashCut:
* SmorgasbordTest:

* YearInsideHourOutside:

* CutenessProximity:

* DelicateAndSickly: sunken cheekbones, ExhaustedEyeBags, weak constitution, injured kidney, can't last five minutes in war without gasping for air according to Baek...gain a tolerance to the porridge and became stronger as a result

After a long and arduous journey of forty years in the world of Tera, our hero Yoo Seungwoo and his party finally defeat the ultimate demon lord. ...sick and tired and wants to go home

Endure it! If you eat it and don’t die, your level will go up! And then on behalf of me, protect the earth!

!!Contains the following tropes: (3/67)

** Kwak, appetising, constantly twinkles

* BaitAndSwitch:
** Beuk
** Right before the power outage in chapter 17, Seungwoo was watching a movie that seems straight out of a romance drama when it took an unexpected turn:
-->[The two leads stand in the middle of a romantic winter landscape]
-->'''Woman:''' What do I know? I...For 200 years, I waited for you!
-->'''Man:''' [Holds the woman's hand] For the past 200 years, I've searched for you. To say this to you...
-->[Suddenly the man's soft expression turns serious and grim as he brandishes a knife]
-->'''Man:''' I'll kill you. My parents' enemy.
-->'''Seungwoo:''' [Drops popcorn] WAIT, WHAT?!

* DietEpisode:

* EpicFail: The first thirty-five hunters to try the "Bizarre Food Challenge" have bitten off more than they can chew, literally. They dismissed....instant KO, on average, none of the hunters made it more than a quarter of the way through the pancake before collapsing...Kwak 1, Hunters 0.

* FireBreathingDiner:

* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon:
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Seungwoo, has three titles representing his achievements, God of Swords, Victory and Bizarre Cuisine

** Reus Steak comes from the elder red dragon, Keil Reus, who ruled over his kind for thousands of years and served as the demon king's right-hand man so he wouldn't be someone else's dinner [[DefiantToTheEnd without a fight]]. Despite being long dead and butchered, the steak started screaming bloody murder while frying which Seungwoo passed off as nothing to a concerned Baek.
*** incredibly difficult to cut through, Baek uncontrollably spews out fire from his mouth,...knocked unconscious for an entire hour ...3-star dish

** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanodichthys_dabryi Lake Skygazer]], feels and tastes like dirt, terrible smell/pungent owner for hours and many small bones to choke on, fisherman's worst nightmare... killed an interdimensional BlobMonster said to be a biological weapon that consumed the planet it was on, PlanetEater

** 1-star: clam chowder, kwak (lower tier, adjusted from three stars)... what most hunters on Earth can tolerate
** 3-star: Reus Steak, lamb chops... the average Tera citizen eats daily

** Min, famous pose from the last panel of ''Manga/TomorrowsJoe''

* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: occasionally reminisces over his father, no longer with him, nothing but good memories from him

* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: the Elf Item Killer

!!Contains the following tropes: (3/66)

* NonIndicativeName: Bizarre Restaurant isn't the name of Seungwoo's restaurant but it's derived from a Portmanteau of the Warrior's Restaurant (The actual name) serving up "Bizarre Food" originating from Tera.

** In chapter 17 right before the power outage, Seungwoo was watching a movie scene that seems straight from a romance when it took an unexpected turn:

* DeconstructiveParody: food/cooking manga, the focus is not how delicious the food is but whether you can ''survive'' it at all, deconstruction of PowerUpFood

* EpicFail: The thirty-five hunters

* FoodAsCharacterization: the first dishes he made to his customers fit their personalities more or less

** Jihyun: Clam chowder, elegant dish, professional manner as an aide, relaxing and smooth, quickly warms up to people, perhaps too much

* IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou: Tera's philosophy when it comes to food, their tastebuds had advanced to associate status buffs, effects and power-ups as flavour and not the flavour itself...BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Seungwoo, title represents his achievements, God of Swords, Victory and Bizarre Cuisine

** Keil Reus Steak, named after the elder red dragon who ruled over his kind for thousands of years and served as the demon king's right-hand man, while sizzling on the frying pan, started screaming bloody murder even after its source was long dead and butchered, incredibly difficult to cut through, Baek spew out fire from the mouth,...knocked unconscious for an hour ...3-star dish
** porridge, the unnatural glowing colour of fluorescent mouthwash, chewing down on lead, Min continues eating it to cure his ailments and become stronger until he gained a tolerance to try other food
** Kwak, a crispy vegetable, seafood pancake reminiscent of pajeon and gözleme, ...ent starch (three-star poison, mushy texture), winter spirit scallions (enshrouds chill of sub-zero temperatures onto victims), the first challenger who specializes in mental and physical endurance couldn't stomach more than one bite before passing out and the remaining thirty-four hunters were left in a similar comatose state, worthy of being level one of the Bizarre Food Challenge, This is not even at its fullest potential as Seungwoo adjust the three-star dish to a low one-star since he wants to run a restaurant not a funeral home.

** Ragnarok, ripped your physical body and soul asunder

* PowerUpFood: deconstructed, at the cost of abysmal taste, negative systematic effects and even death if the body cannot tolerate, rank with stars, more stars -> higher effects -> more horrible tasting, increased death rate

** Clam chowder - recovery, relieves cold symptoms and stress, warming effect

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Seungwoo's old party, Theo the red elf, Cly the orge, Renato the god

* SlowAndSteadyWinsTheRace: The trick to eating the first dish of the "Bizarre Food Challenge" Kwak

** PowerUpFood...nobody but Tera actually enjoys the food...it's about taste not effect as Beuk puts it

* AttentionWhore: never turns down an interview, special ability "Superstar", the more attention he gets, the more powerful he becomes

The First Order aide of

* BitchInSheepsClothing: The guide of the ISAC blacksmith Seo Narae hides her immense displeasure in Seungwoo's unusual request of forging a kitchen knife well (chapter 20)

!!Contains the following tropes:

* BearsAreBadNews:

**

* MasochistsMeal: [Continue]
** definitely not for the faint of heart... physically/systematically ... .. practically a death sentence...

** Reus Steak, high fire resistance, enhanced strength and vitality and dragon's ability
** Soup, HealingPotion, curing fatigue, sickness and physical ailments
** Kwak, high poison and cold resistance + other health benefits

** PowerUpFood...nobody but Tera actually enjoys the food
** a gangster with electricity powers, absorbed the energy of a power plant to defeat, body couldn't withstand that much electricity, didn't have to fight him as he had expectedly end up [[SelfDisposingVillain short-circuiting himself]] and cause a minor power outrage to a part of the city,

* HiddenDepths: loves fishing

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Seungwoo shorten it to "Nabi", called that ever since

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''Bizarre Restaurant'' (Gwesik Restaurant or 괴식식당) is a fantasy {{Manhwa}}, 2022

written by Shin Hyun Beom and Mezzed K and illustrated by Jaera

‘Bizarre Restaurant’ is open even when the world is going to end. [Rephase]

After a long and arduous journey of forty years, our hero Yoo Seungwoo and his party finally defeat the ultimate demon lord

* AmbiguouslyGay:

* BeCarefulOfWhatYouWishFor:

* DrowningMySorrows:
* EpicFail:

* FoodPorn:

* TheGodsMustBeLazy:
* HotSauceDrinking:
* IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou:

* JerkassGods:
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: God of Swords, Victory and Bizarre Cuisine

* LonelyRichKid:

* MasochistsMeal: looks and smells delicious as hell but the taste is the embodiment of hell itself/death ... definitely not for the faint of heart, affects the body physically/systematically
** soup, the colour of mouthwash/fluorescent blue
** Kwak, a crispy vegetable, seafood pancake inspire by pajeon and gözleme, ...ent starch (three-star poison, mushy texture), winter spirits (Scallion-like monsters enshrouds chill of sub-zero temperatures onto victims), the first challenger who specializes in mental and physical endurance couldn't stomach more than one bite before passing out and the remaining thirty-four hunters were left in a similar comatose state, worthy of being level one of the Bizarre Food Challenge
** dehydrated meat roast, the ultimate diet dish, puts the "die" in "diet", gut-punch, under-leveled in the middle of a battle with the demon lord
** Ragnarok

* PowerStereotypeFlip:
* PowerUpFood: at the cost of abysmal taste, negative status effects and even death
** Soup, HealingPotion, curing fatigue and body weakness

* TastesBetterThanItLooks: inverted

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Seungwoo's old party, red elf, orge, god

* SuprisinglyRealisticOutcome:

* OnlyTheChosenMayWield:

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* SoupIsMedicine: describes the texture and consistency as "chewing down on lead", the colour of mouthwash
* StraightManWiseGuy:

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!!Others
[[folder:Goddess Gaia]]
The goddess who has been

* SmallRoleBigImpact:

* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest:

* ForeignQuesine: MiseryBuildsCharacter

* MasochistsMeal:
* OnlyTheChosenMayWield:
* PowerUpFood:

* YearInsideHourOutside: