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 isn't having any of it given she ...sick and tired and wants to go home
[Rephase]
The era of Stinky tofu, Durian, Surströmming is over. Have you heard about the cooking so bad that you could die on the spot! But your skill would be increasing!?
Tera, whose cooking boasts the best(?) taste in all dimensions, through the bravest Yoo Seungwoo's help, has come to peaceful(?) earth.
‘Bizarre Restaurant’ is open even when the world is going to end.
[Rephase]
Contains the following tropes: (-/55)
- Acquired Poison Immunity: Seungwoo cooks Bizarre Food in hopes the hunters of Earth will become stronger...kwak, high poison resistance provided if you finish one pancake
- living in Tera for 6 months
- All for Nothing:
- Art Shift: cartoony, exaggerated
- Bears Are Bad News: Uruk, warriors
- Be Careful What You Wish For: in his drunken state
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: The guide of the ISAC blacksmith Seo Narae hides her animosity well for Seungwoo's unusual request of forging a kitchen knife:Narae: [Thinking] Who even is this guy? Did he come here knowing what this place is? You're not worthy of being here if you're not a First Order! (Thumbs down with grimace look)Narae: Unfortunately, we don't have kitchen knives at the moment. You will have to place a custom order.Seungwoo:Narae: [Thinking] (Smirks)
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: jump up so high it broke the panel/border roof
- Callback:
- Chef of Iron:
- Comfort Food: Clam chowder, minotaur milk
- Death by Gluttony:
- Deconstructive Parody: Food Porn manga, the focus is not how delicious the food is but whether you can survive it at all, serves as a deconstruction of Power-Up Food
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?:
- Diet Episode: In chapters 26 and 27, Suengwoo gets pudgy from binge-eating pizza and movie marathoning, normallly doesn't happen
- Dimensional Traveler: achieve Godhood
- Even the Guys Want Him: Seungwoo, [k-pop] celebrity
- Fire-Breathing Diner: Baek's first taste of Seungwoo's cooking... his insides were set ablaze
- Food as Characterization: The first dish Seungwoo made for his customers fit their personalities more or less:
- Baek: Reus Steak - fiery, boisterous, attention-seeking (screaming as it was frying), tough to cut into
- Min: porridge - weak, feeble and sickly at first, Healing Potion, became stronger the more he gained a tolerance, reliable and sturdy
- Jihyun: Clam chowder - elegant dish, professional manner as an aide, relaxing and smooth, quickly warms up to people, perhaps too much
- Seo Taeji: Kwak - methodic, calm under pressure (Winter spirit chill), poison resistance
- Food Porn: subversion, half the food he makes, drawn with such incredible, mouth-wateringly delicious detail
- Force Feeding: not wanting his 3-star dish go to waste, Suengwoo shoved the rest of the Reus steak down Baek's throat after refusing to take another bite... literal inflamed throat
- Foreign Queasine: Misery Builds Character
- Gilligan Cut: give the weapons a worthy owner, 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
- Gladiator Games: Seungwoo was forced to compete in multiple deathmatches at some point in Tera, imprisoned in the Colosseum
- If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You: Tera's philosophy when it comes to their food, their tastebuds had advanced to associate status buffs, effects and power-ups as flavour and not the flavour itself, more or less a defense mechanism for how atrocious the taste and small is...Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad, touchy subject
- Impossibly Cool Weapon: Seungwoo's stockpile of elven equipment, 500+
- Lethal Chef:
- Magical Weapon:
- Masochist's Meal:
- 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, destroys and regenerates muscles and nerves
- 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", 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)
- Ragnarok, ripped your physical body and soul asunder, Ominous Cube, Geometric Magic 5-star ...Ragnarok style
- 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, destroys and regenerates muscles and nerves
- Medicinal Cuisine: wonder if he's a pharmacist not a chef
- Misery Builds Character: What the people of Tera and Seungwoo believed in
- New Life in Another World Bonus: denied any advantage...Gaia, favoritism, laziness
- Only the Chosen May Wield: Thanks to his high levels... Seungwoo invokes this on every elven equipment that laid its non-existent eyes on him, dubbed The Elf Item Killer, 88 of Alister's weapons... settle on finding worthy wielders with a Bizarre Food Challenge
- Planet Eater: Formula Zero, Blob Monster bioweapon originating from the former planet Gernia, absorbs everything in its path, grow in weight and covered the entire planet in slime
- Power at a Price:
- Power Levels:
- 3-star: Reus Steak, lamb chops... What the average Tera citizen eats daily
- 4-star: The ultimate diet dish
- 5-star: Ragnarok, Lake Skygazer Ragnarok (Possibly 6-Star, no effects and bio-weapon destroying capabilities)
- Power-Up Food: Deconstructed. The power boosts, at the cost of abysmal taste, negative systematic effects and even death if the body cannot withstand
- Reus Steak - high fire resistance, enhanced strength and vitality and dragon's ability
- porridge - Healing Potion, curing fatigue, sickness and physical ailments
- Clam chowder - recovery, relieves cold symptoms and stress, warming effect, the only Bizzare Food that's actually delicious
- The Ultimate Diet Dish -
- Franchberk Baby Food - increases vigor, forcibly develops a combative nature ... goes absolutely berserk, battle-junkie, destroys everything in its path
- Kwak - high poison and cold resistance + other health benefits
- Ragnarok
- Punched Across the Room: a flick of his fingers
- Tastes Better Than It Looks: Inverted, catch people off guard, an assault on the senses
- Trapped in Another World:
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Seungwoo's old party comprised of Theo the red elf, Cly the ogre, Renato the god
- Sadist:
- Self-Disposing Villain: The electricity gangster tries powering up using
- Slapstick: causes physical pain
- Smash Cut: one panel later
- Smorgasbord Test: Pero, three hours later
- Stating the Simple Solution:
- Super-Deformed: chibi, cartoony art style
- Supreme Chef:
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
- Power-Up Food...nobody but Tera actually enjoys the food...it's about the taste not the effects as Beuk puts it
- Those Two Guys:
- Trapped in Another World:
- Unconventional Food Usage: level up, kill monsters
- Weight Woe:
- Year Inside, Hour Outside: Seungwoo (40 years -> 9 years), Baek (6 months -> 1 day), (->)
Characters
Warrior's Restaurant Staff
Yoo Seungwoo
former hero, owner of Warrior's Restaurant
- The Ace:
- From Nobody to Nightmare:
- Hidden Depths: He loves fishing and watching movies, got those hobbies from his father
- Lethal Chef:
- The Movie Buff:
- Older Than They Look: doesn't look a day over 20/30, spent a total of forty years but only aged 9 years due to Year Inside, Hour Outside
- Only the Chosen May Wield: all 88 of Alister's weapons are drawn to him, the Elf Item Killer, the seventh time this happened, racked up a total of 500 unique elven equipment in storage
- Supreme Chef:
Naiobi "Nabi"
An ailuros
- The Ace:
- Cat Folk:
- Cuteness Proximity: before Seungwoo shoo them out reminding them that the restaurant is not a cat cafe
- Only Friend:
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse:
- Puppy-Dog Eyes:
- Support Party Member:
- Verbal Tic:
Formula Zero/Pudding Slime
- The Assimilator: didn't increase in size, changed to the blue pudding slime's colour, unable to access their assimilator or duplicator abilities anymore and can only make pudding
- Blob Monster:
- Cute Slime Mook:
- Death by Gluttony:
- De-power:
- Not Quite Dead: a small/teenie-tiny chuck managed to adapt itself to resist the effects of Lake Skygazer's Destruction and escaped through an interdimensional rift... currently resides
- We Hardly Knew Ye:
Regulars
Baek Kanghyuk
Rank 100 of the First Order
- Attention Whore: never turns down an interview, special ability "Superstar", the more attention he gets, the more powerful he becomes... notorious thief in Tera
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer:
- Drowning My Sorrows:
- Invisibility:
- Keet:
- Personality Powers:
- Power Stereotype Flip:
- Sad Clown:
- Self-Applied Nickname:
- Straight Man and Wise Guy: The Wise Guy to Min's Straight Man
- Stealth Expert:
- Took a Level in Badass: went up from Rank 100 to 91 in just a day
Min O' Keeffe
support member from the Second Order
- Exhausted Eye Bags: went away over time after eating Seungwoo's porridge on a daily basis
- Delicate and Sickly: sunken cheekbones, Exhausted Eye Bags, weak constitution, body not in peak condition, 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
- If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You:
- Removed Achilles' Heel:
- Took a Level in Badass:
- Took a Level in Cheerfulness:
- Shock and Awe: sterner
- Soup Is Medicine: porridge, describes the texture and consistency as "chewing down on lead", the colour of mouthwash
- Straight Man and Wise Guy: The Straight Man to Baek's Wise Guy
- Summon to Hand:
Hwang Jihyun
The First Order aide of Baek
Eunha
Seo Taeji
Eunha's bodyguard (not the singer
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)- Acquired Poison Immunity:
- Badass in a Nice Suit: 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.
- Mysterious Watcher: look over on the rooftops to secretly keep an eye on Eunha during her visits to the Warrior's Restaurant
- Named After Somebody Famous: Seo Taiji, gets that a lot, doesn't listen to any of his songs
- Slow and Steady Wins the Race:
Other Customers
Pero
polar bear uruk
Others
Goddess Gaia
The goddess who has been sending Earthlings to Tera
- The Gods Must Be Lazy: procrastination
- Jerkass Gods: favouritism
- Small Role, Big Impact:
Lee Junghoon
The South Korean branch manager of the hunter's association
Park Dalsoo and Oh Taeshik
- Distracted By Sexy:
- Gonk: cartoony looking without an Art Shift
- Harmless Villain: they hadn't had the chance to do anything villainous
- Those Two Guys:
Allister
A elf blacksmith
