Ichirin's cooking always tastes great to me... Lightly flavoured.

Thanks for that.

Is it salty enough for you Hijiri?

Yes, it's quite sufficient.

Humm... Vegetarian food is really nothing to make fun of.

It's because the resentment from the incorrigible ones who crave meat has forced the perfection of monastic cuisine over at least a thousand years. This feels a bit convoluted. Check translation please

Up to that point though, I think it would be better to be honest about eating meat and not attempt to gloss it over.Uncertain about this too

Nazrin, would you give me the soy sauce.

Oh.. Sure.

There's an abundance of spring vegetables this year.

If it's possible we would like to share it with others. What do you think about that?

A tractate on food: Monastic Cuisine Until the end of the Heian period buddhists enjoyed a comparatively great degree of freedom. Due to the rise of the ascetic ideal at the beginning of the Kamakura period however, the consumption of meat, fish, garlic and alcohol became strictly prohibited under religious doctrine. Even though usage of certain ingredients was restricted under the tenets established by this doctrine, monastic cuisine was refined as a nourishing cooking style. Koya tofu is tofu preserved by freeze-drying and foremost among the principal ingredients of monastic cuisine. It is made by letting tofu made during the winter freeze in the night chill and thaw in the noon sunshine, further freezing cycles draws out the moisture. Strictly speaking, only freeze-dried tofu made on mount Koya is called Koya Tofu, presently however, freeze-dried tofu is generally considered a synonym to Koya Tofu*. Since monastic cuisine mainly consists of vegetables and grains it is healty...... Or so you would think, as many items are deep fried it is surprisingly rich in calories. *Which is obvious in all of the translator's dictionaries, as well as most hits on search engines. Koyadoufu directly translates to freeze-dried tofu nowadays. I've made some adjustments to the translation to allow for what I believe is a reference to the original product.