/jp/ - Otaku Culture

You're hungry in MGC. Where you gettin' your food?

>Something Circle Pizza is a delivery-only pizza restaurant run by Demons. Other pizzerias in MGC tend to try and impress with ridiculous specialty pies and huge portion sizes, but the pizza from Something Circle is a little more...'plain'. They focus on making high-quality pizzas with thoughtfully balanced ratios of toppings to cheese to sauce to crust instead of trying to make some kind of pizza no one's had before (they also have pastas, hoagies, soups, and desserts). They have only a single location in the Underworld and yet they're one of the most popular pizza places in MGC for one reason: their unparalleled delivery service. Their delivery process uses the same system of magic gateways and mana sources that fuel the infernal contracts the Demons use to obtain husbands. Ordering from Something Circle is essentially signing a small-scale contract that promises delicious food in exchange for currency. Essentially, there IS NO delivery time. Your order arrives via magic circle literally as soon as it's done. The order is still accompanied by a delivery Demon to finalize the contract and ensure the customer is satisfied. The contracts to order food are ridiculously long and filled with legal jargon that mostly means nothing, just filler words. Customers are encouraged to read their contracts thoroughly because they like to sneak in special deals that you can only get if you notice them (ex. 'Signer of the contract and bearer of the seal has the right to request one free order of garlic sticks' in very fine print). There are rumors of 'disappearing regulars' and 'husband traps' contained within their contracts but the restaurant denies this.
>GremLOL Fried Rice and Ramen is a trendy, experimental 'All Culture Fusion' restaurant owned and operated by a head chef gremlin. She's a former employee of a 'flavor lab' working for a major snack food company and decided to use her talents to establish her own eatery instead of slaving away on yet another flavor of potato chip dust. The gremlin chef eschews tradition and goes full-on experimental with her dishes. The ramen community is on mixed terms with the restaurant because while many culinary blasphemies get committed, the place also has some of the best noodles you can buy. The noodles are made secretly but rumors say there's a custom built machine that perfectly imitates the techniques of a trained noodle-making master. GremLOL noodles are springy, chewy, and soak up every flavor around them like slurpable sponges. The menu changes often but occasionally some items get so popular that customers threaten to boycott if they get taken away. Recent fan-favorites include a spicy tomato bisque ramen (which has an entire grilled cheese sandwich placed on top), a fried-fish-sandwich fried rice (with vinegar-y mayo drizzle) and the chicken parmesan takoyaki (includes no chicken).
>The Wonderful Wonderland Ice Cream Shoppe is a popular ice creamery operated by a single Cheshire. She's the only employee anyone ever sees but lines never seem to linger. It's like she can be in five different places at once and still only be noticed in just one. The owner is a shameless eccentric and customers will be subject to that eccentricity. Her shop's April Fool's jokes are legendary and they can occur on any day EXCEPT April 1st. She once became a French bakery for a day (including only speaking in French). On another day her shop just disappeared and she went around town in an ice cream truck instead. Her shop has no 'flavors', only 'colors'. You can get red, blue, green, yellow, white, pink, etc. Asking what they taste like won't help you much, even if you ask someone currently eating a scoop. If you ask someone eating a blue scoop 'What's that taste like?', you might get a response like 'Well, last time I was here it tasted like raspberry, but today it tastes like blue paint chips. Like the ones that I peeled off by dresser when I was little? Like, it doesn't taste like blue paint, it tastes like...that tingly feeling I got when I peeled the paint off? I don't know, I'm having a hard time processing it but I just keep eating.' Customers can't always get what they ask for, but she insists they'll always 'get what they want'. She'll do things like deny a pink scoop to a virgin because 'they wouldn't understand the depth of flavor', or deny black to an abyssal mamono because 'they'd understand the depth of flavor a little too well'. The legendary menu item, 'A Trip to Wonderland', can't be ordered...only offered. Urban legend tells of a depressed man who ordered 'Something to lift my spirits'. The cheshire studied the man for several minutes before smiling and preparing him a scoop with a bit of every single color. He took a single lick, smiled, walked out the door, and hasn't been seen since. Police investigation is still ongoing, but the Cheshire insists that 'It's fine, he's fine. He gets to see all kinds of colors now."