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Chương 16: Chapter 16 - Menu

The next morning, the interior designer came right after breakfast time. They directed the workers they brought directly to help them with renovating. So the whole day was spent observing the renovating team and giving an idea of how I wanted the shop to be, as I needed the shop to open and run by Sunday. 

The day went by so fast and without knowing that 2 days had passed and now it was Friday. The worker had finished the simple remodeling of the shop by painting and rearranging the furniture to adjust it to the current interior vibe. Now the shop had a strong vibe of Korean tradition while also being serene, making one get lost in time just by the relaxing atmosphere.

As the worker had finished remodeling last night, what was left for now was to air out the room as the smell of paint was quite strong.

Now what was urgently needed was a good menu that could complement the shop. 

Another thing I needed the most was what kind of menu should I have in the shop. It was because I needed to open it on Sunday at the latest. So, I didn't have time to prepare anything too fancy.

I prepared some of the tea leaves from the packet boxes that I bought several days ago, as I was planning to display the leaves of the tea I could brew in the shop inside a transparent jar and put it on the floating shelves behind the bar counter. 

Just as I was focused on tidying up the tea leaves, another translucent window appeared in front of me.

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Quest

Type: Sudden Quest

Menu for Tea Shop

The shop needed a suitable menu, let's try 

some suitable drinks and food for the shop's

opening menu!

Objectives:  (?)

- Make different types of tea (1/4)

Hot Jasmine tea (1/1)

Jasmine iced tea (0/1)

Hot Green tea (0/1)

Hot Chamomile tea (0/1)

- Make complementary dessert items (0/2)

- Make complementary sandwich item (0/2)

⌛ — 30 hours (01:06:00:00)

Reward:

Exp, 3 System Coins, 10 skill exp 

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Oh, another quest?!

Unexpectedly, another quest appeared right before me. 

Because of the appearance of it, I checked my quest page on the system again. Turns out multiple quests could happen at the same time.

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Quest

Type: Initiation Quest

The Start of a Tea Sommelier

Objectives: (?)

- Open a tea shop (0/1) 

- Serve tea to 100 customers (0/100)

⌛ — 10 days (06:12:34:15)

Reward:

Exp, 10 System Coins, ???

Warning:

Failing to complete the initiation quest

will result in penalties (teleporting into 

??? Rank - Dungeon).

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Yeah, both quests were active.

I needed to test the menu for the shop anyway, might as well do it and finish the sudden quest too. Of the items needed in the quest, the easiest was tea and the hardest would be dessert items. So, I took Mom's recipe book to find some recipes that were suitable for tea that could be made in the shops. 

I flipped through the pages of the recipe book and found two dessert recipes that looked easy enough and kind of complementary to the tea. It was mugwort rice cake and some Korean tangerine tea cookies. The ingredients weren't that hard to find in a regular grocery store and the steps weren't intricate too, so probably I was able to follow and create a decent result.

As for the sandwich, let's settle for some simple but good ones like the three-colored sandwich and the smoked salmon cream cheese sandwich. 

So, I went to the grocery store again to buy all the necessary items for the menu taste test and the opening day too, as I planned to open 2 days from now on Sunday.

After I was done shopping, I went back to the house again. Sadly, I didn't meet Grandma Kim. She wasn't at her house at this time. So I made a mental note to go there this evening to let her taste the menu and tell her about opening day. She might be able to introduce the shop to many people here in the neighborhood. 

I directly went to the kitchen to make the items for both the menu test and quest. The first one I made was the rice cake, as it needed to be chilled first. I mixed all the ingredients and started to knead when the dough was done. Once the dough felt nice and smooth, I elongated the shape and then made it slightly flat. I then stamped it with some cookie stamps that were also just bought from the grocery store.

After it was done, I steamed it and waited for about 20 minutes.

While waiting, now I made the dough for the cookies. Mixed some of the wet ingredients including some Korean tangerine juice and rind that fortunately was in season. Then I sifted in the flour and mixed until the dough looked as good as cookie dough. I scooped some of the dough with the scooper and put it on the baking tray. Before baking it, I put some sliced tangerine on top of it and baked it until it was crisp on the outside for about 10 minutes.

The sandwich was easy, as I just needed to prep the filling. For the three-colored sandwich, the green filling was chopped cucumber mayo, the yellow filling was chopped egg mayo, and the red one was ham. The fillings were stacked between some flattened white bread. 

As for the smoked salmon sandwich, I just need to mix the whipped cream cheese with some chopped chives and parsley, smother the bread with it, and put the smoked salmon on top of it. 

After all the items were created I took a look at the quest to see the progress there. 

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Quest

Type: Sudden Quest

Menu for Tea Shop

The shop needed a suitable menu, let's try 

some suitable drinks and food for the shop's

opening menu!

Objectives: (?)

- Make different types of tea (1/4)

Hot Jasmine tea (1/1)

Jasmine iced tea (0/1)

Hot Green tea (0/1)

Hot Chamomile tea (0/1)

- Make complementary dessert items (2/2)

- Make complementary sandwich item (2/2)

⌛ — 30 hours (01:02:41:05)

Reward:

Exp, 3 System Coins, 10 skill exp 

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Thankfully all the food was acknowledged by the system, all I needed to know was the tea.

I clicked on the skill window with the possible ingredient needed right in front of me, and then another window appeared

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[#1 Recipe]

[Hot Jasmine Tea - Kettle]

Rank E 

 

[Jasmine tea leaves (9/1)]

[Water (1/1)]

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[#2 Recipe]

[Jasmine Iced Tea]

Rank E 

[Jasmine tea leaves (9/1)]

[Water (1/1)]

[Ice cubes (0/7)]

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[#3 Recipe]

[Hot Green Tea - Kettle]

Rank E 

 

[Green tea leaves (9/1)]

[Water (1/1)]

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[#4 Recipe]

[Hot Chamomile tea - Kettle]

Rank E 

[Chamomile tea leaves (9/1)]

[Water (1/1)]

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So, I clicked every recipe that I hadn't created yet. The hot one was served with the kettle like it was written in the recipe. If it was the same as the previous jasmine tea, the kettle would disappear when all of the tea in it was finished. 

I also already expected all of the tea to have a certain buff.

The buff for the iced tea was [Mental Clarity - Critical Hit (2x) (00:05:00)], while for the green tea was [Enhance Mind - Reduce MP usage (00:03:00)], and lastly for the chamomile tea was [Body Strengthen - Increase body endurance (1x) (00:10:00)].

[Ding!]

[Quest Complete!]


Chương 17: Chapter 17 - Day Before

[Ding!]

[Quest Complete!]

Just after I finished making the last tea, the sound rang in my head and a window appeared before me. When I inspected the opened window closely it mentioned that the quest rewarded me several things. 

[10 base exp, 3 System Coins, 10 skill exp ]

Base exp? Is it for the job level?

"Stats!" I called the status window to see whether any differences or not.

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Status

Name: Hwa Aerin

Level: 1 Exp: 14/20

Job: Tea Sommelier

HP: 100

MP: 25/40

—-—-—-—-

STR: 5 INT: 8

AGI: 5 CHA: 8

LUC: 7

Stat Points: 0

 🌐💬 │ 🛒🛒

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Were the 4 of my other exp coming from the successful tea that I had created by using the skill?

Probably, right?

Not only the base exp, but I also got 10 skill exp. When I clicked the exp, it opened the skill window. There, the exp could be divided into all of my skills if I wanted to. But let's just focus on the skill more useful in the meantime, which was the brewing skill. So I used all the 10 exp onto it, and the skill level up into Lv. 2.

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Active Skill:

[Tea Brewing]

Rank E

Level 2 (4/20)

Brewing tea to perfection.

Only with the non-aether related ingredient

MP: 5

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I guess the extra 4 exp also came from the amount of successful tea I brewed using the skill, meaning every successful attempt was able to give 1 base exp and 1 skill exp.

Besides exp, the system also gave me some system coins. When I clicked on the coin, it brought me to another window. It was a system shop, but there was something written on it. It said the shop was accessible once I was level 2 on my base level and also had finished my initiation quest.

After I was done going through all the rewards from the quest, it was late afternoon. I needed to hurry if I wanted to bring some of the stuff I made for Grandma Kim. 

I packed 1 of each food and dessert I made in insulated boxes. For the tea, I made a new one as the one I made previously had 0 for freshness because it had passed the best period of time. After I was done remaking the hot chamomile tea, I put it in an insulated thermos flask. That was when I realized that I could move the tea from the kettle to a vacuum flask to preserve its freshness. Maybe this could be the next step if one needed the tea to go. 

Taking all of the stuff I had packed, I walked out of the gate and went to Grandma Kim's house. She still wasn't sitting in her front yard, so I walked past her yard and knocked on her door. After knocking for a while, I could hear some responses from inside the house. Not long after that the door was opened by Grandma Kim.

"Hello grandma, sorry to interrupt your time." 

"Hi, dear. No, no, you don't bother me at all. Come inside." She smiled as she saw my face and gestured for me to come into her house.

"Pardon the intrusion, Grandma."

I walked past the door and closed it. I followed her to her living room area. Her house looked homey. Her living room had a big couch facing toward the wall-mounted TV. Her walls are also covered with photos and some sort of certificates that belong to her children and grandchildren. 

She sat me down on the couch and asked, "Do you want something to drink dear?"

"No need grandma, I brought you some stuff I plan to sell in the shop." 

I gave her the tote bag with an insulated box and vacuum flask that I had packed.

"Oh dear. Thank you, let's try it together." She smiled happily holding the bag.

She then went to the kitchen attached to the living room, took the food out, and plated it. She also poured hot tea into her tea cups. She walked again to the living room while bringing all of that on a tray.

"Thank you, Grandma, but you need to taste it. I need to hear some feedback on whether the food could be sold in the shop or not."

 "Okay - okay, let me taste them." 

Then she sipped the tea and took some bites of the food I brought. 

"Not bad, I think you really could sell this." while nodding her head and taking another sip of the tea.

"This tea, did you make your own blend? It tastes more deep, and somewhat sweet taste. It's subtle, not overwhelming, and has a gentle floral character, reminiscent of apple blossoms." 

Wow, Grandma Kim looks really like some tea critics.

"Kind of…" 

I couldn't answer that it was just a regular tea bag package from some grocery store right? 

Maybe it was influenced by my skill, as the description did mention that it would brew the tea to perfection. 

"So, when will the shop open? I kept seeing some workers go back and forth to your place these past few days."

"Yeah, I'm also here to invite you to come. It will be on Sunday."

"Ooh, I'm absolutely going to come by and bring all of my friends and grandson there with me." She clapped her hand happily after putting down her tea cups.

"I'll be happy to wait for your visit. So, is your grandson going to come this weekend?"

"Yeah, he already promised me that he would come tomorrow and stay for a day. He has been quite busy these past few months. I'll introduce you to him later."

"Let's not talk about my boring grandson. You know I'm so happy that you decided to move here and reopen the tea shop again…" 

The time passed quite fast as we talked about so many things, from stories about my mom and grandparents. She also kept on talking about her family and friends. When we realized, the sun was getting ready to sink into the horizon.

"It has been so fun talking with you Grandma, but I need to go back now." I stood up.

"Yeah, I'll come on Sunday. It was nice talking to you." 

She also stood up, held my hand, and guided me to the front door.

"See you, Grandma." I waved at her and walked out of the yard.

Back at the house, I needed to clean all the mess both in the house and shop as I made it in the afternoon. Because tomorrow I needed to focus on prepping all of the things needed for opening day. 

After everything was done and cleaned again, it was already nighttime and almost past dinner time. So before going to bed, I cleaned myself up and made some ramyun for dinner. It was a nice and easy meal to unwind after a busy day.

Before bedtime, I got ready and climbed on the bed. I noticed the ??? spore at the bedside table. I was so busy with the preparation that I almost forgot about it. I remembered that the description mentioned that this could grow in a very fertile place. Maybe I'll try to plant it once I can open the system shop and see whether it would have an item to let it grow. 

Then I slept as tomorrow would be a very busy one.

The next morning, from the moment I woke up I knew that today would be super busy. So, I started the morning by having a hearty breakfast of some tuna mayo rice with some dumplings that I had heated up. 

After breakfast, I directly went to the shop and started to prep what I needed for tomorrow. I prepared many of the rice cake dough and cookie dough. I also prepared a bunch of fillings that I would need for the sandwich.

Once I was done preparing, it was already nighttime again.

Just after cleaning up, I invited Mirae and Aunty Jihyun to tomorrow's opening day. Mirae was the only friend I had during my time in the company. I knew that after our time in the dungeon, she had also gone back to her hometown. So I didn't have high hopes that she would come, but I still sent her an invitation. 

Similar to Aunty Jihyun, she must be deep in the tower. I also didn't want to alarm her by sending out messages using the awakeners' forum. So I just sent her a regular message.

After that, the last thing I needed to do was to put up some posts about the opening day in the awakeners' forum. I didn't know if this would help but all things could matter as I didn't have any other way to market the shop.

When I was done, I went to bed with a lot of anticipation for tomorrow.

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Quest

Type: Initiation Quest

The Start of a Tea Sommelier

Objectives: (?)

- Open a tea shop (0/1) 

- Serve tea to 100 customers (0/100)

⌛ — 10 days (04:23:50:00)

Reward:

Exp, 10 System Coins, ???

Warning:

Failing to complete the initiation quest

will result in penalties (teleporting into 

??? Rank - Dungeon).

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