Throughout Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls are various instances of meal preparation ranging from gourmet to standard household.
The following is a list of these instances as they appear in the series and possible links to recipes for their creation.
Dietary Variations[]
Carnivore/Meat Eater[]
Carnivores are beings anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating animal tissue, whether through predation or scavenging. As a result of their diet, carnivores typically have teeth adapted to tearing and shredding their food.
Herbivore/Vegetarian[]
Herbivores are beings anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material like plants, algae and photosynthesizing bacteria, as the main component of their diet. As a result of their plant diet, herbivores typically have teeth adapted to rasping or grinding their food.
Omnivore[]
Omnivores are beings anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating both plant and animal matter. Herbivores generally have twice as many taste buds as omnivores, while omnivores have over twenty times as many taste buds as carnivores.
The 5 S's of Japanese Cooking[]
In traditional Japanese cooking there are 5 basic seasonings that are essential for most dishes. They are: (listed in order of lightest to strongest flavour) Sugar (SATO (砂糖)), Salt (SHIO (塩)), Vinegar (aka Sour)(SU (酢)), Soy Sauce (SEUYU (醤油)), and Miso Paste (MISO (味噌)).
The way these seasonings are remembered is by associating them with the "s" row of the hiragana/katakana alphabet; Sa(さ), Shi(し), Su(す), Se(せ), So(そ). (Sugar (SATO (砂糖)), Salt (SHIO (塩)), Vinegar (SU (酢)), Soy Sauce (SEUYU (醤油)), and Miso Paste (MISO (味噌))
The order that these seasonings are introduced into the dish is as follows:
1. Sugar: Sweet taste is difficult to penetrate through other tastes. Due to this adding sugar first is usually advisable and allows more flexibility if the cook needs to adjust the sweetness with other ingredients. If salt or soy sauce is added before sugar, it becomes very difficult for the sweet taste to seep through the food, due to the opposing tastes.
2. Salt: Salt is added at the early stage of cooking because of its strong permeation and high absorption nature. It is not only for flavoring but to pull moisture from vegetables and get rid of the smell in fish. It’s often used in defining the taste of the cooking.
3. Vinegar: Having vinegar come after salt is important, especially for vegetables as the vinegar will not seep in if there is too much moisture in the vegetables.
4. Soy Sauce/Miso Paste: Soy Sauce and Miso Paste are among the last ingredients to be added in a dish as the quality of both are susceptible to heat and will be ruined if heated for too long.
Featured Foods[]
Egg Breakfast (Chapter 1)[]
- Boiled Eggs
- Eggs and Bacon
- Egg Omelet
White Rice Gruel (Chapter 13)[]
Centorea's Home Cooking (Chapter 21)[]
- Egg and Tuna Sandwiches
- Vegetable Salad
- Fruit Salad
Dinner Party (Chapter 25)[]
- Fresh Mushroom Pasta
- Bread Pudding
- Hearty Fish stew
- Fish and Chips
- Carrot and Watercress Salad
- Vegetable Tempura
- Fried Catfish
- Fish Humburg Steak made from Catfish and Bean Curd
Onsen Food (Chapter 31)[]
Stingray and Fish Left-Overs Full Course Meal (Chapter 35)[]
- Fish Dumplings with Cream Sauce
- Bouillabaisse Soup
- Baked Stingray and Herbs
- Fried Stingray on Vegetables
- Stingray Boiled in Soy Sauce
Carrot Soup (Chapter 44)[]
Iron-filled Menu (Chapter 51)[]
- Spinach and Banana Smoothie
- Liver pate and Baguettes
- Cooked Hijiki
- Spinach Omelet
- Sauteed Liver
Salad Menu (Chapter 56)[]
Sponge Cake (Chapter 59)[]
Milk Pudding (Volume 14)[]
Blood Cuisine (Chapter 59.5)[]
- Liver Stir-Fry
- Blood Sausage
- Liver Pesto
- Spinach and Fruit Green Smoothie
Roast Chicken (Chapter 60)[]
Snake Kebabs (Chapter 60)[]
Rome Cuisine (Chapter 62)[]
Yakiniku (Chapter 64)[]
Carrot Cake (Chapter 70)[]
School Cookies (Chapter 77)[]
Meat Buffet (Chapter 91)[]
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Kimihito is a highly skilled chef, making many of the dishes shown in the manga series. He's able to make a wide variety of dishes from limited ingredients, and adapt his cooking for housemates with very different dietary needs. But ll of his homestay girls have also complained about gaining weight from eating large amounts of his cuisine.
- Much like Kimihito, the unnamed Householder (the player character) of Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls Online is a skilled cook who can create various dishes for their homestay guests. Their skills are such that numerous girls in the game make mention of how good they are at cooking.
- Miia is currently being taught to cook by Kimihito, she herself claiming that it would help her look better as a wife in his eyes. However, outside of boiled eggs, her cooking is outright terrible, and on at least two occasions has given people food poisoning. Suu, due to her unique biology, is the only person who can eat it without any ill effects. Because of this, Kimihito has banned her from cooking until she reads a cookbook. One of the reason for her horrible food is that, being a carnivore, she has 1/25 - 1/50 sense of taste sensitivity that humans have. Therefore, even when she taste tests what she makes, she can't tell if it's bad or not. Another reason for Miia's horrible cooking is that she often uses different, but inappropriate ingredients than what the recipe calls for, for example, when she puts peanut butter into a miso soup because in her opinion, miso and peanut butter have "the same texture."[1]
- This is a common trope in anime, as cooking is traditionally considered an essential skill for a Japanese wife, and therefore such characters must "overcome" their lack of skill in other ways so their interest will love them despite their shortcomings.
- According to Kimihito by the time of the light novel "Monster Musume: Monster Girls on the Job!", Miia has since improved in her culinary skills in that her food can actually be mostly safely eaten, though she hadn't shed her tendency to over-season the dishes she prepares.[2] Regardless of the fact that the dishes prepared by Miia are now mostly safely edible, as seen in later chapters of the manga series, the taste hasn't really improved, since Miia's prepared bento in Chapter 74 looked awful and Mero described Miia's prepared food in Chapter 91 as horrible.
- Unlike Miia, Centorea can actually cook something palatable. However, as a Centaur, she is herbivorous and has a far greater sense of taste than her contemporaries, meaning that while her cooking, which is mainly composed of salads and sandwiches, tastes fine to her, it tastes relatively bland to other species such as humans and Arachnes. Much to both Kimihito's and her annoyance, however, Papi and Miia flat-out refuse to eat whatever vegetables get fed to them, instead opting to give them to Suu if they feel they can get away with it.[3]
- Kimihito in general hates wasting food due to the constant pressure of earning enough to provide for everyone in his household, and as such, Lala's decision to make a tower with her portions instead of eating it right away causes him to glare at her so badly it scared the other homestays. Since this incident, all 7 girls have agreed to simply eat whatever Kimihito puts on their plates so as to avoid having the incident repeat itself.[4]
- During the Grimoire Public High School incident, Kuuki's biggest wish was to make food her boyfriend would enjoy, a task that she would ultimately succeed in. After they got out, the boyfriend wound up eating enough to make him morbidly obese, prompting Kuuki to begin preparing less-caloric dishes.[5]
- A popular method of displaying immaturity is for a character to expressly despise eating vegetables solely due to tastes and preferences over genuine health risks or dietary requirements, which is usually more egregious when said character is explicitly a grown adult.
- The term "Herbivore Men" or "Grass-eater Men" (草食(系)男子, Sōshoku(-kei) danshi) is a term used in Japan to describe men who show no interest in getting married or finding a girlfriend and/or have a non-assertive/passive, indifferent attitude toward relationships.
- The term "Carnivorous Women" is a term used in Japan to describe women who take the initiative, and make the first move when it comes to dating.
References[]
- ↑ Chapter 25
- ↑ Monster Musume: Monster Girls on the Job!, Prologue: Let's Work!
- ↑ Chapter 21
- ↑ Volume 6 Omake
- ↑ Volume 18 Omake