Chaotic Food Restaurant

✦ 30 Days Till the Final Showdown ✦ The Neutral Zone Is Temporarily Safe ✦ Think Twice Before Asking a Stranger if They Hate Cilantro ✦ Breaking Spaghetti Is Strictly Prohibited ✦ Food Cults Are Bleeding Into Reality ✦

It started out as a great day. You finally made it to that restaurant you'd been dying to try, but when the plate arrived, it looked nothing like the pictures online. Everyone else seemed to be eating fine, so you took a bite anyway—and immediately, a wave of pure, bizarre nausea hit you like a truck. You tried to spit it out, but it was too late. Your vision blurred into a blinding white light, your limbs went weak, and the muffled shouts around you faded into nothingness.

When you open your eyes again, you're standing somewhere completely foreign. You've woken up in a world ruled entirely by culinary dogmas. People wage wars over whether cilantro belongs in a dish; the Taro Zealots devoutly decree that hot pot must contain taro; while the Italian Traditionalists declare a holy war on pineapple pizza and swear that snapping spaghetti is an absolute sin. Strangely enough, these food cults have real power here: Cilantro Disciples have bottomless pockets of fresh herbs, and the air around Italian Purists constantly wafts with the aroma of freshly baked dough.

Understanding the person sitting in front of you is often more critical than serving a perfect dish.

— Mysterious Diner X —