Chef Usakichi's 50th Commemorative Plate🐰🍽️✨
~A dish of gratitude, which I could not have made alone~
Welcome to the Heart-Conditioning Restaurant🐰🍽️✨
Today is a little different from our usual dishes.
Since this morning, Chef Usakichi has been
quietly polishing white plates in the kitchen🏠
In the center of the plate,
a single small flower🌸
And around it,
I am arranging
memories of the many dishes
I have served until now, little by little💨🐰
Actually,
this is the 50th article
for the Heart-Conditioning Restaurant🍳😊✨
To be honest,
I'm not very good at
shouting things like this from the rooftops😓💦
If anything,
I'm the type who prefers
to savor these moments quietly.
For example,
even on my own birthday,
rather than having a big celebration,
I prefer to quietly send
my gratitude to the parents who gave me life💐🎁✨
I have always
accepted milestones in that quiet way.
But,
I realized that this 50th dish
is not something I could have reached
all by myself🐰🏠🌳✨
So today,
I would like to borrow this space for a moment
to serve you a commemorative plate
filled with my gratitude✨🍰
To be honest,
I am very clumsy.
Back when I used to work in the culinary field,
there were many times I shed tears
over my own lack of efficiency
and my clumsiness.
🩶Frustrated
🩶Sad
🩶Pathetic
Why am I
so unable to do things well?
Thinking in that way,
the only small thing I can do is
🍚 to face one dish at a time with focus.
🍚 to use each tool with care,
🍚 and to continue making each step of the recipe
calmly and repeatedly.
In doing so,
there is something I have
come to feel little by little.
Perhaps something like a soul
dwells within the utensils
and the ingredients too.😮
💛 If I treat them with care,
💛 if I speak to them with kindness,
💛 if I use them with respect,
they truly
lend their strength even to my clumsy cooking.🥹
They pour their heart into it
and give back with all their might.🫧💓
There were moments when I felt that way.
That is why I
cannot see ingredients and tools
as mere"objects."I suppose.
🍀 To the colander, to the frying pan,
🍀 to the kettle, to the cutting board,
🍀 to the hot water, to the toast,
I feel as though they have
a small inner voice.🐰🍽️
I think my articles
are very plain.
I often feel that I am
conveying the same things
every single day.
But,
just as the way words are received changes when the speaker changes,💌
🥕 if the ingredients change,
🍲 if the tools change,
The words born from that
also change little by little.
Within those small differences,
I feel like there are words hidden
that might suddenly lighten
someone's heart today😊💛
🍵Warm white water that soaks into your heart on a tiring day
🧺A colander brought out on a day when you've taken on too much
🍳An iron frying pan brought out on a day when you remembered a painful time
🍞Toast brought out on a day when you want to protect your soft heart
On days when even choosing is heavy,
Chef Usakichi gently puts away the menu📚
Each one was
a truly small dish.
But
💐there are people who read each dish,
💐there are people who gently leave a like,
💐and there are people who share
the temperature of their own hearts
in the comments...💐
Before I knew it, this restaurant
had grown into a place
I could not create alone.
Every time I receive a comment,
I am always thinking.
To the customers who come here,
I want to at least say
"Welcome"to them.
To each and every important seat,
"Thank you for coming"I want to
gently add
a single small flower🌸
With that feeling,
I have thought about
each and every reply.
Of course,
there are days when I cannot reply well.
There are days when I wonder
if I didn't say enough.💦
Even so,
the fact that you stopped by this restaurant
is something I am truly grateful for and so happy about.🐰🌈✨
That feeling
hasn't changed now that I've reached the 50th plate,
and it surely won't change for the next 100th plate either.😊
Chef Usakichi
gently wiped the rim of the commemorative plate
and said this:🐰
“You see, the 50th plate
isn't a dish I made alone.
Those who read it,
those who left words as souvenirs,
those who watched over me quietly,
and also
the ingredients and tools
I have faced until now.
All of that
has become the flavor of this one dish.”
I believe the Heart-Tuning Restaurant
will continue to
quietly open its doors.🏠
🫧On days when you feel energetic,
🫧On days when you feel a little tired,
🫧On days when you don't know what you want to eat,
🫧On days when you can't tell the temperature of your own heart,
I want this to be a place
where, when you happen to stop by,
I can offer a dish
that suits today's guest.🐰
Please let me place
the 50th commemorative plate here today.😊✨
It is a
dish of gratitudethat I could not have made alone.
🏠To everyone who always reads,
🏠To everyone who stopped by for the first time
even though you were nervous,
🏠To everyone who has been quietly watching over me,
Thank you so very much.💐🐰🍳
I will continue to
devote myself
so that I can serve you a dish
that suits your heart
at the Heart-Tuning Restaurant.🐰🍽️✨
What kind of person is Ellie?
We also have this menu available🌸