OISHINBO

Rookie newspaper journalist Yuko Kurita and the Arts & Culture desk's laziest employee Shiro Yamaoka are tasked to create the "Ultimate Menu."

Uninterested in the "Ultimate Menu" project, Shiro resigns as his relationship with the artist and restaurateur Yuzan Kaibara comes to light.

After Shiro criticizes the quality of their produce, a department store threatens to pull their ads -- which would be a significant hit in revenue.

At a lunch event prepared by Dainichi Electron's CEO, Shiro defends a boy who angers the host for complaining about the quality of the sashimi.

An unlicensed food cart vendor is promised an operating permit from a police captain if he prepares a better tasting soup broth for his soba.

Shiro is ridiculed by Yuzan and other guests at a restaurant reopening when he declares that mackerel is the best tasting sashimi above all else.

An unagi chef resigns from his job in protest when ownership installs a gas grill in place of traditional binchotan charcoal.

When the CEO of a petroleum company declines to make a donation to Tozai News, Shiro must convince him to support their cause with a unique meal.

After criticizing the best sushi in Ginza, Shiro offers to take its cocky chef Gingoro to a restaurant where he's shown the flaws in his preparation.

Shiro must create new recipes for kaiseki cuisine after objecting to Yuzan's notion that the refined dishes have no room for improvement.