#IM HALFWAY THROUGH DUNGEON MESHI

[datcravat]

he's a freak <3

[zenitsuinamogus]

Happy Dungeon Meshi Day!

Episode 12 is finally here and it was an equally suspenseful and beautiful journey. I wanted to honor Laios and Falin's reunion with one of my favorite scenes from their childhood together, which in all honesty now feels like my favorite manga coloring I've ever made.

Hope you all enjoy, and thanks to everyone who has enjoyed my works so far! Links below the cut ☆

If you like this, feel free to follow me here on tumblr or on reddit where this was first posted, along with all of my other manga colorings, or check out the links below to my previous Dungeon Meshi pages!

☆ Chilchuck : 1, 2, 3

☆ Marcille : 1, 2*

☆ Falin : 1

☆ Senshi : 1

☆ Laios : 1

☆ Full Party: 1

*= Marcille + Namari + Falin

[i-mode]

bashing myself in the head with a frying pan rn

[mochasucculent]

I diagnosed her as my fave before I even knew what Dungeon Meshi was about

[piripopiri]

a practice Lycion that i'm likely not finishing

[girlkomaeda]

I don’t recognize skinny falin as falin WHERES MY FAT BITCH!!!! Thag skinny little thing is NOT her…

[skittles-in-dungeon]

okay so ive read the manga which means i know whats coming up in the anime and theyve been doing two chapters per episode and the next two chapters are 41 and 42, in which izutsumi is introduced and laios goes into marcilles nightmare respectively, so those should be in next weeks episode if they keep going with that pattern

(on another note, the ice golem and barometz should be the episode after next week's, and then the canaries show up so weve got a couple weeks yet till anime-only people learn about them so im excited for that (i say this genuinely, its been so neat seeing others react to the anime even if im not watching it))(but also if its two chapters per episode then the canaries episode is also gonna introduce some plot-relevant characters and im So Excited About It)

(aka we'll be getting Into It in like. three weeks from now plot-wise and just!!!!!!! excitement!!!!!!!!!!)

anyways. dogboy laios is real even if they absolutely didnt get the vibes for the animation right and if they shoulda kept the va doing the barking instead of a dog barking clip

[kcrossvine-art]

Hi fellow adventurers!! A few weeks ago i caught wind of "Delicious in Dungeon". I'm not really an anime person, but I am a TTRPG, CRPG, and cooking person- . And holy shit. It is so good i  convinced my partner to binge read the whole thing. I'm caught up on dungeon meshi, the anime, and just yesterday i also finished dungeon meshi, the manga.

Its rare to come across a serialized story that is so thematically cohesive and knows its characters so well. All of the bonus content like the artbooks and monster tidbits are just the icing on top.

So, inspired by Ryōko Kui's writing and illustration I'm going to attempt to create a recipe for every single Delicious in Dungeon recipe!-

Today that means Huge Scorpion and Walking Mushroom hotpot is on the menu!

(As always you can find the cooking instructions and full ingredient list under the break-)

MY NAMES CROSS NOW LETS COOK LIKE ANIMALS

SO, “what goes in to a Huge Scorpion and Walking Mushroom hotpot?” YOU MIGHT ASKThis is one of the pricier dishes until we get to the kelpies and dragons of the menu-

Rock lobster tail

Porcini mushrooms

Shiitake mushrooms

Snow fungus

Small potatos

Fensi (glass noodles)

Water

OPTIONAL: your choice of dipping sauces

There was a crossover/promotional event in Shibuya which featured various realworld dishes from the series. They had one for Huge Scorpion and Walking Mushroom, but they used prawns.  while those cook better in a hotpot, they also didn't look enough like the scorpion for me, they also used udon noodles for the slime and a seaweed/kale(?) mixture for the algae. If you're looking for substitutes due to price or availability i would start with those ingredients.

AND, “what does a Huge Scorpion and Walking Mushroom hotpot taste like?” YOU MIGHT ASKI hope Senshi would forgive me for technically cooking the lobster outside the pot, once he tastes it.

Okay im always partial to veggies but wowowowowowowoowowowow the snow fungus and the mushrooms tasted soooooooooooo good in the lobster stock

A nice delicate layering of different flavors

Try to get a bite with the lobster meat and shiitake together, dip in butter then chili- trust me

Its up to you what texture you prefer if you want to put the noodles in at the end or put them in halfway through the meal. Either way dont go for eating those first as theyre very filling

I think this would pair well with a citrus drink, something light and clarifying

This would also pair well with being extremely high and hungry (if you feel safe cooking while inebriated lol) very calorically dense

For the trial run I did one lobster tail in the pot with everything else, and one lobster tail off to the side to be picked apart. The former is more in spirit with a hotpot, but it got rubbery as the meal went on and lost its nice taste. The latter may be a bit more work but all you have to do still is boil it and set it aside. I found it held up much better. It was also easier to get inside the shell.

. If you have hardshell maine lobster available, i think it would be superior to rock lobster (keep in mind crustaceans will get rubbery if cooked too long in the pot) . Green onions and/or lotus root would make excellent additions

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From getting the ingredients out to sitting down and eating, id say it took maybe 30 minutes max? It'd vary on how fast you can prep vegetables and get the various implements heated.

Hotpots are not something i do very often as i'm usually just feeding myself. I think thats why a hotpot makes perfect sense to start the series off. If you want to set the tone of "take care of yourself, eat food with others, and use what you have" (generally speaking) there is nothing more simplistic, flexible, and defeats-the-purpose-if-you-eat-it-alone than a hotpot. Gather around and let your friends bring ingredients to the pot if you want to fill your heart up extra full <3

I'm doing something different here because unlike previous recipes where i used a bunch of different sources and made my own recipe out of hodge-podging it, or just used another persons recipe entirely if they did it really well, i made this more whole-cloth based off of what i had available, what I could discover through research, and my existing knowledge. Instead of the recipe being 50/50 original, this one is more 20/80. So. I'll pass the final verdict off to you guys :D 

What would you rate this recipe out of 10? (with 1 being food that makes one physically sick and 10 being food that gives one a lust for life again.) Did you love it, did you hate it? What're your thoughts on what I could do different, and what would you have done instead?

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Ingredients:

2 Rock lobster tails

3 Porcini mushrooms

2 Shiitake mushrooms

Snow fungus (a good handful, should rehydrate in the hotpot)

2 Small waxy potatos

Fensi (glass noodles)

Water/lobster stock

Method:

Lightly rinse all of your vegetables beforehand and let them dry.

Vertically slice the porcini mushrooms. Cut off and dice the stems of the shiitake mushrooms. You can slice the tops if youd like.

Peel and cube the potatoes, roughly an inch each.

For the lobster tails; Boil a pot of salted water. Keep the shell on. Weigh the largest tail and add 1 minute of cooking time for every ounce of weight.

When done, strain the lobster from the water. Pour the water into your hotpot as the base. Serve the lobster on the side so people can pick the meat out to dip into the hotpot.

Bring the hotpot to a simmer. Add the potato cubes, snow fungus, mushrooms, and noodles.

OPTIONAL: this wasnt in the show, but its fun having sauces on the side :) i had oyster sauce, dry seasoned chili dip, melted butter, and soy sauce available

[playtwewy]

oh also im like halfway through dungeon meshi now and I like it 👍

[ethereal-forest-furry]

okay so im reading dungeon meshi and falin just came back and its like yayyy everythings gonna be okay theyre all happy they saved the day :333 but im only halfway through. what the fuck. im scared.

[melancholiaenthroned]

@sunriseverse tagged me in this "nine people id like to get to know better" game ^_^ tyyyy

three ships: danatole (sorry). hélène/dolokhov (idk if they have a ship name?). and um. harrykim (been discoing lately again)

first ship: i swear ive done this exact game before but i dont remember what i put here. a few options that all feel like the same time to me... i want to say the doctor/rose tyler

last song: sonya alone from the great comet. just like halfway thru another relisten its truly all i listen to lately

currently reading: sacred and terrible air. yes finally. idk why it was so hard for me to get past chapter one but now that that only took me like a year im almost halfway through

currently watching: nothing... im bad w tv shows. dungeon meshi i guess but im nowhere near caught up.

relationship status: single and tired of it-_- i just dont want to edate again and im bad at getting to know ppl irl

current obsessions: im normal. and have never heard of any musical adaptations of war and peace.

currently craving: would kill a smoothie rn...

fave color: ermm neon green still prlly

tagging (feel free to ignore if u dont want to ^_^): @druckers @thedarklyblue @johntorrington @communistchilchuck @fathervalley @pariskim @timothylawrence @batmanshole @redlanterns

[virtual-minotaur]

unrelated to all dat. im now more than halfway through buying dungeon meshi manga. someday all of it will be on my shelf ^_^

[feydrautha]

tagged by @lucy-ghoul

rules: answer + tag 9 people you want to know better and/or catch up with

favorite colour? purple!

last song? Corazón Espinado by Maná

currently reading? atm I'm halfway through Mexican Gothic by Silvia García-Moreno. it's really good, highly recommended

currently watching? i want to start Blue Eye Samurai at some point... today... tomorrow... before that, I watched Dungeon Meshi lol

currently craving? some gató d'ametlla (its down in the fridge, so im just being lazy)

coffee or tea? depends on the time of day and also the season, but i like my teas fruity and my coffees sweet and w some cool flavour via syrup

a hobby you would like to try? i rlly wanna try playing Badminton for real. some sort of sport bc all i do is walk, i need to cater to my natural competitiveness lol

tagging @darthlenaplant @girlmadeofclockwork @duesternis @ectochoir @fagdyk @painofanoldwound @vivianedanglars @exdeputysonso and @crowleysheiress !! and whoever wants to do this lol

[iantimony]

last may tuesdaypost?!

i am going to Terf Island (uk) for the last two weeks of may!! i am very excited! i won't even brush my teeth on the plane and get ill this time! (plane water is not potable! don't ask how i know this!) therefore this is likely going to be the last roundup til june 4, i doubt i will have the time/energy/inclination to be Posting while abroad. might treat it like a vacation from the internet as well, that could be good for me.

listening: i am now halfway through partizan episode 42. i listened to like...four episodes straight on my drive home? i unsurprisingly got stuck in [city] traffic because i did not anticipate mothers day being like, a holiday people would travel for. like a fool. so it took me 2 hours to drive 40 miles. yay. so i will not finish partizan + palisade before the palisade finale (that was always a pipe dream) but such is life. i bet i can finish partizan before the palisade finale though! so that's the goal. also have listened to a shitload of well there's your problem; hyperloop, electric vehicles, howard street tunnel fire, camp fire, among others

reading:"the end of the mrbeast era": i have never been a mrbeast guy. i am baffled by who he seems to be as a person. how miserable. ms-demeanor's new personal wiki: yayyyy posts

watching: dungeon meshi and asobi asobase again BUT WITH MY BOYF IN PERSON THIS TIME .... delightful.

playing: truly fallow. no tabletop, no board or card games, definitely no vidya, just vibes.

making: picked up these last few things from the kiln on my way out of town! the texture bowl came out good!! i made an insane google sheets chart to be able to see all the possible layering combos with the amaco glaze that is floating around in the pottery studio so i could choose the Best Layering for the texture alsfkjldkf. i landed on deep speckle olive over albany slip brown on the inside, and a brown-olive-brown sandwich on the outside. i do not think this made a noticeable difference but i like the general color variation!

little dish that i did some underglaze painting on also came out ... technically from its second glaze firing, the first time 'round it had a bit of frit embedded in it, so i filed it off, dabbed a bit more clear on, and put it back on the shelf.

it got a new bit of frit embedded in it. pain dot jpeg. painting came out cute at least. cherry blossoms!!

eating: went out to eat last night with the boyf to a german pub type restaurant by his place, it was good! schnitzeling for sure. made the brussel sprouts-tofu-hoisin and tahini sauce sheet pan meal for my mom and brother tonight.

misc: i am in Women Be Shoppin mode looking for bridesmaid dress ....... i am very close to just buying a simple floor-length slip pattern and some nice fabric im ngl. on one hand im too fuckin picky and my soul wants to not buy a dress that will only get worn once and being able to make it myself will make it easier to rewear .... on the other, most of these dresses are really reasonably priced ............. i have time to think about it, maybe even try sewing a mockup, so we'll see.

[assmaster-8000]

also before i consumed dungeon meshi i offhandedly saw a post about marcille and laois having better chemistry than farcille thus being a better ship and it stuck to me and now that im halfway through it it's just man. do i think there could be more farcille interactions? yes yuri on my screen is more common than you think. but looking at the man laios is and looking at the woman marcille is i don't think they're *objectively* a better romantic ship. they're easier to get attached to because dunmeshi follows them during these particular set of events in their lives and we only get several glimpses into farcilles past but it's safe to say farcille, childhood friends, are gonna have more intimate moments than we know of. plus farcille were in the same party at some point too so who's to say they didn't have loveable interactions like marcille and laios do. people ship who they want but i really can't see laios and marcille as anything but a lesbian and her aroace autistic AAA battery bestie

[jessiescock]

Ghhhh i HAVE been wanting to read dungeon dungeon meshi for a while now and now ive caught up with the anime and i wanna read the manga so bad but i feel kinda bad abt it bc i don't have time and i just got halfway through midnight sun and if i start something else now i probably wont pick up midnight sun again for another few years :( and also i feel bad about starting a new manga when im still technically on my devilman franchise readthrough (i got stuck somewhere in the middle of violence jack)