Yakitate Japan 46

The bake-off between Suwabara and Monica continues as both contestants finish up their respective creations. Not to be outdone by Monica who has gotten the initial attention of Pierrot with her rose planted in rye bread, Suwabara finally pulls his bread out of the oven for everyone to see, but it looks like a burnt crown! But of course, this isn’t the final form of the bread as Suwabara draws out his katana and slices away the burnt interior to reveal a radiant yellow crown cake studded with color jewel-like fruit! On top of all that, Suwabara paints a faint shadow of chocolate around all of the fruit to give the fruit some depth on top of the radiant crown cake, which he names Pan di Oro Kai.

Impressed with the presentation from both Suwabara and Monica, Pierrot now goes to the all important taste test by tasting Suwabara’s bread first after Monica insist that she have her bread sampled second. Upon biting into Suwabara’s bread, a giant box appears in the middle of the room with Pierrot shut up inside. Kawachi immediately points out that this must be a play on Pan di Oro name referring to Pandora’s box as the box has a “Do Not Open” sign posted on top of it. But impatient to wait for Pierrot to analyze his bread, Suwabara calls out Monica to open the box, and upon opening the box, a massive group of cabbages (apparently cabbage is a word play on misery, which was contained in Pandora’s box) jumps out of the box and starts harassing the audience members. Ryou yells out to Suwabara to see if he can find some hope in the bottom of Pandora’s box, and Suwabara runs over to find a giant burdock root. After pondering for a couple of seconds, Suwabara figures out that the burdock root was a word play on “hope”, and Pierrot then reveals himself out of the burdock root costume and gathers up all the cabbages back into the box. After all the madness had cleared, Pierrot gave Suwabara high marks for his bread and especially praised him for using a special honey to make the fruits shine and keep their flavor. However, Suwabara maintains that he hadn’t used any sort of special honey, but he had mixed some crushed fruit with regular honey and then stored fruit using the fruit/honey mixture.

Next, Pierrot turns to judge Monica’s bread, but during all that time spent on Pierrot’s reaction, the rose had time to “bloom”, giving the flower and bread a sense of life. And after Pierrot took a bite into the bread, Pierrot’s eyes became a waterfall of tears as he proclaimed that this was the first time he had eaten such a wonderful bread. Following that, Pierrot called the Monaco police to lock him up for agitating the Chinese cabbage he used for this reaction, and the Monaco police were quick on the scene to arrest Pierrot and bring him to jail. Later, we find out that this reaction was a play on the 5-layers of Monica’s bread and convoy, and when Monica and Suwabara go to visit Pierrot for the final result, Pierrot declares that Monica has won the bake-off with her 5-layered rye bread, which has the appearance of layered soil and contains some magical ratio of rye to wheat flour in each layer to give the bread the ultimate taste. So the American/St. Pierre team takes round 1 of 3, but as you can see from the last screenshot, Suwabara might have found his soul mate.

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