The Spice of Strife

Self-Published

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Description

[Participant in the Royal Road writathon.]

Hanabi Hanaya, a recent highschool graduate from Japan, crosses the sea to seek a cooking apprenticeship under the spice-master chef Goro Ohno in the American metropolis of New Medeo City.

Unknown to her, Muhamed Wangui, the world’s strongest man, and the greatest practitioner of enlightened martial arts alive, is hosting a tournament to find an apprentice to teach after being confronted by his own mortality.

When a display of Hanabi’s ki mastery catches the attention of tournament organizers, their ambitions crash together, and her life becomes inundated with eager combatants, freaky fighters, and vicious powerseekers, all with the hope of earning their place as a student of the world’s strongest.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2022
Author: Kaith

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.6/ 5.0
Followers: 8
Views: 6,332

Chapters(20 total)

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Community Reviews(2)

Casey BacaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Story: it's different than most things you'll find here or anywhere else really. It's cooking, it's fighting, it's fun. Spice fuels fire and might. Ramen is her Popeye's spinach. It's a little wacky, but that's alright.
The parts I found less interesting were the MC's reactions and thoughts about her new environment, but perhaps that's because I'm not an immigrant and can't relate.
Style: fights were fun, descriptions vivid. The author either did research or cooks a lot themselves. The food was probably the best part of all the writing.
What I did find that took me out of it was a couple of info dump sections about the city that I feel were unnecessary.
Grammar: really nothing to say here. It's edited very well and I never caught myself looking at a sentence funny. Great job proof reading.
Character: like I said, they are fun, but at times a little bit too wacky and ridiculous. The mc is a tall, beautiful super athlete capable of out msucling every man in her school while also being buxom and bootylicious.
Her cooking mentor is like I dunno, insane? I can barely understand what is going on with him. Seems like a caricature. It did fit with the story's tone I just have a hard time believing someone like that.
The first villain straight up tries to murder her because she ate a bite of ramen in front of him.
My point is that it's not super serious, and meant to be fun, but it's just a bit too far.
Overall an entertaining read.
Mech_WizardRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
This is basically what would happen if a martial arts battle manga and a cooking manga/novel were mashed up together and turned into a webnovel.
There's not much plot, and the rules of cool and rules of funny are the only authorities here. But that's OK, because it makes that clear pretty early on, the battles are engaging, the characters are endearing, the food portions make you hungry, and overall it's a fun trip.