Lin Min Xuan - Fried Chicken Princess, vol. 01 (orig. Chi.)
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oyceter(林珉萱 - 雞排公主)
Brain currently too jetlagged for coherent post on cultural appropriation. Here, have fluffy manhua about chicken instead!
Also, because I miraculously remembered my propensity to forget character names, I wrote them down before I returned the manhua!
... alas, I left the post-it in Taiwan. Of course. Thank goodness for online summaries...
Tao Yong Xin goes to a school that has a club for everything, and she's the president of the Fried Chicken* Club, which has two other members. But! The guitar playing club is trying to take over their club space, and as a means of bargaining, Yong Xin manages to get the teacher responsible for club stuff to promise to give them back their space... if only she can convince the troublesome playboy hero Zhou Yu Xi to join! But woe, he hates fried chicken!
This totally cracked me up and I love it, but as I'm sure you have all figured out, I am endlessly delighted by high-school shoujo and food, particularly when the two are combined! My favorite bits in this are when the heroine and her two friends (the two other members of the club) wax rhapsodic about the joys of fried chicken, over and over and over again. Oh, also, the hero hates all fried chicken, except the fried chicken the heroine makes. Of course.
One of the heroine's friends gets extremely good grades and is very cute. But as school gossip goes, she's apparently been seen fixated on a fried chicken vendor's pot of boiling oil. The other friend is very cute, but talks about fried chicken nonstop. And school gossip says the heroine herself is also very cute, but she's *gasp* been known to turn down a guy because she loves her fried chicken more!
My favorite line of dialogue is Yong Xin telling Yu Xi, "Oh, you're actually pretty nice! If I were any other girl, I'm sure I would fall head over heels for you! ... But I love fried chicken too much for that!"
Possibly there will be more character development and plot in latter volumes, but honestly, I do not care as long as they keep talking about fried chicken. Also, the art is good!
* Fried chicken here is actually not the US kind, but Taiwan 香雞排 (xiang ji pai), which is a kind of deep-fried chicken steak, probably pounded thin, with some kind of spice mix on top. It's usually sold in street stands, and they're really tasty.
Brain currently too jetlagged for coherent post on cultural appropriation. Here, have fluffy manhua about chicken instead!
Also, because I miraculously remembered my propensity to forget character names, I wrote them down before I returned the manhua!
... alas, I left the post-it in Taiwan. Of course. Thank goodness for online summaries...
Tao Yong Xin goes to a school that has a club for everything, and she's the president of the Fried Chicken* Club, which has two other members. But! The guitar playing club is trying to take over their club space, and as a means of bargaining, Yong Xin manages to get the teacher responsible for club stuff to promise to give them back their space... if only she can convince the troublesome playboy hero Zhou Yu Xi to join! But woe, he hates fried chicken!
This totally cracked me up and I love it, but as I'm sure you have all figured out, I am endlessly delighted by high-school shoujo and food, particularly when the two are combined! My favorite bits in this are when the heroine and her two friends (the two other members of the club) wax rhapsodic about the joys of fried chicken, over and over and over again. Oh, also, the hero hates all fried chicken, except the fried chicken the heroine makes. Of course.
One of the heroine's friends gets extremely good grades and is very cute. But as school gossip goes, she's apparently been seen fixated on a fried chicken vendor's pot of boiling oil. The other friend is very cute, but talks about fried chicken nonstop. And school gossip says the heroine herself is also very cute, but she's *gasp* been known to turn down a guy because she loves her fried chicken more!
My favorite line of dialogue is Yong Xin telling Yu Xi, "Oh, you're actually pretty nice! If I were any other girl, I'm sure I would fall head over heels for you! ... But I love fried chicken too much for that!"
Possibly there will be more character development and plot in latter volumes, but honestly, I do not care as long as they keep talking about fried chicken. Also, the art is good!
* Fried chicken here is actually not the US kind, but Taiwan 香雞排 (xiang ji pai), which is a kind of deep-fried chicken steak, probably pounded thin, with some kind of spice mix on top. It's usually sold in street stands, and they're really tasty.