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| I Can't Cook! Minamo can cook but getting her to admit it is difficult and will really bring out Minamo's tsun-tsun side. Being the daughter of two famous and skilled chefs, Minamo intensely dislikes being characterized as a "chef's child." It's easy to anger and depress her by suggesting that her cooking skills "run in the family" instead of the result of hard work like everyone else.
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| Kaiseki Ryori Trained by her father to prepare kaiseki (会席) and cha-kaiseki (懐石) meals (traditional Japanese haute cuisine), specializing in Kyoto-area items, her presentation and preparation is practically flawless, though she's not at the master level. Critics would note her preparation is flawless, but presentation needs polish.
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| Haute Cuisine (or: "A blowtorch is too a kitchen utensil. Seriously.") While not actually taught like she was with kaiseki, Minamo's mother is the owner and chef of a Michellin guide listed French restaurant. Because Minamo has spent most of her life with her mother and indeed most of her waking non-school life in the back room of her mother's restaurant, she's picked up a lot about preparing French food. Her personal favorites to prepare are pastries and cakes. She dislikes using foie gras because she feels sorry for how the birds are treated.
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| Hates Her First Name Minamo dislikes her given name. She wishes she had a pretty and traditional first name written in Kanji. That her mother prevailed over her paternal grandparents to give her a "modern" name as opposed to a more traditional name makes her hate it even more. This is a large reason why she prefers people to call her by a nickname.
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| That Video Yes, the rumored video of Minamo fighting another female student in the halls of her former High School is real. It's not on Nico Nico Douga but on YouTube. She's not identified by name and the cellphone camera is pretty bad, but those who know her will definitely recognize her. She's very definitely giving better than she gets, too.
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| The Satori of Test-Taking Minamo's fantastic test scores are not because she's some genius or the font of all human knowledge (though she is pretty smart). Instead, she's achieved a kind of enlightenment ... she just knows the kinds of things she needs to study. For instance, Minamo's English skills in composition, spelling, and so on are excellent. However, her spoken English is no better than anyone else. Real English speakers talk too fast and too casually for her to keep up, but that doesn't stop her from having the highest grades for English because the latter isn't tested for.
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| Not Mom, but Mother Those speaking with Minamo will find she's unfailingly very formal when she mentions her mother and father. She's estranged from her parents and has a lot of rage towards them, yet feels she should be a properly respectful daughter. Her relationship with her father can be described as distant and resentful for not being there for her. For her mother she feels resentment bordering on hatred. She rarely mentions her newborn brother at all.
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