Oozora Subaru’s Ramen Shop Collapses Without Prep, Then Recovers With Ookami Mio’s Help
Three Hololive colleagues, joined late by Mio, cut the menu to two items after a service that sent customers home.
HOLOLIVE — Oozora Subaru, Sakura Miko and Shirakami Fubuki ran a ramen shop together in Japanese Ramen Simulator on Wednesday, and a service they opened without restocking fell apart before the group reorganized the kitchen and hall and got the shop running smoothly. Ookami Mio joined the stream late and became part of the fix.
The session began with the shop short-staffed, since Mio was not on the roster at the start. The group rebuilt a house soup after finding the saved recipe unreadable, bought ingredients in bulk, and added outdoor seating and four-person tables. During one busy stretch they discovered the game had been on its hard difficulty setting, which explained the flood of customers. They switched back to normal for a calmer run.
“Let’s say today never happened. Not one bit of it.” — One of the three, after the failed service
A major expansion followed. The bigger building left the cooks walking long distances between stations, and the group spent a long stretch moving counters, sinks and shelves, adding booth seating, and eventually painting the walls and floor red. They also stocked gyoza, which the game gave away free the first time, and they tried a batch themselves. Later they built a simmering pot for chashu pork. A gambling feature in the game drained the shop’s funds along the way.
The low point came when they opened for business with the fridge not set up and the toppings spoiled. Orders did not match what was cooked, soup went cold, and customers left. One of the three told the others to treat the day as if it had never happened. Subaru said memories of an old part-time job came back during the closing routine.
After Mio arrived, the group held a meeting in the middle of prep. They agreed to unify the dish names, since the house ramen’s long name was hard to say quickly, to read orders aloud, to work through tickets in the order they stacked up, and to divide the dining room into territories. Roles were reshuffled, with Subaru back in the dining room. They pulled their custom chashu bowl from the menu and kept two items, then floated the idea of each cook developing a single signature bowl. The stream ended a little after the two-hour, 43-minute mark.
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