Kirali’s Chicken Soup Earns 7 out of 10 Beside a Chocolate Omelet Rice

MERIDIAN PROJECT — Kirali, of Meridian Project, cooked a chicken soup and an omelet rice dish on Wednesday in a stream titled “Aki’s Kitchen” (阿基廚房), with two guests billed in the title as KSP and Dage. The soup won a score of seven out of ten at the table, and its chicken drew the verdict “good” on the first bite.

The soup took shape in a rush of chopping and adding. Kirali cut a white radish while the guests commented on the uneven pieces and joked that it would dissolve into the broth. The steps came from an AI chatbot, which called for taking the chicken out of the pot and putting it back, and Kirali added a heavy handful of ginger, shiitake mushrooms, ground pork and rice wine. No amount of rice wine was specified, and Kirali went with what the recipe called “a suitable amount” while a guest looked on in alarm. Tasting it later, the guests found the broth fragrant and strongly flavored with ginger, and the chicken tender.

“Even with my own creative touches, my food turns out tasty.” — Kirali, before the tasting

The omelet rice was the harder dish. Kirali had said beforehand that the day’s cooking would shake the established impression of Kirali’s food, and the eggs went into the pan with chocolate, which turned them a dark brown. They stuck to the nonstick pan and tore as the guests coached Kirali to lift them from the edges and fold them over. The rice carried blueberries, and Kirali described the brown and blue as colors meant for the two guests. Pineapple, a tin of which came up early in the cooking, was a point of debate as well.

Chat followed closely, calling the omelet a biological weapon and joking that the less Kirali had a hand in a dish, the more edible it was. The soup’s seven out of ten drew the remark from a guest that it had little to do with Kirali’s skill, since the others had skimmed and minded the pot while Kirali chopped and dropped things in.

Near the end, talk drifted to future kitchen streams and to a cake Kirali once tried to whip by hand with chopsticks, which failed to rise but made Kirali’s mother laugh. The guests joked about stomach checkups before the stream ended with thanks to the two guests for coming.