Later, Joichiro closes the restaurant to go on a worldwide cooking tour, and has Soma enroll in Totsuki Saryo Culinary Institute, an elite cooking academy. Soma improvizes a near-meat dish that overwhelms her in taste. She challenges Soma to cook for her a meat dish, but she has the place vandalized and the meat spoiled.
A woman tries to persuade Soma to sell their property so her clients can build a high rise.