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Trigun Stargaze Chugai Grace Cafe Collaboration - I Have Translated Yet Another Menu
What's up chat sorry I haven't been posting I got a little too employed. But I am still deeply in love with Vash the Stampede and his space cowboy anime, which has just announced its first collab after switching from Stampede to Stargaze!! YAAYYYY!!! Rewrote pretty much the whole website again since it's live, translated all of the food and drink ingredients so you guys can try to make them for yourselves if you can't make it to the event and also just wrote out the merch list and special bonuses and stuff in english, and I also translated the special meanings behind the drinks they chose to serve!!!
Anyways, transcript starts under the cut as usual! All of this information was found >>here<< at the Chugai Cafe website <3
Food - from top to bottom
Omurice
eggs
ketchup rice
tomato ketchup
<3 Vash & Nicholas Ally Slider Set
In the red mini hotdog bun:
・smoked salmon slices
・red leaf lettuce salsa sauce (idk if this was like a mistake and they meant to separate these two or if it’s a specific salsa made of that kind of lettuce this is just how it’s written in JP so it’s what i wrote)
・honey mustard
・mini tomatoes
In the black mini hotdug bun:
・coarse ground sausage (think like bratwurst)
・masala black curry
・shredded pickles
・fried onion
・french dressing
・linablue (seems to be a brand of spiralina blue powder, and im assuming this is what's inside the ampules)
iced tea
brandy essence (these last two are i'm assuming the drink on the side, but they're just all listed under the 2nd sandwich so ig this could also be inside the ampoules idk)
Banana Sundae
coconut milk ice cream
banana whipped cream
chocolate sauce
cherries
rainbow sprinkles
Gateau Mille Feuille*
opera cake
whipped chocolate
chocolate syrup
cocoa powder
*i think last time i did one of these they had mille feuille and i put a note because it didn't have the gateau part written on the menu, but that's what she says in the anime and all the other dishes were anime references so that's how i listed it as well, but this time the Japanese does specify gateau mille feuille. i do not know the difference idk anything abt pastry but if it's important there it is.
Drinks - Left to Right Top to Bottom
All drinks are nonalcoholic and also have special cocktail language meanings (I guess it's kind of like flower language? I tried looking cocktail language up in english and didn't really find anything and my mixologist friend has never heard of it either so I'm not really sure where this comes from, but looking it up in Japanese yields basically the same results as what the cafe lists)
Nicholas's Virgin Dolores - meaning: to stand for what you believe, grief/sorrow (what does this mean Orange. there are no take backs now Orange.)
espresso coffee
chocolate syrup (like a fancy kind tho)
cherry syrup
brandy essence
a dark sweet cherry
Midvalley's Aurora Lychee Martini - meaning: intellectual love, thorned beauty, elegant and graceful
lychee syrup
tonic water
organic lime juice
a lychee
velvet pink aurora powder (this is like luster dust basically)
Legato's Virgin Blue Kir Royale - meaning: the most fateful meeting, enrapturement or intoxication, dignity
white grape juice
sparkling water
blue ocean aurora powder (or luster dust)
whole black courants (cassis)
Livio's Virgin Sidecar - meaning: always together
triple sec curaçao syrup (idk how this exists but i looked it up and it does)
iced tea
lemon juice
brandy essence
an orange slice
Knives's Mirage Gimlet - meaning: missing someone from afar, a long parting, thinking of someone who's gone far away (OK MAN WE GET IT LMAO)
ramune syrup
apple juice
tonic water
organic lime juice
passionfruit flavored smoke bubble
And then there's just the usual lattes with a random character art on top
Every menu item ordered will come with one of the coasters at the bottom of the image, there's also a closeup further down the website that I've also included at the end! The ones on the left (above image) are for the first half of the collab from April 3rd to the 14th and the ones on the right will be for the remainder, the 15th to the 26th.
And now, hello fellow overseas fans, IT'S MERCH TIME.
YAYYYYYY ok so just like last time I'm gonna list these out basically in order and I'll put the price in yen with tax included and if you want without tax it's just the other number ^^
Also, on everything beginning with sparkling collection, they don't really like say what this means, I think based on the pictures that all of this stuff is holo or sparkly. I could be wrong but that's the assumption I'm moving under personally so.
Sparkling Collection Big Cocktail Party Acrylic Stand - 2750¥ each (and no exact size measurement given)
Sparkling Collection Cocktail Party Acrylic Stand Mini Character Version - 1650¥ each
Sparkling Collection Cocktail Party Buttons (or can badges i never got an answer on what most people call them here) Mini Character Version - 6600¥ for the set (or 660¥ for a random one if you can get your proxy service to go for blind stuff)
Polaroid Shot Collection - 5500¥ for the set or 550¥ for a random one (the card on the far right is showcasing the back side design for all of them)
Sparkling Collection Cocktail Party Smartphone Holder - 1100¥ each (someone anyone please don't let me forget to get one of these they're literally so cute)
Sparkling Collection Cocktail Party Acrylic Keychain - 1430¥ each
Sticker Set A (color version) - 2750¥ for the set (there are 5)
Sticker Set B (monochrome sepia version) - 2750¥ for the set (there are 6)
Nicholas D. Wolfwood's Candy Carton (soda flavored) - 1080¥ (this is food so I'm not optimistic we can get it but I kinda feel like trying anyways bc it's so cute)
As usual, one of the special illustration cards (closeups also provided later) will be included at random for every 3,000 yen spent as long as supplies last! You'll also get a raffle ticket for the poster campaign for every 3,000¥ spent, but this seems to be an in-person only thing. A few more details on the campaigns at the end even tho I kinda doubt overseas are eligible.
And here's the website at the bottom!! --> Chugai Online Store Trigun Stargaze (no preorders for this collab live yet)
In Person Stuff and Misc.
So they'll be handing out these lunchmats to anyone who reserves online in advance (they are random but there's only two per half so) and the designs will change over at the halfway point with everything else.
Here's closeups of the collab menu coasters and also the illustration cards that come with the merch based on how much you get!
They're running two campaigns this time, the first one is a twitter follow and repost campaign of which three random winners will receive a set of all 16 coasters, it doesn't really say anything else so I assume further details are on the chugai grace twitter itself if you'd like to try your luck! The second is another poster campaign, all these posters that will be decorating the Shibuya Modi cafe location will be given out to randomly chosen winners and you DO get to pick your fave! It's one raffle ticket per 3,000¥ spent and it says you'll have to apply by mail. It doesn't say if they'll be sending the application with any merch order or if you have to pick it up at the location when you check out physically, but I'm assuming the latter. But if anyone is going to be in Japan and planning to go in person, it's always worth a shot!
ALRIGHT THAT'S EVERYTHING. LET ME KNOW IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS AND AS ALWAYS HAPPY TRIGUNNING TRIGANG. I AM SO AFRAID FOR EPISODES 11 AND 12 YALL HAVE NO IDEA. STARGAZE I NEED YOU TO LOCK TF IN.
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