Episode Title:
The Taste of Failure.
Episode Description:
As the match continues, Alice and Hisako bring Azami to the tournament, where he reveals that all of his actions in raising Erina were in an effort to prevent the despair that Mana fell into. Asahi then completes his dish, which is a French basty filled with shark fin soup, Indian spices, and ravioli filled with Turkish dondurma. Asahi's dish impresses the judges and even Mana herself. Soma responds with his own dish, which is fried rice that combines Chinese dongpo pork, Italian acqua pazza, Indian poriyal, French mirepoix, and Turkish pilaf. The judges are shocked at the insane risk Soma took to combine all the various flavors together. Even Mana is shocked by the dish when she realizes Soma used ouef mayonnaise to coat every individual pilaf grain in a thin coat of egg yolk to lock their flavor in. Soma reveals to Asahi that this fried was based on one of his mother's failed dishes that he learned from her, and the one critical element it has that Asahi's dish doesn't is "the taste of failure". Mana ends up being equally impressed with Soma's dish, leaving everybody uncertain on who will be declared the winner.
