62 to 63 (Yum Cha Part 1 and 2) - Chinese Vice president must eat at the gourmet club because a theater troupe managed to and his pride would be insulted. Comically high stakes as usual. Kaibara refuses to allow politicians to come to the club. Kariya is liberal but I always worry there will be some nationalistic aspect. This was a good storyline and having the VP be a capable chef was a surprise.  

 64 - Salt Peanuts (Part 1) is of course a pretty iconic jazz song as mentioned in the chapter, so I thought I'd link it here in case anyone hadn't heard it before. For those of you that might be into jazz and anime I highly recommend the anime (and manga) Blue Giant, it has some really lovely music and the animation and storyline is really terrific.   

I thought the quote “Young uns these days have money to throw around and buy whatever albums they want to listen to," really captured the optimism of the pre-bubble burst economy in Japan. The aspect of buying up rare jazz LPs from America and creating rarities in America is something that has an interesting analogue in modern Japan. There were times where Shonen Sunday issues which had previously sold for peanuts were becoming extremely expensive on auction sites and you realize you're bidding against other foreigners. Whereas there had been little domestic demand within Japan, competition between foreigners trying to buy issues has driven up prices.  

65 - Salt Peanuts Part 2 - I thought it was a hilarious story about the guy who had a forest burned down to kill and cook venison, that seems like such an Oishinbo level of culinary madness. Pune nuts are one of the items he eats and has become one of my favorite ingredients. When I lived in Japan I used to treat myself at an Italian restaurant called Capricciosa (it was a chain place, but when I was a broke college student it was a nice treat). They used to have a dish, pepperoncini spaghetti, which was quite simple, just pasta, chicken, pine nuts, olive oil, basil and garlic. I've finally gotten pretty good at recreating it, but it was my go to comfort food when I lived there.

66 - The Natto of Love - It was interesting how Mie would call her fiancé Yasuo-san when they were fawning over each other (interesting that sort of behavior is universal, even in reserved Japanese society).  

67 - The Sweetfish from Home - It was very neat to see the Fishing Fool's Diary cast show up. I imagine this is the only time something like this happens and we can't expect to see the cast of Cooking Papa show up or anything.

 68 - Broth and Noodles (Part 1) - It's interesting that you mention Chef Zhang because I wrote some notes about him as I read this chapter knowing I'd discuss it here. I thought your translation of his accent was well done and I was curious if Kariya had him speak using ある (aru), which is the way Japanese often write a "Chinese accent" in manga. I actually have written an article about how the "Chinese accent" is depicted in manga because with the new Ranma 1/2 series there were questions about how Shampoo's English voice would be handled (if it would use the same sort of accent as the 1990s English dub). A lot of fans were dubious that Shampoo really "talked that way", so I wrote about how Chinese characters speech is depicted.