à la carte dish

if I do say so myself / for me (to so such a thing)

Alternative spelling of 我思う、故に我在り

(philosophy) I think therefore I am

to make [something] / to cook / to write a literary work / to grow, to raise / to cultivate ability, to train / to draw up, form, establish / to make an acquaintance

作る: make - make a small thing, grow vegetables / 創る: create - originate, bring into existence / 造る: build, construct - build a house, or a building

the highest; the best; supreme; the greatest

Alternative spelling of 我々 (wareware, “we; us”)

cooking

(と〜) thinking that […] (with the next clause explaining that the truth is contrary to expectations)