Herring Soba

20220815 #breakfastdiary 524, 29°C/cloudy, 32min/exercise Make the broth with one and a half cups of bonito stock, 20ml dark soy sauce, 5ml mirin, and half a tablespoon of sugar. Boil buckwheat noodles, shower them under cold water, arrange in a bowl topped with scallions and herring, then pour over the broth. #herringsoba #Bonito broth Soak four cups of water with two large sheets of kelp for about an hour. Over medium heat, pull the kelp out just before it boils, add 20g of bonito flakes, and boil for one minute. Turn off the heat, wait 2-3 minutes, then strain to keep only the broth. #Herring, seared Soak the herring in cheongju (rice wine) for about 20 minutes. Coat evenly with starch and sear on both sides. I came home and slowly unfolded it— words written down on pretty paper, line after line after line etched in, carrying my honest heart along. Yoo Jae-ha, A Melancholy Letter Something I thought about recently: could "a letter full of words written on pretty paper" really move a modern listener the way it once did? Shouldn't it be something more like "a font typed out on a pretty screen"? And so shouldn't the song really end with, "This melancholy KakaoTalk message is now..."?