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2022-09-06 I had to be prepared to "give up my isolation" for the sake of "natto". [長年日記]

My weekends are sometimes busier than weekdays.

The reasons are for a deadline for column, and for programming, with the ease of not interruptions.

So, the peak of my fatigue comes to Monday morning --- it is an "exhaustion".

So recently, on Monday morning, I go to a super public bath, taking a sauna and fixing my stiff shoulders.

Remote work, hurrah!

In the restaurant of the super public bath, the dishes are delicious. I enjoy eating "Soba" at the restaurant.

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"Taking a bath, and eating soba"

However, I don't want to pretend "Edokko".

Soba is delicious in Kanto area.

This may be because I am from a rural area.

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Udon is delicios around Nagoya city where my country house is.

However, I don't know of any 'good soba restaurants' around my parents' house -- or rather, I can't think of any soba restaurants around my parents' house.

Then, how about Kyoto when I was a student?

Yeah, when I was a student, I only ate ramen, beef bowls and ginger-yaki set meals, so neither udon nor soba noodles come to mind.

In contrast, in the Kanto region, even the standing-only soba restaurants are delicious enough.

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Speaking of food -- I had a really hard time getting "natto" in the U.S., and in the landlocked state of Colorado.

For the first time in my life, I had to rely on the power of the "Japanese community" in a foreign country.

I had to be prepared to "give up my isolation" for the sake of "natto".

This is "living in a foreign country" in a sense.

Now let's return to the main subject.

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As a matter of course, good soba is expensive.

I want to eat delicious soba, but I am not willing to pay exorbitant prices for it.

However, I will not be making my own soba. Because anyone who gets into soba making (as far as I know, without exception) becomes a jerk.

If they start talking about "the water," "the temperature," or "the way to make", I'm going to cut them off in zero seconds.

Anyway, I like soba.