Comforting Soup
I knew I was about to get sick, but I didn’t want to stop since there were a lot of deadlines for clients that week. It was already a Friday but I wanted to go to the office to check my mail. Until I decided to just go to the parlor and have a haircut. Hoping that I would feel better after my haircut. With a slight temperature, I told Clorets that I wasn’t coming in to work but instead will have a haircut and head home afterwards.
I went to Tony and Jakey. I loved my hair but I was truly feeling miserably sick. As I went out, my mind was thinking of comforting, soothing food to eat.
I didn’t want a heavy meal, there were three choices in that building – either I go to Rai Rai Ken to eat Ramen, or eat at Pizza Hut or sing my lungs out in Centerstage while eating buffalo wings (which by the way is really good). I opted for Rai Rai Ken.
I was in Banana Yoshimoto mode. I remember in one of her books – Kitchen, she was describing how good the Ramen was. So here I am wanting really to be comforted. So I ordered Gomoku Ramen – it’s was my first ramen bowl and I wasn’t disappointed. The pork, seafood and noodles were cooked just right. The soup was comforting as I imagined. It was a big bowl but I managed to finish it all.
As I left the restaurant I still had fever but I the craving was satisfied. The next time I had ramen was during my friend’s birthday at Ramen Tei. I was a bit disappointed with the noodles and the soup was really tasteless.