07. 06. DINNER

rice, grilled pork and angelica leaves

Actually I don’t know that they are called angelica leaves, since from what I can tell they’re a Japanese variant thereof, but they’re called 신선초 and they’re all for my brother since I don’t much enjoy their flavor. I want my vegetables to properly yield way to the taste of meat, thank you, not assert themselves. What do they think they are? Nutritious? Please. Most of the side dishes aren’t really pictured here, but one day they will have a feature position of their very own. Until that day, they need to deal with the fact that trying to fit everything on the table into a single photograph just makes things messy. Also that is not the right thing to be doing when you are hungry.

07. 06. LUNCH

steamed dumplings

Dumplings for lunch every single day! Hurrah. Tomorrow’s lunch will be boiled dumplings, I guess. Anyway these are from a new pack, they’ve got kimchi inside so they don’t need soy sauce, which is great because it’s such a hassle. On the other hand, they are steamed, which means that for the love of God they will not cool down even when you poke holes in them to try to let the heat escape. Which makes for difficult eating, but hey, it’s good food. Though I do like non-kimchi dumplings a bit better, it’s a nice change of pace. Precisely what I needed after spending all morning trying to pick out a laptop for myself. It’s so incredibly hard, and I’ve narrowed it down to seven models or so from three companies, but augh the frustration. Why can’t I just call someone up, tell them exactly what I want, and if they can’t build it for me then at least they can give me what fits the bill? At any rate I will be happy that I no longer need to use a Dell.

07. 06. BREAKFAST

crackers with tuna salad

Here’s a sad story: once upon a time, a gaggle of high school girls were in search of the perfect snack to have at those pesky hours of the night when they were in extreme amounts of painful hunger from the poor dinner they’d had six hours ago. Without some sort of sugar aiding their brain, they couldn’t possibly stay up and cram for the exam tomorrow. Lo and behold, that was when they discovered the light, a prettily wrapped package of ready-made tuna salad and crackers. The salad even came in two flavors! And so they were happy, and the world was good. Alas, this paradise was not to last. In only a matter of months, they discovered that apparently, they had been the only people buying this product at all, and that the entire thing was discontinued. How they wept! Their ensuing rage was only tripled when, upon a routine trip back home, they noticed via a commercial on TV that the product was now replaced with some sort of disgustingly hip affair involving the crackers and salad being in open packaging in an airtight plastic container. What a disgrace! And it was marketed toward teenyboppers! Their hearts burned with fury. But eventually no one bought that either so the company went back to just making the salad and putting it in cans like before except without the crackers. But the crackers were always sold separately so that was fine. So it was awesome. The end.