Today, I made the brown rice soba (玄米そば）my friend got me on our way back from Hirakawa. We stopped by a shop in Namioka. It comes with fresh soba noodles, tsuyu (sauce), and dried fish and kombu (kelp) to make dashi (soup stock). First I made the dashi from the niboshi (煮干し/dried sardines), katsuobushi (かつお節/dried bonito), and kombu (昆布/kelp). I didn't have those mesh bags for tea/dashi, so I just dumped them in the pot and fished it out after. I also didn't have anything else to garnish it with, but it still tasted super delicious with just tenkasu (天かす/tempura flakes). It was a very plain, but delicious tanuki soba (たぬきそば).
I ate it all very quickly because I had Eikaiwa (英会話), which is my English conversation class I have in the evening. Like I posted earlier, I started a new column in our Sotogahama PR magazine, so I’m using what I write there as a theme for my following Eikaiwa classes. So since the column I wrote for June was about separating trash, I brought a bunch of trash to do a role-playing activity!
I didn’t get to take any pictures, because I was very nervous. The reason I was super nervous was because the mayor of my town came to my class!!! I didn’t know and I was embarrassed that all I prepared for class was a bunch of my own trash. Basically I set up a “trash station” so boxes for “burnable trash” (燃えるゴミ), “non-burnable trash” (燃えないゴミ), and various recycling boxes, as well as empty and filled plastic/glass bottles and cans. It was actually a lot of fun to role-play as a lost foreigner getting help from Japanese people. I hope everyone feels like they learned something, too.
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