#cold noodle

[late-evening-sleeper]

Having cold noodle & bingsu for lunch

[tanuki-kimono]

Adorable note by Sayuri Sasai, showing a Tanabata (star festival) celebration in old Edo.

They stress that Tanabata, and its tradition of writing wishes on tanzaku (paper strips) before tying those up on bamboo, spread among Edo commoners thanks to the terakoya (temple elementary school system) which increased literacy.

The boy is anxiously wishing for his handwriting to get better, and below him you can see how the classical rectangular tanzaku could also be shaped like notebook, abacus or writing brush, or watermelon or gourd - something popular among young students ^^

The street peddlers below offers Tanabata related goods such as bamboo stalks and the tanzaku papers. Besides them, a popular summer dish of somen (cold noodles) is eaten for good luck (the longer the noodle, the longer the life).

[ryuucafe]

チキンそうめん

Anyone still uses facebook?

I rarely open it anymore, but recently my company decides that they should utilize their facebook page to get more customers, so they added my personal account as one of the admin for the page, so I have to open it once in a while now.

My whole extended family is very active there, I got tagged in a lot of embarrassing photos, lots of reminders of posts that was 10 years old.

See a lot of news from people that I no longer speak with anymore.

Reply to a post saying that I am still alive.

Refraining myself to not scroll down and check how everyone is doing because their life on facebook would only make me feel bad about myself.

Social media has never been a good thing. Just give me a messaging app to communicate.

[hi-technique]

cold noodle "somen" by ysn0706 on Flickr

[kaleviri]

Soba cold noodle with sake. I prepared it myself at home. @shoku-and-awe you asked me to tag you. Here!

[foodemon]

Zaru Soba (Cold Soba) - Rakuzen.

[foodfuck]

cold noodle summer salad with salmon

[julieterbang]