Cooking Authentic Jap Food in 5 Minutes

It’s a marvel how I can cheat my way into eating home-cooked Japanese food that tastes as good as something a Japanese grandma might prepare for her visiting grandchildren.

Although I can proudly say that I have once tried making great-tasting udon from scratch, I’m not sure I’m willing to do all those pounding and rolling and thin-slicing every time I get the craving for these noodles. Especially since fresh ones are readily available in every supermarket I pass by to and from work. Just drop a handful in a pot of boiling water, wait a few, and they’re done!

They’re cheap too! Because even though these noodles look like they were specially handmade early in the morning by a hardworking grandma (these ones probably are), they only cost as much as a bag of potato chips. And when I saw “Serving size: Good For Two” I was immediately sold.

We’ve been eating these noodles on a weekly basis now, and we never get tired of it. In fact, they seem to be getting tastier and tastier every time we have it.

And right across the aisle where they have the noodles is a long rack of golden brown tempuras fresh out of the deep-friers and ready for consumption. How da heck can I say no?