Ramyun Nabe

Photo info: FUJIFILM X-E4, 27mm, f/4, 1/100 sec, ISO1600
“Ramyun Nabe” Cedar Park, 2022

Ramyun + nira + ground pork + sausage + mushroom + kimchee + mozzarella cheese = ♥️

Photo info: FUJIFILM X-E4, 27mm, f/4, 1/100 sec, ISO2500
“Ramyun Nabe” Cedar Park, 2022
Photo info: FUJIFILM X-E4, 27mm, f/4, 1/100 sec, ISO2000
“Ramyun Nabe” Cedar Park, 2022

Soba with Costco Tempura

Photo info: FUJIFILM X-E4, 27mm, f/2.8, 1/100 sec, ISO1250
“Soba and Tempura” Cedar Park, 2022

For dinner tonight, we enjoyed soba and tempura. The tempura was bought from Costco and it’s surprisingly good! I highly recommend it. It’s so easy to prepare too: just defrost and heat up in the microwave, then pop into the toaster oven to crisp up. Simple and delicious. 🍤♥️

My New Ukulele

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“Kala Surf Swell” Cedar Park, 2022

While looking at ukuleles online, as I often do, I came across a really cool design. It’s a concert-sized ukulele from Kala, called the “Surf Swell” (Model: KA-SURF-SWELL) and it was basically a love-at-first-sight situation. 🥹❤️

I have another Kala concert ukulele, and they are both exactly the same shape. However, the Surf Swell is made of different material, and has different tuners and tuning knobs. It’s got a really retro vibe to it.

Another difference between my two concert ukuleles is that the old one has fluorocarbon strings for a more “modern” sound, but the new ukulele has the nylon strings for a classic ukulele sound. I love both!

But why do I need another ukulele? (I already have 3) Well, I have come to love the concert-size as my ukulele of choice, and the one I had was strung with a low-G. Therefore, I couldn’t play a couple of songs that require the standard G and access to the higher frets that a soprano-size cannot provide. So instead of having two soprano-sized ukuleles (one low-G and one high-G), I am going to go with two concert-sized ukuleles, and probably sell my soprano with the low-G, and keep the pineapple ukulele.

I hope you had a nice day! またね〜