somen

These offerings consist of the foods called somen, resembling our vermicelli, gozen, which is boiled rice, dango, a sort of tiny dumpling, eggplant, and fruits according to season -- frequently uri and saikwa, slices of melon and watermelon, and plums and peaches.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

Although the noodle used was different, it tasted very similar to the somen salad that my family has made for as long as I can remember.

Menu For Hope 6 2009

My great-aunts used to make stuffed somen salad every year for our family Christmas party, and my grandmother would sometimes stuff inari packets with the somen salad.

2008 November - Sushi Day - Sushiday.com 2008

My great-aunts used to make stuffed somen salad every year for our family Christmas party, and my grandmother would sometimes stuff inari packets with the somen salad.

Sushi Day » Happy 2nd Birthday, Sushi Day » Print 2008

My great-aunts used to make stuffed somen salad every year for our family Christmas party, and my grandmother would sometimes stuff inari packets with the somen salad.

Happy Birthday, Son! 2008

We also made your somen salad (delicious!) and attempted some baked tempura veggies (came out … uh, edible at least).

Yellowtail Nigiri 2008

Then again, perhaps the Mary Sue is not so much a negative phenomena as a positive one, redressing in times not so long past how women couldn't do anything and so perhaps writers made their somen do the interesting things they were always too scared to do.

Mary Sue 2009

Once we let somen out of the kitchen, I suppose gay marriage was inevitable.

The Volokh Conspiracy » There’s Always Next Year 2009

Except, I was bit more tired and lazy than usual so when the store was out of the buckwheat soba noodles I usually like, I settled for somen, which are really too thin and delicate for this dish.

smitten kitchen | peanut sesame noodles | print template 2008

It called for linguini but I decided to go for somen instead.

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