[Manabu stops just so he can divvy out the seared and seasoned meat into each of their dishes.] Try it now - the noodles. The taste changes even with this much. And if we had some other greens and carrots...! [he sighs, maybe pining just a bit for some decent carrots. oh well. this is still good.]

It's called tsukemen, back where I'm from. My mom would make it from leftovers after she finished up working in her restaurant...but you'd never call it leftovers, eheh. It's just as good!

Sometimes we'd get more like...a...kitchen-sink soup. Which is: Put everything but the kitchen sink in there!