Hi Natty! Selamat Hari Raya! Happy Eid, folks! Oh Natty, you're at the redwoods. I'm so glad they've stopped logging those. Such magnificent trees. You and your buddy are in uniform? How intriguing! Yes Honey, it's the Eid today, which means no more fasting month. The calendar says it's Ramadan 30. From what I observed, the Arabs decided to celebrate the Eid one day sooner, and this country followed suit. The formal method of determining the Eid is an official body having sighted the new moon. Do you think they sighted the new moon over the span of all those countries? What, no cloud cover? I guess I don't really care. I'm so happy! I get to drink my Starbucks in the afternoon!
Towards the end of Ramadan, I had been watching a lot of Japanese ramen videos. At first I thought Japanese ramen was simple in constitution, but it turns out they put a LOT of stuff in the soup. God, I miss my ramen. There was no convenient time to prepare and eat ramen during the fasting month. Anyway, I was entertained by the process of making Tonkatsu ramen, where they boil hundreds of kilos of pork bones and fat to get the a thick and sickly green soup. I wondered why do they cook so many bones, and still need to add MSG? And what do they do with all the seaweed and vegetables that they dumped into the pot? Do they just chuck all those veggies away? The answer is that even with 400 kilos of pig, the broth is tasteless unless they add MSG. I figured that if I needed to add MSG anyway, then only a couple of beef bones would be enough. And all the vegetables that got cooked until soft, I blended that and put it back into the soup. The result is a very tasty and thick sickly green broth for my ramen. Success! Alhamdulillah! And it's halal! I guess one would argue that it would be missing that fatty feeling. Hm, next time I'll add some butter.
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