Right now the Geology Department of Nagoya University is housed in Building C while the permanent home builing is being renovated.
On Friday, to celebrate the move out of the old building there was a nagashi somen party. This is a "flow of noodles" party that I was told is pretty common in Japan. Wheee! Somen is a kind of Japanese noodle thinner than udon. It is like vermicelli and is eaten cold flowing through a halved bamboo chute with flowing water (=nagashi). The architecture and operation of the nagashi somen contraption look something like this:
Here are the noodles being loaded into the bamboo halfed-tube.
Here you can see the sink and the noodles being picked up toward the end of the chute.
Here I am loading the noodles. This was an important job so I am very focused.
Here is my Japanese host, Seiji, doing the same.
Here I am about to enjoy the somen that I "caught"! Seiji and his family are behind me.
On Friday, to celebrate the move out of the old building there was a nagashi somen party. This is a "flow of noodles" party that I was told is pretty common in Japan. Wheee! Somen is a kind of Japanese noodle thinner than udon. It is like vermicelli and is eaten cold flowing through a halved bamboo chute with flowing water (=nagashi). The architecture and operation of the nagashi somen contraption look something like this:
Here are the noodles being loaded into the bamboo halfed-tube.
Here you can see the sink and the noodles being picked up toward the end of the chute.
Here I am loading the noodles. This was an important job so I am very focused.
Here is my Japanese host, Seiji, doing the same.
Here I am about to enjoy the somen that I "caught"! Seiji and his family are behind me.
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