Photo credit: Janet Donovan
Cotton candy is not what you would expect at a Japanese barbeque, but such was the case at the afternoon festivities of The Ambassador of Japan and Mrs. Sasae over the weekend.
Ambassador Kenichiro Sasae with The Ambassador of Sweden, Jonas Haftrom
We skipped the aforementioned and went for the more traditional and celebatory “Flowing Somen” – called “Nagashi Somen” or Somen Nagashi” in Japanese – and there was lots of it, flowing of course.
Somen is a Japanese noodle made of wheat flour and salts which is very thin and white and flowing somen is when the somen are put in water flowing along a long bamboo gutter. You catch the noodles with your chopsitcks, dip them in a cool broth and drink up. …….. a challenge, we know.
Flowing noodles
Ambassador Sasae explains it best:
