91. Long and Thick Tteokbokki
91.
Date.
If you choose a meal menu on a date, most people will eat pasta, which is an acceptable option.
Pasta is popular with people of all ages.
In the case of restaurants that serve pasta, there are many places with a good atmosphere.
If it was a general choice, it was right to choose pasta.
However, Nayuna’s case was different.
She must have grown up eating luxurious foods since ancient times.
A variety of high-quality international food.
Foods like steak, lobster, caviar, and foie gras.
Are you asking Nayuna to eat pasta?
If it is a restaurant that you can go to without a reservation, her taste will not suit her.
It was clear that the price was also a burden for me.
So there is only one option to choose from.
Food that Nayuna did not eat.
Among them, the women choose the food they like.
Tteokbokki is a food that people of all ages and genders like and dislike.
Stimulates the tongue with a somewhat pungent taste.
A very good choice.
Na Yuna followed me into a tteokbokki shop.
“Han Si-jun. Is this where you do business?”
“Oh, I saw you before you came in. Normal business.”
Nayuna with a bewildered expression.
She felt unbelievable that a small snack shop in the alley was a restaurant.
Nayuna glanced at me and asked.
“There’s a good cook in the hotel over there, would you like to go there?”
“Why? Let’s just eat here.”
“… ”
Looks like he doesn’t like it.
What’s wrong with a snack bar on an alleyway?
Since Nayuna had not experienced it, it seemed that she had a bit of a backlash.
“If you move there, you don’t have enough time again. Is not it?”
“..ha. okay.”
So Nayuna sat down on a shabby chair as if she had no choice.
I laughed at the fact that she was in such an unfamiliar place.
“..Why are you laughing.”
“It just looks comfortable.”
Nayuna blinked at those words.
There were dark circles under her,
Maybe it’s because I’ve come to a place where I can’t hear the noise of the city.
There was a little bit of vitality.
“..What is he saying now.”
Was it because Nayuna didn’t have a mirror?
Didn’t know that
I glanced at the menu and said to the granny at the snack bar.
“Grandma, please give us two tteokbokki, tempura, and sundae.”
“Draw it, wait a minute.”
Grandma who answers coolly.
Looking at the space where she worked, I could feel a considerable amount of dexterity.
‘Isn’t it written that you worked there for about 30 years?’
As a result of an internet search, a hidden alleyway snack.
An old woman in her 70s who runs a business alone in an alley where the business district is dead.
Although it was introduced as a hidden restaurant on the Internet,
Because it was a street, no one was there.
“… ”
Did you wait for about 5 minutes like that?
The restaurant grandmother brought tteokbokki and sundae in her hand and put it on the table.
“Eat them deliciously. Let me know if you need more.”
“Yes, Grandma.”
The restaurant grandmother left to bring the rest of the fries.
Nayuna was staring intently at the tteokbokki on the table.
Then he tilted his head and asked me.
“..what kind of food is this?”
“Tteokbokki and Sundae. Have you ever eaten?”
“… no.”
Nayuna turns her head to the side.
She replied that she had never eaten tteokbokki in her life.
‘Are you Korean?’
If you are Korean, you should have eaten tteokbokki since you were born.
I’ve never eaten this.
I have that thought in my mind,
I informed Nayuna.
“This is how you eat tteokbokki.”
I pick up the mochi with chopsticks,
It was lightly dipped in red sauce.
So that the flavor of the sauce soaks in properly.
I put the tteokbokki with the sauce in my mouth.
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Judging from the chewy texture, this shop seemed to use rice cakes for tteokbokki.
Chewy and chewy texture that sticks to your teeth at the same time.
But unlike the happy mouth situation,
Sadness settled in my heart.
‘… I can’t taste anything…’
Am I just using my sense of taste as a penalty?
It was a moment of little regret.
“Anyway, you can eat this. Understand?”
“… ”
Nayuna has no answer to my words.
Sitting still, she picked up her chopsticks as if she had decided something.
“… I will eat.”
Why do you have such a serious expression when you eat a rice cake?
Na Yuna shows extraordinary determination.
Her chopsticks moved towards the red rice cake.
“… !”
A red rice cake caught with chopsticks.
She put a lot of sauce on the rice cake, just like I did.
Then he took it carefully to his mouth.
He brushed away the flowing yellow hair with his hands.
She carefully shoved the rice cake caught by her chopsticks into her mouth.
“Ugh…”
…something strange.
Why do you look so naughty?
I’m eating tteokbokki,
Nayuna was giving me a strange feeling.
Do you really eat tteokbokki like that?
The moment when common sense is about to change in me.
Seeing this, the old woman put the tempura down on the table and said,
“What is it that a virgin eats so badly? Oh my god..”
“..yes?”
..don’t laugh
I desperately covered my mouth with my hand not to laugh.
Grandma’s remarks were very spicy.
I felt like I was about to burst out laughing.
The restaurant grandmother continued to talk to Na Yuna.
“no! Just put it in your mouth! What are you eating so much!”
“..don’t you eat like this?”
“Who eats tteokbokki so much! If you eat something else, I don’t know…”
“… !”
At Grandma’s spicy drip, Na Yuna’s face turned red like tteokbokki sauce.
Did she realize that she was ashamed of what she had done?
“Mmm.. it’s delicious..”
I hurriedly said that the tteokbokki was delicious.
It was Nayuna who rarely changed her emotions, but now she seems to have lost her mind even when she thinks about it.
The grandmother of the snack shop poked at Na Yuna’s reaction to see if it was funny.
“The bachelor, then, is your boyfriend?”
“I am not a boyfriend.”
“Then, a sense of close relationship soon?”
“No, it’s not like that…”
“Then, why did you two come here?”
“… ”
Na Yuna could not easily answer the barrage of questions from such a granny at a snack shop.
Grandma’s question was also spicy,
It was because Nayuna wasn’t the type to enjoy conversation.
After about 5 minutes of conversation with Grandma,
Nayuna, who was chatting with her grandmother while munching on food, started tapping my feet under the table.
I asked her roughly in the shape of a mouth.
-why?
A simple question.
What do you want to go to the bathroom for?
Perhaps it wasn’t, Nayuna shifted her gaze to the side.
Then she grimaced and spoke to me in her mouth.
– Save me…
Nayuna asks to be saved?
I didn’t know these words would come out of Nayuna’s mouth.
Is it because Na Yuna was raised by her grandmother when she was young?
I could hardly cut off the conversation of the granny at the snack shop who kept talking to me.
‘.. Shall we play a little?’
I turned my head to ignore Nayuna’s rescue signal.
“… !”
Nayuna seems to be a bit perplexed.
Her pupils widened as if she had not expected such a betrayal.
I thought to myself as I looked at Nayuna like that.
‘..Well, good is good..’
Alleviating Grandma’s loneliness,
Developing social skills that were lacking.
Na Yuna will be forced to retire from the company soon.
I decided not to stop talking to Grandma for her sake.
“Heh heh, she looks like my granddaughter, yes!”
“Yeah..yes..”
Na Yuna is more respectful to her older grandmother than anyone else.
Does the grandmother really know that the woman in front of her is the granddaughter of NAVI, a global company?
Thinking like that in my mind,
I ate sundae with salt.
“… ”
It also had no taste.
***
Empty all the tteokbokki, sundae, and tempura on the plate.
We stood up as if satisfied.
Druck.
Nayuna got up from her seat and spoke to me.
“..Tteokbokki. I just had to eat.”
“okay? I’m glad.”
I’m glad you just ate it.
But was it really edible?
There was tteokbokki sauce near Nayuna’s mouth.
Apparently, she ate it so deliciously that she didn’t even know there was sauce in her mouth.
..can’t export like this.
There are a lot of people who recognize her from the outside.
I stood up and stopped her.
“Wait a minute, Nayuna.”
“..!?”
Nayuna looking back.
I wiped the sauce off her lips.
Nayuna shouted as if embarrassed by the action, pushing me away.
“What are you doing..!”
“no. Because there was sauce…”
“I..I have a hand..”
“sorry. I won’t do that next time.”
It was a trick for stalking.
Nayuna didn’t like this kind of behavior.
Her cheeks were slightly recalled as if she was angry.
“Heh heh.. I’m young..”
The grandmother of the snack shop looked at us with a happy expression.
I approached her and said
“I really enjoyed the meal. grandmother. I will count.”
The man counts.
Rather than saying, I just decided to calculate.
Because Nayuna’s economic concept is…
“Han Si-jun. I’ll count Is this the end of the calculation?”
Na Yuna handing out a check for 1 million won when paying for two at a snack bar.
Her economic ideas were quite twisted.
“Eggmoney, what is this?”
“Grandma. No. I’ll count…”
“… ?”
Nayuna looking at me like I’m strange.
I put the check back into her wallet and proceeded to checkout.
It was a snack shop in an alleyway, so the price was not much.
After I did the calculations, I left the restaurant.
Nayuna had been stretching for a while, probably because her body was aching.
“Aww…”
Is it because I am a social worker?
She looked tired.
Shall I give you a massage later?
Let’s make a plan like that in our heart,
Across the street from her, some drab people were passing by.
‘I’m familiar with it…’
A group that seems to have seen it somewhere.
Wearing black robes, they looked familiar.
And by reliving the memories of the past, I was able to guess who they were.
‘In a place like this, there must be only one group that wears and behaves like that.’
Hunting dogs in the back alley.
They are moving
I felt with my skin that Episode 3 had begun.
“Nayuna.”
“yes?”
“If you’re having a hard time, tell me.”
“… ?”
Saying that
I walked towards my next destination.
So that the incident can happen and Nayuna’s heart can be a little more comfortable.
That was the purpose of this date.
Enjoying the rest of the time.
That was the only homework given to her.