I've started making chilled Chinese noodles

You know.
Even after Golden Week ended this year, the mornings and evenings have been a bit chilly.

I found myself wondering, 'Wait, what was May usually like?'
Don't you feel like it's suddenly gotten hot as soon as May starts over the past few years?

When I was a child, in my hometown, the first of May was the shrine festival, and
'Ichinomiya-san has come again, time to put away the kotatsu,'
every household used that as a benchmark to put away their kotatsu.
The space in the living room where the kotatsu used to be felt vaguely insecure.

This May, I felt a gentle temperature that made me suddenly remember those childhood days.

Even so, I decided it was time to change my bedding for summer, so last week I washed my thick sheets and blankets and took them to the laundromat.

The smell of sun-dried sheets is nice, but lately, with things like yellow sand, I feel like it's not very hygienic, so I always dry large items all at once at the laundromat.
300 yen for 30 minutes.

When I arrived at the laundromat and looked inside my wallet, there were a few 1-yen and 5-yen coins. And since the change machine only takes 1000-yen bills, of course, that was the one time I only had a 10,000-yen bill.

I had no choice but to take out the laundry I had thrown in, put it back in my bag, and head to a nearby supermarket.
I went out of my way to break the bill by buying things I didn't particularly need.
Thinking, 'Oh well,' just to get three 100-yen coins.

But they do say every cloud has a silver lining, don't they?
I ended up picking up something I probably wouldn't have put in my basket during a normal shopping trip.

It seems it usually costs nearly 500 yen, but it was half price, so I decided on it immediately.
By the way, I also bought Febreze for the car (mold prevention).
With the change from that, I was able to get four 100-yen coins.

When I opened it, there was ice on top of the noodles.
'Huh? Is this okay?' I thought, but you just microwave it as is.

Pour on the included sauce and it's ready.
The ice doesn't even melt after microwaving. No need to go through the trouble of mixing and cooling it yourself.

However, on the day I bought it, I didn't yet feel the breeze that would entice me to eat something 'chilled'.
The 'chilled' experience isn't quite right unless the air clings to your skin like a drape, is it?

The temperature was okay, but the humidity wasn't quite calling for 'chilled' noodles.
You know that feeling, right? Like, 'Ah, today is a day for chilled noodles.'

If the cuckoo doesn't sing, wait for it to sing.

Wasn't the cuckoo a summer kigo (seasonal word)?
As expected, I should wait a while here.

Then the week started, and today is Tuesday, May 20th, with a daytime temperature of 29°C and 60% humidity.

The first perfect day for chilled Chinese noodles this year has arrived.
It's also the perfect time to switch from hojicha to barley tea.
Good job.

I have started making chilled Chinese noodles.

When it comes to Nichirei products, are the 'Authentic Fried Rice' or 'Grilled Rice Balls' the familiar ones?

While mixing the noodles and sauce with my chopsticks, I thought about various frozen products and took a gentle slurp.
The first bite is always gentle.

The chewy, slightly thick noodles coat well with the sauce.
The texture of the okra is also there, and it's properly sticky.

The sauce is a bit sweet, but when I added mayonnaise, the marriage of flavors was so good that I wanted to drink the sauce too.

After the first bite, I caught my breath and took an interval with some barley tea, but after that, I didn't stop my chopsticks once, except to add more mayonnaise.

At work, 7-Eleven was the most popular for convenience store chilled Chinese noodles, but when I checked recently after a long time, I was taken aback by how expensive they had become.
When did the mini size catch up to the price of the old regular size?
Even if they are delicious, I don't think I'll buy them anymore. At that price, I'd rather eat at a restaurant.

Nichirei's chilled Chinese noodles.

Supermarkets sometimes have days where frozen foods are on sale, don't they?
The quality was such that I would definitely recommend aiming for one of those days to pick some up for lunch.
As long as you have a microwave, it's convenient and requires no effort even at the office.

I wonder how many times I'll eat chilled Chinese noodles this year.

It was a moment where, having bought these chilled Chinese noodles on a whim, I realized summer is coming again this year.

I'm not exactly a huge fan of chilled Chinese noodles, though.