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[Episode 16: Oyster Sauce Mayo Ramen]

You mustn't touch it.

You're only supposed to flip pork belly twice.

- Give it. I'll grill it. - Sit.

See? In order to work with our writer, there's only one thing to beware of.

If you're not good at grilling meat, you'll get scolded very harshly.

Also, I'm very sensitive when my stomach's empty.

So, let's talk about work after you give me something to eat first.

Yes. Please take good care of me from now on.

It seems that Yoo Mi, who's a comic writer

will be releasing a comic that was being published serially as a webtoon

as a book.

She came with the workers from the publishing company.

Apparently, the man is a senior

and the woman is a new employee, who was put in charge of Yoo Mi.

But her order was quite unique.

She asked me to cook ramen with kelp in it.

After pouring out the water so that only about half a cup was left

I was told to put in three large spoonfuls of oyster sauce

and only half of the ramen soup base.

Then, after boiling it down so that it mixes together well

I was told to put mayonnaise and hot peppers on top.

Here. I tried making it according to what you ordered

but I'm not sure how it is.

What is this?

This is what you call oyster sauce mayo ramen.

Try eating it together with the mayonnaise and hot peppers.

You can just eat it like that, without mixing it all together?

Yes.

Let's see.

I'll try eating it.

There's a lot.

- Will I be able to eat it all at once? - Of course.

It seems kind of like Chinese stir-fried noodles

and kind of like Japanese pancakes.

But the hot peppers are spicy

so they leave you with a spicy aftertaste.

Right?

- Try eating it too, Tae Soo. - No, I don't like things that taste oily.

It doesn't taste oily at all. Try eating it first.

Then, I'll try eating it once to be polite.

This tastes good.

This is a taste that calls for beer.

That's a relief.

As expected of a young person.

This is exactly what you call a fusion dish.

I really like you, Mi Kyung.

Jeez, I know a dish like that too.

You have spicy mixed noodles, right? The one with ramen noodles?

- Yeah. - Please cook one for me.

Okay.

I could easily make spicy mixed noodles with regular noodles for them.

I thought that it was a feast of fusion dishes using ramen for everyone.

Here's the spicy mixed ramen.

Okay, thank you.

I mean, there's nothing special to fusion dishes.

If you add what you have to what you have, then that's a fusion dish.

It's only that?

What do you mean, 'only'?

This doesn't taste oily, and it's the best appetizer.

Try eating it.

Let's see.

I'll put pork belly on top like this.

It really is.

Right? You know the leftover lettuce after you eat pork belly?

If you wrap this in the lettuce and eat it, it tastes truly amazing.

It really is a fusion dish when you just combine anything together.

If you add familiarity to familiarity, it equals something new.

It made sense for some reason.

They say that seniors are supposed to show affection to their juniors.

I'm bestowing this to you specifically.

Look. It's a big piece.

Try eating it.

- Okay. - It tastes good. Try eating it.

She eats well.

- It tastes good. - It tastes good, right?

That's why my girlfriend likes it a lot too.

This tastes good.

- Eat some more, Yoo Mi. - Okay.

- Mi Kyung, I enjoyed the meal. - Thank you for the meal.

Should we go somewhere else, and have another drink?

I have to go and pick up Seung Yeon. She has a work dinner today.

She's been very drunk since before.

- Okay, say hi to Seung Yeon for me. - Okay.

- I'll be going then. - Okay.

- Please take good care of Mi Kyung. - Okay.

Hey, she has really bad drinking habits.

I'm going. I'll see you tomorrow.

- Bye. - Okay.

Should we have another drink? Let's go have another drink.

Okay.

You just need to have it ready within two or three days.

Don't feel so pressured. It's like that for everyone at first.

It was like that for me too at first.

Okay.

It's okay. Take your time.

You know that video of the cooking process?

Yes.

I was wondering how it would be to make a character product as an extra.

It's not bad.

I went to do a market survey yesterday

and there was something that caught my eye.

- Look. - Okay.

How is it?

- Isn't it unique and cute? - It's so pretty.

- It's nice. - Something about it seems new...

These kinds of things.

They say that you can't hide coughing and love.

She wondered if it was true, but it was as expected.

What? You can't eat pork belly?

No.

It's not that I can't eat it at all.

I can eat it after taking off the fat from the pork belly.

But, it's impolite to do that when I eat together with everyone.

I just don't eat it that much.

You have to eat pork belly with the fat in order for it to taste good.

So you ate it last time because Tae Soo gave it to you.

You knew?

Hey, I may not look like it, but I'm a romance comic writer.

I'm an expert in that area.

When did you start liking him?

I don't know. I think I just...

got a good vibe from him from the beginning.

He probably isn't like that only to me

but he teaches me things that I don't know kindly and well.

But, I think it was probably starting from then.

[Steamed corn. Three for 2,000 won.]

Hey, do you want to eat corn?

- No, I'm okay. - Is that so?

I'm going to have to buy some.

Tae Soo, do you like corn?

No, I just thought of my grandmother who's at home.

Hello, ma'am.

They're glutinous corn from Gangwondo, so they taste good.

- It's three for 2,000 won? - Yes.

Please give me all of this. I have a lot of family members at home.

- All of this? - Yes.

At that time...

I thought he was quite a warm person.

You fell for him just because of that?

Could there be a reason for a person liking another person?

Of course, I acknowledge that Tae Soo is a good person.

But that was probably appealing to you because you originally liked him.

That could be true.

You're aware that Tae Soo has a girlfriend, right?

Yes.

What are you going to do?

Please give us some liquor.

Well, some people say that just because there's a goalkeeper

it doesn't mean that you can't score a goal.

But as someone who knows them, I don't think I can cheer you on.

I know.

In their relationship, Tae Soo likes his girlfriend way more.

They've been dating for six years now.

They're dating because Tae Soo chased her around a lot for two years.

What kind of person is she?

Well, she's pretty, capable, and smart.

In other words, she has all of the qualities.

But, it doesn't seem like she likes Tae Soo that much.

She doesn't call him very often.

Tae Soo said that he feels like she lets him be too free.

That's just her personality.

If he didn't like that, they would've already broken up.

There's nothing tougher than unrequited love in this world.

Get your feelings under control properly, before they get deeper.

But, because unrequited love is something that's done alone

it's harder to stop it.

You're curious about everything related to the person by yourself.

[To: Senior Tae Soo. I miss you.]

Tae Soo, there's something I don't really know about.

If you're not sleeping, can I give you a call?

You always linger around the person by yourself

and try hard to find excuses to call them.

- You're writing that contract? - Yes, I am now.

That's good.

- You're working hard. - Yes.

Hey, hey.

Men are supposed to carry these kinds of things.

Jeez, they don't have any manners.

This is heavy even for a guy.

Why is a woman carrying it?

You give meaning to everything that he says and does by yourself.

She's calling when I'm so busy.

What's gotten into you that you'd call me first, my lady?

Yeah, I'm working.

Yeah.

The place where we always meet?

If my honey tells me to come out, I can leave work early

and go out right away even now.

You also feel hurt by yourself.

- I can try a sample, right? - Yes, you can try a sample.

Please give me beef, pork that was grilled just now

and ones that are packaged separately in a box.

- Tae Soo. - What is this?

It's to thank you for helping me with the market survey.

Hey, isn't this beef jerky?

Why did you get me something like this?

It tastes good even if you heat it slightly.

Thanks. Thanks so much.

Our Seung Yeon loves this.

She'll be so happy if she sees this.

I'll enjoy it. Thanks.

Okay.

This is famous.

On days like that, she comes to the restaurant alone.

She cast aside a countless number of things that she just couldn't say to him.

You know, I'm sure that's not a good sound.

But, why does something about it feel so refreshing?

As if a weight has been lifted off your chest?

Yeah, that.

My fingers are twitching because I want to pop them too.

I know.

But...

I feel like if we say the wrong thing, she might blow up at us.

I'm sorry.

It was very loud, wasn't it?

I'm okay.

I wish I actually didn't know.

They're lovers, so it's obvious they would date.

But, if I don't at least do this

I'll keep wondering about where they are and what they're doing right now

and I feel like that will drive me crazy.

Since unrequited love is still love

I said I'd love without regrets, freely...

and to my heart's content.

But, that wasn't it.

I can't see him to my heart's content...

and I can't even be jealous to my heart's content.

How is that love?

That's true.

After all, they say that love that hurts too much isn't love.

Yes.

So, I'm planning to quit now.

I feel so bad for my heart, which is like this...

that I don't think I can do this anymore.

Hey, why do you always only think about yourself?

Do I even exist in your life?

But, love is quite ironic.

Work, work. Stop using work as an excuse.

You just don't want to get married.

Hello? Hey, Seung Yeon.

Because it allowed hope to sprout in her when she was just about to give up.

Tae Soo, you're going to end up ruining your insides like that.

Stop drinking.

She...

says that she doesn't like marriage and kids.

She says she just wants to live as lovers like this forever

like they do in foreign countries.

Does she think she's Angelina Jolie or something?

She eventually got married too, with Brad Pitt.

I mean...

if you love someone...

isn't it obvious that you would always want to be with that person

and do everything with that person?

It is.

You miss that person, even when you're looking at them.

You yearn for that person and cry, even if you're next to them.

Yeah, that's right.

This isn't love.

You... Do you know that?

Love is also power.

It seems like the two people are together.

The person who loves more is always the weaker one...

like me.

Yes, I know that so well.

He's a fool, right?

There's someone who's only looking at him like that.

How can he not know that?

Would he be able to see it when his frequency is already elsewhere?

Hey, Mi Kyung, I'm fine. I'm saying that I'm fine. Let go.

- You're not okay... - Let go.

- What the heck? - I'm sorry.

Let go. Are you looking down on me right now?

- What's your problem? - Please don't misunderstand.

No, no.

Get up.

Sit here.

Tae Soo.

Don't love that woman.

Something that's unhappy like that isn't love, Tae Soo.

But, she couldn't confess in the end.

Instead...

just as she always had

she expressed her love in a consistent way.

What brings you here on a Sunday?

You've been coming in on weekends and working lately.

I'm going to help out a bit.

You don't have to.

I don't have much to do anymore, so I come in on weekends.

But, you should go out and date.

That's not something you do alone.

It seems tasty.

I'll enjoy it.

- Eat. Let's eat. - Okay.

- Is it okay? - Yeah.

It tastes very good.

- Why? - What?

It's nothing.

It's just that it seems like a taste that she would like.

They say that you usually forget love with new love.

It hasn't even been that long since we broke up.

About three months?

People go on blind dates like crazy around then.

You see, this...

is what I think.

You know, even when a person dies

you have the 49th day of passing and three-year memorial service

as a period of mourning.

Shouldn't love have something like that too?

I think that's the etiquette for past love.

As expected of you, Tae Soo.

So she decided to wait more because she honored his past love.

It's cold.

- Hello.

- Hello. - Give me the coat.

A few more months passed like that...

It's so cold.

and it seemed like he had become a bit more comfortable now too.

Yeah.

It tastes good.

Eat. Why aren't you eating?

Tae Soo, I can't eat pork belly.

Is that so?

You ate it last time.

That was my first time.

I ate it because you were giving it to me.

You should've told me.

Why would you eat it against your will just because I gave it to you?

It was against my will.

It was because I like you.

- I like... - Wait a second.

Wait a second. Let me take a call. I wonder who it is.

Hello?

It's me.

- Have you been well? - Seung Yeon?

Hey.

Seung Yeon. Yeah, where?

Yeah, I'll go right now.

Yeah, I'm on my way right now.

Tae Soo.

They met again like that.

They said they're getting married.

After being apart, she actually realized that she really came to love him.

Apparently, Seung Yeon said that.

Goodness, what should we do about Mi Kyung?

What the heck?

This.

To one person, it was a new beginning.

To another person...

it was news that signaled a complete end.

Oyster sauce mayo ramen, please.

Please put on a lot more mayonnaise today.

Then, the whole time...

she spewed out the things that she wasn't able to say to the air.

It was to the point where I got worried that she might...

blow up just like the mermaid who turned into bubbles.

It's finally all over.

Every time I...

ate this...

I felt like the mayonnaise was covering everything...

and patting their heads.

Both the salty soup base...

and the spicy hot peppers.

As it embraces all of them, it would tell them that it's okay.

That everything's okay.

This...

is a gift that I'm giving to myself, since I suffered through a lot.

Every time I...

saw pork belly...

spicy noodles would come to mind...

and I would think of Tae Soo.

But would Tae Soo...

even remember that there was something like this?

I'm sure that he'll recall it vaguely some day too.

Perhaps, we may all be

a memory to someone that they recall when they see a certain food.

Just like he is to her, a woman who just finished...

having a heartache alone.

I'm going first. It's killing me.

I'm getting drunk.

I salute to the nation.

I pledge allegiance to you, who has forgotten the night.

Let's go.

It's dark already.

Why? Are you scared?

I will be your knight in shining armor. Let us go.

Quack.

I have to stop coming to the late-night restaurant.

I gain too much weight.

I'll see you at the wedding.

Tae Soo.

- Cherry. - Yoo Mi.

Bye.

Then, are you going to go to the bathhouse right now?

- Of course I'm going. - Why would you wash every day?

- Whatever. - Then, I'm going to go too.

Cheers.

- Ong Shim. - Ong Shim.

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