Chapter 49

Chapter 49

Strangely Annoying

Hand-pulled noodles.

Myeondosa was shocked at the unexpected appearance.

Immediately he directed the cam toward the kitchen.

Taaang!

Jjaak!

Chalssak!

Flour dough dancing on the wooden work board.

The noodles the middle-aged man creates held tremendous elasticity even to the eyes.

Rough but overflowing with vitality such real hand-pulled noodles.

Myeondosa seeing that appearance got excited.

“Wow··· everyone, do you see that?”

Jin Myeong Gak’s cooking was perfect, but the limit of machine noodles always remained as regret.

Especially in an era where hand-pulled technicians became rare like these days, he never imagined seeing such skilled hand-pulled noodles at a neighborhood Chinese restaurant.

“Moreover that uncle, the form is unusual!”

At Myeondosa’s relay the live chat window also began heating like crazy.

-Heol crazy, hand-pulled noodles??

-Wow that uncle’s power beating the dough is no joke.

-These days even going to decent high-grade Chinese restaurants use machine noodles, pulling that by hand?

-Can hand-pulled noodles handle at a place where customers flock like that?

-So 5,000 won rose! If hand-pulled noodles thinking labor cost fully acknowledge!

Only then people began to accept the reason for the 5,000 won increase.

But there were still those raising dissatisfaction.

-Aei, even if hand-pulled neighborhood jajangmyeon being 18,000 won is too much.

-Right. Have to be delicious but jajangmyeon, raising 5,000 won is a bit exceeding the line.

-Honestly no guarantee hand-pulled noodles are more delicious?

-Right. Went saying hand-pulled noodles, didn’t feel particularly better than machine noodles. Rather noodle thickness not constant either, taste a bit.. like that.

Just when pros and cons were unfolding in the chat window.

Tak.

“Jajangmyeon is out!”

Bong-gu put down two bowls of jajangmyeon on Antoine and Sophie’s table.

“Oh!”

Excited Antoine put his nose close to the bowl and deeply inhaled the aroma, then closed both eyes and made an ecstatic expression.

Seuk seuk.

Then Antoine who busily mixed the noodles largely picked up and pushed into his mouth.

Umul.

“······!!!”

In an instant, his two eyes widened as if they would pop out.

Completely different from the previous machine noodles, the crazy texture of hand-pulled noodles chewy wrapping the palate!

“Oh, mon dieu (oh my god)!! C’est incroyable (unbelievable)!!”

Antoine half lifted his butt from the seat, and began pouring exclamations waving both arms.

Anyone could see the sticky reaction of a person who lost reason at the crazy taste.

Myeondosa watching that appearance stuck out his tongue.

“Wow, you all might not see, but Antoine chef, the reaction is no joke?”

-Show. Let’s see what the reaction is like.

-Yeah. Relaying looking alone?

“Sorry, didn’t receive permission earlier.”

At that time.

Tak.

“Jajangmyeon double is out!”

Bong-gu put down the bowl in front of Myeondosa too.

On Myeondosa’s broadcast from some point double had become the basic option as if natural.

“Okay! Finally my share is out! Jin Myeong Gak’s jajangmyeon changed from machine noodles to hand-pulled noodles, I’ll directly confirm whether it has the value of 5,000 won!”

-Of course for hyung it will have value beyond 5,000 won ㅋㅋㅋ

-To begin with Myeondosa hyung was accepting that price even when not hand-pulled ㅋㅋㅋ

-Now rather than that kind of thing, only expecting how much he’ll be surprised ㅋㅋㅋ

“I am always cold.”

-Of course.ㅋㅋㅋ

-Who believes???ㅋㅋㅋ

Myeondosa who clicked his tongue seeing the comments soon lifted the chopsticks with a solemn face and mixed the noodles with seuk seuk.

“The sound when mixing seems a bit different from before?”

-Again again exaggerating. Just eat quickly.

-What would the sound be different?ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

On the unique bumpy surface of hand-pulled noodles the sticky chunjang sauce was stuck tightly without gaps.

Myeondosa largely picked the noodles and shoved them into his mouth.

Ujeok ujeok.

“······!!!”

At that moment.

The comments of viewers watching beyond the screen began covering the chat window like crazy.

-Look at the expression hardening. Seems will do some crazy reaction again ㅋㅋㅋ

-Eyes will pop out ㅋㅋㅋ what taste on earth!

-Truth’s brow activation!!!!!ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-Look at holding breath ㅋㅋㅋ dragon belch launch angle.

Goosebumps rose all over Myeondosa’s body who stopped chewing.

“Eh, eok...!”

Words didn’t come out.

The moment the chewy and elastic hand-pulled noodles pleasantly bounced in the mouth, fire taste and umami poured out between the noodle strands.

Even before it was amazingly perfect sauce, but the machine noodles couldn’t fully support that sauce’s taste 100%.

But now it was different.

When hand-pulled noodles and sauce met, they raised each other’s advantages to the extreme and formed perfect unity.

“Hururururuk!! Tseup tseup!!”

Myeondosa began sucking the noodles like crazy.

-Crazy! Hyung! Breathe and eat!!!ㅋㅋㅋ

-No, what vacuum cleaner??? Not eating but being sucked in.

He who sucked half instantly said in an excited voice looking at the camera.

“Everyone!! This is crazy!! Delicious before too, but now completely different dimension!!”

Myeondosa poured extreme praise.

“I assert, there will absolutely, never! be jajangmyeon more delicious than here in Korea! This is really crazy taste!!”

At that moment, the chat window also heated like crazy.

-Wow ㅋㅋㅋ 5,000 won increase controversy concluded in 1 minute ㅋㅋㅋ

-Seems said similar words before too...ㅋㅋㅋ

-Ah shit, dieting but saliva gathering to the point of going crazy. ㅠㅠ have to boil even jja*getti right now or can’t.

-That hyung losing reason and eating like that is completely real tension that is.

-Hand-pulled noodles hard carry crazy. Miracle of 18,000 won looking like a bargain ㅋㅋㅋ

-Eating sound really...ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

“I’ll continue eating!”

Just when saying that and Myeondosa was sucking the jajangmyeon.

“···Oh?”

Antoine who was eating jajangmyeon at the next table was carefully watching Myeondosa’s noisy reaction.

Then soon made a satisfied smile and lifted his own jajangmyeon bowl with a flash and stood up.

“Che, chef?”

Sophie called flustered but Antoine approached with large strides and plopped down opposite Myeondosa’s table.

“Bon! Tres bon! You, properly know the taste!”

At Antoine’s sudden joining the table Myeondosa who was slurping jajangmyeon choked and coughed.

“Kek! Ah, Antoine chef?!”

Sophie who followed let out a sigh and interpreted to Myeondosa.

“Chef saw your reaction, and requested joining the table saying a person who properly knows the taste.”

“Yes?! Wow, jackpot!! Honor, chef!!”

Myeondosa stood up from his seat with a beolteok and bowed deeply.

Collaboration of jajangmyeon with the world-class master of Michelin 3-star.

Where would there be more tremendous content as a YouTuber than this.

The simultaneous viewers of the live broadcast literally began exploding like crazy.

At that time.

A huge shadow loitering around the broadcast camera entered the frame with a seuk.

It was Bong-gu.

“Keuheum! Our Jin Myeong Gak jajangmyeon is a bit amazing right.”

Bong-gu subtly occupied the center of the camera angle and intervened good-naturedly.

“Ah! Large employee!”

When Myeondosa welcomed gladly, Bong-gu alternately looked at Antoine and the camera with a boasting expression and began listing boasts.

“That hand-pulled noodle technician who newly entered this time. A person our chef hyung directly scouted!”

“Really?”

When Myeondosa asked surprised, Bong-gu shrugged his shoulders and added.

“Yes! Our hyung’s eye is not ordinary. There was all this reason for the 5,000 won increase this time!”

When Bong-gu’s confident and good-natured boasting was broadcast as is on the real-time live broadcast, the chat window literally heated explosively.

-Wow ㅋㅋㅋ that large hyung came out again!

-Hyung’s impression is completely gangster action leader but speaking is chef’s malignant fan real fan ㅋㅋㅋ gap moe crazy really ㅋㅋㅋ

-Look at the proud expression ㅋㅋㅋ why so likable ㅋㅋㅋ

-Speaks fucking well ㅋㅋㅋ look at the class of perfectly concluding the 5,000 won increase controversy in 10 seconds!

-That hyung is Jin Myeong Gak’s real PR ambassador. Seeing speaking want to go and eat right now.

-I sincerely go to Jin Myeong Gak to see that large hyung ㅋㅋㅋ eat jajangmyeon too and unconditionally take selfie with hyung and come!

Viewers were perfectly captivated by the unexpected charm opposite to the sturdy build and fierce impression.

Bong-gu who had no way of knowing this tremendous reaction pouring in real time was continuously making a fuss, and the parents watching that appearance from the counter side couldn’t hold laughter.

“Aiyu, Bong-gu young man really was born with one good-natured.”

“Right. Our restaurant PR director, PR director.”

***

Dawn.

One team member of the construction site who was staying at the shabby temporary lodging dragged slippers and walked out.

“Uuk···.”

The man dry heaved and held his stomach.

Because of the drinking party the team members held until late yesterday pouring and drinking.

He was walking staggeringly toward the nearby convenience store intending to buy even a hangover relief drink to soothe the burning stomach.

Seuk seuk, ssak ssak.

Dark alley, the sound of a broom diligently sweeping the floor was heard from somewhere.

The man unconsciously turned his gaze.

And discovered the appearance of one man silently doing broom work there and stopped his steps.

“Eh?”

A silhouette somehow familiar to the eyes.

The man narrowed his brow and approached a bit closer.

Then confirmed the face and was surprised.

“Eh? Mr. Kang uncle?”

Then Mr. Kang who was sweeping the floor stopped the broom and turned his head.

“Huh?”

The man who met eyes with Mr. Kang was surprised for a moment.

It was that Mr. Kang who was kicked out of the team a while ago.

But in just a few days the person had completely changed.

Unlike the appearance that always looked intimidated usually now what to say, a feeling of considerably overflowing with vitality?

Moreover even appearance as if became younger by ten years.

‘What? Is it the same person···?’

The man blinked his eyes thinking he was seeing hallucinations because the alcohol hadn’t fully woken yet.

Mr. Kang watching such appearance opened his mouth first.

“Already going to work?”

“No. Today is a rest day.”

“Ah.”

Mr. Kang nodded short and began moving the broom indifferently again.

At that leisurely and peaceful attitude the man felt his mood twisting strangely.

“...”

The man spat out in a tone pretending to sneer.

“Working here?”

“Yeah.”

“Wow, still found a job well.”

Words with thorns scratching openly.

But Mr. Kang didn’t even stop the broom work, and only made a faint smile at the corner of his mouth.

The man rather felt himself becoming embarrassed.

“······.”

The man shoved the awkward hands into his pockets and made a forced smile.

“Well, anyway turned out well. Later I’ll come to the restaurant to eat once.”

An arrogant greeting as if doing charity.

But Mr. Kang answered calmly sweeping the trash fallen on the floor.

“Yeah. Delicious here.”

“...”

At those words the man couldn’t reply anymore and only twitched his lips then sharply turned his body.

Teodeol teodeol.

The face of the man walking toward the convenience store again was distorted.

He glanced once toward Jin Myeong Gak and nervously kicked a stone on the floor.

“Shit, strangely annoying.”

The man who muttered small with an annoyed expression spat toward the dark alley.

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