Living Frugally & Cooking With Leftovers in Japan 🇯🇵 | A Simple Day That Felt Like Enough

Hi! I'm Tuma, a Japanese woman living in Tohoku, Japan. Enjoying the solo life. 🇯🇵 A weekly grocery run in early autumn — persimmons, sweet potatoes, autumn eggplants. Back home, I turned the last of my summer somen into a warm hot-and-sour soup. It felt like my own quiet goodbye to summer. 🍂 I walked home in the rain, made something warm, and that was enough for today. I hope you enjoy a quiet, rainy autumn day in Tohoku with me. ───────────────────── ▶ RECIPE ───────────────────── 🍜 Hot-and-Sour Somen Soup Ingredients (1 serving) ・Somen noodles — 1 serving ・Water — 300ml ・Chicken stock powder — 1 tsp ・Soy sauce — 1 tsp ・Imitation crab sticks — as needed, shredded ・Enoki mushrooms — as needed, shredded ・Potato starch — 1 tbsp, mixed with a little water ・Egg — 1, beaten ・Vinegar — 1 tsp ・Chili oil — to taste Topping: ・Garlic chives — as needed, chopped Instructions ① Add water, chicken stock powder, and soy sauce to a small pot. ② Add shredded imitation crab and enoki, and simmer. ③ Chop the garlic chives for the topping. ④ Once boiling, add the potato starch slurry to thicken the soup. ⑤ Pour the beaten egg into the boiling soup to make it fluffy. ⑥ Turn off the heat, then add vinegar and chili oil. ⑦ Boil the somen noodles and drain. ⑧ Pour the soup over the somen and top with garlic chives. ───────────────────── 🎬 Quiet daily life of a solo woman living in rural Tohoku, Japan. ───────────────────── #livingalone #japanvlog #Tohoku #ruralJapan #dailylifeinjapan #somen #japanesefood #japanfood #autumninjapan #japanesegrocery #groceryhaul #japaneserecipe #simplelife #japandailylife #frugalliving Your support helps me keep sharing good food and simple moments ☕️ Thank you always 🤍 🍙 https://buymeacoffee.com/Tumadaily