***
“Min-ju, let’s go to an amusement park!”
Hyo-Jung said as she linked arms with Min-ju, who was leaving the classroom after her major class.
“An amusement park?”
“My uncle works at Lotte World. He gave me two free passes.”
“Wow, really? When are we going?”
“Today.”
“Today?”
“Uh, the tickets expire today. We’ll ride the Viking until we puke and then go eat donkatsu. I’m paying for everything today.”
Hyo-jung said, making finger guns with an excited look.
Min-ju, who had been excited a moment ago, looked gloomy.
“I can’t. I have to do my homework today.”
“Homework? That mural painting? Do it later. You have time.”
“I can’t postpone it anymore. They said it’s going to rain all next week.”
If it rains, she won’t be able to paint the mural.
The deadline for the homework submission is the week after next, so she has to go paint the mural today to meet the deadline.
“You can do it the week after next. Don’t you know about last-minute cramming? Your true abilities come out when the deadline is near.”
“I can’t. I’m scheduled to work part-time the week after next.”
“Then what about the amusement park?”
“Sorry.”
“Then let’s at least get something to eat. They say the vongole pasta at the new pasta restaurant in front of the school is amazing.”
“It’s too late. I have to work hard if I want to finish it this week.”
“Hing~ Who am I supposed to play with?”
“Sorry.”
Hyo-jung and Min-ju are besties.
They first met at a cram school in middle school and have been together for 7 years, and they even went to the same university. They are the best of friends, but their family backgrounds are a little different.
Hyo-jung’s family is not rich, but they are well-off. However, Min-ju’s family is poor.
She earned her own cram school fees and had to pay for her own college tuition. Moreover, art school requires separate fees for practice and materials, so scholarships and part-time jobs are essential to cover the costs.
Knowing this situation well, Hyo-jung couldn’t do anything but pout her lips.
“Please understand.”
“Ugh, you’re such a killjoy.”
“I’ll play with you next time instead. Hehe.”
“Promise me. You have to!”
Hyo-jung could only watch her friend’s back as she walked away, packing her art supplies with a regretful look.
***
“Oh, this is delicious. It’s so good.”
The cabbage salad, made with a sauce of ketchup, mayonnaise, sugar, and a bit of lemon juice, tasted amazing.
It was a masterpiece, born from the combination of sweet and sour flavors with a hint of lemon.
It was hard to imagine that he had made it himself.
Not only that.
The butter made from goat’s milk brought from the farm was also a success, and the toast made by melting the butter in a pan and topping it with a fried egg was also successful.
“The toast is delicious too. I’ll have to make it for the kids when I get back.”
He thought of the kids who would soon be swarming around her, their mouths smeared with sugar and ketchup, greedily eating the toast.
Hae-jun, who was smiling contentedly, found another recipe that he could make with the ingredients he currently had.
This is because various menus are essential for eating three meals a day.
“This looks good.”
The recipe he found was an egg sandwich.
It is a simple recipe of boiled eggs mashed and mixed with mayonnaise, sugar, and sandwiched between moist bread.
His father’s recipes were simple. They were easy for anyone to follow, and not complicated. Nevertheless, when he made them, they tasted amazing. Perhaps it was because he used ingredients grown on the Dimensional Farm.
He boiled eggs in boiling water.
As he peeled off the shell, a savory aroma rose along with the moist flesh.
Ordinary eggs usually have a strong, unpleasant smell. However, Hae-jun’s eggs are fresh organic eggs laid by chickens that ate the farm’s wheat. There is no unpleasant smell at all.
“I just have to mix this with mayonnaise, salt, and sugar, right?”
The rich, sweet, and melt-in-your-mouth filling was quickly completed.
He cut the bread into neat squares, spread the yellow filling generously, and covered it.
He had just eaten two pieces of toast, but his mouth was already watering again. Anyway, there was no one here to eat it except Hae-jun. He opened his mouth wide and stuffed the freshly made sandwich in.
Crunch, crunch-
“!!??···”
The rich and sweet flavor filled his mouth.
It was as soft as pudding, gently enveloping the space between his teeth.
He took a big bite of the sandwich until his cheeks were full and took a sip of fresh goat’s milk.
The richness added to the richness, creating a fantastic taste.
It was delicious.
It was so delicious that he could eat two of them without even noticing.
One bite, two bites, three bites.
The sandwich, which left only egg crumbs on his fingers, disappeared without a trace. He sucked on his fingers regretfully.
Hae-jun, who was contemplating for a moment, started making another sandwich and began to eat it voraciously.
As he ate like that, he ended up eating a whole loaf of bread.
“I ate it all.”
He needed more bread to do his cooking research.
He ate it all because he was hooked on the taste of the egg sandwich. But that’s enough for now.
Hae-jun had high-quality flour and natural yeast from the Dimensional Farm.
***
Min-ju, who had been working on a sketch on the old wall, put down her brush and plopped down on the curb.
She couldn’t focus on her work. The reason was the smell of bread that had been bothering her sense of smell since earlier.
“Ah, I’m hungry.”
For her, who had been engrossed in her work without eating lunch, the smell of baking bread was torture itself.
“Was there a bakery nearby? This is torture. Torture.”
This was a residential area. She looked around, but there was nothing that looked like a bakery.
Min-ju flared her nostrils, searching for the source of the smell.
“The smell is killing me. It must be really delicious. Ah~ I should have gotten some pasta.”
The pasta that Hyo-jung said she would buy flashed before her eyes.
Just then, the tightly closed door of the restaurant behind her suddenly opened, and Hae-jun, who had lent her the wall to paint the mural, appeared.
“Oppa. Were you here? I thought no one was here because the door was closed.”
“It’s Min-ju. Long time no see.”
“Huh? Long time no see. We saw each other the day before yesterday.”
“Ha. Ha. Did we?”
In reality, only two days had passed, but more than a week had passed on the farm.
Going back and forth between the farm and reality made her sense of time collapse. There were advantages to having more time alone, but there were inconveniences in this regard.
‘Well, at least I’m glad I have more time.’
“But where did you go to play in the meantime?”
Min-ju asked, staring intently at Hae-jun’s face and body.
“No. Why are you asking that all of a sudden?”
“Because your skin looks a bit tanned. When I saw you last time, your skin was pale like Dracula’s, but today it feels a bit···.”
“Feels?”
“You have a healthy tan. Should I say it’s bronze? You look really healthy.”
At Min-ju’s words, Hae-jun looked down at his arm.
After working on the farm, he had gained some muscles and his skin had tanned to a nice degree.
“Oh~ You even have some muscles on your biceps. Did you start working out?”
Min-ju smiled broadly and naturally touched his biceps.
He was quite embarrassed by the sudden skinship.
“Uh? Ah··· Uh. Just home training.”
In fact, it wasn’t home training, but muscles that he had gained from working on the farm, but he decided to beat around the bush.
Min-ju, who was nodding her head with a bright smile, frowned slightly. This was because the alluring smell of bread that had filled the alley had become even stronger.
“Sniff, sniff?··· But where is that incredibly delicious smell coming from?”
“Ah, I baked some bread.”
“Bread? You? Didn’t you say you can’t cook? That’s why you don’t do business.”
“It’s just. I made it for myself.”
Gurgle-
Min-ju’s cheeks turned red at the embarrassing sound.
“Are you hungry?”
“Hehe. Yes. I came straight from school, so I didn’t have a proper meal.”
“You should eat before you go.”
He remembered the sandwich that Min-ju had given him a few days ago when he was trying to make do with a cup of ramen.
It wasn’t much to give in return, but he wanted to repay her somehow.
“Want some bread?”
“Really?”
“Uh. Come in.”
Min-ju followed Hae-jun across the yard and into the store.
It looked like a very old store from the outside, but the interior was surprisingly neat.
There were antique props and well-worn furniture. It was an interior that somehow made her feel at ease.
“Wow~ This place is totally hip. It has a strong old-fashioned vibe.”
“It’s just an old restaurant.”
“Retro is trendy these days. There are quite a few of these antique Western restaurants in Yeonnam-dong.”
“Is that so? I don’t know much about that. Anyway, sit over there and wait. I’ll bring the bread.”
Hae-jun sat Min-ju down at a window seat with a good view and went into the kitchen.
He brought out an egg sandwich made with goat’s milk and freshly baked bread from the farm, and a cabbage salad in a white ceramic dish.
“Oh~! It totally has the vibe.”
Min-ju, who received the food, made her eyes and lips round in admiration.
She had thought so since their first meeting, but she was the type whose emotions were clearly expressed on her face.
“I don’t know if it’ll suit your taste.”
“Hehe. I think it’s going to be really delicious.”
Min-ju, who said she was hungry, took out her phone before eating the food.
She diligently took pictures of the neatly wrapped sandwich and even took a selfie with the window in the background.
“It’s a sin to take pictures of food like this and not eat it. And like I said, I have 3,000 followers on Instagram.”
“Is that a lot?”
“Of course. It’s huge if you have more than 1,000 followers.”
He didn’t know much about Instagram or Facebook.
However, he had been using YouTube a bit to learn about cooking and farming methods these days.
“Should we follow each other while we’re at it? What’s your account, oppa?”
“Account? I don’t have one. I’m not interested in that kind of thing.”
“Wow, seriously. You’re like a total old man.”
“You said you were hungry, so eat quickly.”
“Oh, right. Hehe. I’ll eat well, oppa.”
Min-ju, who had thanked him, picked up a sandwich and put it in her mouth.
Munch, munch-
Her eyes, which had been darting around, widened.
“Whew! It’s really delicious. The bread is so moist. The filling is soft and delicious. Oppa. Are you a patissier or something? How do you make it so delicious?”
Hae-jun smiled faintly at her enthusiastic reaction.
“Is it delicious? I’m glad.”
“It’s not just delicious. My friend loves to eat, so I followed her around and ate a lot, but this is really one of the best.”
She exclaimed with every bite. Then, she stared at the sandwich with an expression of wonder, wondering how it could taste like this, and took another bite in disbelief.
Hae-jun, who saw her reaction, felt excited.
In fact, he had a crappy palate that thought everything tasted good, and Chloe was clearly a life form from another dimension, so he couldn’t trust her taste buds. Moreover, the Dimensional Farm didn’t have any chemical seasonings or sweeteners.
“Oh my, the milk is also really delicious.”
“It’s not milk, it’s goat’s milk.”
“Goat’s milk? Goat’s milk? I saw it on a variety show. Ah, so goat’s milk tastes like this. It’s very rich and has a clean aftertaste.”
Min-ju looked up at the cup as if it was a novelty.
She thought it was a good thing she didn’t follow Hyo-jung.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been able to taste such a delicious sandwich and goat’s milk.
“How did you make this?”
“How did I make it? I just boiled eggs, mixed them with mayonnaise, and spread them on bread.”
“But why is it so delicious?”
“Is it that delicious?”
“Yes. It’s on a completely different level.”
At the words ‘a completely different level’, Hae-jun felt a twinge of awkwardness and smiled awkwardly.
Even in the midst of this, Min-ju continued to praise the sandwich.
“I think you can sell this for money.”
“Who would buy it for money?”
“They’ll definitely buy it. There’s Mokdong Station in front of here, right? There’s a grandma who sells gimbap there every morning at 7 o’clock. To be honest, her gimbap is just okay, but it sells out in an hour. If you sell this, it’ll be gone in 10 minutes.”
“R, really?···”
“Of course!”
Min-ju replied in a confident voice.
***
“Min-ju, let’s go to an amusement park!”
Hyo-Jung said as she linked arms with Min-ju, who was leaving the classroom after her major class.
“An amusement park?”
“My uncle works at Lotte World. He gave me two free passes.”
“Wow, really? When are we going?”
“Today.”
“Today?”
“Uh, the tickets expire today. We’ll ride the Viking until we puke and then go eat donkatsu. I’m paying for everything today.”
Hyo-jung said, making finger guns with an excited look.
Min-ju, who had been excited a moment ago, looked gloomy.
“I can’t. I have to do my homework today.”
“Homework? That mural painting? Do it later. You have time.”
“I can’t postpone it anymore. They said it’s going to rain all next week.”
If it rains, she won’t be able to paint the mural.
The deadline for the homework submission is the week after next, so she has to go paint the mural today to meet the deadline.
“You can do it the week after next. Don’t you know about last-minute cramming? Your true abilities come out when the deadline is near.”
“I can’t. I’m scheduled to work part-time the week after next.”
“Then what about the amusement park?”
“Sorry.”
“Then let’s at least get something to eat. They say the vongole pasta at the new pasta restaurant in front of the school is amazing.”
“It’s too late. I have to work hard if I want to finish it this week.”
“Hing~ Who am I supposed to play with?”
“Sorry.”
Hyo-jung and Min-ju are besties.
They first met at a cram school in middle school and have been together for 7 years, and they even went to the same university. They are the best of friends, but their family backgrounds are a little different.
Hyo-jung’s family is not rich, but they are well-off. However, Min-ju’s family is poor.
She earned her own cram school fees and had to pay for her own college tuition. Moreover, art school requires separate fees for practice and materials, so scholarships and part-time jobs are essential to cover the costs.
Knowing this situation well, Hyo-jung couldn’t do anything but pout her lips.
“Please understand.”
“Ugh, you’re such a killjoy.”
“I’ll play with you next time instead. Hehe.”
“Promise me. You have to!”
Hyo-jung could only watch her friend’s back as she walked away, packing her art supplies with a regretful look.
***
“Oh, this is delicious. It’s so good.”
The cabbage salad, made with a sauce of ketchup, mayonnaise, sugar, and a bit of lemon juice, tasted amazing.
It was a masterpiece, born from the combination of sweet and sour flavors with a hint of lemon.
It was hard to imagine that he had made it himself.
Not only that.
The butter made from goat’s milk brought from the farm was also a success, and the toast made by melting the butter in a pan and topping it with a fried egg was also successful.
“The toast is delicious too. I’ll have to make it for the kids when I get back.”
He thought of the kids who would soon be swarming around her, their mouths smeared with sugar and ketchup, greedily eating the toast.
Hae-jun, who was smiling contentedly, found another recipe that he could make with the ingredients he currently had.
This is because various menus are essential for eating three meals a day.
“This looks good.”
The recipe he found was an egg sandwich.
It is a simple recipe of boiled eggs mashed and mixed with mayonnaise, sugar, and sandwiched between moist bread.
His father’s recipes were simple. They were easy for anyone to follow, and not complicated. Nevertheless, when he made them, they tasted amazing. Perhaps it was because he used ingredients grown on the Dimensional Farm.
He boiled eggs in boiling water.
As he peeled off the shell, a savory aroma rose along with the moist flesh.
Ordinary eggs usually have a strong, unpleasant smell. However, Hae-jun’s eggs are fresh organic eggs laid by chickens that ate the farm’s wheat. There is no unpleasant smell at all.
“I just have to mix this with mayonnaise, salt, and sugar, right?”
The rich, sweet, and melt-in-your-mouth filling was quickly completed.
He cut the bread into neat squares, spread the yellow filling generously, and covered it.
He had just eaten two pieces of toast, but his mouth was already watering again. Anyway, there was no one here to eat it except Hae-jun. He opened his mouth wide and stuffed the freshly made sandwich in.
Crunch, crunch-
“!!??···”
The rich and sweet flavor filled his mouth.
It was as soft as pudding, gently enveloping the space between his teeth.
He took a big bite of the sandwich until his cheeks were full and took a sip of fresh goat’s milk.
The richness added to the richness, creating a fantastic taste.
It was delicious.
It was so delicious that he could eat two of them without even noticing.
One bite, two bites, three bites.
The sandwich, which left only egg crumbs on his fingers, disappeared without a trace. He sucked on his fingers regretfully.
Hae-jun, who was contemplating for a moment, started making another sandwich and began to eat it voraciously.
As he ate like that, he ended up eating a whole loaf of bread.
“I ate it all.”
He needed more bread to do his cooking research.
He ate it all because he was hooked on the taste of the egg sandwich. But that’s enough for now.
Hae-jun had high-quality flour and natural yeast from the Dimensional Farm.
***
Min-ju, who had been working on a sketch on the old wall, put down her brush and plopped down on the curb.
She couldn’t focus on her work. The reason was the smell of bread that had been bothering her sense of smell since earlier.
“Ah, I’m hungry.”
For her, who had been engrossed in her work without eating lunch, the smell of baking bread was torture itself.
“Was there a bakery nearby? This is torture. Torture.”
This was a residential area. She looked around, but there was nothing that looked like a bakery.
Min-ju flared her nostrils, searching for the source of the smell.
“The smell is killing me. It must be really delicious. Ah~ I should have gotten some pasta.”
The pasta that Hyo-jung said she would buy flashed before her eyes.
Just then, the tightly closed door of the restaurant behind her suddenly opened, and Hae-jun, who had lent her the wall to paint the mural, appeared.
“Oppa. Were you here? I thought no one was here because the door was closed.”
“It’s Min-ju. Long time no see.”
“Huh? Long time no see. We saw each other the day before yesterday.”
“Ha. Ha. Did we?”
In reality, only two days had passed, but more than a week had passed on the farm.
Going back and forth between the farm and reality made her sense of time collapse. There were advantages to having more time alone, but there were inconveniences in this regard.
‘Well, at least I’m glad I have more time.’
“But where did you go to play in the meantime?”
Min-ju asked, staring intently at Hae-jun’s face and body.
“No. Why are you asking that all of a sudden?”
“Because your skin looks a bit tanned. When I saw you last time, your skin was pale like Dracula’s, but today it feels a bit···.”
“Feels?”
“You have a healthy tan. Should I say it’s bronze? You look really healthy.”
At Min-ju’s words, Hae-jun looked down at his arm.
After working on the farm, he had gained some muscles and his skin had tanned to a nice degree.
“Oh~ You even have some muscles on your biceps. Did you start working out?”
Min-ju smiled broadly and naturally touched his biceps.
He was quite embarrassed by the sudden skinship.
“Uh? Ah··· Uh. Just home training.”
In fact, it wasn’t home training, but muscles that he had gained from working on the farm, but he decided to beat around the bush.
Min-ju, who was nodding her head with a bright smile, frowned slightly. This was because the alluring smell of bread that had filled the alley had become even stronger.
“Sniff, sniff?··· But where is that incredibly delicious smell coming from?”
“Ah, I baked some bread.”
“Bread? You? Didn’t you say you can’t cook? That’s why you don’t do business.”
“It’s just. I made it for myself.”
Gurgle-
Min-ju’s cheeks turned red at the embarrassing sound.
“Are you hungry?”
“Hehe. Yes. I came straight from school, so I didn’t have a proper meal.”
“You should eat before you go.”
He remembered the sandwich that Min-ju had given him a few days ago when he was trying to make do with a cup of ramen.
It wasn’t much to give in return, but he wanted to repay her somehow.
“Want some bread?”
“Really?”
“Uh. Come in.”
Min-ju followed Hae-jun across the yard and into the store.
It looked like a very old store from the outside, but the interior was surprisingly neat.
There were antique props and well-worn furniture. It was an interior that somehow made her feel at ease.
“Wow~ This place is totally hip. It has a strong old-fashioned vibe.”
“It’s just an old restaurant.”
“Retro is trendy these days. There are quite a few of these antique Western restaurants in Yeonnam-dong.”
“Is that so? I don’t know much about that. Anyway, sit over there and wait. I’ll bring the bread.”
Hae-jun sat Min-ju down at a window seat with a good view and went into the kitchen.
He brought out an egg sandwich made with goat’s milk and freshly baked bread from the farm, and a cabbage salad in a white ceramic dish.
“Oh~! It totally has the vibe.”
Min-ju, who received the food, made her eyes and lips round in admiration.
She had thought so since their first meeting, but she was the type whose emotions were clearly expressed on her face.
“I don’t know if it’ll suit your taste.”
“Hehe. I think it’s going to be really delicious.”
Min-ju, who said she was hungry, took out her phone before eating the food.
She diligently took pictures of the neatly wrapped sandwich and even took a selfie with the window in the background.
“It’s a sin to take pictures of food like this and not eat it. And like I said, I have 3,000 followers on Instagram.”
“Is that a lot?”
“Of course. It’s huge if you have more than 1,000 followers.”
He didn’t know much about Instagram or Facebook.
However, he had been using YouTube a bit to learn about cooking and farming methods these days.
“Should we follow each other while we’re at it? What’s your account, oppa?”
“Account? I don’t have one. I’m not interested in that kind of thing.”
“Wow, seriously. You’re like a total old man.”
“You said you were hungry, so eat quickly.”
“Oh, right. Hehe. I’ll eat well, oppa.”
Min-ju, who had thanked him, picked up a sandwich and put it in her mouth.
Munch, munch-
Her eyes, which had been darting around, widened.
“Whew! It’s really delicious. The bread is so moist. The filling is soft and delicious. Oppa. Are you a patissier or something? How do you make it so delicious?”
Hae-jun smiled faintly at her enthusiastic reaction.
“Is it delicious? I’m glad.”
“It’s not just delicious. My friend loves to eat, so I followed her around and ate a lot, but this is really one of the best.”
She exclaimed with every bite. Then, she stared at the sandwich with an expression of wonder, wondering how it could taste like this, and took another bite in disbelief.
Hae-jun, who saw her reaction, felt excited.
In fact, he had a crappy palate that thought everything tasted good, and Chloe was clearly a life form from another dimension, so he couldn’t trust her taste buds. Moreover, the Dimensional Farm didn’t have any chemical seasonings or sweeteners.
“Oh my, the milk is also really delicious.”
“It’s not milk, it’s goat’s milk.”
“Goat’s milk? Goat’s milk? I saw it on a variety show. Ah, so goat’s milk tastes like this. It’s very rich and has a clean aftertaste.”
Min-ju looked up at the cup as if it was a novelty.
She thought it was a good thing she didn’t follow Hyo-jung.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been able to taste such a delicious sandwich and goat’s milk.
“How did you make this?”
“How did I make it? I just boiled eggs, mixed them with mayonnaise, and spread them on bread.”
“But why is it so delicious?”
“Is it that delicious?”
“Yes. It’s on a completely different level.”
At the words ‘a completely different level’, Hae-jun felt a twinge of awkwardness and smiled awkwardly.
Even in the midst of this, Min-ju continued to praise the sandwich.
“I think you can sell this for money.”
“Who would buy it for money?”
“They’ll definitely buy it. There’s Mokdong Station in front of here, right? There’s a grandma who sells gimbap there every morning at 7 o’clock. To be honest, her gimbap is just okay, but it sells out in an hour. If you sell this, it’ll be gone in 10 minutes.”
“R, really?···”
“Of course!”
Min-ju replied in a confident voice.
