***
“Ugh…”
After briefly losing consciousness from the fall, Hae-jun groaned and opened his eyes.
Luckily, he fell about 3 meters and his body got caught on a flat rock, preventing him from falling further down. He moved his arms and legs to check, and it seemed like nothing was broken or sprained. After checking his condition, Hae-jun got up and brushed off the dirt.
He put the grapes he had risked his life to save into his bag and looked up.
A rope was hanging at a distance that seemed reachable with a high jump.
“Whew, that was close.”
Hae-jun, who had finished assessing the situation, took a deep breath and caught his breath. It was a situation where things could have gone terribly wrong. His legs gave out and he sat down, leaning against a rock.
“Meow~!”
Mongchi jumped down from a protruding rock and licked the back of Hae-jun’s hand.
“Yeah. You’re okay. Were you worried?”
“Meow.”
“I was surprised too. I thought I’d be stuck here for ten years.”
“Meow~.”
He stroked Mongchi’s head, who was worried about him.
Just by gently petting him, he felt at ease.
As he was calming his startled heart and reaching for his butt to get up,
“Huh? What’s this?”
He touched a transparent, apricot-colored stone.
A transparent stone that stood out like a flower among the ocher and gray rocks.
It looked unique.
“It looks just like a jewel.”
Hae-jun carefully observed the stone that sparkled like a jewel and had a transparent color.
Mongchi, also curious about the stone, approached and licked it.
“Yuck… Meow!”
Mongchi, who made a very sour face, kept hissing at the stone.
“What’s wrong?”
“Meow~!”
“The stone is sour?”
“Meow.”
“The stone is sour… Oh, no way?”
Hae-jun took a piece of the stone crystal and put it on his tongue.
“Ugh, sour.”
The sparkling stone crystal turned out to be a stone that tasted sour. In other words, it was rock salt.
He had seen it once on a documentary. He had learned that there was salt created when seawater trapped underground solidified over a long period of time due to tectonic shifts.
“This is great. Let’s take it.”
He had been worried about the amount of salt in Chloe’s seasoning bag.
Hae-jun dug up several pieces of rock salt and put them in his bag. It felt much heavier than when he had put in the olives and grapes.
‘Let’s not get greedy.’
Since there was rock salt all over the place, he could just come back for it when he needed it.
However, he would have to be more prepared next time.
He couldn’t die after coming to get salt.
***
“Hurry!”
6:26 AM.
It wasn’t a day when she had to go to work early, and her alarm didn’t go off, but So-eun’s eyes opened on their own. There was only one reason. She had to wash up quickly and go out to buy that delicious sandwich.
On the first day, she was the first customer, but when she went around the same time yesterday, about half of them had been sold.
If she was careless, she might not be able to eat it today.
She hurriedly washed up and left the house.
It was still dark before dawn. So-eun, who arrived at Exit 8, found a young man in his 20s loitering around, looking around. She could instinctively tell that he was a customer waiting for Hae-jun’s sandwich.
So-eun went behind him and took a seat. A line naturally formed.
The two of them, who briefly made eye contact, stretched their necks and waited for Hae-jun to appear.
After about 5 minutes,
“Huh? He’s here.”
Hae-jun appeared on the crosswalk across the street, pulling his wagon.
.
.
.
There were two people standing in front of Hae-jun’s spot in front of Exit 8.
Both of them were familiar faces.
‘The employee at the law firm and the customer who couldn’t buy it yesterday. Are they waiting for me?’
As Hae-jun approached, the people who had been stretching their necks greeted him.
“You’re here.”
“Were you waiting for me?”
“Of course. I waited 30 minutes. I really wanted to try it today.”
The male customer who couldn’t buy it yesterday said.
“Haha. I’m sorry. How many would you like?”
“Two sets. I heard that the goat milk you sell here is so rich.”
“Where did you hear that?”
“Here.”
The man showed him his phone.
He was a follower of Min-ju’s Instagram.
“Can I take a picture of you in the background, boss?”
“Oh, yeah.”
The man took a picture of Hae-jun in the background so that the sandwich was clearly visible and uploaded it to his Instagram.
#Finally #MeToo #Let’sSeeTheTaste #Fat #EggSandwich #Excited #Anticipation
Along with these hashtags.
Hae-jun took out the prepared brochure and handed it to the man while he was uploading his Instagram post.
“Here, and this too.”
“What’s this?”
“It’s a map to our store.”
And to the next customer, So-eun.
“Oh, I see. So you came out to promote your business. It’s not just any street vendor’s taste.”
So-eun read the brochure and reacted as if that was the case.
Now her curiosity was satisfied.
“The store is near our office.”
“Yes. It’s the building I inherited. Since it’s close, please come often.”
“Of course. Our lawyer will really like it.”
“Lawyer?”
“Lawyer Kim In-chul, who you saw that time.”
“Ah!…”
He was talking about the lawyer who had handled the inheritance procedure.
“Our lawyer is a huge fan of your sandwiches, Mr. Hae-jun.”
“Is that so. I was going to visit him even if that wasn’t the case.”
“At the office?”
“Yes. I’m planning to remodel the restaurant and open it, but I don’t know anything about the legal stuff.”
“Come by in the afternoon. I’m free today.”
“Okay. I’ll order 2 sets to go?”
“N… No. Make it 3.”
Seeing the man in front of her eating deliciously, So-eun couldn’t hold back her appetite.
She ordered 3 sets, planning to eat one of them right there.
‘I’m sorry, lawyer.’
As soon as she received the sandwich, she opened one of them and put it in her mouth.
Crunch-
“Hmm? It’s even tastier today. What is it, the flavor of the ingredients inside got better.”
She keenly caught the change in taste.
It was a change in taste that came from adding the rock salt he had gotten from the cliff at the Dimensional Farm instead of the commercial salt.
When he added crushed rock salt to the mayonnaise, the savory flavor became richer.
Maybe it was less salty, but she could taste a variety of flavors other than saltiness?
“Is that so? I changed the salt a little.”
“Salt? The taste changed this much just by changing the salt? Are you using some really expensive salt?”
“Haha. Well, something like that.”
Hae-jun dodged the question.
If he told her the truth that it was rock salt he had gotten from the cliff at the Dimensional Farm, he would be treated like a crazy person.
Besides, So-eun, who had asked the question, wasn’t really curious about the answer.
She was too busy eating the sandwich.
“Oh, this is delicious. It’s delicious!”
Even after Min-ju’s Instagram followers, the man and So-eun, left, customers lined up.
In 20 minutes, he had sold all 30 sandwiches he had prepared all night.
***
Hae-jun, who had returned to the store, hurriedly began cleaning the store. Since he had decided to do business here starting tomorrow, he had to clean up the yard and the inside of the store.
He worked diligently all morning, cleaning every nook and cranny.
He took some time to visit Kim In-chul and ask for advice on the legal issues involved in doing business.
Since it was a place that had already been used as a business, there were no complicated procedures.
“Is it all done?”
The preparations were surprisingly easy.
All that was left was to think about the menu. Even though he had decided to only sell egg sandwiches and goat milk sets for breakfast, he couldn’t just serve that since it was a restaurant.
Besides,
“It feels kind of empty.”
Just a sandwich on a white plate. It felt empty somehow. The sandwich he had plated as practice looked really unappetizing. Even to himself, who had a poor sense of aesthetics, it looked like a plate with no sincerity.
Of course, the taste was excellent, but they said that food that looked good was also good to eat. He needed something that would make it look more
delicious.
Hae-jun, who thought for a while, opened the Instagram app and searched for posts.
#Restaurant
#Plating
#Sandwich
“Fancy.”
Hundreds of millions of posts of food with fancy plating came up, regardless of the taste.
What Hae-jun’s plate lacked was color. The only colors on the white plate were yellow and white. On the other hand, the food in the pictures had strawberries, salad greens, and other things piled on them, plated beautifully.
“It’s missing red and green.”
Hae-jun, who had identified the problem, checked the ingredients he could use.
Cabbage, cucumber, cherry tomatoes… A simple dish to make was salad.
He thinly sliced the cabbage, spread ketchup and mayonnaise on it, and placed cucumbers and cherry tomatoes around it. Then, he put the sandwich in the middle, and the plate was finished quite nicely.
“That looks good.”
Hae-jun smiled in satisfaction as he looked at the plate.
The preparations for opening were complete.
Now all that was left was to go to the Dimensional Farm and harvest the ingredients.
***
Early morning.
After 5 years, the signboard of the Western restaurant ‘Sunflower’ was lit up.
The alluring smell of baking bread soon filled the alley.
“Ready to go.”
After working diligently for several hours, he had finished preparing to make sandwiches.
The bread was baked deliciously, he had finished the egg salad to use as the sandwich filling, and he had also sliced all the vegetables to plate on the dish. Now all he had to do was open the door.
He took a deep breath and checked the time.
7:55 AM. There were exactly 5 minutes left until opening.
Hae-jun went out to the yard, opened the front door, and hung up the sign that said OPEN.
And a little while later.
“Is the store open?”
The first customer rushed in.
“Yes, please sit over there.”
He smiled at the female customer and showed her to a seat.
It was customer service that he had practiced over and over again all night.
“Is the only thing on the menu a sandwich?”
“Yes. If you order the set, you’ll also get goat milk.”
“Then I’ll have that.”
“Please wait a moment.”
Hae-jun, who had received his first order, went back to the kitchen.
He took out a white plate, put the cabbage salad on it as he had practiced, cut the egg sandwich filled to the brim, and arranged it nicely.
Up to this point, everything had gone smoothly as he had practiced. However, while Hae-jun was making the food, a problem occurred that he had not expected at all. It was that…
Clang-
Clang-
The bell on the door rang loudly.
‘Oh no. Customers are flooding in.’
While he was cooking, customers kept coming in.
The customers who came into the store sat down at the empty seats and looked around.
When no one came out,
“Hello!”
“Aren’t you going to take our order?”
“Boss, aren’t you here?”
They each shouted.
‘Oh no, this is bad.’
Cold sweat trickled down his back.
He hadn’t expected customers to rush in all at once.
He was panicking, blaming himself for not thinking about it, when an unexpected savior appeared.
“Yes, please wait a moment. I’ll help you with your order right away.”
It was Min-ju.
She calmed the customers down and came into the kitchen.
“Oppa, bring me some water first.”
“Water? We don’t have any.”
“You have to serve water when customers come in. Oppa, haven’t you even worked part-time at a restaurant?”
“Huh? … Uh.”
“Wow!”
Surprised for a moment, Min-ju took off her paint-stained apron, washed her hands, and tied her hair back.
She quickly looked through the cupboard and refrigerator and found a water bottle.
“I’ll use some lemons.”
She took 2 lemons, sliced them 5mm thick, put them in a transparent water bottle she had taken out of the cupboard, and filled it with water. It was lemonade that she had made for Chloe before.
“What about the menu?”
“We don’t have one yet. It’s a single menu.”
“Egg sandwich?”
“Uh. With goat milk as a set.”
“Okay. I’ll take your order.”
Minju skillfully took the glass cups and water bottle and went out with a bright smile, taking orders.
“6 Fat Sandwiches.”
“Fat Sandwich?”
“Fat Egg Sandwich. Fat Sandwich for short.”
“Oh!…”
She even came up with a menu name in a short amount of time.
“Hurry. This is the first customer’s, right?”
“Yeah.”
“Hurry up and make the order. I’ll serve it.”
Min-ju took the plate of the sandwich that had just been completed and went out.
Thanks to Min-ju, Hae-jun was able to focus solely on making the food.
***
“Ugh…”
After briefly losing consciousness from the fall, Hae-jun groaned and opened his eyes.
Luckily, he fell about 3 meters and his body got caught on a flat rock, preventing him from falling further down. He moved his arms and legs to check, and it seemed like nothing was broken or sprained. After checking his condition, Hae-jun got up and brushed off the dirt.
He put the grapes he had risked his life to save into his bag and looked up.
A rope was hanging at a distance that seemed reachable with a high jump.
“Whew, that was close.”
Hae-jun, who had finished assessing the situation, took a deep breath and caught his breath. It was a situation where things could have gone terribly wrong. His legs gave out and he sat down, leaning against a rock.
“Meow~!”
Mongchi jumped down from a protruding rock and licked the back of Hae-jun’s hand.
“Yeah. You’re okay. Were you worried?”
“Meow.”
“I was surprised too. I thought I’d be stuck here for ten years.”
“Meow~.”
He stroked Mongchi’s head, who was worried about him.
Just by gently petting him, he felt at ease.
As he was calming his startled heart and reaching for his butt to get up,
“Huh? What’s this?”
He touched a transparent, apricot-colored stone.
A transparent stone that stood out like a flower among the ocher and gray rocks.
It looked unique.
“It looks just like a jewel.”
Hae-jun carefully observed the stone that sparkled like a jewel and had a transparent color.
Mongchi, also curious about the stone, approached and licked it.
“Yuck… Meow!”
Mongchi, who made a very sour face, kept hissing at the stone.
“What’s wrong?”
“Meow~!”
“The stone is sour?”
“Meow.”
“The stone is sour… Oh, no way?”
Hae-jun took a piece of the stone crystal and put it on his tongue.
“Ugh, sour.”
The sparkling stone crystal turned out to be a stone that tasted sour. In other words, it was rock salt.
He had seen it once on a documentary. He had learned that there was salt created when seawater trapped underground solidified over a long period of time due to tectonic shifts.
“This is great. Let’s take it.”
He had been worried about the amount of salt in Chloe’s seasoning bag.
Hae-jun dug up several pieces of rock salt and put them in his bag. It felt much heavier than when he had put in the olives and grapes.
‘Let’s not get greedy.’
Since there was rock salt all over the place, he could just come back for it when he needed it.
However, he would have to be more prepared next time.
He couldn’t die after coming to get salt.
***
“Hurry!”
6:26 AM.
It wasn’t a day when she had to go to work early, and her alarm didn’t go off, but So-eun’s eyes opened on their own. There was only one reason. She had to wash up quickly and go out to buy that delicious sandwich.
On the first day, she was the first customer, but when she went around the same time yesterday, about half of them had been sold.
If she was careless, she might not be able to eat it today.
She hurriedly washed up and left the house.
It was still dark before dawn. So-eun, who arrived at Exit 8, found a young man in his 20s loitering around, looking around. She could instinctively tell that he was a customer waiting for Hae-jun’s sandwich.
So-eun went behind him and took a seat. A line naturally formed.
The two of them, who briefly made eye contact, stretched their necks and waited for Hae-jun to appear.
After about 5 minutes,
“Huh? He’s here.”
Hae-jun appeared on the crosswalk across the street, pulling his wagon.
.
.
.
There were two people standing in front of Hae-jun’s spot in front of Exit 8.
Both of them were familiar faces.
‘The employee at the law firm and the customer who couldn’t buy it yesterday. Are they waiting for me?’
As Hae-jun approached, the people who had been stretching their necks greeted him.
“You’re here.”
“Were you waiting for me?”
“Of course. I waited 30 minutes. I really wanted to try it today.”
The male customer who couldn’t buy it yesterday said.
“Haha. I’m sorry. How many would you like?”
“Two sets. I heard that the goat milk you sell here is so rich.”
“Where did you hear that?”
“Here.”
The man showed him his phone.
He was a follower of Min-ju’s Instagram.
“Can I take a picture of you in the background, boss?”
“Oh, yeah.”
The man took a picture of Hae-jun in the background so that the sandwich was clearly visible and uploaded it to his Instagram.
#Finally #MeToo #Let’sSeeTheTaste #Fat #EggSandwich #Excited #Anticipation
Along with these hashtags.
Hae-jun took out the prepared brochure and handed it to the man while he was uploading his Instagram post.
“Here, and this too.”
“What’s this?”
“It’s a map to our store.”
And to the next customer, So-eun.
“Oh, I see. So you came out to promote your business. It’s not just any street vendor’s taste.”
So-eun read the brochure and reacted as if that was the case.
Now her curiosity was satisfied.
“The store is near our office.”
“Yes. It’s the building I inherited. Since it’s close, please come often.”
“Of course. Our lawyer will really like it.”
“Lawyer?”
“Lawyer Kim In-chul, who you saw that time.”
“Ah!…”
He was talking about the lawyer who had handled the inheritance procedure.
“Our lawyer is a huge fan of your sandwiches, Mr. Hae-jun.”
“Is that so. I was going to visit him even if that wasn’t the case.”
“At the office?”
“Yes. I’m planning to remodel the restaurant and open it, but I don’t know anything about the legal stuff.”
“Come by in the afternoon. I’m free today.”
“Okay. I’ll order 2 sets to go?”
“N… No. Make it 3.”
Seeing the man in front of her eating deliciously, So-eun couldn’t hold back her appetite.
She ordered 3 sets, planning to eat one of them right there.
‘I’m sorry, lawyer.’
As soon as she received the sandwich, she opened one of them and put it in her mouth.
Crunch-
“Hmm? It’s even tastier today. What is it, the flavor of the ingredients inside got better.”
She keenly caught the change in taste.
It was a change in taste that came from adding the rock salt he had gotten from the cliff at the Dimensional Farm instead of the commercial salt.
When he added crushed rock salt to the mayonnaise, the savory flavor became richer.
Maybe it was less salty, but she could taste a variety of flavors other than saltiness?
“Is that so? I changed the salt a little.”
“Salt? The taste changed this much just by changing the salt? Are you using some really expensive salt?”
“Haha. Well, something like that.”
Hae-jun dodged the question.
If he told her the truth that it was rock salt he had gotten from the cliff at the Dimensional Farm, he would be treated like a crazy person.
Besides, So-eun, who had asked the question, wasn’t really curious about the answer.
She was too busy eating the sandwich.
“Oh, this is delicious. It’s delicious!”
Even after Min-ju’s Instagram followers, the man and So-eun, left, customers lined up.
In 20 minutes, he had sold all 30 sandwiches he had prepared all night.
***
Hae-jun, who had returned to the store, hurriedly began cleaning the store. Since he had decided to do business here starting tomorrow, he had to clean up the yard and the inside of the store.
He worked diligently all morning, cleaning every nook and cranny.
He took some time to visit Kim In-chul and ask for advice on the legal issues involved in doing business.
Since it was a place that had already been used as a business, there were no complicated procedures.
“Is it all done?”
The preparations were surprisingly easy.
All that was left was to think about the menu. Even though he had decided to only sell egg sandwiches and goat milk sets for breakfast, he couldn’t just serve that since it was a restaurant.
Besides,
“It feels kind of empty.”
Just a sandwich on a white plate. It felt empty somehow. The sandwich he had plated as practice looked really unappetizing. Even to himself, who had a poor sense of aesthetics, it looked like a plate with no sincerity.
Of course, the taste was excellent, but they said that food that looked good was also good to eat. He needed something that would make it look more
delicious.
Hae-jun, who thought for a while, opened the Instagram app and searched for posts.
#Restaurant
#Plating
#Sandwich
“Fancy.”
Hundreds of millions of posts of food with fancy plating came up, regardless of the taste.
What Hae-jun’s plate lacked was color. The only colors on the white plate were yellow and white. On the other hand, the food in the pictures had strawberries, salad greens, and other things piled on them, plated beautifully.
“It’s missing red and green.”
Hae-jun, who had identified the problem, checked the ingredients he could use.
Cabbage, cucumber, cherry tomatoes… A simple dish to make was salad.
He thinly sliced the cabbage, spread ketchup and mayonnaise on it, and placed cucumbers and cherry tomatoes around it. Then, he put the sandwich in the middle, and the plate was finished quite nicely.
“That looks good.”
Hae-jun smiled in satisfaction as he looked at the plate.
The preparations for opening were complete.
Now all that was left was to go to the Dimensional Farm and harvest the ingredients.
***
Early morning.
After 5 years, the signboard of the Western restaurant ‘Sunflower’ was lit up.
The alluring smell of baking bread soon filled the alley.
“Ready to go.”
After working diligently for several hours, he had finished preparing to make sandwiches.
The bread was baked deliciously, he had finished the egg salad to use as the sandwich filling, and he had also sliced all the vegetables to plate on the dish. Now all he had to do was open the door.
He took a deep breath and checked the time.
7:55 AM. There were exactly 5 minutes left until opening.
Hae-jun went out to the yard, opened the front door, and hung up the sign that said OPEN.
And a little while later.
“Is the store open?”
The first customer rushed in.
“Yes, please sit over there.”
He smiled at the female customer and showed her to a seat.
It was customer service that he had practiced over and over again all night.
“Is the only thing on the menu a sandwich?”
“Yes. If you order the set, you’ll also get goat milk.”
“Then I’ll have that.”
“Please wait a moment.”
Hae-jun, who had received his first order, went back to the kitchen.
He took out a white plate, put the cabbage salad on it as he had practiced, cut the egg sandwich filled to the brim, and arranged it nicely.
Up to this point, everything had gone smoothly as he had practiced. However, while Hae-jun was making the food, a problem occurred that he had not expected at all. It was that…
Clang-
Clang-
The bell on the door rang loudly.
‘Oh no. Customers are flooding in.’
While he was cooking, customers kept coming in.
The customers who came into the store sat down at the empty seats and looked around.
When no one came out,
“Hello!”
“Aren’t you going to take our order?”
“Boss, aren’t you here?”
They each shouted.
‘Oh no, this is bad.’
Cold sweat trickled down his back.
He hadn’t expected customers to rush in all at once.
He was panicking, blaming himself for not thinking about it, when an unexpected savior appeared.
“Yes, please wait a moment. I’ll help you with your order right away.”
It was Min-ju.
She calmed the customers down and came into the kitchen.
“Oppa, bring me some water first.”
“Water? We don’t have any.”
“You have to serve water when customers come in. Oppa, haven’t you even worked part-time at a restaurant?”
“Huh? … Uh.”
“Wow!”
Surprised for a moment, Min-ju took off her paint-stained apron, washed her hands, and tied her hair back.
She quickly looked through the cupboard and refrigerator and found a water bottle.
“I’ll use some lemons.”
She took 2 lemons, sliced them 5mm thick, put them in a transparent water bottle she had taken out of the cupboard, and filled it with water. It was lemonade that she had made for Chloe before.
“What about the menu?”
“We don’t have one yet. It’s a single menu.”
“Egg sandwich?”
“Uh. With goat milk as a set.”
“Okay. I’ll take your order.”
Minju skillfully took the glass cups and water bottle and went out with a bright smile, taking orders.
“6 Fat Sandwiches.”
“Fat Sandwich?”
“Fat Egg Sandwich. Fat Sandwich for short.”
“Oh!…”
She even came up with a menu name in a short amount of time.
“Hurry. This is the first customer’s, right?”
“Yeah.”
“Hurry up and make the order. I’ll serve it.”
Min-ju took the plate of the sandwich that had just been completed and went out.
Thanks to Min-ju, Hae-jun was able to focus solely on making the food.
