{"id":1267,"date":"2010-12-08T17:59:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T00:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2010-12-08T17:59:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T00:59:13","slug":"sanuki-udon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"Sanuki udon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_0654.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_0654-1024x764.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sanuki udon\" width=\"640\" height=\"477\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1268\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_0654-1024x764.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_0654-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>When we were in Japan last month, we visited a friend in Okayama, who drove us across the Seto-Ohashi (aka big-ass bridge) to Kagawa Prefecture, the smallest prefecture in Japan. Kagawa is known for its noodles, namely udon! Supposedly Kagawa has about 700 independently owned noodle shops. Woohoo!<\/p>\n<p>The udon noodles are made with a &#8220;special&#8221; (Japan is all about &#8220;special&#8221; things) flour that is the magic behind the toothsome texture of the noodles. Our friend told us that in the school cafeterias they serve udon instead of rice. That&#8217;s crazy talk! Anyway, we went to one noodle shop, and it wasn&#8217;t insanely crowded as it usually is. You order by size and then go with hot-hot (hot noodles and hot broth), cold-hot (cold noodles and hot broth), and so on. It&#8217;s super cheap and yes, super delicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we were in Japan last month, we visited a friend in Okayama, who drove us across the Seto-Ohashi (aka big-ass bridge) to Kagawa Prefecture, the smallest prefecture in Japan. Kagawa is known for its noodles, namely udon! Supposedly Kagawa &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=1267\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}