Cheat day

Baek Seung-yong’s car

As we chatted, everyone in our group was able to take a seat.

I opened the menu in the form of a small booklet, but there is still only one choice.

Spicy Hanwoo rice noodle soup (13,000 won) is somewhat spicy, and the Hanwoo rice noodle soup (12,000 won) made by simmering Hanwoo bone broth and brisket is deeper in flavor than any broth you’ve ever tasted.

“Is the carrot rapé delicious?”

Baek Woo-jin asked.

It is introduced as being served with lime olive dressing, but I have never eaten it.

“I don’t know.” I haven’t tried it.

“Why?”

“Because it’s a carrot.”

The guy stared at me intently and then shook his head.

“You’re getting fat because you have a picky diet.”

“Even the map is fat.”

“That’s because I eat a lot of everything.”

After some back-and-forth, we finally ordered two bowls of carrot laphet and hanwoo pho.

“Do you originally dislike carrots?” Didn’t you eat carrot cake last time?

“The reason carrot cake is delicious is because it hardly tastes like carrots.”

“It’s delicious even when eaten raw.”

I shook my head.

“Why do you hate me so much?”

After a moment of contemplation, I spoke up.

“I wasn’t going to say this.”

“Don’t do it?”

Baek Woo-jin shifted his gaze to the menu.

“Since you put it that way, I guess there’s no helping it.” I’ll tell you.

Baek Woo-jin still examined the menu.

Mr. Park liked dresses. At that age back then, it was impossible not to like it.

“Who is Deputy Manager Park?”

I don’t know.

“When I was in middle school, I happened to see the first volume of One Piece and quickly got hooked.” I loved it so much that I saved up money to go to the comic book store and started buying them one by one.

“So who is it?”

“I didn’t get much allowance, so I could only afford one book a month.” So, I watched the same thing over and over for a whole month.

Baek Woo-jin tilted his head.

“When I had collected about 60 volumes of One Piece, I got a job.” In the month I bought 74 volumes, I also got a girlfriend.

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“How do you know so much?”

By the time I bought the 80th volume, I was already married. Since our newlywed home is small, I organized everything I had collected as a hobby when we got married. Except for the One Piece manga.

Did you marry your brother? Why do you know so well?

When I bought 88 volumes, I bought a 20-pyeong apartment in a small provincial city. The dress was carefully placed in a corner of the small room.

“Why did you move?”

“My wife had her family home, and I happened to get a transfer, and we had a baby.”

“Hmm.”

I was so happy. There were many difficulties in raising the child, but the child who grows up day by day has become everything to Deputy Manager Park. I could have lived if I wanted to, but I didn’t read comics anymore. It was slowly forgotten.

“What are you trying to say?” Do I have to keep listening?

The child grew up healthy. The child needed a room too. So, I was planning to decorate the small room as a child’s room, and while organizing the room, I came across the One Piece manga. When we moved into that house, it was just as we had left it. It was mysterious.

“How do you know what he/she is thinking?”

“There’s no way it couldn’t be.” We’ve been together for over 20 years since middle school.

“…….”

“An intriguing world, a touching story, and unique characters all felt as vivid as if I had just read them yesterday.” But there was an even more heartbreaking memory.

“What is it?”

“To Manager Park, One Piece was life itself.” Around the time I bought the 5th volume, I had my first fight with my friend, and we reconciled while watching the 7th volume together. “I wanted to read volume 23, but I didn’t have any money, so I did my first part-time job. After taking the college entrance exam, I read volume 35 while traveling with friends, and volume 43, which I really wanted to read in the army, and so on.”

“If it was for 20 years, it must be true.”

“Because all the memories of my life were with One Piece.”

Baek Woo-jin nodded.

“While Mr. Park was lost in memories, his wife hugged him tightly from behind.” And whispered.

“What did you say?”

“Carrot?”

Baek Woo-jin hesitated for a moment and then gaped.

“How do you sell it?” A carrot, really? On Danggeun Market, you can sell clothes, used cars, and houses, but you couldn’t sell Manager Park’s dress. “That’s a memory.”

“…….”

“So that’s why I hate carrots.”

“Hyung, I’m really worried, so I’m telling you to go to the hospital.”

“Why?”

“Like a madman.”

Laughter burst out.

Looking at the next table, PD Park Sang-cheol, the camera director, and the writer were all laughing quietly.

“The food is ready.”

The beef pho that the boss brought had a milky broth with plenty of vegetables on top.

The red, white, and blue colors are so beautiful, it’s hard to describe.

“I will eat well.”

First, I took a sip of the broth with a spoon.

My stomach feels cozy as it meets the hot broth that seems like it could burn my tongue.

They call it pho, but I’ve never tasted a hangover soup that makes me feel more at ease than the broth from this place.

The feeling of healthy nutrients permeating through the body.

I can’t stop meddling.

After tasting the broth for a while, I hurriedly picked up the chopsticks before the vegetables wilted.

If you briefly flip the onion, green onion, mung bean sprouts, and basil to soak up the broth, then take them out and eat them in one bite, the crunchy texture and rich broth create an indescribable joy.

The carefully brewed Hanwoo beef broth lays the foundation like a deep bass note.

Onions, bean sprouts, basil, and green onions each provide different textures that delight the palate, akin to the ensemble of viola da gamba, violoncello, bassoon, and organ.

Here, the tender and unmatched brisket meat comes in, boasting its meaty aroma.

“Huh.”

Blowing on it to cool it down.

Every time the air goes in and out, the flavor becomes richer.

“Bro, this is really delicious.”

Baek Woo-jin said while putting carrot rapé on his rice noodles.

“Woojin, this is perfect just the way it is.” “Why are you trying to alter a perfect dish?”

“Try it.”

There wasn’t even a chance to stop him.

Baek Woo-jin put carrot lapé on my plate.

Very unpleasant, but since I couldn’t just throw it away, I reluctantly picked up the noodles and the salad together.

“……Huh?”

“Tasty, right?”

This is another variation.

Until just now, the Hanwoo rice noodle soup was like a Baroque-era trio sonata, but with the addition of carrot rape, it can now be likened to a Classical-era string quartet.

Uh. Delicious.

I couldn’t believe it, alternating between looking at the pho and the laphet, I lifted my head.

“How about the carrots?”

See? Just looking at it, it looks delicious. Bro, it’s really strong. How can you not recognize delicious food?

I have no choice but to admit it.

Taste is merely the standard of what I like and dislike based on my experiences.

It doesn’t fall under the category of unfamiliar food that hasn’t been experienced.

Even with the same ingredients, I realized that it can be delicious depending on the recipe.

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***

“Chanyong, Woojin.”

After finishing the shoot at the Seoul restaurant, I was heading home when PD Park Sang-cheol came out and called Baek Woo-jin.

Approaching with curiosity, I heard a faint moan. It seems like they’re choosing their words carefully.

“Why?” “Did something go wrong today?”

“Just talk, bro.” “Chan-young and I are good at dealing with being scolded.”

“What’s it like to be well scolded?”

When PD Park Sang-cheol asked back with a smile, Baek Woo-jin grinned.

“First of all, we talked about One Piece during today’s shoot.”

“Ah.”

“This is fine on YouTube or other platforms, but we tend to avoid it at our broadcasting station.” I’ll edit that part out in the main episode, but I’ll keep it as is when we upload it to YouTube.

“I forgot.” I’ll be careful.

“No.” No. I prefer to do things comfortably. I thought you might need to know how to get out, so I told you.

“Yes.”

I have to be conscious.

“All this time, we talked on the way to eat and focused on eating at the restaurant, right?”

As PD Park Sang-cheol said, Baekban Talk has been gathering and chatting on the way to the restaurant, and focusing on eating during the meal.

It didn’t describe the taste or introduce the food in detail like other programs do.

It was because I judged that the sight of me and Baek Woo-jin focusing on eating was a picture in itself.

“But today, since I was just going around Seoul, there wasn’t much to talk about.” There are also stories to edit.

It’s a One Piece story.

“So, for the scene where you eat, we’ll do some ADR to capture the taste expressions and stuff.” It would be great to dub the feeling.

Since I’ve often done it this way while managing YouTube, I have no objections.

“Is the time okay?”

“Eh.” If you’re going to do it, then do it. Right?

Baek Woo-jin asked for my consent.

“Then.” So, when are we doing it?

“Since I need it right away, how about tomorrow morning?”

I want to rest a bit, but unlike other times, I haven’t been to the countryside, so I still have some energy left.

Yes. “Just go straight to the 4th floor, right?”

PD Park Sang-cheol and the Baekban Dara team stay on the 4th floor of the WTV headquarters.

Uh. How about 9 o’clock?

“Okay.”

Baek Woo-jin also nodded.

After exchanging greetings, I chatted with Baek Woo-jin about various things on the way home.

When I brought up the conversation I had with Mukji about the diet video, he pursed his lips and leaned forward, then sat back up.

“What’s wrong?”

“Hyung, you really can’t do this.”

“What?”

“How can a person be so inconsiderate?”

“What did I do?”

“I heard you said you like chubby people in front of Producer Mukkunji.”

“Because I asked.” And what is that? It’s my taste, isn’t it?

Think about it. The girl in the same class as my brother suddenly came up to him and said, “I don’t like fat people.” How do you think I would feel about this?

“……What is this?”

Sure! Mugunji PD must have felt the same way, right?

“No.” It wasn’t that kind of situation. The PD said he likes skinny people too.

“See?” I’m pissed off, so I don’t like you either. I like thin people. “This is what it is.”

“Are we kids?”

Baek Woo-jin rolled his eyes and pondered for a moment.

“I don’t think I’m an adult.” Me too.”

“That’s right.”

I feel like I haven’t changed much since I was 20, but now I’m already in my mid-30s.

When I was young, I thought I would be a really grown-up by this age, but all I’ve gained is the knack for pretending to be an adult.

“But why do you keep talking as if you know a lot about dating?”

I know better than you. You really don’t know anything, do you?

I’m so shocked that I can’t even speak.

“Do it again.” “You’re milking a single favor for a whole week?”

Yes. I won’t do it.

“What?”

“Why me?” I won, didn’t I?

How should I scold him? I pondered for a moment, thinking I should grab him first and then decide, but Baek Woo-jin darted forward.

He’s quick on the uptake.