Yakisoba Size

A fun gap that shows up when you’re in a relationship with someone with a different cultural background from yourself is how you relate information. Most cases it does not matter at all. Except when cooking though you kind of want it at least vaguely in a good shape. If you cut something too big, it might be good for soup, but it might not cook all the way through on the pan. I was helping out S with chopping some veggies for dinner and she hands me a carrot to cut. And I ask how big? And her reaction was: Yakisoba size. Ah, yes… uh, what? I’ve had yakisoba before, but I couldn’t tell you how big the carrats tend to be in it. I still do not have a good reference of what is a good size for it. I know it’s not the tiny cubes we do for the rice omlette. Relative sizes are probably where this comes up the most. I was ordering a book online and I checked with S on why one of the books was literally half the price of the other1. Oh, that’s bunko size. Right, bunko size. I had recognized the…