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Bashhacker and I found the greatest place in Omaha today: New Asian Supermarket. (That’s their business card, up there.)

As soon as I walked in the store, the smell I have fondly associated with Chinatown in San Francisco hit me, and I smiled. Then, I pretty much kept smiling during my entire shopping experience. I guess these past few weeks, my thoughts have been a little hazy regarding our decision to move to Omaha, but when I discover a place like this, I am filled with comfort and happiness. Nevermind we have to drive to get to the store; it should be a nice bike ride in the summer. This place is a mighty exception to the “don’t buy anything from China, ever, or you’re a benighted ass” rule.

I picked up a couple of my favorite things:

Other highlights include 100+ varieties of noodles, fresh lemongrass, $1.50 tofu, grass jelly drink, live crabs in a box and 50-pound bags of rice.

*To whom, may I attribute this headline? Maybe google, since they have it on their site 231 times.

Somedays, a lot of days, I go to the kitchen around dinner time. It’s a fairly predictive occurrence. Out of those times when I go to the kitchen, more often then not, I am in search of food. As one would expect. I go, I bake a potato, I eat the potato. I realize an hour later, I’m hungry. I go, I put some cream cheese on bread, I eat the cream cheese bread. A half-hour passes by, and I wonder why I didn’t just make a whole dinner and be done with it.

Now is the time to make dinner. This one took about 10 minutes from thinking about what to make to having the fork in my mouth. So it should take less time for you, I suppose.

Soba noodles with spinach, serves 1

Ingredients:

• a pot of boiling water
• buckwheat soba noodles
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1/4 inch slice fresh ginger, minced
• soy sauce
• rice or cider vinegar
• 1 handful spinach, chopped up into little pieces
• sesame seeds

Instructions:

1. cook the noodles in your pot of boiling water
2. take your noodles out of the water and place them in your soup bowl
3. leave some water in the pot for soup broth (maybe a cup and a half)
4. dump in the garlic, ginger and spinach
5. add soy sauce and vinegar to the water, to taste
6. as soon as it begins a boil, turn the heat off
7. pour your creation over the noodles
8. top with sesame seeds, for good looks

Eat that.