Cindy Fuller wrote:

> Our next door neighbors' daughter is studying Japanese in middle school.
> Her latest assignment was to cook a Japanese meal for her family, then
> photograph the results. She wanted to make an udon soup, so she came
> over to look for recipes in our cookbook collection. I'm the first to
> admit that Japanese is low on my list of cookbooks, due to bad
> experiences with early experiments in the cuisine. However, we found a
> recipe for udon that involved poaching an egg in the broth.

Sorry but I just had an image of the girl taking a picture of her family
sitting there with their chopsticks and trying to eat the soup. :-)