If a Bowl of Udon Was a Woman...

If a bowl of udon was a woman, she would be your naturally beautiful girlfriend. Her face has sharp yet graceful lines, and her striking features rarely need the accentuation of makeup.

A bowl of plain udon noodles, delicious in its simpleness, is both hardy and desirable. Unlike other dishes that rely on colors or presentation, the wheat-flour noodles and salty-sweet broth awaken the deepest hungers within. Like your natural-beauty girlfriend, with hair as touchable as the perfectly boiled udon noodle, simplicity is sexy.

But for elegant evenings, your udon girlfriend applies the most subtle shades of makeup to highlight her beauty, not hide her blemishes. She softly kisses her lipstick, drawing a line as thin as the pink of kamaboko that gently accentuates a bowl of udon. Her eye shadow caramelizes her eyes as rich and tempting as a shrimp tempura half floating in broth. Each of her curled eyelashes are as fragile as the thinly cut scallions that rest on the island of noodles.

And when you return home from you evening out, she washes her face with hot water and a Bioré Daily Cleansing Cloth. The steam from the sink rises onto her face like the moist aroma of a fresh bowl of udon from the kitchen. She turns around, and you smile.

No foundation, no scallions, no lipstick, no kamaboko.

You walk over to her and smell her most basic, yet most beautiful, self. "You look delicious."