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Champon-style ramen noodles in soy milk soup This is wha I made yesterday. Just from looking at this photo, it’s hard to tell what was actually wrong, but the problem was the taste. This is how it went wrong…. I like soy milk very much, but a few specific brands only. When I went to the nearest supermarket the day before yesterday, they were out of my favorite brands of soy milk. There was no choice, then. I bought the one I’d never tried before, and I regret that I did. At home, after I tasted the soy milk, I yelled out “Oh No!” and had absolutely no idea what I should do with the 1000ml carton. To me, the taste was just awful. Perhaps the best thing to do would be using it for cooking and baking. I remembered that I once made "wonton in soy milk soup" before, and it was very good. At that time I used my favorite brand, but if in a soup, different brand shouldn’t matter too much, I thought. So I came up with an idea that takes care of this soy milk and other leftover vegs in the fridge, plus the noodles that were on sale on that day: Ramen noodles in soy milk soup with stir-fried seafood and vegetable on top. Yes, something like "Champon noodles,” the local specialty of Nagasaki prefecture in Japan. I made soup using instant chicken-consommé, seasoned it kind of heavily with salt and pepper, then poured in some soy milk, directly from the carton. The taste was nothing marvelous but still OK. Then I poured some more, trying to use it as much as possible so that I can get rid of it sooner.　It was another big mistake of mine. When I tried to pour, too much soy milk came out from the carton at once and I couldn’t stop it. It ruined the soup completely. I didn’t taste consommé, salt or pepper. All I could taste was the soy milk that I didn’t like!! I did everything I could think of to fix it, and it got better at the end… but the amount of soup almost doubled. Even with the stir-fried seafood and vegetable on top (I made them rather spicy), and some hot sesame oil I added just before eating, the strong smell and taste of the soy milk bothered me all the way. And still I have some of the soy milk left…………… sigh. Maybe I should use it for some kind of very sweet dessert, with bunch of spice and/or flavoring extracts.