The Boyfriend App
Teens like them never run out of static in their heads but Kate’s seem to have been especially loud these past few days.
“Oh,” Kate exclaims, ‘‘jajangmyeon’ means something like ‘so annoying’, right?”
‘What do you mean?” Nathan asks with knit brows.
Jajangmyeon is the name of noodles with black sauce; a Korean child’s favorite food and the most popular dish for home delivery, kind of like what pizza is to Americans.
“You know,” Kate says, “like on K-dramas, the characters say ‘jajangmyeon…’”
Kate adopts an exhausted, scoffing intonation in the last bit.