So I’m at an Asian grocery store and I see someone who is clearly looking for something but can’t find it. He asks if I work there, I respond no but ask him what he’s looking for. He says he’s trying to find “oil that makes noodles taste good”. I was not expecting that answer so I ask him if he can describe either the bottle or what it tastes like. He has no picture of the bottle and just repeats “oil that makes noodles taste good”. So I ask if it’s spicy, thinking that it’s chili oil or chili crisps, he says it’s not spicy. I ask if it has a color, maybe dark, to check that it’s actually oil and not some kind of sauce or vinegar. He says it’s oil but not clear. I ask if he remembers what it says on the bottle, all he remembers is it says “100% pure”. I point him to various bottles of oil, none of them he recognizes. I try to think about what common items restaurants might put out on a table or is common at non-Asian grocery stores. I eventually find the bottle, it’s sesame oil. We are both happy to solve the mystery of what “oil that makes noodles taste good” and go our separate ways.