Place whelk salad onto a platter and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Arrange small mounds of cooked somen on sesame leaves around the platter. • Somen noodles, canned whelks, wild sesame leaves ...

An ocean salad served two ways — one with cold somen, the other with soft tofu — on Aug. 3 in Honolulu. In a pot, bring 5 cups of water to a boil. Add salt and cook noodles until tender ...