Cooking Japanese food

I cooked yakisoba for my lab on Friday. It was delicious. The lab had a portable electric pan so I was able to cook the food in the lunch room.

The first batch had yakisoba noodles + shrimp + cabbage + mushrooms + carrots + white/salt/pepper sauce.
The second batch had yakisoba noodles + shrimp + squid + egg + cabbage + mushroom + carrots + brown sweet sauce.

I have been trying to begin each day with the mindset of "how can I serve people today?" I have been trying to keep this mindset in mind throughout the day. I feel like I require so much assistance and can give back so little in this country where everything is so foreign. I wish so much I could make things for them but I cannot find the ingredients in stores and do not have an oven. I require so much help with reading and finding things. And also require much assistance with experiments, considering all of their equipment is so different.

The woman who has been helping me so much loves cheese. I have had some delicious pastry-wrapped, baked brie and I would love to make some for her. I do not know if she has ever had some before. Maybe during her time in Germany? There are so many things like this I would like to share but simply cannot.