Complete Day

The food’s good today.
When taste  and story collide,
There’s nothing to skip.
Words glide in the air, greeting
Ears chilling out after work.

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this couple made my day with their food in the shop opening for more than 20 years and how they cooked together

I asked my two Japanese friends (who used to be my colleagues in a company back in 2008, whom I meet in my current visit) if they want to be married and grow old together like the couple.

Yakisoba-san (a lady): I never want to. Plus I don’t want to end up taking care of the man marrying me plus to change my family name into his. Men don’t do household chores. And I travel extensively so I might not be so much wanted by most men here

Asahi-san (a gent): Maybe no. I don’t want to end up not taken care of well like how i am taken care of by my mother now plus life will become more expensive with marriage. I don’t do household chores and more and more difficult to find a woman who is willing to stay home to home work

Me: (jaw dropped) Oh, goodness! I’ve been so positive about marriage and men then. I always think of marrying a man who is willing to take care of me and whom I can take care of. Ah…. Seems blurry now.

3 of us: (continued discussing how different our family upbringing and culture has been, a lot of laugh about the past too)

Note: their names are not Yakisoba and Asahi but today those were the things among other they ordered for dinner. 😊

udon with gyu motsu — i love horumon udon 😍

干し肉 — Hoshiniku

天ぷら