Tried a teppanyaki restaurant for lunch with my husband after his appointment at hospital in the morning. At the restaurant, wonderful salad came, chef grilling 2 slices of decent sized butter fish (ebodai), rice came, then I felt a hot burning liquid running on my back of shoulder....! Staff hit a bowl of hot miso soup on the back of the chair and it spilled on to me.... I stayed calm, but it was quite hot, and I almost lost my appetite, but couldn't resist crispy fried skin of the fish, I kept on in taking lunch. The staff and chef apologized several times, some awkward moments, ice cream showed up, and I was about to pay, the chef didn't take the money. I was not mad, I was just surprised by the incident, but I bet I would've done the same if I were him. Food itself was great so I wish to come back sometime again.
Overheard a conversation between two senior ladies on the bus way back to home from work. One lady said she was worried about her daughter not getting married. "I was worried about her going out when she was young, and was careful not to let her go on date with some boys, but now I regret what I did. If she had more chances of meeting, she would've been married by now." The other lady was telling her that she was embarrassed by her daughter married to a man not from the good family. "Children of my brothers and cousins all married to the people from the good family. My daughter is the only one not married to such a good family. Even my husband's end relatives also married to decent family. I'm so embarrassed." The grass is greener on the other side of the fence. One is not happy about her daughter being single. One is not happy that her daughter doesn't belong to decent family that she can claim to her relatives. Probably both of them were trying to ...
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