Glass jelly milk tea, fried chicken, and noodles at Gassakusha, Shinjuku. A small place filled with people from Taiwan, as apparently I'm the only one ordering in Japanese! I was very excited to be in such a local place in the middle of Shinjuku! Have to come back again to try some other dishes. Yum!
新宿の合作社。仙草ゼリーミルクティー、一口唐揚げ梅パウダー、サーチャーバン麺(古早味沙茶拌麵)。小さなお店にひっきりなしにお客さんが来る。どうやら皆さん台湾の方達のようで、日本語で注文をするのは私だけ。新宿の真ん中でこんなローカルな場所があるなんてワクワク。今度は他のメニューを注文しに来ましょう。ご馳走様でした。
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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