I celebrated Hiro's parents' return with a trip to MOS burger....it had been a long time between bread and meat... Man cannot live on bread alone.... doesn't come close to describing rice and pickles three times a day. For some reason it doesn't trouble me particularly if I go to their place. But cooking rice and soup and okazu for 4 people up to three times a day stretches my lack of domestic skills.... but i digress.
this woman was sitting next to me in MOS burger on Kagurazaka. She bought three drinks, I expected her to have friends joining her... since she moved the table that was much closer to me, to make a table of 4 for herself.... half an hour later, the drinks are partly gone, no friends have arrived and she was sitting there reading her book....
Whatever... it's Tokyo...people are allowed to have quirks like imaginary friends.... why do I care?
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MosBurger! That's exactly what you need to recover from your ordeal! I've accepted that rice is a cultural divide that I'll never cross. Oh, don't get me wrong, I like rice. Just not three times a day. Every day. Plus onigiri for snacks in between meals.
Whole wheat bread, on the other hand ...
This is vaguely related to your puzzlement over this woman's drinking problem, but have you noticed how many women carry a litre of water with them in their (Louis Vuitton, of course) bags? One heavy litre, and that's in a city with vending machines every 10 meters and perfectly safe tap water.
I know dehydration is a danger in summer, but hailing from the southern hemisphere with its fierce sun and arid deserts, I can't help shaking my head at this folly.
However ... as you say ... why do we care? :D
I've never noticed... but it's probably because I didn't get passed my bemusement about them having the bag in the first place.
As far as possible, I try not to buy from vending machines - my little eco effort. I sometimes carry a thermos with iced water. I love the subway system for its chilled water - the unis tend to be quite good too.
Water filters puzzle me too - people from Sydney (not to mention Japan) find it quite dirty that we drink rain water at home in Aus .
Whole wheat bread I like very much... my difficulty with bread though is that it is just a vehicle for eating butter.... a somen noodle summer has some advantages....
But ... isn't rain water very pure? I'm not talking about acid rain; just ordinary rain. I don't find rain water weird at all. My grandmother lived in a semi-desert area, and they stored rain water in tanks for months. It was either that, or impossibly brackish well water.
Think big. Whole wheat bread is a vehicle for butter AND jam AND cheese. :D
Yes. Perhaps there is some advantage in its lamentable scarcity in Tokyo. Sigh.
Speaking of rain water, I was shocked to discover that some American Western states, including the one I come from, have laws making it illegal to collect rain water on your won property for personal use. A car dealership in Utah got in trouble for using rain water to wash their cars and that was in the news. I had no idea. Can you imagine? No, just no, nobody owns the rain, whatever they say.
That's outrageous!
How on earth can they justify it...
Actually I just looked up an article from the Denverpost...
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_9712027
shaking my head at the stupidity...
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