jkrabi
I arrived the day before my business trip to Hiroshima. I wandered around the hotel and found that there were many small izakaya (Japanese style pubs). We enter a good-looking kushiyaki (skewered grilled chicken) restaurant. I order some yakitori (hormone, tonoro, etc.), mino ponzu, and heated Miwazakura, a Japanese sake from Hiroshima. The locals gather here. It's a nice restaurant.
I ask for more sake, another glass of "Amego no Tsuki", and some oden tofu and onions. I ordered another sake, and got oden tofu and onions with mustard and yuzu kosho (Japanese citrus pepper). Neither of them are very tasty, but it is nice to have them with sake at a place like this.
I think to myself, not listening to the owner's conversation with the regular customers. I used to like talking to strangers in such restaurants, but lately I feel like I'm too lazy to do so. I find it boring to talk to people. No, I wonder what interesting things I can talk to other people about. Have I become a boring person?
I feel a little unsatisfied, but I pay the bill and quickly leave the restaurant.
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