Here are souvenirs from 能登, where Shin visited on business. Mei-Shun is a 水あめ=starch syrup lover; who not only enjoys one tablespoon of it, but also uses it as her Chinese medicine sweetener. Since it shares main ingredient with 甘酒, nice rice scent comes up to nose. And this is the happy day chocolates, cookies, ice cream, etc. would greet her after meals.
Mei-Shun met M-chan at a coffee shop nearby University of Tsukuba the latter niece belongs to. Stormy weather caused by Typhoon Dujuan has gone, hot southern air flowed into Ibaraki Prefecture. The former aunty drew a pair of platform sandals from shoes cabinet, put them on as 2026 debut. Here it comes – Mikan-chan in fruit stays behind ice cream.
Shin and Mei-Shun ate out at a Korean-style barbeque restaurant on weekend. The wife ordered a glass of Makgeolli: 3 months have already passed since she finished 黄八丈 shochu at home. She spent perspiration season with no alcohol, actually wanted warm tea. However, charcoal burner emitted enough heat to convince her. It helped lean meats digestion as well.
Here is a bag of Cambodian coffee, Shin’s souvenir. It tastes quite different from ours; herb flavour comes up to nose, rather than roasted beans. He gave Mei-Shun Vietnamese one months before, not freeze-dried yet fine powder. Since no English was written on the box, they could not read ingredients. However, some sweetener like maltose was certainly felt. It all depends.
Mei-Shun loves 冬瓜=winter melon with snow-white flesh, refreshing scent and lovely shape. According to Shin, it is harvested in hot months, can be stored until cold ones. Also is an autumnal 季語=season word for haiku, only spring seems excluded. Is it your childhood, darling? Now may she cut, peel and cook you into soup? Oh, here is other strength of you; low in calories.
… is a Chinese saying Mei-Shun quite likes. It sounds to mean “medicine and food shares the same sources”. Shin also utters that there is no food harmful toward your body. And it is he who kindly ordered above 黄桃=yellow-flesh peaches for her. 1st delivery was accepted a week before, when the wife had a slight cold. Now she recovered, tried this 2nd gifts with apples’ texture.
Mei-Shun tends to choose light meals here, preparing for big dessert plates. Poke, quite like our sushi bowl, is among the best 3 on her list; with guava juice, a nice match. M-chan seemed pretty starved, finished faster the same dish. They soon moved toward sweets, enjoyed chocolate/fruits pancakes respectively. Oops, what is that black interloper on your peaches?
It means a restaurant mom and M-chan dined at tonight. The former aunty has not felt very well for a week, might have a slight cold. However, such blue condition was all forgotten when she picked up her only niece, purr. Medication, good sleep and meals are obviously important to cure our disease. Communication also works, as they say 病は気から=your mind controls your body.
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I and mom met dad, purr, at a hospital in Tokyo yesterday. He seems quite fine; expecting return to us on Thursday, purrr. With 海の日=Marine Day today, we adults had 3 serial holidays from weekend while school children summer vacation. That might be why a sweets shop recommended by him was a bit crowded. “Almost nobody eats there, so convenient for business”, he said.
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Mei-Shun met M-chan at a baked eel restaurant, located nearby University of Tsukuba. Reaching the last year as an undergraduate student here, the latter niece safely received a job offer. That means the former aunt would miss big meals; might be better for her body, yet the worst for mind. Well, it is the exact opposite of elder sister Y. Happy, family communication is highly appreciated.
