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In the university before the seminar I saw Mr. Igata by chance.
He is a senior graduate student for me and older than my parents (maybe 60 years old or so.)
And last year on April he was suddenly suffered from brain bleeding (cerebral hemorrhage.)
Just after his falling ill, his professor and some friends asked us to contribute money as fund-raising for him.
Therefore I put what little 1000 yen bill I had (なけなしの～) in their hands because his falling ill coincided with the my father's at the almost same time so I sympathized with him.
I had not seen him for more than 0ne year.
This gray-haired man looked more emaciated than ever; he said to me that he had lost 20kg of weight since April this year not because of the illness but for the health.
And his condition seemed as unchanged as before he had fallen ill. I would like to congratulate him on coming-back.
After the seminar I ate Jiro at Shin-koganei Kaidou (ラーメン二郎 新小金井街道店) with Rick and Anneke.
Koganei Jiro is far from Musashi-koganei station (武蔵小金井駅) (maybe 20 minutes' walk from this station) but they did not understand that distance though I told them of it before. Therefore we went there by walk, not by bus. It must have been a good exercise for us before eating ramen.
I was drenched with sweat when we got to Jiro.
About 9 p.m. there were many customers, about 20 persons, waiting in line before us; Koganei Jiro is very popular in spite of its inconvenient location.
And we had to wait more than 30 minutes. The fact that we were a trio caused us more lengthy waiting.
At last we sat the table with four chairs in the inner part of this shop, not the counter. This was the first time for me to sit the table in it.
Rick and Anneke had never visited Koganei Jiro before.
All of us chose normal-sized ramen (小ラーメン) (700 yen.)
Although I have eaten up large-sized one all before when I visited this shop with Kaz, I did not choose it for the health.
Looking at my ramen on whose vegetables I shook red pepper, Anneke said (in fact in Japanese) "very beautiful!" (see photo below.)
So I answered (in fact in Japanese too) "red snow on Mt. Jiro!" (「二郎の山に赤い雪が降ったぜ！」) but I do not know whether she understood my smart message spoken in Japanese or not, and moreover, Rick was completely absorbed in eating ramen and never minded about my speech. :-(
Drenched with a lot of sweat again, I was eating Jiro.
They gave up eating up ramen all in spite of normal-sized one.
Undoubtedly, Koganei Jiro serves a larger amount of ramen than other Jiros.
And they asked me if I was able to eat up my own ramen all.
"Natürlich (of course)," I answered, "don't underrate Ramen-Satan!"
I ate it up all except a tiny piece of roast pork; I did not eat it because I did not want to be full.
After going out of this shop, about 11 p.m. we went to Rick's new room.
On the way to his room we bought beer at a Convenience Store near it.
His new room was large and nice, and it was very good that his room was rather close to the station.
About 11:50 p.m. I said good-bye to them; they saw me off at the nearest station.
I went home by the last train.
I transferred to trains at three stations because it was midnight (usually one station) and it was about 1:30 a.m. when I arrived at home.
Koganei Jiro is far from Musashi-koganei station (武蔵小金井駅) (maybe 20 minutes' walk from this station) but they did not understand that distance though I told them of it before. Therefore we went there by walk, not by bus. It must have been a good exercise for us before eating ramen.
I was drenched with sweat when we got to Jiro.
About 9 p.m. there were many customers, about 20 persons, waiting in line before us; Koganei Jiro is very popular in spite of its inconvenient location.
And we had to wait more than 30 minutes. The fact that we were a trio caused us more lengthy waiting.
At last we sat the table with four chairs in the inner part of this shop, not the counter. This was the first time for me to sit the table in it.
Rick and Anneke had never visited Koganei Jiro before.
All of us chose normal-sized ramen (小ラーメン) (700 yen.)
Although I have eaten up large-sized one all before when I visited this shop with Kaz, I did not choose it for the health.
Looking at my ramen on whose vegetables I shook red pepper, Anneke said (in fact in Japanese) "very beautiful!" (see photo below.)
So I answered (in fact in Japanese too) "red snow on Mt. Jiro!" (「二郎の山に赤い雪が降ったぜ！」) but I do not know whether she understood my smart message spoken in Japanese or not, and moreover, Rick was completely absorbed in eating ramen and never minded about my speech. :-(
Drenched with a lot of sweat again, I was eating Jiro.
They gave up eating up ramen all in spite of normal-sized one.
Undoubtedly, Koganei Jiro serves a larger amount of ramen than other Jiros.
And they asked me if I was able to eat up my own ramen all.
"Natürlich (of course)," I answered, "don't underrate Ramen-Satan!"
I ate it up all except a tiny piece of roast pork; I did not eat it because I did not want to be full.
After going out of this shop, about 11 p.m. we went to Rick's new room.
On the way to his room we bought beer at a Convenience Store near it.
His new room was large and nice, and it was very good that his room was rather close to the station.
About 11:50 p.m. I said good-bye to them; they saw me off at the nearest station.
I went home by the last train.
I transferred to trains at three stations because it was midnight (usually one station) and it was about 1:30 a.m. when I arrived at home.
of course I didn't understand... "Red snow on Mt. Jiro" Nice!
ReplyDeleteThanks!
ReplyDeleteAnd I'd like to go to Tachikawa Jiro with you next time. Also Matsudo and Takada-no-baba Jiro are nice!