Being Japanese
Dec. 22nd, 2024 08:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo We were at the oriental buffet yesterday because Mary is a fussy eater and the buffet serves up some of the few things she's willing to eat.
Mary is vegan but like most of the rest of us has chinks in her armour. Her chink is sweet stuff. My chink is seafood. My other chink is cheese.
It's very trying to eat out and have to stick to the vegan options because they get to be awfully boring. At home one can do interesting things with vegetables, but few restaurants bother.
I find to my surprise- after a lifetime despising it- that I really like cabbage.
Mary wore the Japanese outfit we bought her for Christmas. She had reservations about it but we assured her nothing could be more appropriate- and that the buffet woukld be full of people from the far east. It is sometimes, but yesterday it wasn't.....
Here's Mary being Japanese. Her genes are one quarter Chinese, but Japanese culture is way cooler....
According to Mary, you wear the fancy doodad on the left side of your sash if you're alive and on the right side if you're dead. She's probably right. She watches an awful lot of anime and has taught herself to read ideograms. Or some ideograms, anyway. Not bad for a 12 year old
Mary is vegan but like most of the rest of us has chinks in her armour. Her chink is sweet stuff. My chink is seafood. My other chink is cheese.
It's very trying to eat out and have to stick to the vegan options because they get to be awfully boring. At home one can do interesting things with vegetables, but few restaurants bother.
I find to my surprise- after a lifetime despising it- that I really like cabbage.
Mary wore the Japanese outfit we bought her for Christmas. She had reservations about it but we assured her nothing could be more appropriate- and that the buffet woukld be full of people from the far east. It is sometimes, but yesterday it wasn't.....
Here's Mary being Japanese. Her genes are one quarter Chinese, but Japanese culture is way cooler....
According to Mary, you wear the fancy doodad on the left side of your sash if you're alive and on the right side if you're dead. She's probably right. She watches an awful lot of anime and has taught herself to read ideograms. Or some ideograms, anyway. Not bad for a 12 year old
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Date: 2024-12-22 10:24 am (UTC)Shes right about the sash- it's something relatives do for the dead person like coins on the eyes or opening a window here.