A woman ate in an eating place and another woman stopped at the traffic light

I was waiting at a traffic light. Across the street I saw an open-air dining room. There were no windows, or even an exterior wall with a window attached, so the inside of the diner could be seen from the outside. Tables were set up, and the kitchen could be seen in the back. On the wall was a menu. It was a typical Taipei diner.

As is usual in Chinese restaurants, there are many menus available even in such a simple restaurant. Many menus were written in Chinese characters on the wall of this restaurant. Chinese characters in Taiwan are traditional characters, which correspond to the old characters in Japan, so some of them are a little unfamiliar to me, but many of them have the same meanings.

If it says "牛肉," it means beef; if it says "猪," it means pork; if it says “粥," it means porridge; and so on. However, even if you can guess what the ingredients on the menu are, it is difficult to tell the waiter when ordering. Even if they know the meaning, they cannot pronounce it. Even if you want to point to something on the menu, it is difficult to do so when the menu is posted on the wall.

There was a young woman in the dining room, eating in a relaxed atmosphere. On the other hand, a young woman with a parasol was waiting at a traffic light next to the restaurant, just like me. I looked at her face and saw a slight frown. Next to the open-air diner, so the smell of a delicious meal must have been wafting through the air.

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