The perks of searching for outdoor places to dine at is that we discover and experience places we normally wouldn’t. Today we had coffee at a cafe with an amazing riverside view:
We also stumbled upon a sushi place that has outdoor seats! OMG I thought we’ll never get to eat sushi on the entire trip because why would any sushi place have outdoor seating…Now I just need an outdoor shabu shabu place.
My partner overheard a passerby saying: it must be so cold to eat sushi out here, but it looks very delicious. LOL. It is quite interesting to be the kind of people who are unafraid to be out in the cold while everyone else is huddled in the warmth.
I was just telling her today: that I have become a different person because of the pandemic. I used to be really addicted to comfort, and would never contemplate dining in the cold. At the breakfast cafe yesterday, some people passed on the place because the indoor seats were all taken and they didn’t want to dine in the cold. I was like them – I would rather eat something less fun and be comfortable in the warmth. But thanks to the pandemic (typing this half-sarcastically) I am more resilient in some ways out of sheer necessity. Still emotionally fragile, but at least eating in the cold is no longer daunting or uncomfortable. More often than not, I am so pleased to see seats outdoors. And all of those experiences dining outdoors have enriched my life.
Osaka is so cool, they even sell used laptops outdoors:
That’s all for today. We didn’t do much because I was feeling tired. I would like to thank those of you who left comments on my post yesterday. I suffer from an inexhaustible chronic loneliness, and your comments made me feel so much less lonely.