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...admired our surroundings, the proprietress, or okami-san, came in to keep us company during the meal. For all her aristocratic bearing, Mrs. Hiroko Yuki turned out to be the soul of Kitcho's omotenashi hospitality. Her warmth instantly turned the cavernous banquet hall into an intimate and lively dinner party. We forgot to be self-conscious about having a stranger watch us eat, and soon we were chatting about everything from climbing Mount Fuji to collecting ceramics. We were eating from heirloom Baccarat crystal dishes in traditional Japanese shapes...
...please. I grew up with that genuinely local deal, and let me tell you about it. In a cold room with formica-topped tables, hard-backed chairs and a slatternly proprietress with a fag gummed to the corner of her lip, "coffee" consisted of hot water poured onto a spoonful of instant Nescafe. It tasted like dishwater. If you were adventurous, you mixed the instant with boiling milk, which gave you, let's see, instant-coffee-flavored milk. To accompany this beverage, you could have the following: a custard cream, which was a sort of sandwich cookie with some smegma...
...Australian film Little Fish, his finish is almost unrecognizable. There's nothing remotely respectable about Bradley "The Jockey" Thompson, a character so crooked he seems straight. As the former lover of Hugo Weaving's ex-AFL footballer junky (in turn the confidant of a strung-out video-store proprietress played by Cate Blanchett) he's the toxic puppeteer of Rowan Woods' eye-opening Cabramatta-set crime thriller. Woods, the edgy social realist director of The Boys (1998), saw it as a challenge to reinvent the star. "He's nearly always the distinguished gent," says Woods, "as opposed to this, where...
...seem out of place among the wooden tables and rice paper lanterns of the Golden Scales Teashop. After all, its interior design is a study in eclecticism. A Chinese landscape painting shares a wall with an aging beer ad. A stuffed fish capers among vines of plastic grapes. The proprietress, gliding soundlessly over the warped wooden floor, serves me a refreshing bowl of o-mi (five-flavor) tea?sweet, sour, bitter, pungent, salty. Not unlike lemonade, I decide, as I drain the curious concoction of tea, tangerine slices, pine nuts, jubjubes and chunks...
...chalkboard sign invites the shopper into this space chock full of clothing, accessories, jewelry, and artifacts discovered by its proprietress, Aziza. Paintings by Parsons School of Design student, Maple Turner III are prominently on display and jewelry designed by Ona can be purchased...