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Monday, September 14, 2020

entry arrow7:29 AM | Evening Diner

I didn't tell post-birthday Renz, when we ventured into the wilds of the outside world last Saturday, that I was somehow in search of the "unusual." It was yearning I could not articulate. But what did that mean exactly in the haze of the pandemic? I think it has come to mean even the ordinary we used to do back in the day when normal meant breathing without panic. And so we went for a two-hour massage, our first in months. That's pampering in the list of the new unusual. And so we went to an exhibit at the Mariyah Gallery, our first in months. That's art in the list of the new unusual.

And finally, we tried out this new find in the Dumaguete food scene. That's dining out in the list of the new unusual. Himawari, essentially a Japanese dive bar slash restaurant, appealed to me immensely because of its rustic aesthetic and its hidden location. It felt like a secret. It felt like a typical no-frills soba joint near a Tokyo train station. It felt like an episode of Netflix's Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories. We had fried octopus, teriyaki-don, and gyudon. We loved it. Saturday was closest I felt to feeling normal in months.

 
 

 


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