In one Mito's tiny and old coffee shops with my Japanese friend - I love going with someone who speaks the language, so I get to have them ask the shop-keepers questions - in this case, I had to ask the old woman, how long had she had this coffee shop? 40years; why a coffee shop and not a tea shop, to go with Japan's way? she worked in a big coffee company before... I am always impressed at these non-bra-burning feminists of yesteryear. What must it have taken for a woman, 40 years ago, in a hugely Oshin-like-traditional culture to open a coffee-shop? The answer could lie any where between a nice supportive man to an ass-hole of a man that the woman would take no more... But, even with my gijin (Japanese for foreigner) status, I couldn't bring myself to ask such personal questions...
Anyway, I was really awed by this coffee apparatus, a Siphon brewer - I so wanted to buy one. But in a few days, I would hang out with this super cliché Italian guy who will tell me that nothing beats a traditional moka pot for home brewing...
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