Thursday, October 27, 2005

Can't decide!!

I visited a publisher for a magazine in Nihonbashi. Nihonbashi has two big department store, Takashimaya and Mitsukoshi. There is many big department chains in Japan and Takashimaya is one of the high end department stores. Usually a department store has a food floor on B1 or B2 where is basement anyway. I don't know why but it is always basement floor. My co-worker and I thought about buying a bento box for lunch. There are so many choice...."depa-chika" is a short form of "department store" and "chika (=basement)" where you can get wide varieties of quality food and sweets from all over Japan and the world. Many popular and well known food store and sweets shop right next to each other. Just walking around part of it definetely makes your mouth water. We could not decide which to buy. I called my office and asked other co-worker wanted one. Another 4 women joined our plan, all excited. Buying lunch at depa-chika is popular among OL which means as "office lady", generally woman worker who does miscellaneous duties. It is getting better but Japanese company is still man centered and there are many OL women. Most of them are happy being OL, enjoy their youth while they are single, and get married and becomes house wife. All my women co-worker are supposed to be OL in meanings of women worker but we don't do only miscellaneous duties, we have our responsiblity as marketing specialist. Still acting like OL sounds like flattering and fun, and especially having quality bento lunch is great fun, isn't it? We bought the 6 most attracted bento boxes , all different variety and looks so yummy! My work place is always busy and many times we skip or have late lunch. However today, we all gathered talking about how good a bento looks, who eats which bento, laughing. it was such a fun lunch time!

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