“Business hours are from midnight to around 7:00 AM. People call it Midnight Diner. Will customers come? Quite a few do.” A middle-aged restaurant proprietor with short gray hair, stubble and a scar across his left eye hangs a noren fabric banner sign over the doorway window and opens shop for the night. Before long, a group of regulars are seated […]
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