Lonely Supper

　　I would stay two nights in Toronto. My hotel was the Holiday Inn Toronto Downtown Center, which was located in the heart of the city and was really convenient for visitors like me. I was alone and lonely. I wondered what my daughter was doing in her homestay accommodation. Anyway, I decided to eat some kind of convenience meal and went to the nearest restaurant across the street. It was a Sushi restaurant and I remembered a fake Japanese restaurant in Charlottetown, but this sushi restaurant was located in downtown Toronto and I believed it must be nice. A waitress served me, who wore a kimono in the wrong way and couldn't communicate in Japanese. She was born in Japan and brought up in South Korea. To my further surprise, there was a counter and it was designed for customers to enjoy chatting with sushi chefs face to face. Sushi bars with such counters are extremely rare outside Japan. I sat at the counter at first. A single customer is usually introduced to a counter seat in Japan, but I was shown to a table seat for four persons. The sushi chef didn't emit even only one Japanese word and the waitress told me that their rice was imported from Japan, but I didn't think so. My tongue was better than they expected.
　　I would write about what the counter in Japanese restaurants means in another entry. I'm sure you would be surprised to know that.

(Vocabulary)
eat some kind of convenience meal  何がしかの簡単な食事を取る
serve [他]〈店員が〉〈客〉に応対する
There was only one girl serving customers. 客の応対をしていたのは女の子の店員1人だけだった．

I'd like you to read this article.
http://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/13-reasons-why-i-fell-in-love-with-japan/