Cat Mint Bar - The elegant and delicious sake in memories | Mio

I got to know him through work, but that was more than just acquaintance. He is a taciturn man who doesn't talk about other topics except business matters. Even when everyone is chatting and laughing, he will not interrupt. At most, he will only smile lightly. In short, he is withdrawn!

I just didn’t expect that in the future, my life and that of this lonely man would actually start to intersect. It was an overtime day when I worked late, and it was also the beginning of my breaking the ice with him.

The man who doesn't come home after working overtime

At nearly ten o'clock in the evening, the work finally came to an end. Everyone hurriedly collected their things and prepared to go home, except him.

"Why don't you leave? The building will be closed in half an hour." I asked him puzzledly while finishing the work.

"Hmm...I'm going to find another shop to stay in, and I won't go home until later."

"Why? It's very late and you have to go by yourself? Otherwise, I'll go with you! Please help me double-check the contents of the document by the way!" I noticed that he was in a bad mood, so I felt that it was disrespectful to ignore him, so I thought of an excuse. Go with him.

Stories from the restaurant

Then we came to a bistro in the East District. After sitting down and ordering a few side dishes, I opened my notebook and asked him to confirm the file for me again. After the meal was served, my work really came to an end, and I started chatting with him while eating.

"I will go home after my family members have all gone to bed, so I don't have to face such a tense atmosphere." Perhaps because of a few cups of yellow soup, he actually started to talk about his own affairs.

He is the only son in his family, and he is a happy little international student whose parents have been with him since childhood. After graduating from college, he returned to Taiwan to work alone by chance. His parents, who have settled in Canada, have often traveled back and forth between Canada and Taiwan to see their son in recent years. The situation of a loving father and a filial son has always been until recent years when things started to change. .

"My parents returned to Taiwan last week, and my girlfriend bought a famous cake to accompany them for dinner two days ago, but their attitude was very cold. After my girlfriend left, my mother complained that the cake was not delicious and that there was a lot of garbage in the packaging of the cake. I I was so angry that I quarreled with her."

Tsk tsk tsk, this friend who always maintains a cold image in front of me is really still a child! If the mother doesn't like her girlfriend, she can change it by carefully arranging the opportunity to show off, but he actually used his special skill - quarreling to defend her. This trick will definitely make the mother hate the girlfriend even more!

While comforting him, I also provided some tricks in the hope that I could help him save his girlfriend's status in his mother's heart. He listened quietly without saying a word, but he drank more and more wine, and his face slowly began to turn red due to the alcohol, but this redness still could not erase his depressed mood.

"Mom is also a girl. She needs to be coaxed. Please be more patient!" I tried to say something to make him relax.

A real annoyance

" They don't like my girlfriend, 'she' is a boy ." After saying that, he drank the glass of wine in front of him in one gulp.

From this moment on, I quietly listened to him talk about everything he had with his girlfriend, as well as the conflicts he encountered when facing his parents.

From my point of view, a diverse family is also a family, and there is nothing wrong with it. From a traditional perspective, I can understand the impact on my parents. This matter is indeed a life problem for him and his parents.

He appreciates that his father has taught him to have a practical and scientific mind and a courageous attitude towards life since he was a child. He is also grateful to his mother for her meticulous care. However, his parents' attitude towards the people they love makes him feel uncomfortable. This emotional problem has been around him for many years and has not been resolved. Coupled with the unfriendly environment at work, he has always been in a state of being alienated from others. His only way to relieve his mood is to drink. In this way, he drank while talking, and he was still drunk until the store closed.

Every time I go back to my hometown, my parents will remind me: a girl should not come home too late, and should not drink with others outside... The words are still in my ears, but I can't care about what my parents said at this time. Seeing that he has problems even walking, I can't directly tell him. Was he left on the streets of the East End? ! So for the first time in my life, I hung out in the middle of the night after drinking, just to take the drunken man to the park and stay there until he sobered up enough to get into a taxi and tell the driver his complete address, and then I took a taxi myself. Car ride home.

Sake knocks on the door of friendship

The next day after get off work, he said he would treat me to dinner to thank me for staying with him so late yesterday. In addition to delicious food during this meal, he also ordered a bottle of sake with a beautiful bottle - Mio. He said that this is a sake that he likes very much and he hopes that I can try it too.

I don't like sake, but I fell in love with Mio at the first sip. The smell of Mio is elegant and unique. It has a rich taste in the throat but also has a sense of freshness. It is completely different from ordinary sake.

He said he never trusts anyone he meets at work, and since last night I have been his only exception. Since then, we have become absolutely supportive partners at work and good friends.

He moved back to Canada a few years ago to start his own business, and his girlfriend flew over to help and became his most reliable work partner. When his career was just starting, he rarely returned to Taiwan. Later, due to the epidemic, we had not seen each other for many years. We only occasionally messaged each other to care about each other's current situation.

Sunny day after heavy rain

A while ago, he received some happy news, that is, he and his girlfriend completed a lifelong event and live with his parents ! Is there anything happier than seeing lovers become married? After all, parents still love their children! Maybe their son's significant other is not what they imagined at first, nor does it meet traditional expectations, but their son's happiness and happiness are much more important than tradition! I'm happy for him as a good friend.

Now I still don’t like sake, except for Mio’s unique wine. Because it has given me a special good friend in my life, and it is a wine with different meanings.