Sakura - What he buys often: The curry bread is a recent favourite of his He was surprised when he ate one fresh out of the oven, and was hooked ever since.
Umemiya - What he buys often: Anpan It's been his favourite ever since he came to this town.
Tsukushi Butcher's Shop つくし精肉店
Popular items BEST3
1st Korokke
2nd Menchi-katsu [minced meat cutlet]
3rd Ebi-katsu [shrimp cutlet]
Regulars
Hiragi, Kaji - What he buys often: Korokke Because Hiragi-san treats me often (Kaji).
Kikuchi-ya (Japanese sweets shop) 菊地屋
Popular items BEST3
1st Dorayaki
2nd Mitarashi dango [see above picture]
3rd Warabimochi [1]
Regulars
Yanagida - What he buys often: Dorayaki He often goes to buy dorayaki to serve with tea at his parents' house.
Sakaki brothers - What they buy often: Warabimochi Warabimochi is just the best, right (Seiryu). I often go to accompany [2] Seiryu (Uryu).
1 Warabimochi (蕨餅) is a wagashi (Japanese confection) made from warabiko (bracken starch) and covered or dipped in kinako (sweet toasted soybean flour). Kuromitsu syrup is sometimes poured on top before serving as an added sweetener
2 「晴竜の付き添いでよく行くから」 - 付き添い can mean to accompany, attend, serve, wait on, attend to, assist
Café Pothos 喫茶店ポトス
Popular items BEST3
1st Omurice
2nd Handmade pudding
3rd Fully-packed egg sandwich
Regulars
Students of Furin - What they often order: Omurice The taste is excellent, and there's a discount for Furin students.
Muscle Power (Okonomiyaki [3] place) まっするぱわー
Popular items BEST3
1st Okonomiyaki that doesn't use flour
2nd Customized protein (banana & milk)
3rd Banana pound cake
Regulars
Tsugeura - What he often orders: Okonomiyaki that doesn't use flour It's nourishment for the muscles!
3 Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き) is a Japanese teppanyaki, savory pancake dish consisting of wheat flour batter and other ingredients (mixed, or as toppings) cooked on a teppan (flat griddle). Common additions include cabbage, meat, and seafood, and toppings include okonomiyaki sauce (made with Worcestershire sauce), aonori (dried seaweed flakes), katsuobushi (bonito flakes), Japanese mayonnaise, and pickled ginger.
[For the menu see the bonus at the end of chapter 32!]
Penpengusa (Monjayaki [4] place) ぺんぺん草
Popular items BEST3
1st Mentaiko mochi cheese monja
2nd Corn monja
3rd Seafood monja
Regulars
Anzai, Kurita, Kakiuchi, Takanashi - What they often order: Mentaiko mochi cheese monja It's delicious, and the restaurant is the perfect place for everyone to hang out! (Anzai)
[photos of before and after cooking for reference, not the ones mentioned in the rankings]
4 Monjayaki (もんじゃ焼き, often called simply "monja") is a type of Japanese pan-fried batter, popular in the Kantō region, similar to okonomiyaki, but using different liquid ingredients.
The ingredients in monjayaki are finely chopped and mixed into the batter before frying. Monjayaki batter has ingredients similar to okonomiyaki. However, additional dashi or water is added to the monjayaki batter mixture, making it runnier than okonomiyaki. The consistency of cooked monjayaki is comparable to melted cheese.
[BONUS TRIVIA]
Saboten - Cactus
Tsukushi - Horsetail
[Tsukushi (つくし) redirects to 杉菜 (スギナ sugina) on Wikipedia. Known as the field horsetail or common horsetail in English. The buds are eaten as a vegetable in Japan and Korea in spring.]
Kiku - Chrysanthemum
Pothos - ...Pothos
Penpengusa - Shepherd's purse
[Penpengusa (ぺんぺん草), or 薺 (なずな nazuna). Known as shepherd's purse in English. It is one of the ingredients of the symbolic dish consumed in the Japanese spring-time festival, Nanakusa-no-sekku.
The Festival of Seven Herbs or Nanakusa no sekku (Japanese: 七草の節句) is the long-standing Japanese custom of eating seven-herb rice porridge (七草粥, nanakusa-gayu, lit. "7 Herbs Rice-Congee") on January 7 (Jinjitsu); one of the Gosekku.]
I will forever appreciate a theme in my fictional stories, & that’s exactly what Wind Breaker (by Nii Satoru) has, so, I present:
Wind Breaker characters have a theme to their names.. a thread:
Bōfūrin / 防風鈴
so, even though our protag group’s name is written and visually represented as “wind chime”, Bōfūrin’s name is where this group’s theme of trees/plants start:
防風鈴 (“prevent/protect” “wind chime”) has the same reading as 防風林, a type of forest planted strategically to prevent wind erosion of soil — much like Fūrin’s mission of protecting and serving their town
all of Bōfūrin’s named members (and close associations) so far have some element of tree/plant/wood in their last name (if you look at the kanji of their last names, you’d see a lot of wood radicals/木字旁):
桜 遥 • Sakura Haruka: 桜 / cherry tree
(fun fact: his name 遥 / haruka means "far"; also it's commonly a feminine given name)
蘇枋 隼飛 • Suō Hayato: 枋 / sandalwood (?) or tree used as timber, general term for wooden beams in houses
(fun fact: his last name 苏枋 is the Chinese name of a traditional reddish brown color, named after a pigment made from 苏木!)
楡井 秋彦 • Nirei Akihiko: 楡 / Siberian elm
杉下 京太郎 • Sugishita Kyōtarō: 杉 / Japanese cedar (cryptomeria japonica)
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