17時過ぎに友人と店内に入ると既にホロ酔いの常連客達で満席。店のお兄さんの気持ちイイ接客のお陰で「もしかして場違い？」なんて心配もドコへやら。カウンターの角に座らせてもらって楽しんだ。隣りのオジサンにはピーマンをもらい、オススメ通りにツクネと食べてみる。パリパリの薄いピーマンとの相性はバッチリ。よく見たら誰もが半分に切ったピーマンにツクネを乗せて食べていた（分かりやすい様にプチトマトで再現して撮影）。これぞ忠弥流。ちょっと酔っぱらって店を出たのが19時。ワタシらに続いて店のお兄さんも外に出てきて暖簾を下げ、看板の灯りを消していた。ホントに19時に閉まるのね。
When I entered the small restaurant around 17:00, it was already packed with old drunk men. I felt a little bit awkward in the beginning but it didn't last long. My friend and I sat at the corner of the counter and we chatted to the old man next to us. He offered his green peppers and told us to eat with meat balls and it was a great idea (I represented it by petit tomato, Japanese green peppers are quite small, thin and crispy). And I noticed that everyone was eating meat balls in the same way! We became a bit tipsy and left the restaurant at 19:00, the man from the shop came outside too, and he took a noren (shop curtain) which was hanging at the entrance, and he turned off the shop light. It was true that it closes at 19:00!
