<Begin Segment 14>

TI: So earlier you talked about your mother making lots of American food. When she made Japanese food, what kind of Japanese food would she make?

WM: She'd make sukiyaki, fish.

TI: Okay, good. So tell me, in terms of just where your mother would shop for things. So in Walnut Grove, when she went for her grocery shopping, which store would she go to?

WM: Hayashi.

TI: And what other things? Like, for tofu, things like that...

WM: They got tofu. Two people had tofu.

TI: And so did she go to one or both of them?

WM: We got to go after it. My mother don't want to go, so we'd go after it and charge it.

TI: So describe that. So when your mother said, "Walter, go get tofu," what would you do? Would you have to bring, like a container or anything? Or would you just go and...

WM: I forgot now.

TI: So when you got to the tofu shop, how would they know how much to give you? Do you know... did you tell them how much or did they know how much to give you?

WM: One. One tofu we'd buy or something.

TI: But can you remember the container?

WM: No.

TI: Do you remember if it was still warm, or was it cold, the tofu?

WM: I think it's cold. It's got to be cold, huh?

TI: Okay, so you have the grocery store, the tofu-ya, what other stores did sometimes your mother send you to go?

WM: That's all.

<End Segment 14> - Copyright (c) 2009 Densho and Preserving California's Japantowns. All Rights Reserved.