Japanese listening diary · Day 245

I Ordered the Wrong Dish

食べたかったのは豆乳坦々麺だったのに
September 8, 2026
About a minuteSlow, natural Japanese
Real JapaneseN5–N3 friendly
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Today’s story きょうの あらすじ

This is a story about my lunch the day before yesterday. I had not brought a packed lunch with me, so I went to a Chinese restaurant I have been fond of for a long time. I went there meaning to have cold soy milk tantanmen. But the moment I stepped inside and opened the menu, for some reason my eyes wandered to something else, and in the end I ordered mapo tofu. It was certainly good, but it was not as good as I had been hoping. My stomach was full, and yet I regretted it, thinking I should have had the cold soy milk tantanmen after all. Cold tantanmen is served only in summer, so I mean to go back and eat it again before long.

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No. 245Tokyo · morning
日本語 — Japanese
ひらがな — Hiragana
おとといのおひるごはんのはなしです。おべんとうをもってなかったので、むかしからきにいっているちゅうかりょうりやさんにいきました。ひやしとうにゅうたんたんめんをたべたいとおもっていったんです。でも、おみせにはいってめにゅーをひろげたとたん、なぜかちがうものにめがいってしまって、けっきょくまーぼーどうふをちゅうもんしました。
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