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"Yatai no-menya."

There is a gathering called "Yatai no Ramenya. But it has nothing to do with ramen at all. It is a gathering of Japanese people created by a very charming man named Ban-chan, who is now deceased. The reason why it is called "yatai no ramen-ya" is that it is not a Michelin-starred sushi restaurant that makes your feet and wallet tremble when you enter, but a place where you can go casually. It is still a gathering place for people who want to talk about interesting topics or information they want to know, or just have a good conversation to kill time or kill boredom. When Ban-chan was running the site, we always had double-digit numbers of members with his personality and humor （ and over 500 registered members ）, but unfortunately these days we have less than 10 members at most, and not many new people join.

We meet once a week, every Saturday afternoon from about 2pm to 5pm outside the Starbucks at the mall on the northeast corner of NORMANDIE AVE and CARSON ST in TORRANCE. You are free to come and leave anytime during these hours. The name you give can be your real name or a nickname. Many of us are middle-aged or older, but there are no rules or screenings to join, including age, gender, LGBT, ideology religion, education culture, divorce record, arrest record, malbi or moneyed, etc. There are no membership fees, no initiation fees, no ransom, no protection money, and no other fees. This is not a money-making business at all, so there is no danger that you will find yourself buying a pot that you don't need. We will rent you a place to store, so please buy a cup of Starbucks coffee （ bad, bad, bad ？ ） which has the three essential qualities," said Banchan before his death, but this is not a threat and is not coercion.

This is also perfect for people who live in LA but don't have many acquaintances or friends and don't have the opportunity to speak Japanese. If you want to have a nice chat with someone, if you want to pass the time by laughing and joking, if you want to reminisce about Bam-chan, if you want to meet like-minded people and make friends, if you like Starbucks （ MaZi ？ ） coffee （ Henna ？ ） The husband who thought he was an angel before marriage, but after marriage he finds out he is Mayuko Toyoda and his wife calls him "Kono Hagekkai ！" with love; the man who is a hermit for many years and talks to the wall; the you who has no money but has time and you who has money and has time; the man who thinks he is busy but is only busy in his napping dreams; the man who lives alone in an apartment with no one to talk to but himself and his wife. You are the one who lives alone in an apartment and talks only to beer bottles; you are the one who is on the run because the National Tax Administration recognized the 100 yen and 10 yen coins you saved in a piggy bank as slush fund because you are not a member of the Liberal Democratic Party; you were supposed to go to Taiwan as a tourist but got on a wrong flight to America and ended up in LA, so you think that LA's Chinatown should be a part of Taiwan. If you think that the Chinatown in LA should be a part of Taiwan, China will surely claim that it is a part of our territory, and as a result, a war between China and the U.S. will start and World War III will ensue...etc...etc... Everyone is welcome to visit us anytime. ^_^