we saw passersby staring intently at our Coo-Che. There’s a small eat-in space inside the store, but even there you’ll be turning heads because it really is such an unusual sight to see.
after paying for ours and trying it outside the store, we saw passersby staring intently at our Coo-Che.
Ignoring the double entendre, the passersby might have been staring because of where the author was eating it, outside the store. The author is a white Australian girl, and Japanese people don’t typically eat things standing around like that. It’s not a judgemental thing, I don’t think, but she was probably just standing out a lot more than she thought and so people were looking.
A little bit of extra context for that quote:
Ignoring the double entendre, the passersby might have been staring because of where the author was eating it, outside the store. The author is a white Australian girl, and Japanese people don’t typically eat things standing around like that. It’s not a judgemental thing, I don’t think, but she was probably just standing out a lot more than she thought and so people were looking.