Sticky

One night during dinner, we were asked to try this food that was a sticky clear substance with little green pieces in it. (I never found out what it was called...) when you brought it up to your mouth, strings of the sticky stuff would still be hanging down. So it was taking Hanna and me a while to eat it, and Okaa-san, Otoh-san and Yuka had all gone either to the kitchen or somewhere else, and all who was left at the table besides us was Hiroki.

As I watched Hanna try to get a bit of it with her chopsticks, I commented that it was "sticky." Hiroki looked up at me and burst out laughing. "Sticky? Hahahaha!" "Yes," I replied, "it's sticky." We weren't sure why he thought that was so funny, but we decided that we would have to ask Okaa-san in the morning.

So morning came around and we went up and asked her what "sticky" meant. At first she didn't understand what we were trying to say. We pinched our fingers together and exaggerated pulling them apart. "Like tape," we told her. She finally got it, and laughed. "Ahhh, sticky." Evidently, "sticky" in Japanese means "nice, cool guy." Or, as some American girls might refer to some guys as "cute" or "hot."

Greeaaat. We just referred to that food as a cute guy. Hopefully Hiroki knew we were talking about the food? Haha. We had Okaa-san explain it to him later in depth. :)