In Nagoya, you order one coffee.
Around $3.
A few minutes later
the waiter quietly brings out:
a thick slice of buttered toast,
a hot boiled egg,
sometimes a small salad,
sometimes yogurt.
Free.
This isn’t a special deal.
This isn’t a tourist trap.
This is just what happens
at hundreds of cafés in this city
between 7 and 11 AM.
Every. Single. Morning.
It started in the 1950s
when one café owner wanted to thank
the textile workers who came in early.
70 years later
a whole city still does it.
You didn’t ask for breakfast.
The city already made you one.
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