I read a news recently: the unmarried rate of 31-year-olds in Japan is 55%, and that of Tokyo is close to 61%. Not only do you have doubts, is it a fashion that people are not married, or are people addicted to fast food and mobile phones, and no longer regard marriage as an important way to solve loneliness?

It was not until I opened the book "Married Dining Hall 2" that I found the answer to the question from the emotional stories behind the delicious food in the book: "It is not only marriage that can lead to happiness, but if there is someone around me who can share the joys and sorrows, the joy will be doubled and the pain will be halved. Therefore, I can only try my best to find the person I love without giving up choosing my favorite lifestyle, so as to live my own wonderful life.

The author of this book, Keiko Yamaguchi, is a member of the Japanese Association of Reasoning Writers. She once worked in the staff canteen of Marunouchi News Co-operative, while writing novels, and had 43 unsuccessful blind date attempts. She only made her debut in the literary world at the age of 55 and became a best-selling novelist with a series of novels such as "Married canteen" and "Aunt in canteen". Her works were shortlisted for the Yoshikawa Eiji Library Award and won the 21th Seicho Matsumoto Prize with "Under the Moon".

The so-called marriage activity refers to all kinds of social activities in order to find the object of marriage and love, including offline dating activities based on marriage agencies and online dating activities based on dating software.

The wedding canteen is a beautiful canteen opened by a single Japanese woman over 51 years old, Keisuke Tamasaka. Keisuke used to be a famous fortune teller, but later she was burned to death in a hotel fire because her husband and his assistant were having an affair, so she was considered to have insufficient predictive ability and lost her reputation.

Hui Pan, who lost his divination ability, left the Meigumi canteen, which was on the verge of bankruptcy. The real estate tycoon who rented it to Hui's storefront was Hui's divination master Wei Ju and his adopted son Zhenxing Temple, so they formed an indissoluble bond.

The Meigumi canteen run by Hui mainly sells large-scale dishes and Guandong cooking. She often creates some special dishes with seasonal ingredients, which is very popular among diners.

For example, Shuhui's first autumn special dish is mackerel soaked in vinegar. The specific method is to soak the sliced mackerel with sugar and salt in turn, drain the excess water to make it tasty, then soak them in the vinegar soaked with kelp in advance, and pour it into the broth for about 15 minutes. The prepared fish is not only instant in mouth, but also delicious.

Hui not only makes delicious food with her heart, but also recommends the best wine to the customers who come to eat. She not only provides services to the customers, but also helps them to adjust their bad emotions and moods. She encourages the older young women who come to eat not to give up looking for lovers who will spend the rest of their lives with them online and offline, but also encourages them to find their favorite lifestyle and live their own wonderful life.

Hui, who is full of love and positive energy, not only creates food that customers like with her love for life, but also helps customers predict fate with her sixth sense, which is much stronger than ordinary people, and carefully guards her customers to reap their own love and happiness.

with the influx of money worship in the west, there was once a vulgar view of love in the society: "I would rather laugh on a BMW than cry on a bicycle." It was once a way for girls to lie flat because they didn't want to eat the hardships in life.

In the book, Zhenfan, who came to eat in Meigumi Dining Hall, was willing to be an extramarital affair with her university teacher in order to get a formal job in the university. When they came to eat in Meigumi Dining Hall together, Zhenfan was passive and humble, while her teacher was domineering and arrogant, which was very unpopular.

If Zhen Fan's university teacher failed to help her realize her dream, she chose to become a member of a matchmaking agency, trying to marry an older and successful grandfather to provide financial support for her research. Even if she didn't love each other, her psychology of realizing her dream through marriage was almost exploited by a man with underworld background and ulterior motives.

Fortunately, Hui helped Zhenfan to see through the motives of this bad matchmaking agency and the black-hearted man early, so as to stop Zhenfan from falling into the trap in time. In addition, Zhenfan met her high school classmate, Mrs. Liang Tai, in Meigumi canteen, and found that he was the one she really loved. With the help of Hui, two older men and women who sincerely loved each other finally became an enviable life partner.

Shibata Youcai, who came to the Migumi canteen to eat, is doing routine work in a school. She has a good appearance and figure, but it is difficult for her to give full play to her personal charm. When she is with her, there is always an unspeakable sense of tension.

At first, Huicai advised Youcai to reach out to more people who are predestined friends through online dating software, and gave timely communication opinions and suggestions. After several attempts, Youcai was either met with an inhuman person or cheated, until once Youcai tried to refit and renovate the old kimono left by her grandmother and was praised by other customers in Huihe canteen, Youcai found that she finally found a career she loved to do.

Youcai devotes herself to renovating kimono for online customers while working, and gradually finds the mission and significance of her life from the reputation and recognition of customers, and the whole person is full of vitality and brilliance.

I gradually feel that a person can live a good life as long as he finds the joy of life, which attracted the attention of Mr. Asami, the owner of the cloth shop who saw her clothes on the Internet. They made an appointment to eat Guandong cooking in the Meigumi canteen in Huihe and fell in love with each other at first sight.

Youcai, who was in such a hurry to get married but never got what she wanted, ushered in her own true destiny while learning to be alone calmly, just in response to the classic saying: If you are in full bloom, the butterfly will come, if you are wonderful, it will be arranged by nature.

The book "Married Dining Room 2" takes Hui, the female boss of Meigumi Dining Room, as the breakthrough point, and tells the love and marriage story that happened between her and several regular customers in the food store through five special seasonal dishes made by her with appropriate wine, showing their different views on marriage and love and their pursuit of happiness, which is bittersweet and warm and healing.