Salmon daikon, I think is his favorite. I could see Shinobu-san really liking both tofu and vegetables... She probably likes complex flavors.

[A beat, and he kind of chokes up a little because he has to correct himself again.]

Liked. I'm really bad at this.

[But then he laughs, even if he's smudging his hand over his eyes.] I think I did, but I also don't think he's ever tried speed-eating before, and I was sixteen and also a bottomless pit. So it felt sort of like he let me win.