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Gyoza - A man who has been cheating on his girlfriend with a woman. He was at university and dated a woman. The woman didn't know he was engaged. She brought him home, and the parents treated him as the future son-in-law. The last meal he had with her parents was gyoza. He is now married but not happy.

This man is selfish. Yet the readers are supposed to be sympathetic.

Yakisoba - a pianist loves a man. As she is talented, she cannot escape her parents. So she harmed herself to stop the path of becoming a performer. She wants to eat the noodles the man she loves has made for her. It is a story about longing.