Discussion questions for "Kitchen

Hi ladies, wakeup! Let’s get “kitchen” ready for the reunion with our professor after her “Fat” Chinese Spring Festival vacation. We all know the limits in our kitchen compare to the ones she had seen in China. However we could still satisfy her taste buds if we have the essence.

Here are few questions to serve as “Bricks” hopping to attract “Jade”. I’d appreciate your generosity for posting more questions.

1. What Tanabes’ Kitchen looks like? What is it different from kitchen we normally see?

2. What impression you have on Tanabes’ personalities after saw their kitchen?


3. How the author described Yuichi and Eriko when using of “Light”? How would you relate it to their personality?

4. What do you think Eriko’s transsexuality adds to this story? Explain how you think Mikage’s and Yuichi’s love affair would have been different if Eriko had just been a mother who worked at a nightclub.


5. What are the scenes surprised you through the book? Will you please mark the pages and share with the rest when we meet?

6. In the book, few deaths are mentioned, what are the emotions you see in the book? What are not?