Polyglot Japantown

California recently passed the point where Caucasians were a majority.  We are now only a plurality.   On walks in the park, you are likely to hear people pass, chattering with each other in langauges other than English.  Spanish, of course.  But frequently Chinese, Russian, undetermined Slavic-sounding languages and, around our neighborhood, Japanese.   Further south is “Little Saigon” … where so many Vietnamese refugees settled in the mid- and late-70s.

So, I shouldn’t have been surprised when I pulled into my local gas station, pumped some gas and saw this delicious? beverage advertised on top of the pump.

For $3.00, inside at the cashier’s station, you could get “Microwave Iced Latte.”     I’m still trying to figure out if that’s a triple entendre or simply a mis-translation of  Ca Phe Sua Da, which Google Translate renders as “Cappuccino leather” in English.