--- title: "Snippets: Kindness from a small Kyoto gyoza stall owner" url: https://seamusphan.com/snippets-kindness-from-a-small-kyoto-gyoza-stall-owner/ date: 2020-12-05 modified: 2024-12-19 author: "Dr Seamus Phan" description: "How can someone bless many poor students? With food. For many decades, Inoue-san posted a sign at his shop, \"Customers who can't pay for their meals can eat their fill..." categories: - "Snippets" - "Thoughts" image: https://seamusphan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/reeet-jank-YHSeJVrqW58-unsplash.jpg word_count: 119 --- # Snippets: Kindness from a small Kyoto gyoza stall owner How can someone bless many poor students? With food. For many decades, Inoue-san posted a sign at his shop, > "Customers who can't pay for their meals can eat their fill if they wash the dishes." The 70-year old retired and closed his venerable shop in October 2020, after feeding many poor students who attended the nearby Kyoto universities in Japan. On TV news, Inoue-san was hugged and bowed to by many adults who benefited from his kindness through the years past, some with tears, upon learning his shop would [close](https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20201015/p2a/00m/0et/024000c). Many of these former students are #professionals today, with families and kids. Bless others with kindness and deeds, and God shines on your eternal soul (Micah 6:8, Ephesians 4:32).