Almond jelly

Almond Jelly
On the way to the library there is a small chinese restaurant that I had been curious about but had no chance to go in. Yesterday my sister in law came to my house and we went out to have lunch there. 小龍包 seemed to be the specialty of the restaurant and most of the lunch menu items were accompanied with it. My failure was that I ordered a won-ton soup + 小龍包 set. In won-ton soup there were kind of 小龍包s. So I ended up eating ten of them altogether. It was a bit too much. But they were delicious all right.
My point today is the master of the restaurant. He looked in his sixties with ample white facial hair which should rather be on his head. He came close to us, stood straight in front of us and started talking about the dessert. Half out of courtesy, we listened eagerly, which seemed encouraged his talk. The talk developed into 杏仁豆腐 or almond jelly. He told me how to make it, what the difficulty is and where it was from etc. I was listening carefully with intermittent questions. Then a woman came in the restaurant, but he was so into talking that he didn't go to her. He virtually ignored her. When she said "sumimasen" he reluctantly left us and went to her to give her a menu and water. Just as we felt a sort of relieved, he came back to us and started talking again exactly where he left us. He kept talking until the customer said "sumimasen" again. He took her order and shouted it so that a chef in the kitchen could hear, on his way to come back to our table. He began to talk again, this time about the name of the place in which we had very little interest. Now we started to find a timing to say good bye. But he didn't allow us a milli second to cut in. He kept talking and talking until he ended talking about the place. Just he ended the topic I didn't miss a blank moment before moving on to a new topic and said we gotta go. "OK." he said disappointedly. When I paid the bill and came out of the restaurant, we felt somewhat like freed prisoners. We looked at each other and said "It was something." Not bad, I thought. At least I learned how to make almond jelly.