在以前的日子里，他有时间也常到晒台饭铺来。

He used to come to the Terrace sometimes too in the older days.

还是说故事发生在一个不是那么高级的小饭铺里，服务员也许只是无意中粗鲁？

Or is it a less classy joint, and the server is perhaps just being rude without realizing it?

祖母说，有一天国王的儿子在巴格达街上游逛，见到一个饭铺又干净又凉爽，他便走进去，在一张饭桌旁坐了下来。

One day, said my grandmother, the king's son was walking through the streets of Baghdad, and he came upon an eating-place which was so clean and cool that he entered it and sat at a table.

街对过饭铺正煮着豆花饭，香气一阵阵飘进门来，油锅里煎的东西滋拉滋拉的响，搞得人肚子咕咕的叫。

From the restaurant across the street came wafts of the smell of bean curd jelly and the sizzle of something being deep-fried, making their stomachs rumble.