Guys. I want to talk about our dinner last night. We went to Ginza and ate at SushiZanmai, a chain sushi place. Cos it was Ginza, there were a fair amount of non-Japanese there.
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The restaurant has a picture menu with Japanese and English, but it was apparently lacking in clarity for the foreign clientele.
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One table asked if the donburi were soups cos they were shown in a bowl.
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Another table was openly perplexed at the paper slip ordering system which didn't have any English even though the menu had English. They ended up pointing at the picture menu to order and the staff filled out the paper slip for them.
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that's what I always loved about japan though: deciphering the enigma, the pleasure of it
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One table took over 10 minutes to figure out the menu and they seemed really annoyed by the whole thing. I felt sorry for them.
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I chill with these professors u of Tokyo is nearby! Everything was amazing
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I was young and completely lost and ppl were so kind to me and everything was new...
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We also have had great experiences with places that didn’t have any English before we learned Japanese. The more touristy the place is, the more rude and condescending the staff seems to be.
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it was also the fun of figuring things out, deciphering the mystery vs everything being same as back home
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I feel sorry for sushi chefs in Tokyo. Imagine apprenticing for years to learn the finer points of absolutely sublime minutiae in handling fish, only to see some tourist smother it in wasabi and soy sauce.
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hahaha poor Jiro ppl ask him to cook the fish etc
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