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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that's what I always loved about japan though: deciphering the enigma, the pleasure of it
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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it's weird we've lost the idea of leaving it up to the chef
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one prof speaks a bot of English so he's dispatched to talk to me. He says chef will make me 'something' I say ok
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chef makes me this crazy spread including sashimi and these tiny squid and stuff I still have no idea what it was
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he sort of asks me what I want and I say 'sushi' bc it's only JP food I know but of course it's not a sushi place
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chef doesn't speak English menu is those paper strips on the walls
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my first restaurant meal here the ryokan recommended some place I go, it's a fancy place with u of Tokyo profs
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awwwww somehow the most tourist friendly it's been the less I've liked it
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