This lady is claiming her sushi is Authentic Japanese, but the comments don’t seem to
agree…
Hey there. Let's take a look at Japanese culture through the lens of memes.
A yakuza-themed cafe opened up in Nagoya last year. It’s called Ninkyou cafe. Ninkyou
means chivalry, so you might wonder why they’d call it tha-... Nah, ninkyou means Yakuza.
Yakuza like to think of themselves as a chivalrous organization. Here’s some of the food and
drink you can get at the cafe.
You can buy a sweets set for 893 yen. Why 893? Well, from my video about how Numbers
replace Words in Japanese:
There’s two rooms in the cafe. The cafe room has free entry obviously, but there’s
also the office room. It costs, again, 893 yen, for a table in the office room. You can
pay another 893 yen on top, to sit in the “second in command” chair, or round your
total up to 8930 yen to sit in the boss’ chair. The boss’ chair has a nice ashtray…
but the cafe is still non-smoking. Check out what’s in the drawer, too…
Unfortunately, the cafe closed in February this year. But according to their Twitter
account, it seems like they’re going to try opening a yakuza themed hotel next.
This woman tells a great story about some problems she had with her fiance.
To understand it, you'll need to know a few things.
1) cicadas are very very common in Japan, especially in the summer.
if you watch anime, you've probably heard cicadas in the background all the time.
2) in Japanese, most animals' cries have set onomatopoeia.
cicadas is min-min
So, here's the story.
Summer reminds of this: I once created a Cicada Twitter Account (yes, a Cicada account), tweeteing
endlessly just “Min-min lol” (ミーンｗミーンｗｗ）, eventually being joined by another cicada
account who tweeted only (ミンミーンｗ). As we were happily chirping along together,
my husband found out, and we got into a massive fight that ended up with him going back to
his parents' house.
Speaking to strangers is, according to him, cheating (an affair). Me creating the cicada
account was betrayal, because I had a desire to cheat, he said. Even though we were only
tweeting min-min at eachother. I didn’t even know the gender of the other person in
the first place. When I was smiling and tweeting min-min, he asked me “what are you doing?”,
to which I excitedly replied “there’s another cicada out there!”. He recoiled
in anger, “why do you have to do this kind of stuff? I can’t believe it. You need to
understand that by continuing to do things like this, it becomes harder to trust you.”
I replied, “oh… do you hate cicadas?”, To which he got even angrier at me, saying
“don’t mock me!” Even after the story spread and we got engaged,
one day upon finding I had male followers on Twitter and male friends on LINE, he started
crying, saying “I don’t know what I can believe about you anymore”, and went back
to his parents’ house. Then we called off the engagement.
I told him that it doesn’t matter who I talk to, and if I want to be a cicada or a
dog on Twitter, it doesn’t inconvenience him, so leave it alone. And that’s where
it ended. He’s insane, huh. Her responses to questions:
“You called off the engagement, but he’s your husband now?” -> He apologized for
the cicada event so I forgave and married him.
“Your husband is crazy!” -> Yeah… He’s an extraordinarily jealous person. I don’t
really mind it, so we get by.
“The impact of the ‘Cicada Account’ is so strong I can’t process the rest of
the story” “True that”
A host club is a place where women go to pay and hang out with guys and have them treat
them nicely, pouring their drinks, lighting their cigarette, complimenting them, etc.
A lot of hosts have weird hair like this. This Host’s haircut looks exactly like fireworks.
He actually showed up in the comments, saying the photo is over 10 years old, and that,
by the way, the reason he’s eating chocolate is because his birthday is on valentine’s
day.
From 2013, but going around on Twitter recently: With more than 50,000 likes, it shows Yo!
Sushi’s marketing manager Katy Crossfield showing off their “crab and mango sushi”.
Fine so far, except the bottom picture’s caption has her saying “our restaurant’s
food is authentic Japanese”, and the price is 6 pounds, which was around 940 yen at the
time. To start, sushi at a conveyor belt restaurant like this in Japan would generally be between
100 and 300 yen…. Secondly, this is not authentic at all. Here’s some replies
“Putting anything on rice = Japanese Food”
“Go wash out your brain”
“1924: an Italian American is t*rtured by having pinapple placed on pizza”
“It might be sushi, but it’s not Japanese food.”
“It might be good, but it’s definitely not Japanese food”
“Two different people asked “what is that on top, a fly?”
Here’s a good counter, though
“As a Mexican, hearing Japanese people call these “tacos” makes me feel the same way”.
This video has been Part 3 of my Japanese Memes series. Hopefully you enjoyed it, if
you haven’t seen the other two check out the playlist I made of them.
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a link in the description.
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