Let me tell you a story about Japan. One of my friends there was a vegetarian. Japan is not a very vegetarian-friendly country because they don't get that. Like, people who don't eat FISH.
This was very nicely exemplified one night during a tabehoudai. That's an all-you-can-eat thing. Instead of a buffet, you get a menu and the cost of it covers everything you order within the next two hours.
So. We were at the restaurant (it was a birthday party). So the menu goes sushi this, sushi that, curry, chicken and some more chicken, etc. My friend, A, could basically eat like three things off that menu. No biggie, she said, she can eat rice! She's used to that.
We order a rice. The rice comes decorated with thinly sliced pieces of fish on top and ittybitty little fishes in the rice. A goes D:
We ordered another bowl of rice and explained to the waiter that our friend doesn't eat fish. His face: ?______?
But, okay, another bowl of rice we get! Without little fishies! But still with the fish shavings on top.
They got it right the third time, but dude. That was a lot of rice we had to eat.
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Date: 2011-06-07 05:32 pm (UTC)This was very nicely exemplified one night during a tabehoudai. That's an all-you-can-eat thing. Instead of a buffet, you get a menu and the cost of it covers everything you order within the next two hours.
So. We were at the restaurant (it was a birthday party). So the menu goes sushi this, sushi that, curry, chicken and some more chicken, etc. My friend, A, could basically eat like three things off that menu. No biggie, she said, she can eat rice! She's used to that.
We order a rice. The rice comes decorated with thinly sliced pieces of fish on top and ittybitty little fishes in the rice. A goes D:
We ordered another bowl of rice and explained to the waiter that our friend doesn't eat fish. His face: ?______?
But, okay, another bowl of rice we get! Without little fishies! But still with the fish shavings on top.
They got it right the third time, but dude. That was a lot of rice we had to eat.