"Ken Blake" > wrote in message =
...
> In ups.com,
> lazrowp > typed:
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> > Most readers in this group have been to @ least several sushi
> > restaurants. I am curious about your "pet peeves" when you are=20
> > in a
> > Japanese sushi restaurant. My short-list (not in any specific=20
> > order):
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> As far I can see, nobody has yet mentioned my single biggest=20
> peeve: having specials listed in Japanese, but not in English=20
> (presumably because they are things they think that Westerners=20
> won't eat.)
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Yes that would be quite irritating.
I have never seen that though. In my favorite place the specials are =
listed on a little
board on the table and one side is in Japanese and the other side is in =
English.
One thing I can say from having been to alot of Japanese restaurants is =
that if
the specials aren't written anywhere in English, the possible reason =
that
they didn't have anyone with enough confidence or capability to =
translate it properly
is right up there with their assumption that the items would not be of =
interest to
a non-Japanese crowd. These days, the latter reason is hardly valid =
since a great many
Americans including non-Japanese Americans of Asian decent know enough =
about
Japanese foods that it would not be in the restarant's interest to not =
have the specials
listed in English.

Musashi