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I was thinking of eating Japanese food at that time.
I wanted to eat ramen.
I think it's not good to eat the sound of a whistle in that culture.
I think it's better to eat it carefully and not make any sound.
So, nice to meet you!
Bye!
Okay.
Yeah.
He's actually really a polite guy.
Yes, he is a very polite guy.
He cares about sound.
Yeah.
Sorry about the noise, right?
Yeah.
I'm actually starting to think that he's pushing himself too hard.
Maybe he's being pressured into like, "Okay, I have to do this."
"Okay, I have to do this really like..."
"I have to do it in this style."
"Because people now recognize me as this gangster style whatever that is."
Right?
Right.
That's funny.
We love these voice messages.
Don't feel pressure.
You don't need to do like this.
It's okay if the next message is like...
"Yoroshiku onegaishimasu."
"Ano."
That's enough.
It's okay.
That's okay.
So...
You know, but I feel like, you know, if you go to like an authentic ramen shop in the US,
people know that it's a Japanese cuisine.
Yeah.
So like they know that the authentic Japanese way of eating a ramen is to "susuru."
So like it wouldn't be such a taboo, I think.
It wouldn't be considered as like, "Oh my god, he doesn't have table manners."
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I mean, you're the authentic one in the conversation here, I think so.
I think it's okay.
Yeah.
It's okay to be proud of a nice food.
Yeah.
Right.
Proud of it.
Right.
Right.
It's okay.
Make that noise.
Proudly make that sound.
Right.
Show it off.
Yeah.
Right.
So...
I've never been to a sushi restaurant in the United States.
Never been to it, but went to a lot of sushi places.
How is...
So is that same as a Japanese sushi restaurant?
So the one that I went to...
I went to two.
Okay.
One was, you know, the store called "Tomato" that I just went to?
Like the Japanese food store?
Yeah.
I don't think it was right next to "Tomato", but like, I think close to "Tomato" there was this...
I forgot the name, but it was a sushi shop.
It was a sushi restaurant.
And it's like a sit-down place.
So you get your own table, and then you have your menu in front.
And then you call the waiter, and then you order.
Okay.
So it's not like...
Like "Nigiri no Kanta"?
It was not like that.
Or like "Kaiten-sushi"?
It's like a station in the background that you can't see.
And you order, and then they bring it to you.
The waiter will bring it to you.
It's a sushi restaurant.
Yeah.
And the other one was...
That was actually a "Kaiten-sushi".
Oh, does that exist?
Yes. It does.
Wow.
I think it was like one of the ones that you find here in Japan, like the "Kura-sushi" or...
Oh, really?
Sushi-ro or something like that.
I think it was one of them.
Yeah. It's close to...
I think it was K-Mart.
K-Mart is a Korean food store.
Oh, okay.
Very big. Very, very big.
And it was like an outside mall kind of thing.
Okay.
And K-Mart was there, and then right next to it...
or close by was the "Kaiten-sushi".
And it was good.
Is it the same as in Japanese?
No, the menu...
The system was similar.
But the menu was, I think, pretty different.
They had the California rolls and everything.
But the basics were...
They had the basics. Salmon, the "Gurro".
Okay.
You know, "Gunkan", you know.
"Eri". They had it.
Okay. That's great.
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Yeah.
Are those good? Sushi?
You know, as far as I remember, they were good.
Well, that's good.
I don't know how I would feel now.
Yeah, true.
I was a kid back then, so...
Well, when we were a kid...
Yeah.
You know, we loved every... everything.
I know.
Sushi, yakiniku, everything.
If it's meat, we loved it.
Yeah. I know, right?
Yeah.
That's right.
I don't know how I would feel now.
Because... Was it in Atlanta?
It was in Atlanta.
Yeah. So, you don't have ocean...
No.
...next to... I mean, not next to...
We don't have any...
It's really far from...
Yeah, I think it's imported from some other country, I think.
Right? So, you know, for example, like Hokkaido...
Oh, yeah. That's very different.
You know, they have a port.
Right.
And even like Tokyo, you have Edo port.
Yeah.
So, that's why sushis are good. So, yeah.
It's very different.
Right.
Right.
But, well, it's good here that they have kaiden-dashi at least in...
Yeah.
...like Atlanta.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Was that famous, like a popular place?
Yeah, I think it was pretty... It was packed.
Oh, really?
We had to wait several minutes...
Wow.
...to go in.
Wow.
I mean, it was probably because it was in a Korean kind of...
Oh, yeah, yeah.
...town kind of district.
Uh-huh.
That's why there were a lot of Asian people that were really used to the sushi culture.
Sure.
But it was still in the U.S. It was Atlanta, so...
Yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
Surprising, right?
Yeah.
Sure.
Great.
Yeah, but I think about that sushi in the United States, like in Atlanta, would be completely
different from the one we can find in Hokkaido, like the maizushi.
Right.
So, I can easily imagine how different the hamburgers, hamburgers like we find in Japan,
but like the Atlanta's hamburgers...
It's true.
...you have cows just around, you know?
Fresh cows.
Yeah.
I mean...
That's true.
...environments are different, like all including all the deliveries, logistics things.
And yeah.
That's true.
So...
Maybe it's better in the U.S.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Could be.
That's...
You're right.
Yeah.
But you know, the hamburgers here are pretty good, you know?
Yeah.
Well, if you say so, then yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I love Japanese hamburgers so much, so...
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, that's great.
That's great.
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Great to hear that.
Yeah.
I do want to...
Wouldn't it be interesting to go to U.S. and then just try out some of the Japanese food?
Yeah.
What else is popular?
Teriyaki food.
Okay.
Hmm.
Right?
Those things.
Gyudon.
Maybe tempura, you know?
Tempura, that's popular.
Right.
Yeah.
That's true.
See if it's real or not.
Right.
The dishes or not.
Right.
Or like the hibachi.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Try that.
You know nobu?
What?
Nobu?
No, nobu.
I think...
Isn't that a hibachi restaurant?
No?
I mean, that's a really famous restaurant, right?
Yeah, it's a famous restaurant.
Even in Japan.
Oh, in Japan as well?
Yeah.
Nobu restaurants are really famous.
What's it famous for?
Like...
Well, it's delicious.
Oh, okay.
What do they serve?
It's like...
Teppanyaki?
No.
No, they have...
Oh, they have...
I think they have varieties of restaurants.
Like the...
Like...
What?
French?
Oh.
French.
Or even Japanese.
Yeah, they have...
It's like a brand of nobu restaurants.
Like Ore no Tekina?
Kind of, kind of.
But they are very expensive.
At least in Japan.
And yeah, so good.
Wow.
You know, in America, nobu is known for Japanese food.
That's all it's known for.
Nobu.
Yeah.
Oh, really?
Right.
But what I imagined, it was like a hibachi style...
Oh.
Japanese good restaurant.
Oh.
That's what I imagined.
Okay.
But I may be wrong.
Yeah, but at least in United States...
Yeah, it's Japanese.
They do those, you know, marketing things.
Right, right, right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But in Japan, you can find like French, Italians...
I didn't know that.
Beer kind of restaurant.
I did not know that.
Yeah.
But kind of authentic.
And it's also like Japanese-French mixed.
And Japanese, you know, beer, house mixed kind of...
I see.
So, it got Japanese taste in it.
I see.
Yeah.
Makes sense.
Yeah.
All right.
Yeah.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye.
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