Originally Posted by
5khours
Of course not. The Chinese have regarded Japan as cultural backwater for the last 1500 years, and there is zero chance they would praise anything remotely Japanese especially in current political environment.
Japan's biggest exports to its historical nemeses are "cute" and "fiction."
Granted, this is just anecdotal evidence, but during my teaching days in Shenzhen (China), students would frequently sing songs from anime and knowingly replace certain words in the songs that had to do with praising Japan. CCTV in the making.
Many knew "baka yarou" too, but it sounded more like "baka yalou."
Well, back on topic, sort of...
Originally Posted by
lobsterdog
Tsumami (or o-tsumami, not tsunami) are the little side dishes that start the meal, or go with drinks.
30-something star-fecker food porn tourists
YES! I've noticed that pretty much all of the 2- or 3-Michelin-starred Japanese restaurants in Tokyo that I've been to in the past few years have been entirely, or almost entirely, populated by tourists. (Although some of them were over 40.)
I tend to take photos of food no matter where I am, but it's
not likely to be at a fine dining establishment.
OTOH, I feel like every other place I eat in East Asia someone (from that part of the world) is taking a photo. At one restaurant in Shenzhen, a woman yelled at me for doing so (she was bored?), so the easy way 'round that is to just do take-out. None the wiser, she is.