Originally Posted by ksandness

A lot of the "Japanese" restaurants in the States are run by either Koreans or Chinese, and although the Koreans usually do a halfway decent job, it is disconcerting to go into a "Japanese" restaurant in search of a venue for a dinner meeting of local Japanese-English translators, ask the man at the counter if they have "o-zashiki" (tatami rooms), and having him reply, "I think we don't cook that."