10 Japanese Travel Tips for Visiting America

[yuiyoshida]

With the help of Google Translate (and an ability to interpret completely random sentence structure), an American can find out what kind of advice the Japanese give to their own countrymen on how to handle the peculiarities of American culture. Here are some things to look out for if you are visiting America from Japan.

1. There is a thing called “Dinner Plates.” And what goes on them is a mighty disappointment.

In Japan, each person eating gets as many individual dishes as needed for the meal. Sometimes more than 10 dishes per person are used. In America, there is a method where a large bowl or dish is placed in the middle of the table, and you take as much as you like from there, and put it on a big dish said to be a "dinner plate."

In Japan, meals at home are for eating, because your stomach is vacant. At an American’s dinner, there is food, decorations on the table and tableware, and music to produce a fun atmosphere. It is a time for maintaining rich human relationships. Therefore, the meal is as long as 40 minutes. In addition, often the decorative tableware has been handed down mother to daughter, two generations, three generations. In addition, there are even more valuable dishes used for Christmas and Thanksgiving.

American food is flat to the taste, indifferent in the subtle difference of taste. There is no such thing there as a little “secret ingredient.” Sugar, salt, pepper, oils, and routine spices are used for family meals. There is no such thing as purely U.S. cuisine, except the hamburger, which isn’t made at home so much. There is almost nothing special to eat based on the different seasons of the year. Basically, they like sweet, high fat, high calories things.


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[Art_from_Ark]

1. I would like to see the original Japanese

Because, as with its slightly bizarre English rendition of the song Sayonara, it sounds like Google Translate has made a few, um, errors in the translation

[weissmam]

2. I wonder what the chinese version would be

[Nanjing to Seoul]

4. Chinese version: Don't go to America. . .and if you do, demand they respect your culture

and call them all Lao Wai, even though Lao Wai means foreigner and Chinese people in the States are the Lao Wai.

Oh, and look down upon Americans as much as possible, but be sure to enjoy the unfiltered internet.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

3. I see the Chinese and the Japanese have the same idiotic insecurities that prevent them from living

life.

Such as the abject fear of failing. It's better to sit on your thumbs and do something someone might laugh at you over, because your so emotionally insecure you can't get past the thought processes someone had at 10 years old.

I say it all the time here in Suzhou. 10 years old, 40 years old, 90 years old. . .emotionally, they stop developing around 12.

Watch me being accused a racism and being told I know nothing about East Asian culture for this post.

[yuiyoshida]

5. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!

Racist!!! YOU KNOW NOTHING OF EASTERN CULTURE!!


'''''''kIDDING!! You are living it there.. that's pretty awesome. All I have is nihonmachi and Chinatown ..Zhonggou Cheng. But its a flavor I can live with. I would live no where else than in SAN FRANCISCO...


oh ..and for everyone.. FYI... Rice A Roni ...is not the San Francisco Treat. (yuck!)

[Nanjing to Seoul]

6. Trust me. . .this romantic love affair people in the west have for east asian culture

is so misguided. they are pretty much that same ignorant, self-serving, racist, greedy people westerners are, only in different language and wrapped up in insecurity and "cute language"

中国城 is nice. I remember New York's growing up.

[yuiyoshida]

7. Its a little hard for me not to have a

Romantic Love Affair with the East...its in my blood. But, I have always said, that I am happy to enjoy that Culture here...in America. I love the food, the traditions, the music, the people...but I don't think I would want to live in Japan. I would pretty much be a "gaijin" as everyone else over here.