4 rants tagged.
Ordering hot food at a Japanese convenience store should be simple. But dare to ask for three pieces of fried chicken and watch the entire konbini counter reboot into existential shock.
Why does Japanese food culture treat British food like a war crime when nobody here has actually eaten any of it? A rant about the smuggest culinary inferiority complex on earth.
The 2,000-yen note is legal tender printed by a sovereign nation, and yet the Japanese cash economy treats it like a counterfeit handed over by a deranged tourist. A field report on the most polite refusal of your own money you will ever experience.
Japanese konbini etiquette has reached the point where a single can of Monster Energy comes with a straw, an oshibori and a small ceremony. I just wanted caffeine, not a tasting menu.