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The food is served on ceramic plates that look like paper plates with ruffled edges, and the only utensil at the table is a silver spork.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:This should boil your hipster-hating blood, kuro.
"The culinarian who makes your dish brings it to your table right after he's done making it.
but we want to provide it in an unpretentious atmosphere, said Gregory......
Samurai_Jerk wrote:
FTR I've got no problem with sporks. I do have a problem with sporks for fashion's sake.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Apple pie bacon, craft beer, and real plates made to look like paper plates? Sounds like a little piece of Hell.
kurogane wrote:it's funny how even our hospitality sector is Turning Japanese and organising things so it's easier for them and then BS-ing the customer into thinking it's proper customer oriented service. Who the fuck wants their food 10 minutes before the rest of your table?
Samurai_Jerk wrote: That was my favorite part of the article.
Samurai_Jerk wrote: The bring it out when it's ready thing is cool when you're eating family style like you do at an izakaya or Chinese restaurant, but not when everyone has their own plate. Lunchtime with more than three or four coworkers is always fun. The last person served usually gets their teishoku when the first person is finishing up.
matsuki wrote:
Ever since China started growing rich, it has had rich-people problems.
True, every nation has issues with income inequality. But rich-people problems in a communist country are different.
In this week's issue of The New Yorker, writer Jaiyang Fan gives us an in-depth look at one source of the trouble.
Fan profiles a number of the children of China's superrich who've been sent to study and live abroad.
They're called fuerdai.
In this case, the kids are living in Vancouver (though the scene is also repeated in cities like Singapore and London).
They come with all the accessories of the global jet set — incredible cars, massive houses, and their own reality YouTube show. (It's called "The Ultra Rich Asian Girls of Vancouver.")
The problem, though, is that they don't necessarily feel Chinese, and their parents don't want them to come home. The parents want social and political stability for their children (and the assets their children take with them).
As one protagonist in the story, a 26-year-old named Pam, put it:
“The thing is, I’m not sure I’d fully fit in there now,” she said slowly. “I lack my parents’ Chinese business know-how. Westerners are all about being straightforward and direct. But, when you negotiate a deal in China, it’s all about what’s unsaid, simultaneously hiding and hinting at what you really want. In China, I’m treated like a naïve child, and sometimes I feel like an alien.”
Another woman said that her father said it would be better that she stay in Canada, rather than come home and ruin the family business.
Budweiser rebrands itself as ‘America’ for the summer
Here’s some bad news for anyone looking to kick back with a cold Budweiser and forget about the presidential election this summer. Starting May 23, the King of Beers will relabel its cans and bottles with the word “America” to remind beer drinkers nationwide that “America is in Your Hands.”
According to a press release from Budweiser’s St. Louis-based brewer, Anheuser-Busch (which has been owned by the Belgian company InBev since 2008), the patriotic packaging — which also will include lines from “America the Beautiful” and the Pledge of Allegiance — is aimed at inspiring drinkers “to celebrate America and Budweiser’s shared values of freedom and authenticity.”
Here's to America the beautiful. Hold her high this summer. #ThisBudsForYou pic.twitter.com/6uUd92MTJB
— Budweiser (@Budweiser) May 10, 2016
Samurai_Jerk wrote:
Budweiser rebrands itself as ‘America’ for the summer
Here’s some bad news for anyone looking to kick back with a cold Budweiser and forget about the presidential election this summer. Starting May 23, the King of Beers will relabel its cans and bottles with the word “America” to remind beer drinkers nationwide that “America is in Your Hands.”
According to a press release from Budweiser’s St. Louis-based brewer, Anheuser-Busch (which has been owned by the Belgian company InBev since 2008), the patriotic packaging — which also will include lines from “America the Beautiful” and the Pledge of Allegiance — is aimed at inspiring drinkers “to celebrate America and Budweiser’s shared values of freedom and authenticity.”
Here's to America the beautiful. Hold her high this summer. #ThisBudsForYou pic.twitter.com/6uUd92MTJB
— Budweiser (@Budweiser) May 10, 2016
I wonder if it'll be sold in Canadia.
Budweiser is a fucking toilet water beer, and if you feel the need to defend it passionately you’re doing alcoholism wrong. Budweiser is not a beer we want associated with America, and it’s about time people called them out for taking the patriotic-July-fourth marketing stance away from an actually American beer that either deserves it or at least doesn’t taste like you just saw someone roofie the jungle juice at a party.
yanpa wrote:I just worked out the reason why Yanpa. Jr keeps pointing excitedly at the computer when I'm looking at FG is your avatar, from that we have deduced a fondness for pandas though he still seems to like yours the best.
yanpa wrote:That will come in handy when explaining where junior pandas come from.
Maine Governor Uses Homophobic Slur While Challenging Lawmaker To Prove He’s A Racist
“Mr. Gattine, this is Governor Paul Richard LePage. I would like to talk to you about your comments about my being a racist, you cocksucker,” LePage said. “I want to talk to you. I want you to prove that I’m a racist. I’ve spent my life helping black people and you little son-of-a-bitch, socialist cocksucker. You, I need you to, just freakin’, I want you to record this and make it public because I am after you. Thank you.”
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