Almost no Japanese restaurant in the US is staffed with actual people of Japanese ethnicity. So saying "arigoto" isn't winning you points either. They're almost all Korean or Chinese owned. White people do go out of their way to pay top dollar for the few places with real Japanese sushi chefs trained in the motherland though.
Americans who eat real Japanese food are like, what's up with this food! It's so weird and off! I wish I was back home having steak and teriyaki chicken at Hibachi Samurai next to the truck stop on the interstate.
The sushi places do somewhat often find seem to Japanese sushi chefs.
But yeah they are practically never owned by Japanese people and most mayos have no idea.
My absolute favorite is areas with a large Hmong population. It is an undeniable fact that every Midwestern grocery store in 2015 had a 6am all-employee meeting that went like:
"Soo ah, they're about ta install one a dem Sue-shi ki-aasks. Who wants ta volunteer fer it? Anyone? Anyone?" And they all slowly turn and glance furtively around and one of them says "hey Vang whatta ya... Whattaya think? About that."
Almost no Japanese restaurant in the US is staffed with actual people of Japanese ethnicity. So saying "arigoto" isn't winning you points either. They're almost all Korean or Chinese owned. White people do go out of their way to pay top dollar for the few places with real Japanese sushi chefs trained in the motherland though.
Japanese food in America is garbage.
Americans who eat real Japanese food are like, what's up with this food! It's so weird and off! I wish I was back home having steak and teriyaki chicken at Hibachi Samurai next to the truck stop on the interstate.
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When I was in Japan I saw so many people spend their time at McDonald's, Starbucks and Subway. Mos Burger was too weird for them.
Oh fugg I didn't want to learn this about unagi today
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The sushi places do somewhat often find seem to Japanese sushi chefs.
But yeah they are practically never owned by Japanese people and most mayos have no idea.
My absolute favorite is areas with a large Hmong population. It is an undeniable fact that every Midwestern grocery store in 2015 had a 6am all-employee meeting that went like:
"Soo ah, they're about ta install one a dem Sue-shi ki-aasks. Who wants ta volunteer fer it? Anyone? Anyone?" And they all slowly turn and glance furtively around and one of them says "hey Vang whatta ya... Whattaya think? About that."
I started saying 谢谢 after i hear them speak a little Mandarin, even if it's supposedly a Japanese place.