It cracks me up every time I think about it. My buddy from Oklahoma and I went to get a quick bite before a concert, and found a teriyaki joint. His girlfriend was also with us. After I order my meal, he orders for himself, after which he bows to the Asian guy at the register and says, ‘arigatou gozaimasu’. Being Japanese, I could tell that the man was definitely not Japanese, and he wasn’t pleased. Probably Korean. Even my friend’s girlfriend felt embarrassed. It cracked me up, and I still bring it up to this day. Ah, bless his white soul…
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June 18th, 2010 at 10:26 pm
Most americans are ignorant. I’m not saying your friend is. but we asians all know that there’s no such thing as “teriyaki” in japan, meaning, it’s NOT japanese food. Koreans created that shit and every teriyaki joint is owned by Koreans.
but i guess he assumed the owner was japanese.
August 6th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
HAHA! You are hilarious! I can picture this happening in my mind so clearly. How my soul ended up being incarnate in this goofy country (USA) I will never know, but I see this kind of thing all the time.
August 8th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
You have a white friend? Do you keep him around as a pet for comic relief? He was probably just trying to be polite and missed the mark.
I still laugh at the Engrish I heard in college. I took a chemistry class at a state college, and the lab assistant, who was supposed to teach us to do experiments had minimal English skills. Nobody could understand her. I hated the fact that one Chinese professor imported six female Chinese chemistry grad students who could not speak English. That’s a far worse language disaster than some weeaboo trying to speak Japanese.
Chinese grad students in the U.S. may be diligent in helping a professor produce papers, but they’re otherwise useless. They come to our government funded universities to get an education, then go back to wherever they came from. It’s a blatant waste of taxpayer money.