Here is a great video for sushi amateurs telling you all the official rules of eating sushi from entering a restaurant to ordering.
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I saw this before, I like the part near the end where they discreetly ask about eating endangered animals – glad to see our priorities are in order.
Seems very confusing. Eating sushi in Japan looks as hard as ordering from the “Soup Nazi” of Seinfeld fame.
“So… what do you think?”
Yummm, eating endangered species sliced with a knife cleaned with a dirty rag soaked in the chef’s sweat… Please sir, may I have some more?
Maybe some of the ‘killed for research whale’, or maybe some clubbed dolphin?
I can’t believe you actually think this is real… Japanese humour is even more difficult to understand than British it seems… And neither are very funny…
I believe this to be an instructional video and not a put-on. It’s not funny enough to be anything else. Sushi bars in the USA are not this stiff. In my exprieence and generally speaking we have better mid-range sushi bars in the USA than they do in Japan where the Sushi chef is often smoking and dropping ashes onto the fish and himself — while coughing.
I think it must be a joke, if you watch near the end where they show diffent types of Sushi, there were matchbox toy cars on some of them.
I say it’s a joke. It’s probably laffaminit funny to a Japanese.
I’m only curious — what do “maa maa maa maa” and “taisho” mean? In doubt, I won’t say those words, ever.
Hilarious! Funniest thing in quite a while! Thanks for posting!
PS-http://www.tian.cc/2005/12/japanese-tradition-sushi.html
Of course it was a spoof!
And it was so funny too.
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This video is obviously meant to be satirical and funny. Having lived in Japan, I can assure you that many of the points in the video are not true and are therefore humorous.
It is a parody. It comes on a DVD with other comedy skits by the two comedians (the two main customers).
The funniest thing was reading all the comments posted above, THEN watching the video. Are you kidding me? You couldn’t tell this was a parody? Yikes. More thinly-sliced panda on cheap pasta, please!
I find it more than disturbing that some – including the site admin – are unable to grasp the fact that this is a spoof. A large part of the humour, here, comes at the expense of those unable to see it as comedy, so – for those that don’t ‘get it’ – the joke’s on you! 😉
I lived in Japan for 8 years and my wife is Japanese. There is no doubt that this is a joke video. It’s not very funny, but that’s true of a lot of jokes.
do you know where this and complete set of videos are available?
Sourcemonkey
Uummm, OK, but I think it lost something in translation.
Hey, that was pretty funny. How can you not see the humor?
That was pretty funny. I especially liked the part where if the soy sauce wasn’t salty enough, help yourself to some free salt.
Hilarious! That made me laugh so hard.
I really needed the laugh! That was so funny – but where di dyou find it?
OK, it’s a parody but I didn’t begin to suspect that until halfway thru. (I mean, these are a people whose movies all feature 10 year-old boys in hot pants).
This video needs an accompanying guide to point out what precisely is real, what’s parody, why it’s funny, and which of those words and gestures (if any) are actually obscene. For example, do sushi places really have bowls of salt outside (like for some traditional reason, to ward off evil white demons or something?)
This is sooo funny…..I have been living in Japan for 5 years and this is definitly a joke. Although there are some truths contained within, for example, the way the sushi is eaten using the soya sauce and the puring of the beer is correct instruction. But the whole thing looks like it is a sneer at westerners who want to learn about japan
Whatever – they should do one for ordering at McDonalds. They could have the patties being formed under the arm pits.
Very funny stuff. The part about eating sushi with your hands is true. A lot of people in the USA are so proud of the fact that they can eat sushi with chopstix, but you are actually supposed to eat it with your hands. The staff in our Japanese office shared that fact with me when visiting last year. It’s funny because a lot of the local yuppie types look down their noses at me when I use my hands at the sushi bar. I just smile to myself, knowing they are not as cultured as they thought.
The fact that so many people can’t tell that this is a parody is indeed disturbing. I think you should put more links to things that educate about other cultures, even parodies and…………cartoons.
BTW is the dvd of those skits available in the US?
I say we invade Japan next (Iran and Korea can wait)…to get right to the bottom of this matter. And how dare they to eat sushi with their hands…they are slapping us in the face. Are we going to allow that!!!
This is meant to be funny for audience who are well acquainted with Japanese culture, or otherwise it’ll be a total joke on you.
I believe these comedians are making fun of A: Foreigners(ignorant about JPN culture), B: Sushi snobs, and C Business people/culture or older generation.
A: There is a stereotype among Japanese that foreigners know nothing about Japanese culture. These comedians are making fun of this by creating imaginary situation where those foreigners learn from this idiotic-false-fictitious instructional video of Japanese culture(although not condecendig way, but rather enjoying ironic feeling of not being understood) .
Moreover, some of those descriptions are, in fact, true and very infromative, which makes it more realistic, twisted, and funny.
B: When it comes to Sushi, there ARE picky people even nowadays.
C: “Ma-ma-ma” is such a great example of it. Younger generation like those comedians would definitely be sarcastic about such culture.
In conclusion,……… whatever…..I laughed.
How people can take it seriously? How can you believe that they use a kind of shoes to present a plate? they would wipe their face with the same towel than that is used for food itself?
Those who wrote the firts comments: do you despite so much people from other countries that without knowing you fancy such despising things? Shame on you!
I had a great fun with this parody.
This was a superb parody that demonstrates some absurd things very specific to Japanese culture, itself evolving. Even the true items are done with great tongue in cheek (review the face of the woman pouring beer), and the false have a ring of truth to them (like the salt dish outside). Very subtle, and of course lost on most viewers, as good satire should be.
My colleague at a Japanese university told me about this and I liked it so much.
How many of you know that this was done by Japanese comedians, the Rahmens? I don’t know how the site admin got permission from them, but this has already been available on DVD (Video Victim 2). So, to me, even some of the serious people’s comments look funny too!