Tuesday, 23 June 2009
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Cool Conveyer Belt Sushi
My last post was so sad huh? And then I just read noreen_n's post this morning. So sad.. what goes on out there in the world! It's good to be well-informed though. The media sensors a lot of important issues and topics. But anyway, here is something lighter and happier! =D
When I lived in Hong Kong, I loved to eat sushi in the popular conveyer belt sushi restaurants. These sushi restaurants were pretty pricey compared to the cheaper street food and teahouses available, but my Japanese friends told me that conveyer belt sushi in Japan is actually pretty casual and low-class for sushi standards.
This is an advanced conveyer belt sushi in Japan!
- Essentially, the empty plates are put into a slot so that they can be cleaned and tallied up electronically. To encourage more eating, a slot machine game is available for the kids for every 5 dishes that are eaten.
- There is a computer chip inside each plate, so when a dish has been on the conveyer belt for too long, it is automatically disposed of!
- The conveyer belt is adjusted when there are only a few customers in the restaurant so that the belt line is shorter and you don't have to wait as long for your sushi to come around.
- The sushi chefs know how much sushi to make because a computer system keeps track of how many customers and sushi plates are out there.
I smiled when I heard Utada Hikaru's "Automatic". Anyway, some more silly things. I think Hong Kong people super love hot dogs. I was at Genki Sushi, and I found this too much tho:
Hot dog sushi! With ketchup....?Kachino said that hot dogs are an aphrodisiac... That I don't know. My profs have never touched on aphrodisiacs because we look at nutrition in a more clinical view. Is it because hot dogs look like........? Hmm, no thanks, I wouldn't want to eat PHALLIC SUSHI haha, would anybody?
Look how many plates I can eat!
Just kidding ^^ I had help~I'm working on my next post, which will be on the marketing tricks of the grocery store. I might add in some weird stuff I saw in grocery stores in Hong Kong & China
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Comments (19)
wow... that video is crazy.
haha...phallick sushi.
ah! I've been to places like those!
so cool.
so YUMMY!
wow they should have these in Toronto! lol!
yeah, let's just take one of those belts and have it lead straight to my big mouth =O . Yum!
Mmm, looks yummy. :D
yeah it's too bad they don't have it here...it shouldn't be that hard to make a store like that...hmm
ooh i've been to a automatic conveyor belt sushi place in hong kong before...but it was really expensive!!
i love hotdogs lol
whoa that's friggen awesome!
things like that will take forever to come to Hawaii which really sucks. we get everything last!
I like genki sushi but I love kuru kuru sushi better.
^_^
My ex-husband introduced me to sushi. He would eat everything, even stuff that would gross me out (since I wasn't used to that type of food). I remember him eating fried Shrimp heads with a big grin on his face! Your blog sent me back to some good memories. And no, I've never eaten at a sushi joint that has the conveyer belt. Good idea though!
Working and living in Hong Kong now I can tell you a few things you haven't mentiond about the conveyor belt sushi. In HKG you have to fight for everything and eating @ sushi restaurants are no exception. First of all you will have to survive the insanely long lineups before you get into the restaurant. After you get in you need to sit near where the chefs puts the sushi on the belt coz otherwise if you are sitting @ the end of the belt guess what? all you're gonna get is egg sushi coz everybody grabs all the good stuff before it gets to you. I was in Japan last year and tried this @ a Japanese conveyor belt style restaurant and while the price is much more expensive than HKG ppl, in my opinion, are much more mannered and you tell the waitress what you want (they give you a menu with pictures so it's cool if you don't know Japanese) you point at the pictures and the chefs make it right away and they put it on the belt and nobody's gonna take your dish so u'll get to eat it when it gets around to you. I'll be back in Japan next year I'll be sure to take some pics and show u ^.^ I lost all the pics I took last time when I was in Japan b/c I pressed the wrong button on my phone >.<* Also got a chance to have sushi in Australia but I'll save that for another time. Ohhh back to work now =.=
ah, your too young to remember "automats" they started going out when I was little, they were just like that but low tech, some of them were conveyor belts and some were a glass door you got a meal out of, they charged you for what you took, cool thanks for the memories!
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That's one great idea! Kudos to the Japanese. Wow, nicely done for saying things I said as a joke! ;). Marketing tricks? Are you talking about the 3 minute challenge to find milk, egg and bread?
It's a hot dog... except rice instead of a bun? wow
There are 2 jap restaurant at least that I know that have conveyer belt...
I am an usual customer to one of them~
Hmmm, I want to go there :)
i wondered why they use the automatic song too. hehe.
you might like this video , sushi camera:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWQR36dW0GA
@meme_cutesykiss - Hawaii is such a popular destination spot for Japanese tho! I heard at least. My Japanese classmate in Hong Kong told me she had been to Hawaii 9 times lol. She seemed so proud :P
LOL i think at that sushi restaurant as the photo of the plates looks very familiar! If so, aren't the desserts great?!