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Japanese Food

Ordering, Paying and the Rules Nobody States

Ticket machines, seat charges, no tipping, and paying at the register instead of the table. The systems behind a Japanese meal, venue by venue.

Kaori Miyata

Japanese Phrases

Ordering Food in Japanese, Start to Finish

The six-step script that works from a ramen counter to a department store, plus the two conventions that surprise Americans and the allergy phrases worth screenshotting.

Kaori Miyata