... a screen name and trying to avoid responsibility for your own actions. Coward. I didn't vulgarize his name, Kent GoFukuiself. Next time Leno uses a Japanese restaurant in his Headlines bit with a name like maybe Fukui Grill or Takashi Tea Room & Shusi, I hope you send them a 4 star letter of complaint....

... behind a screen name and trying to avoid responsibility for your own actions. Coward. I didn't vulgarize his name, Kent GoFukuiself. Next time Leno uses a Japanese restaurant in his Headlines bit with a name like maybe Fukui Grill or Takashi Tea Room & Shusi, I hope you send them a 4 star letter of complaint.

...With my 300 or so words of Japanese (mostly for food) and the proprietor...the nut and bolt to me gratis. Japanese courtesy is unexcelled in my experience. ... Kappabashi, the half-dozen blocks of restaurant supply shops. I learned about this area years ago when I asked a local Japanese restaurant owner where she got her sushi knives. She told me that ... shopping with my son, who's Japanese is certainly better than mine. Regards...

...almost weightless. With my 300 or so words of Japanese (mostly for food) and the proprietor's complete lack ... kindly presented the nut and bolt to me gratis. Japanese courtesy is unexcelled in my experience. Not to ...by foodies: Kappabashi, the half-dozen blocks of restaurant supply shops. I learned about this area years ago when I asked a local Japanese restaurant owner where she got her sushi knives. She told me that the really good...

... sets, and can one expect reasonable pricing for said service. I had my 27" Sonia (no Balonia) Trini fixed at the shop on Charlotte's Pike in the same center with the Vietnamese/Japanese restaurant (just past the Krogers's' on the left) with little pain at a reasonable price. Other than that, I cannot say.

... back in . Tequilas all round! HB! Thank you Snowy .. I thought of you last week when I had dinner at one of those Japanese restaurants where the chef puts on a fast-paced performance of chopping and juggling cleavers, meat and veggies .. ;-) And you were thinking "if Snowy did that, the meal would not be vegetarian"...

"Snowleopard" <wintersnowfox@gmail.lair.com> wrote ... On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:24:11 GMT, Baz <bazjelloremovethisbit@yahoo.co.uk> said Just incase you wander back in . Tequilas all round! HB! Thank you Snowy .. I thought of you last week when I had dinner at one of those Japanese restaurants where the chef puts on a fast-paced performance of chopping and juggling cleavers, meat and veggies .. ;-)

... wrote: ... Let me assure you that this is *not* normal Japanese behavior. ... Perhaps that person used to live in a country that used...Mo ippai kudasai" and "Iie, kekko desu" were as off-target as Chinese in that elegant Japanese restaurant. I'd agree with this assessment. I think in general if you do this in a Japanese restaurant, they are unlikely to know what it means and will think you want them to stop pouring....

... Let me assure you that this is *not* normal Japanese behavior. Personally, if I were with a Japanese who used that gesture, I would read it as them showing off ...On the other hand, I would say that *many* Japanese are *conscious* of that gesture as a Chinese way ... with this assessment. I think in general if you do this in a Japanese restaurant, they are unlikely to know what it means and will think you want them ...

...they went into a grocery store or restaurant for an hour or more. This ... While I was there, I went into a Mexican restaurant, a Chinese restaurant, a Japanese restaurant and a pizza ...in all of them except the Mexican restaurant, it was too crowded... that's ... Though there were at least ten restaurants and probably more, but no chain restaurants. There were convenience stores, grocery stores, a supermarket, two car-...