One of the many conveniences I'll miss when I return to the US is this thing:
It's a little coffee filter that sits in your cup! Okay, but here's something actually interesting about coffee in Japan, related to me by a teammate. You can go to a cafe anywhere in Japan and get a slice of cake and a cup of coffee, which is perfectly nice, and which my teammate did. But when she finished her coffee, she decided to order another cup.
It wasn't free, which is not altogether surprising. It was, however, unheard of. Her eating companion and the waitress, both Japanese, looked at her like she was crazy. So there you go: Japanese people love to drink a cup of coffee, but they hate hate hate to drink two cups of coffee.
I don't think there's an equivalent to that in the US, where getting second helpings of pretty much anything is pretty well acceptable.
Next time maybe I'll talk about my job out here...
Well there is a similar convention with booze in America, but you have to go through about a dozen bottles, and it's not really universally applied.
ReplyDeleteDrinking alcohol's pretty popular here too. My body mass might make me a middleweight by default in this country, but I have yet to enter a drinking contest with anyone.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, I guess no discussion of Japanese coffee would be complete without this.
wow, that is a really fancy filter hahahaha
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