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Sushi Snob

So, I was at Wasabi for lunch today (my new favorite Japanese restaurant in Tulsa), and while sitting at the counter, a couple came in and sat next(ish) to me.

I first casually (and in a quiet voice) was all “hah, omg Friend Who I am Eating Sushi With, it’s funny how all people (I’ve seen, at least) not used to eating Japanese food think that rubbing their bamboo chopsticks together furiously is a perfectly acceptable thing to do in public (it’s not, btw…)!”.  And I’m all casually going “harhar”, then look over again to see that the guy begins stirring his water with one of the 割り箸 (waribashi->disposable chopsticks), then starts stirring his green tea with it, THEN ADDS SACCHARINE TO THE TEAPOT!!!!!

…OK, I mean…yeach!  I’m still horrified.

Anyways, horrified.  And then their five orders of california rolls come on a giant plate.  A veritable field of laid-out maki.  And they’re picked up and put into the soy sauce dish.  When they are properly soaked on the bottom, they are turned around so they can be soaked further.  And then eaten.

Yes, I felt horrible for staring by the end, though the only other people to notice were probably the chefs, who were also watching (and probably very used to this sort of thing).  I, however, am not, since my frame of memory reference is, by a vast majority, in Japan (five commas!  I rock).  As soon as they left, I was all

“blahblahblahgottablogaboutthisblahblahblah!”

And then we got some サービス (service->free food) that I thiiink might have originally been meant for the california roll guys, and thus the story (and the reason why I chose the counter) ends well.

And by “reason why I chose the counter”, I mean free サービス, not the chance to be an elitist sushi snob people watcher.  I don’t need to sit at a counter to be that!