By Rob Bricken in
Miscellaneous, Tech
Friday, Jun. 19 2009 @ 12:21PM
Most of you folks probably know it better as conveyor belt sushi -- those restaurant which put the sushi on little plates, and then put the little plates on a conveyor belt which travels around the restaurant, allowing patrons to simply pick what they want. They're awesome, and there are a few in America, which is nice.
But we do not have this restaurant, which is fucking amazing even if you don't like raw fish (for the record I enjoy raw fish and friend fish, and almost nothing in-between, which I think marks a serious character deficiency). First of all, sensors on the plate keep track of how long each plate has been on the belt, and automatically disposes of them when they've lost their freshness. Second, you can also order specific sushi straight from the computer at your booth. Last and certainly not least, you dispose of your plates at a slot right at the table -- which automatically tallies your bill -- but the extra cool part is that for every five plates you put in, you get to play the slot machine/capsule toy thingie at the table and have the chance to win prizes!
Now I desperately want sushi for lunch, but the only seafood place even close is a Long John Silver's.
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...fuck. (Via AnimeVice)
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supermarioman said:
This almost makes up for all of Japan's lolicon.
Almost.
Captain Flunky said:
I've got to find a way to move to Japan. Not only would it satiate my Asian-girl fetish, but I'm convinced I would have my own TV show in a few weeks; 'Fuck You! Gaijin Godzilla' or something like that.
ClancyDamon said:
Trust me, Captain Flunky, you don't want to move there. The chicks are not hot. I spent a month in Japan, traveling all over Honshu, and never saw a single hot chick. Passable, yes, but not hot. Stick with American-Asians.
KarloAvera said:
I know what you mean, the only "sushi" I have available here in Podunk, Minnesota is the ones they make at the grocery store... decidedly not tasty.
Merle said:
@ClancyDamon
If I have no interest in the women can I still move there?
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Keen said:
I was amused that they were playing the Dead or Alive "You Spin Me Round" song in the beginning of the clip, and then they played Utada Hikaru and I got all excited because I used to love her, and then I realized what a huge dork I am. I guess that's why I'm here. I totally want some conveyor-belt sushi though now....
AfterGlow said:
Hmm, now I also feel like sushi. Well, maybe tomorrow.
Oh, and btw; Happy Sweden Day, fellow nerds ^^
Captain Flunky said:
ClancyDamon,
Thanks for the tip. You sort of bummed me out though.
OnanRulz said:
@KarloAvera:
We've got some great places in Minneapolis. You need to move.
gia said:
That's what you get for living in...
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Wherever the heck you are these days that isn't a place with sushi.
JPyke said:
What's wrong with Long John Silver's? Many great adventures have unfolded there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l--BvXpaGq4
(Well....I guess it's Red Lobster, but it's pretty much the same thing)
Captain Flunky said:
@gia
That pause in your comment made me imagine David Caruso putting his sunglasses on and making a douchey comment in the begining of every CSI Miami episode.
NeverPlayedWOW said:
Why this isn't creepy at all! Well done Japan, well done.
Glorious Cheese said:
I just can't bring myself to ever eat sushi, as a friend of mine who studied parasites once showed me the sorts of internal "buddies" you can catch from eating uncooked fish. Bleh!
NicM. said:
There's a restaurant like this in Vancouver (on Robson St. if I recall) where they've replaced the conveyor with a flow of water, and the sushi is little boats. Very cool, and since each piece has it's own boat design, you pay based on the boats you accumulate. Props.
zod said:
fuck we got like 10 of these conveyor sushi restaurants here in Portland Oregon. SushiLand, SushiTown, SushiTrack... lots of asians too. You want japanese bitches? we got em by the truck load. go to Portland State University downtown any day of the week and walk around the park blocks they be everywhere in mini-skirts with pokeman sunglasses eatin noodles and shit.
NeoXorn said:
"Sushi Roboto..."
Wow.
ZeroCorpse said:
You can't throw a rock around here without hitting a sushi place... It's too bad I hate the stuff. However, all the university weeaboos just LOOooove it, so the sushi places all do good business (as do the bookstores, which ALL sell manga by the truckload).
I'm more of a teriyaki chicken kind of guy, and I prefer it to be served to me by a cute Japanese girl who isn't dressed like some sort of sailor, kitten, or martial artist.
TechnicolorNinja said:
This has to be the coolest thing ever. Me, who's never had sushi, who wants to try it desperately, and has no friends brave enough to venture with me. Oh, Rob, I can never go to Long John Silver's again, as I'm convinced they do not raise there fish in water, but oil. Cooking oil that, when all are mature, they simply dump breading in and fry it in the tank.
@KarloAvera
I think I beat you in the podunk department, no matter where you live, I beat you. Middle of Nowhere, Nebraska. I can spit into Kansas from here, surrounded by towns of 300 and 1000. That's it. The clostest thing to sushi we have (in a town of about 8000) is 2 chinese restraunts right next to eachother and I swear one (made in the remnants of an old Pizza Hut) is a front for the Chinese Mafia. Literally, you never see anyone parked there, but it's been open for years....
Summer said:
I love the kaiten sushi places in my area, but I always wonder how they know when it's time to toss the oldest plates. I'm sure they have some arcane method, since I've never had a bad meal at any of them--not in five years--but a sensor is pretty cool.
