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Dec 08 2009 3 Comments

Recession hit restaurant?

Appearance is often everything in Japan, but it appears that this restaurant may well be suffering from its potential punters hunger to combat the current financial crisis, rather than curb any company or comfort food cravings.

Japanese restaurant

Categorized: Food and Drink, Photography

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  1. Karasu says

    12/8/2009 at 6:07 pm

    Heh, apparently those odd “Engrishy” names like “Great Panda Buffet” or “Hunan Lotus King” aren’t just for Chinese restaurants in the US? This one seems to be a Chinese restaurant going by “Scent of Orchid Garden” or some variation thereof.

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  2. kayne says

    12/8/2009 at 8:31 pm

    love that picture
    seen many places like that in japan. reminds me of a place near Shimonseki called Habu?
    everything was shut, boarded up. people scuttled about and looked at me like i was some tumbleweed that had blown in. i love those places.

    i also loved looking at those abandoned cottages that you took photos of and uploaded. i’ve love to explore some places like that myself in japan when i go back there next year. how on earth did you find them?

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    • Lee says

      12/8/2009 at 9:08 pm

      Thanks kayne, happy to hear the picture struck a chord of sorts.

      As for the abandoned buildings, the vast majority I have found through a Japanese haikyo (abandoned buildings) book. And there are the odd ones I’ve been lucky enough to come across when I’ve been out and about.

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