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Heartbreaking: Hibachi Chef Tries To Make Meal On A Regular Table

by TheSackurai


Heartbreaking: Hibachi Chef Tries To Make Meal On A Regular Table




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  • andoryu123

    Fun Fact: Hibachi is a small grill. Teppan yaki is what you normally see. Those you often get yakisoba and okonomiyaki. There are some “Hibachi” restaurants in Japan but near foreigner spots.

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  • trw931

    These types of issues need to get more attention. The restaurants are trying to save money in every way possible. And now they are ignoring the fact that they don’t even have any more customers.

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  • Fireantstirfry

    I don’t normally drink at all but tonight I’ve made an exception because it’s my bday and this is the most stupid funny thing I’ve seen in a long time so thank you.

    Edit: I’m actually crying laughing I don’t know why this is hitting me just right this is so stupid but absolutely perfect

    Who thinks of this shit. I wish I was that clever

    ” Let’s get a guy who normally Cooks on a functional stovetop but also make it not a functional stovetop and overlay sad music ‘”

    Edit,: honestly I keep coming back to this and the moment the raw shrimp hits the floor I lose it

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  • skillpolitics

    Maybe this is a re-post. Maybe it isn’t. I’m not “engaged” enough to know everything that passes through Reddit.

    However, this post to me is interesting in a number of ways. First, it’s a hilarious idea to have a performance chef perform in sub optimal conditions. There’s no audience there’s no heat there’s no fire it’s just the motions. Which kind of sums up that type of restaurant anyway, they’re just going through the motions now. They were a super big fad in the US for a while , and it was it a thing to do to go to the Hibachi Grill.
    Yes, not a hibachi grill, I understand, but that was the name of the restaurant.

    But all fads fade and so did this one. So what do we do with this highly skilled underemployed worker? Can you imagine someone like this working as a line cook at the Waffle House? What a waste.

    And so, it is sad. It’s sad that someone spent so many hours of their life learning how to do something so well and being unable to do it. The dramatic and sad music is perfect to reinforce the rediculous scene that’s happening in front of us. The egg that doesn’t scramble, the onion that doesn’t steam, shrimp that stay brown and gross, but he flips him into his pocket or onto the floor.
    So I like this because on the surface it’s just silly but underneath it’s actually poignant. It’s a subtextual commentary on the risky nature of learning a specific skill in our dynamic economy.

    So think about your job and think about the video that’s going to be made about your work when it’s been displaced by AI or automation.

    Laugh now, because you won’t be laughing then.

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  • Sanjay--jurt

    That Visible pain on the chef’s face when he toss that prawn expecting someone to catch yet there was no one to catch it will forever be living rent free in my memory.

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  • RidetheSchlange

    I didn’t think it was possible to make a hibachi chef even more annoying than they already are with those carnie antics.

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  • Slight_Nobody5343

    Entropy, the cold hells in Buddhism. People with empty chairs and tables reminding them of lost ones. No wood to cook with. No 3 stone fires.

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  • MrDowntempo

    God I love those restaurants. The corny jokes. The heat of the stovetop, the ginger salad and ‘Japanese ketchup’. Delicious. I always get the Chicken and Shrimp.

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