Chinese machine… not Japanese « Otaku’s in America

Chinese machine… not Japanese

Early yesterday morning I was on my way to starbucks on Van Buren, then what do my eyes behold? a coke machine. not just any coke machine but one whose letters are written in it in kanji!

Too bad for my dumb ass it was kanji…. chinese and not japanese. people may wonder…. what the hell is the difference. well, there is not so much difference in what it means, but there is a world of difference in the way it is pronounced. anyway, I go inside the resuturant and start taking pictures. chinese japanese… who cares, it looked cool either way.

The Asian restaurant manager seemed happy as hell that I was snapping pictures. Yea, i asked him in advance. but the owners of the restaurant were like “EXCUSE ME YOU CAN’T TAKE PICTURES IN HERE.” looking at me like I was some kinda corporate takeover lunatic. I thought “why the hell would I waste my times taking pictures. hell i would come here everyday and memorize the got damned place if I wanted to copy it.” But people don’t think about all that. I guess they think people are dumb as hell and can’t remember shit. I mean, I know most people can’t remember shit but if someone is planning to take over a company or copy it, you would at least think they have more brain power than to snap pictures out in the open…. hell, they’d hire some architects to hang out at the place and probably draw it as they sit and eat some of the chinese food.

anyway, I tell him I am just taking pictures because the machine is cool and it is for my blog… i said something like that real nice. But he still was looking really crazy. So I took a couple more pictures like “whatever” and left.

I dunno why I had to have these dumb ass pictures. But I wanted them. so here they are. and oh, the restaurant? Is called Wow Bao. I guess there are only 2 of them in chicago. I haven’t eaten there yet but I will in the future even if the owners seem a wee bit sensitive. the food looks good and the design is pretty clean.