A couple days ago, I popped into a tiny hole in the wall bar next door to my hotel in Pingxiang, Jiangxi, just excited to see what such an unassuming joint was doing in a city where I'd been previously advised that there's only one bar and one club and they're the same place. It was in one of those shoebox storefronts, just about 9-10 feet wide inside. The cramped interior was decorated witn the latest fashion in colored LEDs, hanging upside-down wine glasses and dark vinyl prints. It was very smoky, with a couple young-ish dudes seemingly messaging or playing phone games at one of the four tables, a single middle-aged waitress sitting down in front of the bar, and some American Idol spinoff type singing show playing on a big flatscreen on one of the long walls. A typical Wednesday night, I guess.
We sat down and asked for a menu. About half of the sparsely printed page was occupied by soft drinks and fruit juice. Otherwise, they had a few foreign liquors like Jack Daniels and Bailey's, and five or so cocktails. As for beer, there were only three brands: Budweiser, Snow and Nanchang--a local Jiangxi beer. All priced at 25 yuan for a small bottle. I called to the waitress, asking if they had anything else. "Have!" Apparently, they also stocked "white beer." When I asked to see what it was, she motioned us the three steps over from the table to the bar. To my delight, there were a few bottles of Hoegaarden on the shelf. I thought it was amusing she didn't even know the common Chinese name for the beer. "I think you don't want this. The foreigners who come here all think Budweiser is better to drink." Unperturbed, I picked up a Hoegaarden and discovered, to my horror, that it was very warm.
I asked the waitress if she had any cold ones, and she looked at me like I was crazy, but quickly regained her composure. "We have ice cubes!" I said it wasn't OK. "Do you have cold Budweisers?" "We have ice cubes!" "Do you have a refrigerator? Why don't you put the beers in the fridge?" She motioned under the bar. "It's very small. They wouldn't fit!" With a sinking feeling, I realized that the bottles on the narrow shelf behind the bar were the only beers they had. There were only about 5-20 small bottles of each of the four brands, and some looked to be quite dusty.
We retired back to the table, trying to decide whether to buy a couple warm beers to support an emerging small business, or just get out. The waitress wouldn't stop hovering. She was really trying to push
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I'm trying to do some research about a city I might be transferring to and these two places are being described as 'prefecture' and 'county' level.
Can anyone give it to me straight? Does this mean they're undeveloped?
It can be about anything your pred told you about, your living situation, your relationship with your coworkers and students, places you think your successor should go, things you would have done differently, adulting stuff-banking-phones-bills, etc., how to handle certain difficult situations, the list goes on.
Also, incoming JETs what kind of things do you wanna know about your placement (regardless of whether you know what it is yet)?
It's weird because other cities like 東京 (Tokyo) and 京都 (Kyoto)are pronounced in the same order as their kanji.
Are there other cities like this? Why is 鳥取 pronounced as such instead of torito?
Maybe this question would be more suited to a Japan-related subreddit, but since I want to understand this for Haikyuu purposes, I think you guys can help me out.
In the anime we learn that Karasuno is located in the Miyagi prefecture, but they don't tell us at any point the name of the city/town it's located in. And a prefecture isn't the same thing as a city, 'cause there's the city of Sendai inside the Miyagi prefecture. Or is it? Is there a town named Karasuno? And does Hinata live in another town nearby, or is it the same place?
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