I'm sure it was the sake that was my downfall...
"gaijin" was the word....and other such phrases that I couldn't understand
. Have never heard the polite term, does that say something :cry:
Oh, she could speak it ...was a very intelligent girl, did a Japanese double major in her BA. Was a meet & greeter initially for a bus company, then as QF Inbound Manager on the Gold Coast. Then QF holidays and finally CSA at BNE Intl (mainly groups). I'll never forget the situation as we were on the bus out to the plane...we were sitting down at front opposite two salarymen. They were talking and looking at my wife. Little did they know she could understand everything they were saying. She overheard what they were saying and got angry (inwardly, I could spot it). I asked her what they were talking about and she spat "my br***ts" (well, they were nice :wink
She waited until the bus had stopped and we all stood up. She was head and shoulders above these guys and gave them a spray of Japanese that stopped the front of the bus offloading. Well, needless to say, they sat back down and were last off the bus. They had to walk past us and I have never seen two men bow more deeply, ashamed and apologising (as they also did when we deplaned in TKO). It was fabulous to watch...
Don't want to cook Okonomiyaki myself (current Mrs LW not really a Japanese fan), I want to watch them cook it in front of me...restaurant quality not LW lack-of-quality cooking required.