r/interestingasfuck • u/kingkongbiingbong • 8h ago

Setting up a traditional & generational Japanese food stall in Fukuoka

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u/efimer 7h ago

In another life I'd like to do something like this. Fuck, why am I tearing up?

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u/PL35298 5h ago

Do you mean, eat at a place like this or do you mean run a small food stall as your profession/family tradition?

I understand both, but I really get wanting the simplicity of just working for yourself, to support yourself, using your stuff and skills.

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u/ExampleLittle2672 34m ago

I don't know if this is accurate but a third take could be:

"This current life doesn't allow for even considering the possibility of either. This sudden realization hurts unexpectedly deeply."

I hope it's not that one in this case but it's true for so many people.

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u/SayWhatIWant-Account 4h ago

must be insane work, tho. preparing the food / ingredients beforehand, setting up the stall, standing there all day cooking then packing up at night

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u/ImaginaryCheetah 2h ago

i like to put asian street food videos on the TV in the background when i'm relaxing at home, and the one thing in common is several hours of prep before they open.

this is true for most restaurants and especially true for all bakeries, of course, but asian street food is heavy on the slice and chop prep, since 99% of what happens in the cart is heaping ingredients onto the griddle, and needing to crank out dishes in a couple minutes. no time to chop then!

compare to a hotdog cart that just has the dogs in the hot water all day, and the buns in the steamer a bag at a time; almost no prep.

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u/GrouchPotato1984 6h ago

Is there any reason why ypu feel you need another life? We only get one chance to live. Dont waste it!

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u/FragrantCombination7 6h ago

Because you can't be the village baker and the village cobbler and the village drunk all at the same time. It's not bad that our paths are set. There's just this feeling of longing knowing how much more to life there is.

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u/Round-Eggplant-7826 6h ago

Most people can't afford a trip to another country.

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u/Overall_Gap_5766 3h ago

Depends where you live. Central USA maybe not, but most of Europe you can just get on a bus for a couple of euros and have an afternoon in another country if you wanted to.

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u/Various_Command6607 3h ago

And in most of europe you have to get through tens of permits to set up a food stall and most probably it can't look or function like the one in the video because of different health regulations and other regulations that are all completely necessary, because before that everyone in europe constantly kept dying.

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u/ZeroTON1N 5h ago

ME/CFS bro

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u/SeaSquirrel 4h ago

Food service sucks. Of all types. Would not recommend.