Love the video, pretty much sums up my experiences on the trips I’ve had there.
Machine translation: tried out the visual translate approach back in October in Shimabara. Restaurant had (i) no pictures, and (ii) no English menu. Banner outside seemed to suggest pork may be involved:
(would love to know what the piglet is saying…)
Menu was:
And Google translate came back with:
Gave me an idea of what was up anyhow, though I feel one of the last items there was very presidential. Anyhow, turned out to be pork shabu shabu and most oishii.
Even when English translations are available it can be… ‘interesting’:
