Students’ tardiness, request for ‘cooked sushi’ angers chef at world-famous restaurant

No sushi for you!

If the famous Seinfeld “Soup Nazi” episode is ringing a few bells, then you might get a kick out of this story.

23-year-old Chuhan Lin, a Chinese student living in Japan, was given the same type of treatment from one of the world’s best sushi chefs after she and a group of friends showed up forty minutes late to their reservation, and then didn’t like the food according to Gawker.

So what did Lin do about her distaste for Tokyo’s finest sushi hotspot, Sukiyabashi Jiro? She took to social media to voice her opinion. Unfortunately for Lin, social media fired back and she was viciously attacked by fans of the restaurant for her online rant.

The restaurant, which is possibly the most famous sushi restaurant in the world, has had such well-known customers as U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dine on the desirable sushi.

But Lin and her friends did not seem to be impressed with the food at the restaurant’s Roppongi location.

With no apology for showing up forty minutes late to the famous two-time Michelin Star restaurant, two of the friends found the raw fish “tough to swallow”. They took a couple bites and left to chow down on deep-fried pork at another restaurant.

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To make matters worse, the rest of Lin’s group attempted to cancel their order and requested “cooked sushi” to go, instead.

The chef was extremely upset, and understandably so. Did no one inform these people of what sushi actually is?

“Is sushi served cooked in your country? If you can’t handle raw food, you should have informed us when you made the reservation!” exclaimed the chef, according to Lin.

In Lin’s online rant on a widely popular Chinese microblogging service called Weibo, she rebutted, “Who knew!? I didn’t make the reservation! If we were Abe! If we were Obama! Would he dare to show such attitude?”

To no surprise, Weibo followers sided with the sushi chef, and Lin drew an onslaught of criticism from people who read her post. The attacks got so bad that she decided to retract her angry post about the restaurant and simply bite her tongue.

Lin, ashamed, returned to Jiro to explain that she was simply trying to minimize food waste. She learned that high-end sushi places such as Jiro use the freshest ingredients in their sushi and they allot the amount of ingredients used based on customer volume, which is part of why the chef was so angry when the group cancelled their order.

Regardless, Jiro’s sushi master invited her to taste his rice-rolled masterpieces if she ever decides to come back.

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