Found these pics trawling the ether.
Now heres a combo of two of my passions! trains and sushi![:D][:D]
Its a sushi counter in Taiwan, I’ve seen conveyer belt (roboto)and floating boat sushi joints but I’ve never seen a RR sushi-joint here in the US!
[:p]
Very cool! Almost makes the concept of raw fish, squid, etc seem appealing. 
Here in Oz just about all sushi bars use LGB flatcars & motive power to parade the dishes in front of diners
truly raw power
[:(]Oh misery and tears! Of all the ‘kaiten-sushi’ joints in all the towns here in Japan, I’ve yet to find motive power.
We just get the original conveyer belt revolving sushi. Not that I don’t love it, but it would make a nice change to hear the ‘chuff chuff’ of a loco rather than the ‘stuff stuff’ of an over-zealous eater.
Taiwan and Australia are a bit too far to go for that.
Matthew. [bow]
Excellent, most excellent! Makes me hungry…
Here we just get the roboto bars with the conveyer belt, our local favorite place uses small wood boats loaded with nigiri plates in channel of water that uses water jets to pu***he boats along.
I wonder if there are Health Department issues here in the US preventing such use? Couldnt be any worse that a piece of nigiri getting caught in the conveyer belt now could it?
Be neat to have a big DASH-9 ditch light flashing pulling a long string of tasty treats!
Hey!!! Send one of those cars over here!!! [dinner]
We don’t even get the robots or boats in Ohio.
underworld
aka The Violet
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The trains are fine but raw fish etc has never had any appeal whatsover. I think I would be express to the smallest room!
Kim
Hi Kim
[#ditto]
But I will take the loco thanks it looks like it’s an Aster one[:D]
regards John
or the lgb mallet John
Hi kim
I am amenable to another LGB Mallet if thats what it is.
Both that and anything Aster even the “G” 0-4-0 Jap job are out of my price range at the moment
Must get mine serviced and the lights working again
regards John
Welllllll, If they’re looking to get into my pocket, THEY GONNA GO BROKE! I don’t even eat fish cooked, let alone raw! You teach that Lobster to moo, or the shrimp to oink and then I’ll eat it!
I don’t even want the cars, I’d have to sterilize them to get rid of the stink!
John, please provide an expression used to denegrate Aussies, to balance your ‘Jap’ comment, so that I can use that against you.
According to Monty Python to dis an Aussie, just call everyone “Bruce”
Anyway, the trains are niether LGB or Aster, they’re from a small Taiwanese company called “Deduce” which makes fine scale models of Taiwanese trains, steam, and dismal.
I found this thru this site
http://www.geocities.com/gscaletrains/
In the links under “Deduce”
http://www.geocities.com/gscaletrains/links.html
Tough site to navigate, but they make some interesting stuff, the Taiwanese modified Shay is particularly inteesting.
As for Sushi, Yes, it is an aquired taste, but I’ll take raw fish anyday over the bland crap most of us American kids had to grow up eating during the 60’s and 70’s. If you want something REALLY disgusting try boiled Brussel Sprouts! Peeewww!
Anyone can eat California Rolls, its cooked shredded crab in a rice roll, as for the nigiri (raw fish) freshness is key, the fresher the better, but its almost all mental. The first time I took my wife to sushi, she was really not into it, she was raised with the same attitudes to raw fish as mentioned above, but each time we went she would try one thing new, eventually shes now just as mad about nigiri as I am! [:p]
Bob if you leave it out on deck in the hot sun for three hours then, yes, nigiri might be a bit unappealing! Thats OK Bob almost every place I’ve been to also has beef and chicken teriyaki on the menu[:D]
Ernie I dont belive he ment it as a ethnic slap ( I sure hope not John) but as a contraction of “Japanese” like contracting Brit from British. Granted it has a lot more baggage than Brit does and should be avoided as most Japanese-Americans I know are very sensitive about it. That whole Manzinar incedent and all that stupidity. John may not know that American citizens of Japanese decent were rounded up and interned during WW2 in prison camps against all constitutional law and lost everything they had or that the J word is taken by Japanese-Americans in the same way the N-word is taken by African-Americans. I know if someone called me a “Mick” is slur to my Irish Ancestory I’d be mighty POed.
Just an aside but I was at an comic book convention a few years ago when Japanese anime was just becoming big, back then we used the term Japan-imiation, a contraction of “Japanese” and “animation”, one guy who was not Japanese heard it, got hot and thought we were dissing the Japanese by saying “Jap Animation”, well it didnt take long about 1 minutes of discussion to explain that at the time their was a magazine based in Japan called “Japanime” and that was where the term originated (one guy smacked him with the Japanese language magazine and said “check this out doufus”). Nowadays even the “Japan-imation” term has gone away and just simply “anime” now means specificly “anime of japanese origin”. Langauge changes as the world shrinks.
My point being that if it comes out of the water, I don’t eat it! I’ll cook or otherwise prepare it for others, but I won’t; I don’t care how you set it before me, train, boat, or belt!
Yummy!!!
Ernie, Jap is used here in Oz just as a normal contraction, no slur intended. I drive a Jap car, have a Jap TV etc. Don’t get uptight about cultural differences.
Here a term of affection for a friend is “You old " whereas I know in Texas that would get me shot. On the other hand you can call your friend "an old son-of-a-” which here in the great land Downunder would earn you a busted nose at the very least. When dealing with international forums (fora?) a little give & take is needed.
BTW, to really upset an Ozzie mistake him for a Kiwi!