The dirtiest restaurants in Japan have the best food

[DigitalDeath]

That fan has not been turned off since 1970.

[wyletwo]

These kinda restaurants will either provide food that is god's gift from the heavens or the worst food poisoning of your life, and there's no in between

[subparSamaritan]

That isn't a fan, that's an air impurifier!

[Jarakin]

Got to love a place that deliberately projects "I don't give a shit because you're gonna come back anyway no matter how bad we look" vibes

[Kokuyouski]

"Decades worth of tradition" that's a hilariously gentle way to put it :)

[simle]

If a place is really dirty and still has a lot of customers you know it’s going to be good.

[lizziebutdiff]

That fan alone will give you +10 points immunity.

[organicsugarcones]

I grew up in Oregon, USA. My family's favorite Chinese restaurant had frequent plumbing issues and would smell like raw sewage ~1/4 of the time. They used to allow smoking and you could still smell it in the walls and upholstery decades later. It was dingy and dusty and some of the booth seats were torn.

But omg, the food was SO good and the family who owned it were so nice and would recognize my mom on the phone by her voice alone and would often throw in freebies for us. When they closed I actually cried because I would never be able to eat their perfect restaurant special chow mein with pan fried noodles or their impeccable egg rolls again.

I've eaten at a lot of Chinese restaurants over the years, and I live in Hawaii now and there are some incredible Chinese restaurants here that I frequent, but I've never found one that hit quite the same.

[aintijustthecutest]

That fan is an automatic black pepper dispenser. lol

[airangel]

As a filipino, the resto's name caught me off guard. 'Mandaraya' means cheater in our language. Glad to hear the food was good tho. 😅

[milesedgeworth]

I ate at a restaurant in Malaysia that was a hole in a wall. Actually looked like it was carved out by hand and even the furniture looked like they came from the WW1. The walls had sludge stains and a stray dog was going table to table begging for scraps. There was a broken payphone next to my table and I saw a roach crawl out of the hole where you get your change. The place was always damp and the floor always had puddles. But the food. Man. The food was so ass. It actually gave me food poisoning.

[drizzlejohn]

Reminds me of the time I dared to look up at the curtain tops in a Mongolian grill restaurant... ☠️

[that_big_doggo]

that fan is one of the most vile things i’ve seen all week 😭😭😭

[DaVoiceActor]

My nose is clogging up just from looking at that fan

[riardomilos]

The dirtiest food place in Japan is literally 80% of retaurants in my hometown 😂

[terrancenightingale]

I feel like bro just put +5 points into his archeology stats with that Chex Quest reference. The man is digging up memories buried so deep I didn't even know I'd forgotten them

[mvl]

The fan is a testament to the quality of products made in Japan...
100 years from now itll still be blowing

[bearVshark]

I started breathing less deeply at the sight of that fan. I don’t think you can make a katsu dish good enough to get me to stay in there.

[sayospecter]

That fan had probably been there for the Postwar Economic Miracle, the Bubble Era, the Lost Decade and the dawn of Reiwa, all with the exact same parts and untouched except when someone's turning it ON/OFF exactly once per day.

[zombieotr]

You couldn't get me to go in there in a full bio hazard suit. I've played food poisoning roulette before and I'm not doing it again.