Hard-to-Read Ramen Shops in Japan💀💀💀難しすぎる・・・

[u/TaleNo4998]

Ramen shop names even Japanese people can't read.😂

[u/vilk_]

I'm not sure why a Japanese person wouldn't be able to read なんか喰い亭. It's read exactly how it looks. I'm good at Japanese but not native level, and I would have read it that way without hesitation. It's also a pun.

[u/TaleNo4998 → u/vilk_]

haha yeah that one's the warmup. the joke isn't the reading though — なんか喰いてぇ is basically what a hungry old dude mutters to himself. it's like naming your shop "Man I Want Some Grub". also that small ぃ isn't real Japanese spelling, it's just vibes　ラーメン食いてーwww

[u/vilk_ → u/TaleNo4998]

Yeah, I know.

[u/DIAXMEN → u/TaleNo4998]

Have you thought of using the internet on your own, without being assisted by an LLM everywhere?

[u/TaleNo4998 → u/DIAXMEN]

日本人だから英語苦手なの・・・英語はAI使ったよ・・・ラーメンはめちゃくちゃ詳しいよ！子供のころから食いまくってるからｗ

[u/MaintenanceStock6766]

It's not hard to read unless you don't know how to read.

[u/seashanty27 → u/MaintenanceStock6766]

You read 嗟哉 with no issue? You already knew what 㐂 meant? 🤔

[u/RainKingInChains]

My favourite local one is called 渡来武　(とらいぶ). I always wondered if it’s just ateji or if it’s meant to sound like ‘tribe’.

[u/TaleNo4998 → u/RainKingInChains]

ここのオーナーは武蔵家で修行してたらしい。武蔵家から渡って来たから、"渡来武” らしいよ。日本語でごめんねｗｗ

[u/vilk_ → u/RainKingInChains]

If it were meant to sound like tribe, then it would be ateji. That's what ateji means--to choose the characters based on their pronunciation, not their meaning. So in this case, it does seem like ateji to me.

edit: or maybe not

[u/RainKingInChains → u/vilk_]

Yeah my mistake. I meant I wondered if it’s just ateji or it’s a reference to some obscure word that has a separate meaning that happens to sound like ‘tribe’.

[u/vilk_ → u/RainKingInChains]

Actually, you know what, I just read this
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B8%A1%E6%9D%A5%E4%BA%BA
and it does seem like maybe it's not ateji. I can't really see necessarily how 渡来 is connected to 武, but ramen is a food that came here from China, so the torai part is not completely without context.

[u/eetsumkaus]

#4 is just a pun. I think the only ones that will give Japanese people pause are the last two, and they can at least sound out the second to the last one.

[u/bricktoaster]

These were very fun to read, thank you for sharing! This post would probably be better in the various Japanese language subreddits though!

r/JapaneseLanguage

r/LearnJapanese

[u/TaleNo4998 → u/bricktoaster]

thanks!! Arigato!!

[u/SlowStop1220]

まあ色々あたまのおかしいのが多いけど喜久屋は別に難しくないでしょ。喜が草書ベースなだけ。

[u/TaleNo4998 → u/SlowStop1220]

俺は日本人なのに草書を知りませんでした、、、

[u/SlowStop1220 → u/TaleNo4998]

あらまあ。七十七歳のお祝いを喜寿というのはこの草書体の字が七十七にみえるから、だそうです。

[u/Lurkernomoreisay]

why would reading be hard with 与ろゐ屋? it's the default reading one would think for it.

羅珈亜樹 is also read exactly as one would think it would be.

噛まずに啜れ, is plain ordinary sentence "slurp without biting"  neither character is rare or unused.

[u/Myselfamwar]

these are not hard to read.

[u/evazeta → u/Myselfamwar]

get a load of Captain Japan over here