I think Mr. Wong's ching chong burger is funny.
I work in a Japanese hibachi restaurant. I am employed by Asians. I am a white person. Calling a menu item by a slightly inappropriate or racist name is normal for me. I have been encouraged to do so by the owners, and have been trained in the most effective way to do it so that it's funny and family friendly.
Most of what I do as a hibachi cook boils down to making simple (and essentially racist) jokes on anything even remotely related to anything asian. For example, I've been told that a good way to humorously recover from accidentally dropping an egg (rather than catching it in my hat or pocket), is to say that the egg that fell was chinese, not japanese. Or now we say korean, with recent news that seems to get more laughs. Another example, when I do a volcano, I use oil and alcohol to make a fire. One I say is japanese gasoline (cheaper than american), the other is japanese jack daniels (jack daniel-san). It's super lame, but it's also cute. I've done this for tables full of asian people, they love it. Nobody is offended, they think it's cute.
But also the people I'm serving are completely aware that what I do is essentially "ching chong: the restaurant" so they play along with the hibachi thing and everyone has a great time. And I think this burger thing is the same way, it's just for a laugh and I mean frankly it has all the qualities of a good name. It's certainly different, nobody else serves a ching chong burger, and it rolls off the tongue. And I mean surely nobody going into Johnny's Burgers and specifically ordering the ching chong burger just so that they can say it out loud in hope that it offends any nearby asians? That's not the case at all.
Getting people to talk about how outraged people are these days is good advertisement tbh
It says in the article that he has malaysian roots, where Min Nan is spoken.
Interesting, I am glad your owners trained you well. I hope they are treating you well. If you ever need a new home, hit me up.
And I'm telling you that Wong is the Cantonese reading for 王, while the Hokkien reading for that surname is Ong. In any case the Hokkien reading for 正宗 does not sound anything like "ching chong" either so there's really no point arguing about this.
I think we've reached a critical mass of people that find "ching chong" offensive that it's not really okay to use like that. It's a bit disingenuous to be shouting "cunt" everywhere because you know a bunch of people who aren't offended. Unless you're in Australia.
outrage culture is gay
nobody outside of that town would have heard of this "outrage" fifteen years ago
You're only allowed to engage in identity politics if you can cynically weaponize it to win arguments. It's unfortunate but thems the rules.
I mean if he's an Australian Asian and an Australian Asian has a problem with it, why are Europeans and Americans discussing whether or not it's acceptable? Shouldn't that be for the restaurant's community to figure out?
...Did you just condemn racist people by using the Aussie equivalent of "trailer trash" and "retard"?
Do you want to throw some misogyny in there to round out the "everything but racist" thing you have going?
is this sarcasm or what
Oh haha, shit yeah that doesn't read like it was supposed to. It isn't sarcasm so much as just giving him shit. I'm amused, not offended.
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