Shabu shabu and tsukiyaki for dinner with Moe, Maiko, and Azusa. Sort of like dinner fondue... we cooked many things at our table.
I was going to order water, and found out it was self-serve at at the area where we chose what foods we wanted to cook. So I went to get my water and saw this drink dispenser where you put your cup underneath and push the button of the drink you want. I filled one of the available cups with water, and another with a cherry beverage - completely intending to pay for this cherry drink. After a few minutes back at the table though, a waitress came and told my friends something in Japanese that I didn't totally understand. But basically, I wasn't supposed to take the cherry drink. My friends said that the first one I had gotten was fine, but that I shouldn't get more.
So I'm guessing that I was supposed to let the waiter know I wanted the cherry drink, and then they would have given me a different cup. Moe, Maiko, and Azusa ordered cocktails and beer (which I can also order in Japan), so they didn't need to use the drink dispenser from which I got the cherry drink, otherwise maybe I would've figured it out haha. In the end though, I wasn't charged for the cherry drink. I think in the U.S. I would've been charged. Sometimes when your in a different country, you just gotta go with the flow.
I was going to order water, and found out it was self-serve at at the area where we chose what foods we wanted to cook. So I went to get my water and saw this drink dispenser where you put your cup underneath and push the button of the drink you want. I filled one of the available cups with water, and another with a cherry beverage - completely intending to pay for this cherry drink. After a few minutes back at the table though, a waitress came and told my friends something in Japanese that I didn't totally understand. But basically, I wasn't supposed to take the cherry drink. My friends said that the first one I had gotten was fine, but that I shouldn't get more.
So I'm guessing that I was supposed to let the waiter know I wanted the cherry drink, and then they would have given me a different cup. Moe, Maiko, and Azusa ordered cocktails and beer (which I can also order in Japan), so they didn't need to use the drink dispenser from which I got the cherry drink, otherwise maybe I would've figured it out haha. In the end though, I wasn't charged for the cherry drink. I think in the U.S. I would've been charged. Sometimes when your in a different country, you just gotta go with the flow.