A key a part of the whole kaitenzushi expertise.
The technological star of the present at Japan’s kaitenzushi (revolving sushi) eating places are the conveyor belts on which plates of meals are delivered to your desk. Nevertheless, there’s one other intelligent piece of tech that’s usually discovered at kaitenzushi eating places.
Formally referred to as “drink fillers,” these are spigots constructed into the counter or desk. In Japan, inexperienced tea is free at kaitzenzushi eating places, and these useful self-service gadgets permit you to get a cup of tea with out having to ask the employees or rise up and go to a centralized drink bar.
Whereas drink fillers are a quite common a part of the kaitenzushi expertise, our Japanese-language reporter Tasuku Egawa by some means managed to go his entire life till now with out ever utilizing one. Chalk it as much as Tasuku’s statistically uncommon predilection for ingesting ice water together with his sushi. The opposite day, although, he determined it was lastly time to fill this hole in his life experiences.
how the machine is constructed into the counter, Tasuku puzzled the place the liquid itself was coming from. So he poked his head beneath the counter…
…and noticed a size of rubber hosing goes into the steel base of the drink filler, whereas the opposite goes again additional to some kind of central faucet/water provide.
Coming again topside, Tasuku took one other take a look at the rubber pad that you just’re purported to press ahead to dispense the liquid, and felt a little bit of apprehension.
You’re purported to maintain your teacup in your hand, after which push the cup ahead in opposition to the pad. The hose Tasuku had seen beneath the counter was pretty slender, however nonetheless, scorching liquid was going to be popping out of the spigot very close to his hand. If he pressed the pad with an excessive amount of pressure, would possibly that wide-open the faucet, leading to scalding splashes of cascading liquid?
So for security’s sake, Tasuku pressed his cup gently in opposition to the pad, and…
…completely nothing occurred.
As Tasuku discovered, it really takes a reasonably good quantity of pressure to open the faucet. On reflection, this makes lots of sense. Should you’re allotting scorching liquids, you don’t need hair-trigger faucets that clients would possibly hit by chance, particularly since households with small children a reasonably large katenzushi buyer demographic.
So sure, you actually do want to present the pad a reasonably sturdy push, and it’s mainly an on/off setting, so there’s no want to control the stress for an optimum circulation. That’s why the below-counter hose isn’t so thick – even at full circulation, it received’t splash outdoors your cup.
At this level Tasuku discovered one thing else about kaitenzushi drink fillers. Although they’re for individuals who wish to drink tea, the drink fillers simply dispense scorching water, not inexperienced tea itself. So that you’ll must search for a canister or field subsequent to the drink filler that’s stocked with both inexperienced tea powder or tea luggage, which you’re supposed to place in your cup first after which add the recent water from the drink filler.
▼ The kaitenzushi restaurant Tasuku went to had its inexperienced tea powder in a shaker, however some locations as a substitute have a bit dispenser spoon to scoop the powder into your cup with.
With intense summertime-style warmth sticking round in Japan by September, Tasuku will in all probability be sticking together with his standard ice water for the close to future, however as soon as we get deeper into fall he now is aware of how simple it’s to whip up a cup of inexperienced tea, and it’s one thing we advocate everybody strive no less than as soon as to get the complete kaitenzushi expertise if you’re in Japan.
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