Ever heard of Mister Donut? Apparently founded in the US, this donut chain is all over the place in Japan. Like any other foreign chain to take root here, it has been thoroughly digested and reprocessed as a Japanese creation. The localized menu is comprised of, of course, donuts, but with a distinctly Japanese twinge.
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| some noodles and nikuman courtesy of Mister Donut |
My little host sister got a toy set of Mister Donuts donuts, complete with a little cup of something a yellowish beige color. When I asked my host father what it was, he said that Japanese people like to eat cream soup with their donuts. Now, call me a crazy person, but I've been looking all over the place to find this mysterious Mister Donuts cream soup and have found nothing online about it. Maybe it was some sort of language-related mishap? I dunno. I'll have to do some investigating at my local Mister Donuts some time soon... ;)
Either way, just the fact that donuts, something so very American, have been transformed into this Japanese thing threw me off a bit. I mean, it's not even a huge change, but all of the little itty bitty differences, the indescribable quality of 'Japanese-ness' that seems to be a part of everything here, really seems to add up into something big. For me at least.
What do you think? Can you tell the difference?
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| Dunkin Donuts |
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| Mister Donuts |
