Eat Silently

New Expressions & Buzzwords |黙食

Eat Silently

More and more restaurants are putting up posters with the message “Please try to help us out by eating silently” written on them. A curry restaurant in Fukuoka Prefecture started it all off. Comments like “Easy to understand,” “Eating out is not bad in and of itself” are spreading on social media.

黙食もくしょく
“mokushoku
eating silently
だまって
(damatte
[silently]
べる
taberu
[eat]
こと)
koto)
[to]
ni
by
協力きょうりょく
go kyouryoku
try to help us out
ください」
kudasai”
please
to
with (the message)
かれた
kakareta
written on (them)
ポスターぽすたー
posuta- wo
posters
haru
(are) putting up
みせ
mise ga
restaurants
えています。
fuete i masu.
more and more
福岡県ふくおかけん
fukuoka’kenn
Fukuoka Prefecture
no
in
カレーかれーてん
kare- tenn ga
(a) curry restaurant
はじめました。
hajime mashita.
started (it all off)
「わかりやすい」、
“wakari yasui”,
easy to understand
外食がいしょく
“gaishoku
eating out (in and of)
そのものが
sono mono ga
itself
わる
warui
bad
わけではない」
wake deha nai”
not
といった
to itta
like
コメントこめんと
komennto ga
comments
SNSえすえぬえす
SNS
social media
de
on
ひろがっています。
hirogatte i masu.
are spreading

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