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The original was posted on /r/mildlyinteresting by /u/a_woman_provides on 2025-06-14 05:12:00+00:00.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 18 hours ago

Seems pretty Braggable. Why wouldn't you flaunt that?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

Yeah, unless the second best is next door id probably settle.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 23 hours ago

Maybe since it's Japan, the cook didn't want to dishonour the master he learned from?

[-] [email protected] 28 points 23 hours ago

Too much kanji, no hiragana or katakana makes it feel like not Japan

[-] [email protected] 39 points 23 hours ago

Second. Also, I can read Japanese, and that’s Chinese.

Even for someone who’s illiterate, Chinese commas resemble English ones, just placed in the center of a full-width character box. Japanese commas are literally 「、」.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago

TIL about Chinese commas :)

Maybe it is Taiwan then, since there are no simplified characters.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Both signs have simplified characters. It is probably not TW

[-] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

The writing is Chinese so I doubt it's in Japan.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

It's (Traditional) Chinese.

It can be Taiwan, though lots of Japanese shops put up signs in foreign languages to attract tourists.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, it's not impossible to be Japan, but I was thinking Taiwan or even HK, perhaps.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 23 hours ago

I like to think that they are just being honest with themselves.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

That's Chinese.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 22 hours ago

Slightly more believable than "the best in the world".

[-] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago

Hokkaido is also a type of ice cream. Apparently available elsewhere, too. The rest of the text is chinese (at least, deepl recognizes it as such)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

My understanding is it’s less a type of ice cream and more a source of dairy

[-] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

It's just "second to none" but written more verbosely

[-] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

Wouldn't it be "second to one"?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

There's a sentence in Cantonese "我認第二冇人敢認第一", which means "if I declare second, no one will declare first".

I wasn't super sure if they meant that because Simplified Chinese is not likely to be Cantonese but Mandarin.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

No. Second to none means the best, this means the second best.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

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