What wouldn’t you do for some free sushi. In Taiwan, apparently, people are also ready to change their name on the identity card, calling themselves “Salmon”. The reason? Last week, the Akindo Sushiro restaurant chain came up with a bizarre promotion: anyone with the word “gui yu” in their name – the Chinese characters meaning salmon – would have been entitled to an all-you-can- lunch. eat, for himself and five other friends.
In two days, the registry offices across the country were stormed by at least 150 people ready to shell out the 80 Taiwanese dollars (2 euros and 30 cents) to insert the magic word in their document.
“I changed my name this morning to Bao Cheng Gui Yu (” Explosive Good Looking Salmon “) and just finished eating sushi for about $ 7,000,” a student from Kaohsiung City told TV. Tvbs. “My friends and I also added the word salmon to our names,” another girl told Set Tv. “Once we have finished eating, we will return it”. Taiwan allows its citizens, in fact, to change their name up to a maximum of three times.
The imagination, of course, was unleashed and so here comes “Prince salmon”, “King salmon”, “Bowl of rice with salmon”. “With what we ordered today we would have spent about 13 thousand dollars”, two guys told the France Presse agency. “I think we’re not going to eat sushi for a while now.”
The “salmon chaos”, as it was immediately dubbed by the local media, obviously did not like the government. “All of this is just a waste of time and causes a waste of paper that could have been avoided,” said Interior Minister Chen Tsung-yen.
Someone, however, went even further, changing their name by including the words “crab” and “lobster”. Perhaps already thinking about the next promotion.
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