I recently read an article online about a restaurant called Hackikyo in Sapporo, Japan. The restaurant serves seafood dishes such as sushi and other fish items. Their most famous dish is their "tsukko meshi" bowl of rice topped with all you can eat salmon roe. If you were to go to the restaurant today and asked for the food, you might have to pay an extra amount of money if you don't finish your whole plate. The restaurant asks diners who don't finish every roe and grain of rice for a "donation" to help the fisherman. They like to help the fisherman who risk their lives to harvest the "ikura" salty salmon roe. Even though, it's considered a donation, it's more like a fine to the costumers.
The dish costs $25 and many do not finish the whole dish in the restaurant. Some complain that they can't eat that much food, but the restaurant insists that if you can't get a friend to help you, "force the issue of pay the fine".
I don't understand why a restaurant would make you pay a fine just because you can't finish your meal. Sometimes people just don't have enough room in their stomach to digest it all. They don't even allow you to take the food home in like a box or bag without paying a fine. I would think that after a while, not many people would want to buy the dish anymore. I certainly wouldn't want to. Would you want to pay extra money if you didn't finish all your food?
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