There's another video like this one around somewhere, but this one's better. I really like it.

Ah good, i was fearing a dupe comment! (I did do a search for sushi)

Videos like this make me feel better about the future of humanity.

Awesome! Kinda seems like the intro to a movie or something...

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Darn-it, just tried to submit. This is neat.

Is it me or is LiveLeak won't let me fast forward?

Ant, it doesn't seem to visually buffer the data so I can't see how to move the slider forwards. Not only that but there's no indication of the clip length. I prefer YouTube.

Look like fun ride.

I love this. It's mesmerizing to me; makes me happy to be alive. Thanks.

This is oddly peaceful. So how does this work? They put a variety of sushi out, you take down what you want and then stack the empty plates and pay when finished?

yeah there's something strangely soothing about this video.

strangely soothing, but mildly nauseating when you see the guy get caught finishing "digging for gold" around 1:15...

To deathcow: I think sushi bars work like buffets, you pay a set price and eat as much as you want. I could be wrong, though.

This video is almost therapuetic, even with the clanging of the plates and chatter of the folks.

Why is this soothing?

I can't really articulate it. Something sort of calming about watching the typically unremarked upon mundane activities of everyday life presented plainly and unembellished. I may have something to do with the very steady constant movement too.

Some places have buffet-style conveyors where you pick what you want as it comes. Then there are others with the conveyor belt but each booth having an intercom where you order your meal and the chef sends it down the line. The food usually comes within what seems like seconds of ordering too. Or so I've been told...All very efficient/no nonsense.

I've only seen one of these, at the University Village in Seattle... http://www.bluecsushi.com/

Re: Sushi Boat type resteraunts - The way every sushi boat / conveyor resteraunt that I have been to (both in the States and in Japan), the standard is that various items are placed on various colors or designs of plates and placed on the boats / cpnveyor belts by the chefs. As items come around, you pick items you want off of the conveyor. You can also special order items from the sushi chefs behind the counter. When you are done, your plates are counted to figure out your total. Normally the plates are coded based on the color or design to indicate their price.

And that video does make me happy. It just seems sublimely honest. It's just people being people.

Are you saying that the food is FLOATED in some of the resteraunts?

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In Australia they are often on a "sushi train" it's a scale model train that goes around a track pulling flatbed cars with the sushi plates on them. Like this.

I haven't seen the boat kind.

Most of the ones I have been at are floated on little wooden boats. I have only seen a few that were purely mechanical conveyor belts. I'd never seen the sushi train idea - that's kind neat. But there are many dozens of different Sushi Boat-type resteraunts all around the great San Francisco area.

That was pretty awesome... I was hanging out for when it went 'behind the scenes' into the kitchen.

Very nice

This Sushiboat-thing is totally about the experience. This clip captures it's ephemerality quite well. A little restaurant in the mall in San Francisco's Japan Town, Isobune, "claims" to have invented it some 60 years ago (though coveyor-belt & train-type previously existed).

Can't quite put a finger to it, but it puts a smile on my face. Maybe it's the gentley wafting waves or the local-diner-like atmosphere. Anyways, I dig it, even though no water was employed in the making of this flick.

The plate prices can be seen on the wall at +1:20, just an FYI.

Deathcow, I worked around the corner from a Blue C sushi place in the Fremont neighborhood. I never did go there. I suck.

I want to go back to Japan

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