They love us! They nearly all offer a type of fish and chips. But also Italian pasta, Spanish tapas, and Japanese omurice. I love the themed design of the establishments and find it all very cute. Although they all offer tea, non are Yorkshire or PG tips, mostly things like generic Earl Grey, or Milk Tea.

by EmMeo

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  1. going to english themed places abroad is such a guilty pleasure of mine

  3. Reminds me of the time I was in Bonn and a shop was having “English Week”. There was a huge cardboard cutout of a Scotsman in a kilt in the window

  4. Always wondered if the Japan/British thing was deeper than I knew, the whole island off a continent mindset has rattled deep into the psyche of both nations.

  6. I had the same thing! It’s so cool to see what others countries think of ours

    I went round a lot of east Asia, and unsurprisingly the ex colonies were closer to the real thing ‘:)

  7. Love the empty bottle of whisky under the dome – don’t want anyone nicking that!

  8. Maybe it’s different there, my experience of ‘English’ bars abroad are ones in the Med, and I find them absolutely lamentable, all of them without exception were playing Only Fools and Horses on TV, muted, serving cheap lager and greasy fry up breakfasts, admittedly this was some years back so maybe it’s different. For some, maybe that’s bliss and a taste of home, to me it’s a mouth breather’s vision of what an English pub is.

    I only.went to one with friends, the rest we walked past and didn’t need to enter the others to see (open air). I kinda get the appeal to visit a Brit themed bar etc abroad, ish, but on the whole, if I want a Brit pub, I am in Britain.. when in Rome, Rome.

  9. Pubs here at generally shit. The fish and chips make me weep and sausages….nope.

    We do have a few gems though. And hey, most UK or Irish style pubs have cheap beer and cider.

  10. My mum has those exact terracotta planters so those are authentic to the North of England, as traditionally imported from China and sold in B&Q

  13. Just got back from Japan and me and my mate loved the English pub chain ‘HUB’, always such a laugh in there and packed on a Friday or Saturday

  14. Tbf apparently “Katsu came from Indian chefs on British Naval Ships”

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  15. I lived in Hong Kong in the mid 90s and went to South-West China one time, pre Internet and not too much English spoke and me and a friend stumbled upon ‘The Motorcycle Bar’ with motorcycle outside

    Their attempt at a western bar and it was pretty cool and had a pork chop and got into a bit of a drinking contest with some Chinese guys

  16. If you’re still there, there’s a YouTube channel called Abroad in Japan where an English guy chronicles his life living in Japan. I’m pretty sure he did a video on English pubs and restaurants in Tokyo which might give you something to go on.

    Also, if you’re looking for good Japanese food vids, check out Japaneats. The guy is hilarious, and sometimes the food looks amazing.

  17. **Fish&chips**, *ajillo* and a pint of whiskey my good man!

  19. The Old England of course, because the new one is kind of shit.

  22. I prefer my fish & chips to be served from somewhere which doesn’t have the hygiene rating on display.

  23. Hub the English pub chain is a surprisingly great place to go for casual conversation with Japanese people, in a country where it’s sometimes hard to break through people’s natural reservation towards strangers. I did a year of uni in Tokyo and I got a lot of desperately needed free drinks there by putting on a Hugh Grant voice like the shameless performing monkey that I am.

  24. I got treated like a visiting dignitary in some of those places . I’ve never encountered Britain being celebrated like a Disney attraction in the way some Americans do to the Irish. It was a nice change from being “evil drunk invaders”.

  25. Yeah its always interesting seeing how other countries interpret British culture. Also got to give them credit for using the old instead of ye old

  26. There’s a chain of british themed coffee places that says “Keep calm and drink coffee”, which i find kind of amusing

  27. They never get the chips right with fish and chips. They’re always thin fries and not proper chunky chip shop chips.

  28. English pubs in Japan are such a mind fuck lol

    It’s like a parallel universe

  29. Is this what they see when they see authentic Japanese cuisine here?

  32. It’s the wrong food but it’s 100% the right idea, deep-fried and/or hideous looking 

  33. As someone that lives in Japan.. you get used to this 🙁

  34. I’m canadian so the only experience i ever got of this kind of thing was going to tim hortons in the uk and being horrified there were burgers and hotdogs. I tried em and they were awful

  35. ‘English’ themed but has a British flag on the menu?

  36. Japan do British pubs much better than most abroad places. The difference is the attention to detail and the fact they’re for local Japanese people who want to experience something exotic, not for pissed up Brits, Irish and Aussies looking for a place to watch the rugby.

  37. Whether the food is good or accurate or not aside props for the bottle of Glendronach 18 as its a fantastic whisky

  39. I was in Shibuya in a chain British themed pub called HUB. Genuinely looked like Wetherspoons on the inside. Was almost perfect until the guy next to us started eating fish and chips with chopsticks.

  40. Was in tokyo last year and was aghast at the number of British-style pubs that were open till the early hours every day.

  41. I loved Japan’s ‘european bakeries’. I got a sausage roll, expecting it to be the type you’d get from Greggs. Instead I got a hot dog sausage in a sweet glazed bun. And you know what? It was delicious. I think about it all the time.

  42. There’s a little English-themed café in the basement of Kyoto Station called “Sir Thomas Lipton”—which Americans at least will immediately recognize as the brand name of the most generic black tea in the grocery store. (Their “full English” was good.)

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