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Actress Mina Tanaka named soy sauce-glazed grilled dango as a food she loves so much she’d consider opening her own shop for it, on TBS Radio’s “Mina Tanaka’s Cozy Time.” She wasn’t talking about the sweet mitarashi-glazed version, but the plain, unsweetened soy sauce dango you’d find at a street stall, reportedly saying, “I eat a ton of it. I end up having like five skewers.” The thread that followed split between people calling the “I love it so I’ll open a shop” logic naive as a business plan, and others saying that’s reading way too much into what was clearly just an offhand wish. There was also plenty of chatter about where to actually buy soy sauce-grilled dango regionally, and about how prices for the skewers have been climbing.
Mina Tanaka reveals a favorite food she loves so much she’d want to run a shop for it: “I eat a ton of it. I end up having like five skewers.”
Actress Mina Tanaka (39) appeared on the TBS Radio program “Mina Tanaka’s Cozy Time” (Saturdays, 6:30 PM), which aired on the 7th, and revealed a favorite food she loves enough to consider starting her own shop for it.
Tanaka, talking with that day’s guest, comedy duo Ogiyahagi’s Hiroaki Ogi, said, “We were just talking about what we’d want to eat if we went on a food-tour outing…”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
That's not how business works.
Is this the cash-on-delivery counter for idiots? (riffing on the previous poster's typo "発送" [dispatch/shipping] instead of "発想" [idea])
She's just talking about a dream, that's all.
This isn't a business planning meeting.
Sometimes one out of however many people who try something reckless ends up massively succeeding.
And it's totally normal for a business run by pros following all the right principles to flop hard too.
Well, people who never move because they've decided it's impossible definitely never succeed — but they never fail either.
Didn't Wajima-san hand the dango shop over to a relative already?
I feel like isobe actually lets the soy sauce flavor come through more.
Come to think of it, I haven't had the plain soy-sauce kind in a while.
They've been closing down one after another though.
> When Ogi said, "You mean the soy sauce one, right? They don't sell that at convenience stores. Maybe it's just not popular?" she replied, "You can occasionally find it at Japanese sweets shops. But the grilled dango at those shops is too refined. I want the street-stall kind."
This woman's demands are seriously excessive.
She shoots down the other person's suggestion first, then raises the bar even higher.
Still tasty though.
If she likes it that much, she should just make it herself.
For someone who's supposedly a germaphobe, she's full of contradictions.
Pretty impressive.
Dango is literally just flour.
80 yen a skewer is already pricey, you idiot.
These days it's more like 160 yen.
Even if that's just her shtick, that's kind of rude.
I used to eat it all the time when I lived nearby.
Just looked it up and found out it closed in 2020… devastated.
They were small, so five of those would've been easy.
Sounds like Tokyo doesn't really have it — that's rough.
This is the one.
They even sell the sauce.
Just grill it yourself.
Not grilled dango coated in sweet mitarashi sauce — you mean the unsweetened kind brushed with soy sauce and grilled, right?
I think you can find it in Tokyo too if you look around.
She really carries herself well.
Background and Key Points of This Topic
The “soy sauce-grilled dango” discussed in the thread is a different thing from the white mochi dango coated in sweet mitarashi sauce — it refers to the plain, street-stall-style dango brushed with soy sauce alone and grilled. As several commenters noted, Japanese sweets shops tend to carry more refined dango, while shops selling the simple, festival-stall-style grilled version are limited, with how common it is varying by region, such as Saitama or Nagoya. Opinion in the thread split over how to take Tanaka’s remark that she “loves it enough to want to open a shop”: some called the business logic naive, while others argued that treating it as an actual business plan was reading way too much into an offhand wish. There was also a point about the price of a single skewer climbing from around 80 yen to roughly 160 yen, suggesting even this humble snack hasn’t escaped rising prices. Worth noting: the article itself never states that Tanaka is actually planning to open a shop — it remains just a comment she made on the radio.
*This article is an excerpt and summary based on the 5ch (Geinou Sports Breaking+) thread “[Entertainment] Mina Tanaka reveals a favorite food she loves so much she’d want to run a shop for it: “I eat a ton of it. I end up having like five skewers.”“
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