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At the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, the head coach of Thailand’s national teqball team revealed on social media that lunch at the competition venue was “way too small — you can only pick one vegetable side dish,” according to Thai media reports. Photos reposted on 5ch show the athletes’ meal consisting of little more than vegetables and about three pieces of chicken. The thread also raised reports of leaks in the container-style lodging, the “refugee camp” label used by overseas media, and claims that the Indian team was kept waiting 14 hours for their rooms — fueling broader doubts about the whole operation just before the opening.
[Asian Games] Vegetables and three pieces of chicken… “Are we supposed to compete on this?” — the shocking meal
With the official opening of the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games approaching, day after day the games’ inexperienced organization is coming under fire.
Thai outlet Khaosod reported on the 17th that “Rewat Papchamphu, head coach of Thailand’s national teqball team, joked after receiving lunch at the Asian Games teqball venue that ‘the portion is way too small — you can only choose one vegetable side, you can’t have two kinds.’”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
This is what happens when Governor Omura dumped everything on that notoriously awful French company
Even when people complain, they just get ignored
They're cheap, but they do spend when it counts
If it's not enough, pay for your own Uber Eats!
Are you confusing it with the Olympic Village? lol
so now you just tell staff what you want and they plate it for you?
Isn't this the kind of thing each country's own catering staff bring in themselves?
Japanese people are putting up with it too, so foreigners have no business complaining when they come here
Feels like they're short on budget, staffing, and management all around
Huh?
You can get seconds, right?
Isn't it buffet style?
Not really.
They've pulled it off fine elsewhere —
Japan just lacks the hosting ability
and online it's all finger-pointing and abuse hurled at Asia —
this country has really become an embarrassment…
Every disease is inflammation.
Eventually it turns into cancer.
That's why they can't see their own problems
served with a big smile: that's "omotenashi" hospitality for you
Halal accommodations?
Let me show you the meal the Thai team actually got.
You're not allowed to serve yourself — staff only doles it out
and you can't get any more after that.
The athletes got hungry and had to go find
their own food at shops outside.
i.imgur.com/YK3rPHL.jpeg
They're confused enough that—
in Asia, they're probably still used to being wined and dined
if you want special treatment, go to the Olympics
Komeda's no good, it's bad —
huge sandwiches with no flavor to them,
basically everything wrong with Nagoya packed into one bite (Komeda: a Nagoya-based coffee chain)
you get treated like a joke
[Paris Olympics] Bid: 1.2 trillion yen → Final: 1.2 trillion yen
[Tokyo Olympics] Bid: 0.8 trillion yen → Final: 3.7 trillion yen
The container-style lodging is just cramped — you can't even stretch your legs out
Overseas media reported it as a "refugee camp"
On top of that, there's even water leaking
i.imgur.com/EXA34Bo.png
The Thai team had no lodging and had to sleep on the lobby floor
The Indian team waited 14 hours for their room to be ready
Indian team:
"The room wasn't ready"
"There was no breakfast"
"The team bus never showed up"
"No nutrition food or fruit either"
i.imgur.com/MGgsNwz.jpg
Background and Points of Debate
The Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games reported here is a regional event, different in both scale and budget from a national-level undertaking like the Tokyo Olympics (2021), and commenters in the thread pointed out that some operational duties have been outsourced to an overseas company. The claims about meal portions and lodging conditions are based on social media photos and local media reports; no official explanation from the games’ organizing committee had been confirmed at the time of writing. Opinion in the thread split between those who saw the problems as failures of the operating structure — pointing to overlapping reports of leaks in the lodging and long waiting times — and those who saw them as excessive expectations for an event of this scale, arguing that the Asian Games was never meant to guarantee the lavish treatment of the Olympics. One point readers could easily misread: the individual reports about food, lodging, and wait times don’t all trace back to a single cause — they were reported as separate incidents involving different teams and venues.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports Breaking News+) thread “[Aichi Asian Games] Vegetables and three pieces of chicken… “Are we supposed to compete on this?” — the shocking meal at the venue, revealed by the Thai coach on social media.”
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