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The story
At the Asian Games that kicked off in Nagoya, Thai media reported that Thailand’s teqball head coach, Papuchompoo, jokingly grumbled that organizers “only gave us a tiny bit” when it came to athlete meals at the venue. A post claiming athletes could pick only one type of vegetable, in skimpy portions, spread on Facebook and became a talking point. On 5channel, the story snowballed as users piled on with reports of other operational headaches — a delayed shuttle bus for South Korea’s basketball team, and complaints about short beds and water leaks in the container-style athlete housing. Opinions split between those who saw it as evidence that hastily-added events were being under-supported, and those who dismissed the complaints as spoiled griping.
9/20 (Sun) 11:56
As the Nagoya Asian Games opened on the 19th, a report from Thai media is drawing attention.
Thailand’s Khaosod Online reported on the 17th under the headline “Thai teqball coach shows off Asian Games venue food, jokes ‘They only gave us a tiny bit.’” Footage of teqball head coach Papuchompoo quipping “That’s way too little!” and joking that “you can only pick one type of vegetable, you can’t have two,” has reportedly been circulating on the Facebook page “Teqball Thailand Inside.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Don't be so greedy.
This is Japan doing its very best at 'omotenashi' (hospitality).
Even if everything else is a bit shabby, most complaints could be smoothed over as long as the food is solid.
Team Thailand is furious!
"I'll show you all the meal Team Thailand actually received."
Athletes aren't allowed to serve themselves — staff dish it out
No seconds allowed
Players went hungry
and had to go find their own food
at shops outside the venue
i.imgur.com/E1COlDE.jpg
Are the people serving the food foreigners too?
That doesn't really look like an amount worth getting that furious about.
For athletes, that's nowhere near enough calories or protein.
The beds are only 1.95m long
The container housing is leaking water
The bus the organizers arranged took them to the wrong hotel
i.imgur.com/qtcV4H9.jpeg
and Japan's side basically said 'No way, find your own venue and lodging'?
Serves them right, lol
The athletes are the ones caught in the middle, victims of both the Olympic Council of Asia forcing the additions through and Nagoya's side being unable to spend beyond its fixed budget.
Except it's basketball players complaining about the container bed length and water leaks.
It's the other way around.
Japanese people
still don't know the first thing about nutrition.
If it were all meat, you'd be screaming that vegetarians can't survive.
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/71d53c2daff98b8b0877c0ce0ff5ddb91c7dfdef
> The South Korean men's team was scheduled to run shooting drills that morning at a gym separate from the final venue, but the shuttle vehicle that was supposed to arrive sometime after 10 a.m. never showed, leaving them stranded and forcing them to scrap practice.
> The result: they went into the final against host nation Japan without being able to practice.
Omo…
Omote…
Omotenashi is lacking (a jab at the drawn-out 'O-mo-te-na-shi' hospitality pitch from Tokyo's 2013 Olympic bid speech)
'We were forced to host this.'
That's more athletes than the Olympics.
because there was a country piling way too much food onto their plates at the buffet
and it became a problem.
For China, piling your plate sky-high and leaving food behind is basically etiquette.
A broke country with a weak yen.
Background and key points of this story
The Nagoya Asian Games only opened on September 19, 2026, and thread posters point out that events like teqball and padel were added to the program shortly before the Games began. Some 5channel posts claim that because these sports weren’t part of the original contract, budgets for lodging and meals were limited — leading to container housing and rules against athletes serving themselves. It’s worth noting, though, that this explanation comes from posters’ secondhand accounts, not an official statement from the Games’ organizing committee. What started as a thread about food expanded into complaints about other operational hiccups — a delayed shuttle bus for South Korea’s team, gripes about bed size — raising broader questions about the host operation. At the same time, some argue the portion sizes were no different from a normal buffet setup and that the backlash is overblown, so opinions remain divided.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5channel (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Asian Games] ‘They only gave us a tiny bit’ — Thai coach laments venue food, ‘It’s vegetables every day,’ ‘Only one kind…’“
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