4.27.2008

Cafe Japan's CHOPSTICKS カフェジャパンのお箸 第2弾


We thank you very much for your patronage. This is the information about the small present from Café Japan. Though we did the same campaign last December, it has been out of stock! We have ordered again the shop and just arrived.

In Japan, it is usual to have one’s own pair of HASHI (chopsticks) at home and to use the same one everyday. Recently it has become very popular to carry one’s own hashi for use at the restaurant or at the office, instead of using disposable chopsticks. We call them ‘My HASHI.’ This idea comes from ecology and is designed to present waste and save trees, even though disposable chopsticks are also recycled in Japan.

Café Japan is also sending a lot of chopsticks everyday to the customers. From the trend to have one’s portable chopsticks, we’ve come up with the idea of making original HASHI (chopsticks) for the regular customers and giving them to you. When you place a food order, we will deliver HASHI according to your order instead of disposable chopsticks. Afterwards we will not send disposable chopsticks except on your special request.

We ordered the original HASHI (chopsticks) from a shop in Wajima city, Japan, which is famous for lacquered crafts and tableware. They have written on them “Café Japan” in Japanese characters and in gold ink. We have 15 colours (last time 10 colours though) with WABI SABI taste. Black, Dark Chocolate, Violet, Dark Red, Red, Emerald Green, Light Blue, Light Pink, Brilliant Green, Moss Green, Yellow Green, Orange red, Red bean, Rose gray, Peach(from the bottom). Japanese Chopsticks have sharper points than Chinese and Korean style chopsticks and you can enjoy the difference. This shop’s chopsticks have a rough surface on the point to prevent them from slipping.

We welcome you to request your favorite colours when you place the order, though we have limited numbers of each. We would like you to use them at your home and office and hope you will like them.

カフェジャパンからささやかなプレゼントのお知らせです。

昨年12月にご案内差し上げた「かふぇじゃぱん」の箸が品切れになり、すべてのお客様に間に合いませんでしたので、好評につき第2弾!です。

前回同様、カフェジャパンのオリジナルの箸を作りました。日本のお客様はすでに自分のお箸をお持ちだと思いますが、現在のお箸と合わせて、オフィス用、または、ご自宅用としてお使い下さい。

お箸は輪島市の輪島塗製造元にお願いし、カフェジャパン(ひらがな)と金色のインクで印刷しております。今回、色は、漆黒、焦茶、紺藍、深紅、赤色、若竹色、空色、桃色、深緑、抹茶、若草、れんが色、小豆色、胡桃染、洒落柿(下から順に)の15色をご用意しております。ご注文の際、ご希望の色、数をお申し付けくださいませ。ただし、数が限られておりますので、ご希望にお答えできない場合もございます。ご了承下さい。以後、ご注文の際、特別なご要望がない限り、割り箸の提供は控えさせて頂きます。割り箸がご希望の場合は別途お知らせ下さい。

2 comments:

Jonesy said...

I find this to be very interesting. As a displaced intellectual/writer, I do not have the money for such things. But I hope my readers will come here and buy them.

Cafe Japan 0777-263564 / 0777-263565 20/23, Fife Road, Colombo 5 said...

Thanks for the comment. This is not for sale but for the regular customers and we can sell if you like.