One of the puzzling questions has been who are those people who plan to have Sushi in the Hefeng Village Huaishi restaurant in Kunming, which serves the dish on the body of nearly naked women?

Though many people consider it as a form of disrespect to women and the restaurant had received hundreds of phone calls, too, protesting the service, the manager of the restaurant said “we had lots of people who supported us and wanted to make reservations, including people from Hong Kong and Taiwan.” 

The potential customers may fall into different groups. Some of them are simply sushi eaters, who are hungry and happen to find the Japanese style restaurant. But chances are they will turn away from the naked sushi on naked body, because this sushi is much more expensive than the usual sushi. The restaurant charges 120 US dollars per person, twice the average monthly salary of local workers.

Those who stay on despite the prohibitive price fall into the second group who go there to enjoy the view of the body under the pretense of eating sushi. “If you want to be bad enough,” some say,” you can go there.”

Reports say the restaurant has strict rules in selecting the women “plate:” she got to be with college diploma, a slim body, fair skin, attractive and innocent face …

The selling point of this dish lies in the beauty instead of the Sushi or Sashimi.

Of course some may go there under the pretext of appreciating art. After all, the manager of the restaurant says they are spreading Japanese culture.

What a culture is it?  Known as “Nyotai Mori” in Japanese, the feasts were firstly served in the royal court and are generally left off the menu even in its origin nation. It is regarded as humiliating and offensive to women. 

In China, there’s mustard gas abandoned by Japanese militarist in the country’s Northeast; there is a Japanese orgy in Zhuhai involving hundreds of Japanese tourists and Chinese prostitutes; there are Japanese students performing risqué dances in Xi’an.

As one Chinese suggests, “dose the country need to further import Japanese cultural garbage?”

What’s also annoying has been the reasons with which the health authorities gave a red light to the practice. They say the two girls don’t have health certificates, which are necessary for workers in the restaurant industry and should also have been properly dressed.

Can the ruling be interpreted as that if the “plates” have the health certificates and wear special work suits, the “feasts on beauty’s body” will go on unchecked?