The Japanese Compliment That Sounds Like an Insult |
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2024
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9:40 -Sauce face (so-su gao) means you have strong facial features unlike the traditional Japanese person. (ie Abe Hiroshi, Tomoya Nagase, Hirai Ken)
There are others too
-Salt face (shio gao) means you have fair skin with a thin and light face. (ie Takahashi Issei, Hoshino Gen)
-Soy sauce face (shoyu gao) means you have light features or a traditionally Japanese-looking face. (ie Ninomiya Kazunari, Mukai Osamu)
-Miso face (miso gao) is a traditionally Japanese-looking face but with a few stronger features. (ie Watanabe Ken, Matsudaira Ken)
-Ketchup face (kechappu gao) is a type of face in-between sauce face and shoyu face. (ie Kaname Jun, Takenouchi Yutaka)
-Sugar face (satou gao) means you have a baby-face. (Kamiki Ryunosuke, Chiba Yudai)
-Vinegar face (su gao) is a face with lighter features than salt face. (ie Fujiwara Motoo, Moriyama Mirai)
-Mayonnaise face (mayoneezu gao) means you have a youthful but mature-looking face. (ie Okada Masaki, Inagaki Goro)
These are so specific! Thank you for explaining so well, it’s fascinating!
Mayoneezu Gao is my goal ...
What is "moon face"? That's what a friend calls his wife. I hope it's complimentary because she is beautiful. Thanks for the details and the examples of well-known Japanese people with such faces.. Do you know more about the origins of such expressions? I'm always curious about origins of words and phrases. Sometimes the backstory is as interesting as the espression.
@@lynda.grace.14 I don’t think I’ve heard of moon face before. Maybe it means her face is round or glowing?
From what I could find, Sauce face and Shoyu (soy sauce) face were buzzwords among young women in 1988. They used it to describe 2 types of men that were seen as attractive at the time. Some liked the more foreign-looking men and some liked the more traditional-looking men. The other types of faces came a bit later when some faces didn’t exactly fit in either category.
This is so interesting. Do you know what is the origin of these?
As someone who works in a health care facility where finger prints are used to log into machines, I can absolutely assure you that yes dry fingers do make it harder to get fingerprint ID to work.
I second that but also it’s because of all the rubbing alcohol and chemicals from washing your hands going into O.Rs or just washing your hands in general repetitively.
I’ve always had this problem ( and that’s without disinfectants, lots of hand washing)…I remember getting my passport and had to do the check like 4 times and the woman at the desk was getting more annoyed by the try.
My high school French teacher took me from absolutely no knowledge, to nearly fluent in three years. He tutored me in the summer as well. He was at my wedding almost a year ago. We don’t see each other very often, but we keep in touch. He gave me a love for learning. If I hadn’t taken French 101, my life would be completely different.
Chris: it kinda sucks that you are invested in your students but then you never see them again.
Also Chris *doesn’t reply to messages of his students“
As a 20-year high school teaching veteran, I can counter Pete’s line that the individual students aren’t special. There are SO many wonderful students whom I’ve taught, and I often think about them. I hope they’re doing well, and think back on their unique talents and personality. It’s a weird job, teaching. It’s a bit like Groundhog Day, as the years blend into each other. But it’s also always different.
Bless you, thank you for caring!
As someone who struggles remembering names of people, I could not understand how one particular teacher could remember our names in first semester at university. She even remembered and greeted me with name several years later when we randomly met on street or corridor.
We deffinitely had some caring teachers at highschool, teaching us manners and life advices, not just facts of subjects they were teaching. In fact, thhey even said that is more important for us than subject knowledge.
And we return our caring to them at times, surprising them at their birthday or attending funeral when teacher's husband passed away.
According to some googling, _sauce face_ refers to a face with well-defined features, a _western face_ and the sauce part references Worcestershire sauce.
Another option for using up the piles of small yen coins is to got to a local shrine or temple and unload them there to help upkeep those areas.
My wife is Japanese. When I traveled to Japan with her and my first child many people told us that my hafu daughter had a “small face”. My wife said it was positive, akin to cute or pretty.
The "silly bugger" issue with the battery may be that even though it starts and runs from a jump start it's not charging the battery while it's running and now they're chasing a charging issue with the car.
As a Dutchy who previously owned a fiat 500, which was 10 years old and had 170.000 kilometers on the meter (lol, i was broke and it still drove well), the battery can die in cold and wet conditions, like winter or autumn. 2 months on a boat could definately kill a car battery.
I think I got mine replaced for 110 euros. Shouldn't be too expensive, unless a different battery is needed depending on the vehicle.
Worked as an ESL teacher for adults for 12 years and I can count how many students I actually caught up with socially afterwards on one hand... I also found the boundaries/roles odd to navigate, but also, it's just rare to meet people you gel with generally.
In Asia, face attractiveness are generally divided into two: plain and not plain. The "not plain" part has a lot of descriptors all over Asia, among Japanese female when describing men, it is "sauced face" to let their peers know what kind of attractiveness you should be expecting.
"Plain face" is that default Japanese beauty standards shown in their paintings, which is pretty much derived from Tang Dynasty that they obssessed over. Now, smear "sauce" all over that plain-ness and you get their descriptor.
A Korean colleague who studied in Japan for example, called my housemate "shio kao" - looks like a traditional Japanese handsomeness template refined with instagram filter (salt, the default seasoning). While I got the "shoyu kao" descriptor - probably a Japanese contrast effect like well defined nose bridge.
For left over change, the duty free shops at the airport also have change counters and the clerks are quite used to people dumping as much change as possible.
Pete mentioned filling a sock with coins; last time I was in Tokyo I had so many 1 yen coins that I had to put them all in a sock because my coin bag and wallet were full. I was waiting for a charity box but then I accidentally left the sock in a hotel 😭 -- Side fact, 1 yen coin is so light and tacky it floats on water
Hey Chris, after seeing you do so many physically intensive activities, I think you should give sprinting a try. It's not very exciting, but it's probably one of the most effective ways of getting fit with the least amount of effort. Even 3 hours a week would do wonders! I hope you can accomplish your goals this year Chris!
I grew up in a small town suburb of a big city in America, and it seems socially acceptable to friend your teachers on social media once you graduate. It's lovely seeing my old teacher hanging out with their grandkids and occationally we trade comments! Plus you run into them at the grocery store when back in town! It seems to be a happy medium, to be able to see how your teacher is doing
Sounds like the Alternator has gone out.
If you can jump the car or charge the battery and get it to start but it dies out after a bit its the alternator most likely.
Count me all in for the 'Abroad in Japan Lucky Boxes'!
Just got your book in the mail this week, Chris! I'm excited to read it!
“The next type of face would be the “sauce face.” Sauce in this case refers to the Worcestershire sauce or the sauce used for tonkatsu in Japanese cuisine. Someone with a “sauce-face” does not have a “typical Japanese” face but instead resembles more like a Westerner or a Middle-Easterner due to his clear-cut facial features (hori no fukai kao 彫りの深い顔).” - Angeline Tan
Yes and "hori fukai" or "hori no fukai kao", is basically a person with deep set features, mainly the eyes with a prominent bridge on one's nose. "Hori" means something like a "hole" and "fukai" is deep... i.e., deep set features. In Japan, because most people do not have deep set features, when one has them it is a sign of beauty or handsomeness.
what happened with the non--stop north? I guess it was suspended, given the sad things that have happened recently there. Hope everybody is OK. Japan is a great country with fantastic people, so they will rise and go on.
Yeah i wonder that too. Haven't seen Joey's part yet.
@@nzgamingfan I've also been waiting Sharla's vlogs about it since she travelled with the production crew from the beginning.
Filming ended before Christmas so I guess they're taking their sweet time with the editing...
The editors are on a small break.. they are human after all
I do think the channel needs to put someone in charge of communication. I think the series (and past series) downfall is that one plan gets announced, and then it gets changed, but the announcements of those changes are hidden in various platforms (a video, a podcast episode, a response to a Reddit thread). It would have been clearer cut, and a whole less confusing, to post a schedule for uploads on the YT page and then post any amendments to it there.
Japanese top gear is in full swing I see :)
Been a while since we had a new episode on the main channel....
A faulty alternator or starter motor can kill your battery through a short, so they need to check all three....also perhaps the battery ground. Electrical issues SUCK, so hopefully it's nothing like that.
So-su gao might make sense in Japanese but sauce-face, especially in a British accent, sound like a very hilarious insult
I ran into my old math teacher from school in a burger king. I was terrible with maths, and was about to fail my last chance. I made a special request to be placed in her class, as I heard she was a good teacher. Many students requested to be in her class, but thankfully she accepted me, and she was the reason I was able to pass maths and get into a good university and into the pre med program.
I hesitated, but eventually went up to her and said hello. I thanked her for what she did for me, and I wished her the best for the future. It was awkward, and I immediately regretted talking to her. She clearly didn't want to be bothered, and I felt embarrassed afterwards.
You did the right thing. Perhaps it came as a bit unexpected for her, hence the awkwardness. I hope she thought about it positively afterwards. Anyway, don't ever feel bad for going out of your way to say thank you.
Pete, I have same problem with my finger prints. had to do security clearance and they couldn't get two finger prints LOL
7:58 University in Beppu? That’s APU, iirc it’s Dogen’s old workplace, and currently working with them on the PR side to promote to intl students? I’ve been there once, albeit only at their bus interchange to take a convoluted bus route from the centre back to the ryokan I was staying at night. Nice place.
To clarify the "small face" comment for you Chris, I have lived in Japan for about 5 years now and I get this one a lot. After a lot of confusion the first few times hearing it I asked about it. It is indeed a compliment. In Japanese pop culture having a "small face" is associated with being attractive and considered a high beauty standard. It's good for both genders (I'm a guy). Having a big face is generally associated with less attractiveness.
Are there certain ethnicity's which are generally associated with having a big face?
@@patheticpear2897 In my experience it's just a beauty standard across the board. Plenty of Japanese people have "big faces" by their own standards.
If they associate that trait with any particular ethnicity idk.
You and Sharla should do a lucky bag competition where you have a budget and see who got the luckiest.
I think the biggest insult to the one yen coin is that it can float on water. Place it gently on the surface and it will stay there.
I get small face comments whenever I visit Japan for business along with Kawaii (cute), my translator tells me it means small features which the Japanese like, so this is a compliment in Japan.
Flat Batteries In Cars
My husband is a mechanic of 50 years, 25 years as a Royal Household mechanic.
Okay, if your car battery is fully discharged (fully flat) for any reason, it is ruined, no good. You can put a little bit of charge back into it, but it will quickly go flat again.
If put a battery load tester on it and it drops below 9 volts when it's under load, it is completely useless.
Get a new one.
Unfortunately most professional mechanics don't know this and they are merely taking your money if you keep going to the garage to sort the problem with the same battery
Even those devices that supposedly renew flat batteries don't work as they promise (tried one. Don't waste your money).
Get a new battery.
Hope this helps anyone with car issues out there.
Cheers Debbie! Appreciated! x
yep 7-Eleven is the go for ditching the load of small coins!
Yep small face is a compliment in Japan
Silly Pete, of course the cars are shipped with the gas tanks nearly empty. Can you imagine a fire breaking out on a ship that’s loaded with cars that have full petrol tanks?!! 🤦♂️
I love lucky bags from listen flavor and when egl brands do them.
abroad in japan should do one and throw in the random stuff from episodes. So you could get a bag with a Dr jelly prop or the pimp your car pig. I'd love that
This is an East Asian standard, it is why we love hair styles with bangs, it frames our face to make it smaller, the "helmet" hair at the same time makes our head silhouette look cuter.
It's actually strange that this isn't a common consideration in the West, the face is the one thing that people look at the most in social interactions.
Short Circuit movie actually came out in 1986, Pete 😛
I AM SO VERY OLD
🤣@@petedonaldson2698
In Korea people also use “small face” as a compliment. That means you have good body proportions. Whatever that means haha
I remember my ex-gf telling me the same thing when we met for the very first time at the airport where she picked me up - happy memories 😌
If the battery (even if it was new) went flat on the boat and sat there for 2 months, chances are the cells are damaged and you need to replace the battery again. That being said I've never heard of a car going into limp mode because of a faulty battery, sounds like a different issue to me, but who knows.. But just replace the battery, they're a 100 bucks at most
Dude! I thought I was the only one! I live in Tokyo , from the States. People ALWAYS tell me I have a small face! It actually has started to kind of make me angry 😡. Oh well.
Saw a Dr. Jelly tee shirt on a Raging Racoon video yesterday... NEAT
While I almost always use card, when only cash is accepted, no problem using coins.
Many people use just notes, depleting coins from cashiers. They are usually happy when I pay them exactly right ammount.
Pete! Your Touch ID issue is that your fingers are dry. Touch controls also rely on your natural electrical conductivity. This doesn’t work so well when your skin is very dry. So no, you’re probably not a vampire.
I hear that chain restaurants in japan like ichiran or kura sushi aren't the best, however when i was there in October i loved my experience at these restaurants.
In your guys' opinion, what is the Best Chain Japanese Restaurant?
Oh man, we LOVED Ichiran! So much so that we brought about twenty packets of instant noodle/ramen back to Ireland with us.
@@OKCommuter haha man, i did the same, bought those boxes from donki and brought loads back
The previous episode video link is wrong in the description again
Climbs Mt Fuji... "I did nothing"
T_T okay
Where are the videos about journey across Japan
To be fair, they may have purposefully drained the gas (petrol) so that it wouldn't degrade any internal parts during the long boat ride. Cars like to be run every so often or else the stagnant fluids can do a bit of work on it
It takes longer than 2 months for fuel in a tank to go bad, but good thinking none the less.
Except modern fuels don't varnish and are significantly less hygroscopic than they used to be. I've had to move cars that sat for years and most would start just fine given the starter hadn't turned to dust and mice hadn't wreaked havoc.
They probably just have to remove all petrol for transport, otherwise big boats make for big fires.
Every time I go rock climbing, my fingerprints don't work to unlock my computer for a few days. A bath bomb also had the same effect recently.
Send the car to me Pete! I can fix it up! Florida, America! Lol
14:49 "Relatively fresh food" © 2024 Pete
Alcohol has more energy than sugar or fat. One pint of beer has about 28ml of alcohol. So imagine taking a shot of oil or sugar every pint, except more. That's why you get the beer belly.
Ahhhh…. So this is where we Koreans got the term ‘small face’ from lol…
Small face just means your head is very proportionate to your body. Which is pretty essential to overall physical attractiveness. Smaller faces are akin to fashion models. Smaller heads make you look longer like a model.
Speaking of Journey across Japan, it's a bit disappointing there is hardly any footage of the town and or sights but there is a lot of footage inside a Daiso or Book Off
“You have a small face” reminds me of the “Who you calling pinhead?” scene from SpongeBob lol
What happened to the japan north videos?
you can make a one yen coin float if you're gentle enough
If you started the car and are still having Accessory issues, my thought would be, does it have a second Battery in the boot that wasn't swapped?
I got rid of my one yen coins buying cans of Srong Zero out of vending machines (at 300 yen a pop). It took FOREVER.
Also got the cycle video to release
#faxmachine
Hey Chris and pete!
Love the show and I'm almost caught up on RUclips now.
We are coming to japan this may we are planning to visit Tokyo, Hiroshima, Mijiyama island, Osaka, kyoto, and sendai.
Wondering if you had any recommendations on any of these cities for places we should see or visit or even resturants you would recommend!
Thanks guys love the content
Does Pete see his own image on the mirror? 🙂What about protective cover on Samsung phone? Chris feelings about how to be teacher sound so familiar...
This is kind of the same thing with that Western people say "Small eyes are cute" to Asian people. When they say this, I know it's just a compliment, but it sometimes makes me feel rude. So I no longer say this anymore, even though it's not an insult when we say 'You've got a small face'.
Kao Hiroi (wide face) is another one that sounds insulting but not. Just means ur well known or many people know you.
I mean no disrespect but, when the crap are the rest of the Journey Across Japan episodes coming out?
Agreed- it’s frustrating not knowing when the new one will air
Butter Faced Chris!
Finger print scanners never work for me!
1 yen coin is pure aluminium, not a good idea to bite too much. The coins float on water though.
Small face is a compliment, because Japanese women think a small face is cute, some kind of weird beauty standard. Also in South Korea, having a small face is at the core of one’s beauty.
AKAI electronics (Akai means "red" in Japanese;) brand is essentially all the Matshushita products which are discounted / left over from the previous year. Excellent value. I had cheap speakers from AKAI but when I looked at the back plate they were high end Panasonic.
I saved up my 1yen coins and I have enough of them to show people a big bag and say its about €2 worth of coins.
Chris: "iPhone uses face detection" ... as if Android didn't implement this feature 6 years before Apple 😂 He's such an Apple boy 😂
So, the rest of those 21 days of JaJ comin or maybe next year lmfao
Lmfao. They really screwed up, BAD.
Hopefully whatever he promises for patrons are being delivered, otherwise he’s gonna have mass falloff.
The dude is amazing at what he does; but he just needs better structure and direction.
Oi oi oi. Ive got one. Crucibled Chris and Propitious Pete
My g/f is Asian, and I still have problems with the whole ‘saving face’ lark. Even after 10 years.
I think they're saying he looks puffy like too much salt in the diet (from sauce presumably).
Chris should go back to editing journey across Japan by himself.
I can't tell if you're serious or not.
💜💜💜
Pete, I just got a new Samsung S23 Ultra (That's what I just got Black Friday sale), I thought it was just me. My fingerprints don't work very well. It works fine on my Samsung Galaxy A71, but not my S23. My fingers are very dry too. It's quite annoying. 😅
Ooh that's a nice phone! Too bad I can't afford one lol
try adjusting the sensitivity for them.
@nzgamingfan I got it on a two year contract, so paying with a monthly plan and it had a good deal... or I wouldn't be able to afford it too.
@@Ducklordess I tried, didn't do anything. 🫤
I ended up disabling mine fingerprint recognition as it constantly locked me out for hours at a time. So annoying. I'll take my chances with reduced security.
When will you release the next JAJ episode? i read somewhere that its on hold because you're trying to outsmart the RUclips algorithm, which is fine, but the long break is kind of ironic since the series is titled "Non-stop North"
about the fingerprint thing you need get blood into your fingers could be the cold same thing happens with my grandpa
My understanding of small face is a european looking face far removed from a far eastern one. They tend to have flat faces which look bigger to them I guess. A weird self hating beauty standard if I'm right.
Will 2024 also be the year of the wedding?
Is 2024 not the year of the wedding??
tell Pete to lick his finger. I do have to redo my finger prints now and then, on my Samsung, not too often fortunately
"I think 2024 is going to be a good year"..... NOOOOO Chris, if you say it then it won't happen. People have been saying this the past decade and it just leads to one disastrous year after another. ISIS, Trump, Brexit, Covid, Mass celebrity death, Ukraine, Israel-Palestine war, Cyberpunk 2077 launch, the brewery in my hometown closing down, my sister getting all the luck and me being left with not as much luck... all these things are caused by people saying 'it's going to be a good year'!!!
Ghosting students who care about you.. that's sad.. ghosting in general is a horrible thing
It's more complicated than that
Well he's ghosted his fans on his main channel, so not surprising.
Sauce face is someone who is not Japanese but has very pronounced features such as large eyes, etc. So I doubt it was meant as an insult. 😊
Lol, Face-ID is pointless. My phone doesn't recognise me without my beard. Hell, even people who see me a lot wouldn't instantly recognise me!
Sauce face. How bizarre. One of my Japanese friends always calls his wife a moon face. What does that mean? Round? Pale? Blotchy? I'll have to delve deeper into the question. Ah, should have read the comments thread first. Thanks @Yoshinator54
It seems "sauce-face" means 'typically Western looking'. As opposed to "soy-sauce-face", which is stereotypically Japanese.
At least no has called you "vinegar-face". Poor Ken Watanabe.
Pete just buy a bloody car battery charger!
Meanwhile getting Jozu’ed
Dont start eating out less! Charlotte won't be happy! ;)
ekibukuru is what? 🤔
Ikebukuro is a part of Tokyo.
I would have sacked off the Toyota and bought doughnut man instead Pete
Many people have literally a small face. Their face is physically smaller sized than what is typical.