Taiwan Interior Ministry enters Wednesday and urged people to think carefully before changing their names after an increase in applications.
According to the law of the land, people are entitled to do this only three times, which means that in theory someone could end up stuck with the name.
According to the official Central News Agency (CNA) in Taiwan, nearly 100 people registered to change their name as part of a promotion by the restaurant chain Sushiro, which runs until the end of Thursday.
On Monday, the chain announced that they will be giving away free sushi to everyone with the characters 鮭 and 鮭 which according to CNA means ‘salmon’ in Chinese, an important ingredient of the delicacy.
The person, plus five guests, can get free meals – as long as they prove the name change using the official ID.
In a Facebook post, Sushiro said it would also offer less discounts to anyone who added just one of the Chinese characters to their name as part of the promotion, CNA said.
The promotion, according to CNA, has caused a rush of name changes at domestic registration offices across Taiwan.
CNA reported that one man who changed his name on Wednesday told officials he planned to change it back after using the promotion.
According to another registration office, CNA said it could discourage another man from changing it completely, while a third said that a separate man continued with an official name change to ‘salmon’, despite the fact that he already changed its name before.