What’s in a name? In this case a free meal.
Some people in Taiwan were able to get free sushi this week by officially changing their names, but one local official is begging people to stop the flood of resurgence requests.
Earlier this week, the sushi chain Akindo Sushiro kicked off what local media later called “salmon chaos” after offering free food to entire tables of customers named Gui Yu, or “Salmon”, on Wednesday and Thursday, reports the Taipei Times . Diners with water monikers can also get up to 50% off.
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Dozens of people received free meals on the first day of the promotion, and more than 1,000 received discounts, according to the report. To achieve the release, about 150 “mostly young people” have officially changed their name at government offices, reports the news agency AFP.
This led to dinner with names translated to ‘Salmon Prince’, ‘Meteor Salmon King’ and ‘Salmon Fried Rice’ showing up to claim free food, according to the report. One freebie-seeking gourmand even set a record for the country’s longest name: ‘Chen likes Taiwan, abalone, tuna, salmon, snow crab, sickle, scallop, lobster and beef, Mayfull, Palais de Chine, Regent, Hilton , Caesar Park, Hotel Royal. ‘
According to a university student, he and his friends, according to local reports, ate the amount of more than $ 235 in sushi after changing his name to “Explosive Good Looking Salmon”.
A sushi chain this week offered free meals to people named “Salm”, causing a surge in official name changes. (iStock)
Another student who changed their name, and their friends ate sushi for about $ 460.
“I do not think we will want to eat salmon again for a while,” they wrote in the Times.
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Officials in Taiwan were less amused by the food cleanliness as people rushed to change their name. While the country allows people up to three times to change their name, Interior Minister Chen Tsung-yen said the changes for free food waste time and cause unnecessary paperwork, according to AFP.
“I hope everyone can be more rational about it,” Tsung-yen told reporters.
Diners with new names have told reporters that they plan to change their names back to the free dinner. The application fee for a name change and new ID card is less than $ 3.
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But one man even claimed online that he learned the hard way about the “three times” rule after his mother told him that she had changed his name twice as a child, according to the Taipei Times.
In a report online, Taiwanese officials urged residents to “be careful to take good care of your name.”