You Ordered Kaki and They Brought the Oyster
To say the fruit persimmon, please in Japanese, say 果物の柿をください (kudamono no kaki o kudasai).
You said 「かき」 and they brought oysters. Saying it again won't pick the fruit.
果物の柿をください
kudamono no kaki o kudasai
the fruit persimmon, please
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- 果物の柿をください。 kudamono no kaki o kudasai. The fruit persimmon, please.
Why this phrase
October market counter that sells both. Hana is the tourist who orders かき and gets oysters, 牡蠣. Kōfuku is the friend who rescues the next try with 果物の柿をください, the fruit persimmon. Staff are not the joke. The homophone is.
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