The camera on the iPhone 3G is total crap and doesn’t do macro. You can hardly make out the writing on this Royal Host (a family restaurant in Japan) menu photo but it says that Marilyn Monroe ate this same Onion Soup at the first Royal Host restaurant in Japan in 1954. I guess back then either Royal Host was considered a high class restaurant or there were no other places serving western food. According to Wikipedia Japan the first Royal Host was opened in Fukuoka in 1954. Marilyn Monroe and Joe Dimaggio went there on their Honeymoon! She liked it so much she visited the shop 3 days in a row and ordered it every time. Can you believe that? I mean you would think that the most famous couple of their time would go somewhere more high class, right? Or maybe they just didn’t like Japanese food. Anyways, this gives me a good reason to go to Fukuoka. Maybe when I get married I can add this to my places to go on my honeymoon too.
Here’s a screengrab from a TV program showing the couple at Royal Host and proving that it is indeed fact and not some marketing BS.
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