Hokkaido, June 2008
You insert money into the slot, press the food you want, get the ticket, find a place to sit down, hand the ticket to the waitress, she brings the food to you, you eat, you leave.
these are very funny words if we are to understand them in chinese way. they mean stand and swallow. although both the japanese meaning in this case fits in the chinese characters but swallow is a word that refers to eat in rush. eat in rush can't really refer to eating at all.
these japanese words are funny too. stand and ????. there is no such word in chinese, i guess. i imagine it to be read as eat & choke! that is one stands and eats and chokes. very funny!