On dominion cuisine, metempsychosis and culture market

So we, i.e.- couple of Brits, a German and couple of Indians go to a Japanese restaurant in London. The restaurant , as it claims is Japanese; you have to sit on a wooden slab and eat in tradition with the Japanese culture. So what does yours truly choose to eat? With other Japanese dishes the recommendation of the charming polish waitress–marinated chicken slices! But as it turns out the slice looks more of a sperm-whale’s than of a chicken’s. Big and brackish like a birthday cake.
So yours truly asks the waitress –can he have a knife?
No! he cant !
Why?
…….
But why o why?
Because  it is the against Japanese tradition!!

You can have a fork, a spoon , a napkin but not knife. The Knife, poor thing, isnt Japanese enough eh ? All my samurais would disembowel on the spot.  Dejected by the unfair discrimination yours truly politely enquires the waitress, when did the can of diet coke sitting silently on the table like a Buddha become a part of Japanese tradition.??

Do you appreciate the universality in the moment?
A pole defending the Japanese culture before an Indian who uses an American emblem to prove point.In London. That is the beauty and tragedy of it. Of our generation.