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Originally Posted by CityofTrees
There's also the English-borrowed "Viking", which for some reason means buffet as well.
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Oh, I asked about this once; apparently it's supposed to be "Smörgåsbord" (swedish buffet)
but that was just too difficult for Japanese people to pronounce/remember so they just changed it to 'Viking'.
As for kanji on menu's, I think the worst (or most inconvenient for those of limited kanji) I ever saw was 麦飲 for 'beer'. The whole menu was like that. Like a kind of cryptic kanji crossword.