Shibumi's David Schlosser: threat or menace?

[robert]

@paranoidgarliclover

Except mooncakes aren’t served in restaurants and aren’t considered a “dessert.” It’s something you share w/ family and friends outside of a restaurant.

Exactly like sakura mochi. That’s precisely what Schlosser was missing (that and not being an arrogant asshole). It was implicit in my first post regarding this antisocial media brouhaha:

@robert

Maybe a more thoughtful way to have made his point would have been to say something like, while it’s true that sweet desserts are not traditionally served at the end of a Japanese dinner, more restaurants ought to consider offering traditional sweets such as wagashi that non-Japanese customers might not encounter otherwise?