We Suki Suki

[enduser]

What about We Suki Suki is juvenile? The word Suki is not a juvenile word, look it up!

So it means, we like like, or we like love. From my understanding it is pronounced 'skee' so from the movie Full Metal Jacket when she says "me sucky sucky" a lot of people say it is "me suki suki".

It does seem like a juvenile play on words, but if I go in there and can get anyting I want for $5, I'll stay.

Full Metal Jacket- Hooker Scene (The video's owner prevents external embedding)

Also, Sukiyaki is Japanese, not Vietnamese, so it's not referring to a food - the implication seems to be a reference to a scene about vietnamese hookers giving good blowjobs. Or, if one is being generous, perhaps that "Aw, sooky sooky" song from the 70's. Or Sookie Stackhouse. Though it's not spelled like either of those and has "we" before it.

And "has to be in biking distance of Flower Lady" seems like a rather restrictive rule for dining and culture.

I'll try it - I like Quoc Huong and good Banh Mi's and would love for there to be a solid choice in the area - and it shall rise or fall on its merits. But either way I'll probably mention to the owner that it's not appetizing to go in to a restaurant named after blowjobs, and makes me think the cuisine isn't trying to be all that good when the name of the place makes fun of itself.

[Kevy Duty]

King Floyd - Groove Me

[cmcewen]

It is. People aren't kidding when they complain about the $4 price tag. At Quoc Huong, my favorite place in town, the sandwiches are $2.50. Come to think of it, that place looks like an ice cream parlor, too...

Yes, but does that location have to pay East Atlanta rent? I think that's kind of an unfair comparison. You probably spend a buck fifty in gas getting up there.

Oh, I totally agree with you. Just trying to paint a picture for JBB.

[cmcewen]

King Floyd - Groove Me

This is going to be the song for our first dance at our wedding. Curious to see what the future inlaws think of it.

[Flower Lady]

Suki is a humble term, a term of endearment and a sentiment (but not necessarily that specific word) found in many Asian cultures including Vietnamese, also politeness. It truly means "I beg your pardon, but we are not quite as good as you but we try our best". I don't know the pure Vietnamese term for it (whatever Vietnamese I learned was fully tempered with a Chinese dialect, as my friends were in a mixed culture family and had sort of their own language, a mixture of the two).
I'm not fond of driving culture in the US, I don't like the strip malls that many of the Buford Hwy. joints are found in, and mostly we don't have time to go there and we really don't eat out often. I just don't think about it. My lifestyle is very different than most people's and it makes me happy   For lunch I am going to eat my delicious Chinese food that I made on Saturday with greens that I grow and can not readily find anywhere in Atlanta except in the gardens of Asian immigrants around the city    

[enduser]

Suki is a humble term, a term of endearment and a sentiment (but not necessarily that specific word) found in many Asian cultures including Vietnamese, also politeness. It truly means "I beg your pardon, but we are not quite as good as you but we try our best". I don't know the pure Vietnamese term for it (whatever Vietnamese I learned was fully tempered with a Chinese dialect, as my friends were in a mixed culture family and had sort of their own language, a mixture of the two).

Do you have a citation or reference for this?

And do you think that's what "We Suki Suki" is really intending to mean in the store name?

[MRice]

Is it pronounced "sucky" or "sookie"?

[hfranks]

Suki is a humble term, a term of endearment and a sentiment (but not necessarily that specific word) found in many Asian cultures including Vietnamese, also politeness. It truly means "I beg your pardon, but we are not quite as good as you but we try our best". I don't know the pure Vietnamese term for it (whatever Vietnamese I learned was fully tempered with a Chinese dialect, as my friends were in a mixed culture family and had sort of their own language, a mixture of the two).

Do you have a citation or reference for this?

And do you think that's what "We Suki Suki" is really intending to mean in the store name?

Urban Dictionary says -

In Japanese, "suki" can mean several things, but it is most commonly used as the word "like."
Sometimes it can be used as slang for the word "love" as well, since in Japanese, "daisuki" means "to like a lot."
So, If you "daisuki" something that means you like it a lot.

Japan has a lot of slang for their phrases (as do most languages), so people who slang their words, or who don't like long sentences/words don't bother to say "daisuki" would just say "suki."

Also, "suki suki" almost seems like the "cute way" to say you like something!

AND, it is NOT a blowjob; spell it RIGHT - it's SUCKY SUCKY, not SUKI SUKI. Please see Sucky! Sucky! Five Dolla! for the right reference!!!

[J. Grouchy]

I gotta say...when I see it my first thought is that song Kevy Duty posted.

Oh...and thanks a lot.  Now I'll have that song playing in my head all day.   

[enduser]

Suki is a humble term, a term of endearment and a sentiment (but not necessarily that specific word) found in many Asian cultures including Vietnamese, also politeness. It truly means "I beg your pardon, but we are not quite as good as you but we try our best". I don't know the pure Vietnamese term for it (whatever Vietnamese I learned was fully tempered with a Chinese dialect, as my friends were in a mixed culture family and had sort of their own language, a mixture of the two).

Do you have a citation or reference for this?

And do you think that's what "We Suki Suki" is really intending to mean in the store name?

Urban Dictionary says -

In Japanese, "suki" can mean several things, but it is most commonly used as the word "like."
Sometimes it can be used as slang for the word "love" as well, since in Japanese, "daisuki" means "to like a lot."
So, If you "daisuki" something that means you like it a lot.

Japan has a lot of slang for their phrases (as do most languages), so people who slang their words, or who don't like long sentences/words don't bother to say "daisuki" would just say "suki."

Also, "suki suki" almost seems like the "cute way" to say you like something!

AND, it is NOT a blowjob; spell it RIGHT - it's SUCKY SUCKY, not SUKI SUKI. Please see Sucky! Sucky! Five Dolla! for the right reference!!!

This isn't a japanese establishment, it's Vietnamese. Those languages couldn't be more different and don't share meanings. Not that  Urban Dictionary is a valid reference to begin with.

I think we ought to do a poll.

[enduser]

Poll are go.

[Flower Lady]

Suki is a humble term, a term of endearment and a sentiment (but not necessarily that specific word) found in many Asian cultures including Vietnamese, also politeness. It truly means "I beg your pardon, but we are not quite as good as you but we try our best". I don't know the pure Vietnamese term for it (whatever Vietnamese I learned was fully tempered with a Chinese dialect, as my friends were in a mixed culture family and had sort of their own language, a mixture of the two).

Do you have a citation or reference for this?

And do you think that's what "We Suki Suki" is really intending to mean in the store name?

I have no idea of what the store name really means. If you truly need to know, why not ask the owners? And no, I do not have a citation or reference for the meaning of suki. Feel free to look it up though!

[Cap'n Ken]

The owner has an interesting history:

Exported from Vietnam to the United States in 1975, Q started her first business at 19 in Chicago while opening Eurasia for the Levy Restaurants and attending Art Institute of Chicago.  Relocated to Atlanta in 1993, she became Clienteling Specialist for Bebe, Intl. at Phipps Plaza.  In 1997, Q became Vice President over home furnishings at Horizon Pacific Home (T&G  and Mumbo Jumbo partner).  In 1999, she packed her bags and headed to Vietnam, becoming 1st Sentinel for Evian water as well Assistant Director for Shooting Gallery Singapore and launching MTV Asia in HCMC. Trinh returned to the USA in 2000, and in 2002, Trinh formed Whatbox? Inc Brand Building agency (think outside the box...think WHAT box?), launching Tiger Beer in theUS and taking the brand nationally through the Anheuser Busch distribution network. Q moved back to East Atlanta in 2008 to raise her two boys, who now both proudly attend Wesley International Academy.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/we-suki-suki-atlanta

[J. Grouchy]

Japanese Meat Commercial Oniku Suki Suki

CHICANOS - SUKI SUKI

[enduser]

Grouchy - you're still in the Japanese context.

"Spotted Dick" means a dessert in Britain and something funny here. "Fanny" means vagina in Britain and butt here.

Show "Suki Suki" in a Vietnamese context and that'll be more of a definitive thing.