{"id":44910,"date":"2022-05-27T14:47:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T05:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/27\/taiwanese-people-stuck-with-the-name-salmon-after-sushi-promotion"},"modified":"2022-05-27T14:47:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T05:47:32","slug":"taiwanese-people-stuck-with-the-name-salmon-after-sushi-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44910","title":{"rendered":"Taiwanese people stuck with the name \u2018Salmon\u2019 after sushi promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament debates law that bans people from changing their names more than three times after stunt leads to unforeseen consequences<\/p>\n<p>Taiwanese parliamentarians have debated changing legal limits on name changes, after some of the hundreds of people who legally altered their name to \u201cSalmon\u201d in return for free sushi reportedly became stuck with it.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2021 restaurant chain Sushiro ran a promotion offering free all-you-can-eat sushi for a whole table to anyone with the Chinese characters for salmon, \u201cgui yu\u201d, in their name. In what was later dubbed \u201cSalmon chaos\u201d, 331 people took part, paying a nominal administration fee to legally call themselves names including \u201cSalmon Dream\u201d and \u201cDancing Salmon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/27\/taiwanese-people-stuck-with-the-name-salmon-after-sushi-promotion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament debates law that bans people from changing their names more than three times after stunt leads to unforeseen consequencesTaiwanese parliamentarians have debated changing legal limits on name changes, after some of the hundreds of people who &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2626,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44911,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44910\/revisions\/44911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}