Onizuka-chan and Sawarida-kun - Vol. 1 Ch. 6

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Mario has a cameo at pg. 2. That or being a plumber didn’t work out so he decided to set-up a Tapioca stand instead.
 
Brazil has the bigger Japanese community out of Japan, and Japan has the second largest Brazilian community out of the Brazil(Behind only the USA).
However i still find odd to see 'Tapioca' in manga and animes, as it's a food specific from a Brazil's State. Lol
 
@daishishi Actually, what this van serves is bubble tea. A Taiwanese drink.

No relation to Brazil, except the tapioca used in the recipe, which probably comes from Thailand anyway.
 
daishishi tapioca tea is all over the world, it really has nothing to do with brazilian population
 
@Kirin-kun You're totally right, but the 'Tapioca' part had me really intrigued. Here what I found:
1. South-Asian countries are used to add jelly-like dessert to drink and some recipes.
2. The introduction of Cassava's starch (Originated from South America, known here as 'mandioca') made a really good source for the jelly-like dessert.
3. The name tapioca here really derives from the Brazilian's dish. However in Thailand is 'Tapioca ball' (better than cassava's starch ball, right.), and here in Brazil Tapioca is a pancake-like dish with toppings, sweet or not.

Thanks for the information mate, learned a few new things today.

Curiosity: The jelly-like dessert from the Cassava was made in Thailand, and later introduced to Brazil. Now is used on a dessert recipe called 'Wine Sago', very popular here on Brazil.
 
I live in Canada, and there has been something called "tapioca" or "tapioca pudding" here for many decades, like probably at least as far back as WW II. Meanwhile, more recently there's bubble tea everywhere (probably because my city has a massive Asian population) and if you ask someone what is in the "bubbles" in the bubble tea they'll either say "no idea" or "tapioca". So to me it's a pretty normal English word which is the one I would expect to see in a translation. To be honest I didn't even know it came from Brazil; I'd sort of vaguely assumed it was an African thing. Live and learn.
 
Interesting comments about tapioca here, but C'MON, FOCUS PEOPLE -

isn't this the first time that Oni-chan has successfully counterattacked? Do we count this as progress?
 
@daishishi
The tapioca drink is quite popular among asians. Like all my asian family members like it and a number of the asian people I talk to drink it as well.
 

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