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Taiwan pleads with citizens not change their name to ‘Salmon’ for a restaurant promotion
A top Taiwanese official has issued a plea for people to stop changing their name to “Salmon” after dozens made the unusual move to take advantage of a restaurant promotion.
Key points:
- Around 150 people officially registered a change in their name in recent days
- In Taiwan, people can change their name up to three times
- Many salmon-themed names were reported in local media
In a phenomenon that has been dubbed “Salmon Chaos” by local media, around 150 mostly young people flocked to government offices in recent days to officially register a change in their name.
The cause of this sudden enthusiasm was a chain of sushi restaurants.
Under the two-day promotion, any customer whose ID card contained “Gui Yu” — the Chinese characters for…
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