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. 

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…