Her Father is the chef for that restaurant and hes Japanese from Tokyo.
I went through her account for ages this morning but I must've missed the Japanese dad. Thanks
@Magic Pickle for the foundation and
@TismFarmer, you gave me the last piece I needed to figure out who she is irl.
Across half a dozen Reddit posts I read the following--no hyperlinks because I closed them all ages ago after a fruitless search:
• She works at the family restaurant where her dad is a chef
• The restaurant is closed on Sundays
• She mentioned eating steak and chicken with vegetables at the restaurant after her shift
I figured if we find the restaurant, we find the family.
I put forth for everyone's consideration:
Yoshida Express
• Located in Asheville for over 15 years per TripAdvisor reviews
• Closed on Sundays
• They sell a combo 'steak and chicken', which is how she phrased it. (I optimistically thought she meant some days she had steak, other days she had chicken.)
The smoking gun is the photo of her that has been posted here several times. Look at the background, the light green wallpaper and wood paneling with something framed just behind her that kinda looks like kanji writing. And then look at this photo from Yoshida Express's interior:
I went through Yelp reviews and read this:
I couldn't find anything about Billy Takahashi--maybe that's a name our Redditor here was just trying out, who knows--but April Takahashi (
Facebook here) is married to Kiyokazu Takahashi per
this obituary for a young man who lived near Asheville:
Kiyokazu Takahashi is a "self-employed" chef
per his Facebook, obviously at Yoshida Express given the background and everything else so far.
Kiyokazu lives at
13 Trinity Chapel Rd, Asheville NC. And who else lives at this address? One
Sarah A Takahashi, in her 20s.
I also found
this Asheville Daily Planet article from 2007, ctrl-F for 'rice' and you'll see April Rice Takahashi, 27, of Trinity Church Rd, was charged with forging a check. That sure sounds like something a woman addicted to crack (as her daughter says on Reddit) would do, and the age makes sense.
Sarah mentioned in a post that her brother was about 10 years older than her iirc, and there's a Joshua Takahashi born in 1994 who lived at 13 Trinity Chapel Rd.
His Facebook says he's single but he hasn't used it in several years.
Lance Takahashi's Facebook has been long abandoned but had pictures uploaded that were Liked by April Takahashi, and the account made a post saying "im 9" in 2013, which checks out for Sarah born in 2004:
look after yourselves and love yourselves wonderful people. Sorry to trouble you I just had to get this out. This isn't me, I'm not well. I'm really not well.
