Kim Jong Il is a tyrant; if we don't watch out, he might eat paradise next!

North Korea has tested a nuclear device, and it's all over the news today. They did the test yesterday. I was watching the news just a moment ago while eating my dinner, and they had a lot to report about it. <- present perfect, present, past, past continuous, past...

Speaking of dinner, I took this photo in front of the elevator on my way to dinner on Saturday night. Isetan is calling their restaurant area "Eat Paradise." This is a funny one. We talked about imperative sentences the other day. If you don't state a subject and start directly with a verb, it's an imperative sentence:

• Open your book.
• Go over there.
• Please give that to me.

So Isetan is giving us an order. The order is to eat. What should we eat? "Paradise," they say. Imagine this conversation:

A: Don't eat paradise. If you eat it, where will we be able to relax?
B: You can't stop me! This paradise looks too delicious.
A: NO!!!!
(B eats all of paradise, paradise disappears into B's stomach)
A: Ah... paradise is gone, and with it, my hope.

What Isetan really wants to say is something like:

• dining paradise
• food paradise
• eat in paradise

Instead they are asking us to devour heaven. That's too bad for all the people who are living moral lives now. When they pass away, there may not be a heaven left to take them. At least there will still be some kimono spectacles. No one is going to eat them.

× kimono spectacles 着物用メガネ???
○ kimonos, glasses <- "spectacles" sounds like the late 19th century

• live a moral life 正しい生活｛せいかつ｝を送る (definition from 英辞郎 on the web)

Please check signage with a native speaker, but definitely don't eat paradise. I'm looking forward to going there someday.