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Japanese Table Manners
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| Tanya | Date: Sunday, 17.04.2011, 22:43 | Message # 1 |
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| In Japan, you say "itadakimasu" ("I gratefully receive") before eating, and "gochisosama (deshita)" ("Thank you for the meal") after finishing the meal. The proper usage of chopsticks is the most fundamental element of Japanese table manners. There are some Table Rules: blowing your nose in public, and especially at the table, is considered bad manners. Unlike in some other parts of East Asia, it is considered bad manner to burp. After eating, try to move all your dishes back to the same position they were at the start of the meal. It is considered good manners to empty your dishes to the last grain of rice.
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| Rina | Date: Tuesday, 03.05.2011, 23:09 | Message # 2 |
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| Well, I have found some rules concerning using chopsticks.
Chopsticks are not used to make noise, to draw attention, or to gesticulate. Playing with chopsticks is considered bad mannered and vulgar
Chopsticks are not used to move bowls or plates.
Chopsticks are not used to toy with one's food or with dishes in common.
Chopsticks are not used to impale food, save in rare instances. Exceptions include tearing large food items asunder, such as vegetables.
Chopsticks should not be left standing vertically in a bowl of rice or other food. Any pair of stick-like objects pointed upward resembles the incense sticks that some Asians use as offerings to deceased family members; certain funerary rites designate offerings of food to the dead using standing chopsticks.
Food should not be transferred from one's own chopsticks to someone else's chopsticks. Japanese people will always offer their plate to transfer it directly, or pass a person's plate along if the distance is great. Transferring directly with chopsticks is how bones are passed as part of Japanese funeral rites.
The pointed ends of the chopsticks should be placed on a chopstick rest when the chopsticks are not being used. However, when a chopstick rest is not available as it is often the case in restaurants using waribashi (disposable chopsticks), a person may make a chopstick rest by folding the paper case that contained the chopsticks.
Reversing chopsticks to use the opposite clean end is commonly used to move food from a communal plate, although it is not considered to be proper manners. Rather, the group should ask for extra chopsticks to transfer food from a communal plate.
Chopsticks should not be crossed on a table, as this symbolizes death, or vertically stuck in the rice, which is done during a funeral.
It is rude to rub wooden chopsticks together after breaking them apart, as this communicates to the host that the user thinks the chopsticks are cheap.
Chopsticks should be placed right-left direction; the tips should be on the left. Placing diagonal, vertical and crossing each stick are not acceptable both in home and restaurant manners.
In formal use, disposable chopsticks (waribashi) should be replaced into the wrapper at the end of a meal. By the way, learning etiquette of other countries is always very interesting, especially, when you are interested in different cultures, customs and traditions. And, as far as some of us adore sushi, it's absolutely necessary to learn how to eat them)))))
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| Former-Teacher | Date: Wednesday, 11.05.2011, 18:05 | Message # 3 |
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| Wow, such a detailed guide to using chopsticks. My first reaction is to learn the rules by hearts, but now I'm trying to find some similarities between the Japanese eating culture and the Russian one.
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| vanilla | Date: Tuesday, 18.09.2012, 23:00 | Message # 4 |
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| Drinking rules
When drinking alcoholic beverages, it is customary to serve each other, rather than pouring your own beverage. Periodically check your friends' cups and refill their drinks if their cups are getting empty. Likewise, if someone wants to serve you more alcohol, you should quickly empty your glass and hold it towards that person.
While it is considered bad manners to become obviously drunk in some formal restaurants, for example in restaurants that serve kaiseki ryori (Japanese haute cuisine), the same is not true for other types of restaurants such as izakaya, as long as you do not bother other guests.
Do not start drinking until everybody at the table is served and the glasses are raised for a drinking salute, which usually is "kampai". Avoid using "chin chin" when drinking a toast, since in Japanese this expression refers to the male genitals.
Message edited by vanilla - Tuesday, 18.09.2012, 23:01 |
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| Aries | Date: Saturday, 29.12.2012, 09:26 | Message # 5 |
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| (Tanya) There are some Table Rules: blowing your nose in public, and especially at the table, is considered bad manners. Unlike in some other parts of East Asia, it is considered bad manner to burp. After eating, try to move all your dishes back to the same position they were at the start of the meal. It is considered good manners to empty your dishes to the last grain of rice.
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| Perilova | Date: Sunday, 31.03.2013, 21:49 | Message # 6 |
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| Quote (Aries) Do you know all about it?
Have you eaten Japanese food ? Do you like it ? Do you think their food is more useful than our ?
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