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Table Manners - Part 1 |
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Tuesday, March 13 2007 Mood:  In Japan, the supper time is very important, therefore there are several rules to be followed, from how to properly handle and hold the dishes and chopsticks to the very art of setting the table in a proper fashion. Some of this rules are purely common sense, but some others are rather difficult to understand (specially to the western world)
One of the first challenges are the chopsticks. They have to be hold, the first one (upper one) with the index, middle finger and the thumb. The second one should rest firmly on top of the ring finger and the lower section of the thumb.
Other points to be taken in account are:
- Never point at anybody with the chopsticks, it's rude.
- Do not stick the chopsticks vertically into the rice, this is only done at funerals as a gift to the deceased.
- Chopsticks shouldn't be used to take or move anything but food. Use your hands to move the dishes around, not the chopsticks.
- You shouldn't take the food from your neighbor's plate with your chopsticks, neither should you pass food fom one pair of chopsticks to another. Passing food with the end of the chopsticks that you eat from is equally inappropiate.
For more information about chopsticks click here.See Category: Japan Permalink  del.icio.us  Digg  Spurl  BlinkList  Furl  Reddit  Fark  Yahoo
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Looks in the train |
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Monday, March 12 2007 Mood:  Nobody looks to each other in the train, Even when they are face to face, barely separated by less than 4 inches. They rather close their eyes and fake to be sleeping. They put their music on and close themselves from the world. Everybody knows it, everybody sees it. And there are even some people that take advantage of it and make a profit. How? Advertisement. In their attempt to avoid visual contact, most of the people end up gazing up at the ceiling, just where most of the advertisements are put up. There is so much publicity, to the degree that it is no longer excesive, it's offensive. All kinds of advertisement are displayed, driving schools, drinks (mainly beer and the japanese manufactured beer), magazines, drugs, etcetera. Even there are some companies that buy the whole car, where every advertisement inside (ceiling, windows and doors) display a product of this company. To the users it is no more than a hassle, with the overflowing passengers and the excesive advertisement it couldn't be otherwise. But for the train it turns out to be a great business. See Category: Japan Permalink del.icio.us Digg Spurl BlinkList Furl Reddit Fark Yahoo |
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