Japanese cuisine is known for fine materials and processing, artistic presentation. In addition, the Japanese also have interesting rules in diet cause unexpected visitors.
Dining table and seat
Many Japanese restaurants have low tables and cushions to sit on tatami mats instead of Western-style dining table. You must take off your shoes and slippers before stepping on the mats, avoid stepping on other people’s mattresses.
How to eat
The restaurant serves a wet towel to clean your hands diners before eating. After ordering food, people often wait until all the food was served the new food, and begins with the sentence “itadakimasu” means “invite people”. If items need to eat right that others do not have food, you should say “osaki itadakimasu ni” – “let me eat before nhé”.
When eaten in small bowl, you should close your mouth veal bowl to pick up food. When food items are placed on a common plate, you should use chopsticks to pick the item own food. Blow your nose, eat form language (except for pasta) is considered impolite, and you should not leave any leftovers bit yet. The Japanese concept must eat food was served. Catering is also often small and not enough for people to leave. If there are certain ingredients you can not eat, can make restaurant converted into other materials.
After eating, you should put bowls back as the initial order at the food being served, facing the lid of the bowl, put chopsticks to chopsticks or paper bags upstairs bar. The Japanese meal ends with the sentence “gochisosama deshita” means “thank you for the meal”, expressed appreciation not only to cook but also to raw material processing into food.
How to drink
Do not drink until everyone present at the table had a drink and then toast. When drinking, you should pour for others rather than pouring himself. Remember to watch for people drinking the same cup and poured himself more if the cup is running low. When someone wants to pour more wine for you, drink a cup sips before putting him or her.
The drunk in the restaurant and the elegant luxury is often perceived as impolite. The popular restaurant allows guests to get drunk, as long as not to disturb others. If not drink alcohol, you can speak up and ask for permission to drink a different kind, but not forced. Replacement drinks including non-alcoholic beer, tea, juice or carbonated soft drinks.
The rule to remember
1. Never use your hands to catch the food: The food used to collect hand when gripping is considered rude in Japan. You think that would be more polite if you use a portable CD or sauce Tezara to catch falling food particles and avoid dirty clothes? Ideally it should not do and pay attention to your food will pick up the pieces.
2. Avoid double bite piece of food: In general, you should eat all the pieces and avoid shredding teeth. Japanese cuisine is often segmented it’s good. Placing a bite out of food pieces into bowl is considered impolite. You can cover your mouth when chewed to pieces.
3. Do not mix wasabi (green mustard) with soy sauce: People in other countries are often mixed with wasabi soy sauce when eating sashimi, but rather you should not do that. You need to give a little wasabi onto pieces of sashimi, then put soy sauce.
4. Do not cover bowl upturned bowl: The bowl upturned lid will make other people think you’ve eaten already. You have to face as new dishware time served.
5. Do not give shell or shells of seafood to bowl lid on the bowl or other disk: Many people have the habit or quit jar or bowl of seafood onto another disk lid after eating. The Japanese see it as something rude and should be avoided. People should eat peeled in the seafood bowl after eating.
6. Do not use chopsticks before bowls: When eating Japanese, you should hold onto bowl or plate first and then use chopsticks. When a bowl, first you need to put the chopsticks down, after holding up your new bowl new chopsticks again.
7. Do not touch food with chopsticks if not pick up: You will be seen as impolite if their chopsticks on a plate of food touches but did not pick up.
8. Do not place the wand onto the bowl: If you want to put the chopsticks down, you have to use chopsticks upstairs. If not, you have to wrap chopsticks chopsticks wrapped in paper and put down initially on the table.
9. Do not be the first island to pick up food from chopsticks Mass: Because that’s where your head chopsticks should actually not lay hands clean and should not be used to pick up food. You should get a double serving more take longer to pick up food using whole.
10. Do not jam up the mouth food: The food raised higher than the mouth is considered impolite.
The principles of the Japanese dinner table
