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Originally Posted by fantasygirl707
If I ever get a chance to go to Japan, I'm definetly going to try the festival foods. Especially the sugar-coated fruits. ^^
One question though,
Why do the japanese have strict rules regarding to food. Like having to eat in rotation and the rules about chopsticks?
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For the same cultural reasons in the west we frown upon licking the plate and eating the food off of your knife instead of your fork, or holding them in the wrong hands.
It's just not polite.
Eating in rotation from shared dishes means that no one person hogs all the meat dish and the person opposite is stuck eating nothing but tofu. Everyone gets a little of everything.
The chopstick thing i assume you mean like leaving it in your rice, or passing from chopstick to chopstick. Both are connected to funerals- it's like wearing all black to a wedding, an inappropriate reminder, and the second one as well is rather unhygienic.