Slaughtering Japanse Meals - Page 15

Tenchu · (#141 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by TalnSG

even to the inane American practice of shifting the fork back and forth when using a knife to cut the food.

What? How so? Why?

Sakamae · (#142 (**permalink**))

MMM · (#143 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by MMM

In Osaka they use the mini metal spatula to eat okonomiyaki, but I hear they don't do that in Hiroshima.

It is called a "teko" I understand.

Sakamae · (#144 (**permalink**))

english plaese

MMM · (#145 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by Sakamae

english plaese

I think you are getting English. Be specific. Quote who you are talking to.

Sakamae · (#146 (**permalink**))

Ok sorry about that.

MMM · (#147 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by Sakamae

Ok sorry about that.

Don't apologize. Be specific, correct yourself, or don't post at all.

WhoIsDaffy · (#148 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by MMM

If you have no respect for anything but yourself, no one will have any respect for you. What you are trying to express will never be heard.[/b]

Enjoy the rest of your stay in fantasyland.

lolz, "or dont post at all"

over zealous much?

because that last post of your makes look so cool, and in no way petty,sad or pathetic

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yea tools for food vary alot.
in some places you use food, to eat food!
yummy,

MMM · (#149 (**permalink**))

A funny look at how seriously people can take food in Japan

YouTube - tampopo

Columbine · (#150 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by WhoIsDaffy

because that last post of your makes look so cool, and in no way petty,sad or pathetic

You know that expression about glasshouses?

You; Kew gardens; trebuchet.

Just sayin'~

But to bring this back on topic, yes, I think there is a proper way to eat something. Certainly there is a proper way to serve something. I'd be really disappointed in a restaurant if they served my dinner with the wrong cutlery and downright peeved if my red wine turned up over ice in a hi-ball. Most things are served in a way that improves the taste or else makes the consumption easier, so it only make sense to use those ways.

Does culture matter in all this? Certainly. It's not about kowtowing to someone else's culture, nor about asserting your own, it's about showing manners and a little sensitivity to your public surroundings. If I took a friend to a nice english place and they insisted on their dinner being served on a tray they could have on their lap and ate with their fingers, I'd be mortified. That's fine if you're at home or a fast food joint, but not in that kind of restaurant. Sticking your chopsticks upright in your rice in a japanese restaurant amounts to the same thing as far as I'm concerned. It's gauche.

EDIT: Might just be me MMM, but I can't see the video. Just a big white blank.