I don't think there is anything wrong with that. Wasabi is always available at sushi restaurants and the only way to use it is to mix it with soy sauce.

I think people get stares when they fill the little dish all the way to the top and use too much wasabi to make a green brown sludge.

Phew. I think I'm all right then. Glad I'm not missing anything too obvious.

Partially guilty! :rolleyes: I make a rather greenish-brown sludge.
But in my case it's not wasteful, just odd.
I do not fill the dish even partially. I only add enough soy to the wasabi to make it easier to spread - literally only a drop or two. If it was more moist I wouldn't add any soy.

I did not know there was a wrong way to eat food.

there are customs and fashions for sure,

but ultimatly if 99% of the food ends up in your mouth and you enjoy the food,
then you are eating it correctly.
(Is there anything more funny than someone trying to balance 2 individual peas on the back of a fork?)

If you like your sushi soaked in soy sauce, whats wrong with that?
I dont understand why thats bad?

I often offend people by carrying chopsticks by stabbing them into the rice.
tribute to the dead, or very convenient way to carry multiple dishes.

I dunno,

mountain molehill you know

my girlfriend has a "cats tongue" so she can't handle spicy food. yet she always tries some of mine when it is spicy. Bit of an M I guess. But anyways
she like to eat kimchi by first dipping it in water.

But... Cat`s tongue is about temperature, not spiciness...?

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I'm usually a bit of a sauce junkie, I hate dry food and everything gets drowned in some sauce or other. But when it comes to sushi I usually just dip a little corner in the soy/wasabi mix and that does me, I love the stickyness of the rice.... I never thought there was a wrong way to eat though...

My brother and his friend once had an incident with wasabi peas; My brother nearly choked on a rather too spicy mouthful and his friend was too wussy to eat them after seeing my brothers reaction. Afterwards my brother told me it was the most vile thing he ever tasted, I guess wasabi is an aquired taste.

I am starting to understand your lack of respect for any culture other than your own. Welcome to the forums. Please do come to Japan.

Now that's the wrong way you were searching for. I accept that some things are merely fashion and ultimately unimportant, but it is not excusable, in my view, to offend people knowingly.