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Being Uchi-deshi in
Iwama Table manners in general • Eat with your mouth closed, even if others at your table do not! • When eating noodles: in soup or any other way, it is common to make a sucking sound. This is considered proper manners, but only for eating NOODLES! • Take only as much as you can eat. Try everything that is offered to you, at least a taste. To leave food is a waste ( mottainai ) and is a big NO NO in Japan. ( As in many other countries, as well! ) • Do not put soya sauce or other things on the rice in your rice bowl. If rice is served with a sauce to go on it, then it is put in a larger type type of bowl and is served with a spoon. White rice should stay white when served in a rice bowl. • You should always finish your portion of rice in your bowl, down to the last grain of rice. Otherwise it is considered, can you guess it? "Mottainai!" • When eating with Nemoto Sensei or others who are your sempai, you should not finish eating before them. Time your eating so that it fits with whom you are eating with. ( Awase! ) • When finishing the meal everyone bows and says "Gochisosamadeshita." This means "thank you for the treat," and is always said at the end of a meal. • Important! In Japan, blowing your nose while people are eating is to be avoided at all costs ( as is actually the case in most other countries as well ). Unless you want to see how quickly you can clear the room of Japanese people, leave the room if you have to blow your nose. • Do not burp at the table! Somehow some people have come to think that this is an oriental custom. It is not! >> Next page |
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