Use of Dining Etiquette Tableware in Japanese cuisine If you go to a restaurant, the tableware is often already set, so you don't need to worry too much about the placement. But if you are invited to a Japanese home, you should pay attention to it. Japanese tableware mainly includes chopsticks, teacups, rice bowls and soup bowls. The placing method is to place the rice bowl on the left and the soup bowl on the right, and the chopsticks should be placed horizontally on the chopsticks seat. Then why are the chopsticks in China and South Korea placed vertically, while those in Japan are placed horizontally? There is no exact answer to this, but there is a saying that when chopsticks were introduced to Japan, ancient China chopsticks were placed horizontally. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't like to put chopsticks horizontally, so China gradually put chopsticks vertically, but the Japanese didn't change it, because they thought it was a disrespect to people to put chopsticks vertically. This is also an answer to the problem of chopsticks placement. Teacups and flagons need to pay attention to teacups. In Japan, the teacups used by men and women are different. The teacups used by men are taller, while those used by women are shorter. So is the hip flask. A rice bowl and a soup bowl. So how do you tell a rice bowl from a soup bowl? The mouth of the rice bowl is relatively wide, while the soup bowl is relatively deep and obviously sunken. Among them, the rice bowls used by men are bigger than those used by women, while the soup bowls are higher than those used by women. Both rice bowls and soup bowls have lids. When eating, open the lids together. Put the left ones on the left and the right ones on the right. Put the lid back on after the meal. Although Japanese people also use chopsticks, they are still very different from us, and the way of use is the most important thing to pay attention to. In Japan, chopsticks are called Hashi, which is pointed chopsticks, not flat-headed chopsticks we use in China. How to use chopsticks correctly is the basis of Japanese table manners. Let's take a detailed look at our new products. First of all, pick up chopsticks with your right hand. If there is a chopstick cover, take off the chopstick cover and put it on the left side of the food or next to the cushion. Next, put your left hand under the chopsticks. Then, the right hand slides under the chopsticks. Put chopsticks in your right hand and hold chopsticks in your left hand. Slide your right hand and grab the upper side of chopsticks. Quietly put chopsticks horizontally on the chopsticks rack. Chopsticks must be placed horizontally, and they should be put back into the chopsticks pillow during the meal. They should also be placed horizontally, and chopsticks should not be facing others directly. If chopsticks are stained with leftover dishes, you can use napkins to wipe them clean, and you can't lick them with your mouth. This is very unsightly. If you don't have a chopsticks pillow, gently tie a knot in the chopsticks cover and use it as a chopsticks pillow. Although both left and right hands can hold chopsticks, if you want to look exquisite, hold chopsticks with your right hand, hold the upper end of chopsticks with your thumb and forefinger, and the other three fingers naturally bend to hold chopsticks, and both ends must be aligned. In addition, we should pay attention to the use of sanitary chopsticks. Generally, sanitary chopsticks are often used when entertaining guests. However, the more formal restaurants use high-quality products such as fir chopsticks with clear wood grain. After taking chopsticks according to the above steps, put the sanitary chopsticks flat, compared with standing up and breaking them. It is more elegant to just pull one like opening a fan. Also, apart from the extremely simple chopsticks, it is quite a bad habit to rub the tips of chopsticks after opening them. Then, knowing all kinds of habits, what should I do with chopsticks when holding a bowl in my hand? When eating Japanese food, most people eat with bowls in their hands. If you already have chopsticks in your hand, it doesn't violate etiquette to take a bowl or put it down with the same hand, but it doesn't look very elegant. The elegant way is to put down the chopsticks in your hand, and then straighten all your fingers to get the bowl. If you have a bowl in your hand, the way to take chopsticks is different. When you hold the left end of chopsticks between the middle finger and the ring finger of your left hand (or between the ring finger and the little finger), then hold it with your right hand upside down. If you feel very troublesome, you must put down your chopsticks first every time you want to take a bowl. It should be noted that after eating, you must put all the used tableware back to the place where you started eating. You should also cover the bowl and put the chopsticks back into the chopsticks box, chopsticks holder or paper bag. In addition, there are ten taboos in using chopsticks, which must be remembered, otherwise it will be considered as low personal accomplishment: licking chopsticks with your tongue. Use chopsticks as toothpicks. Chopsticks are not allowed to be swallowed upside down in your mouth. Put chopsticks in the food, or use them as forks to eat. Use chopsticks to pick up and pick things to eat in the food. Swinging around the food with chopsticks, indecisive. Chopsticks are not allowed to straddle the plates and bowls. Don't suck chopsticks like candy. Point at people and things with chopsticks. Don't use chopsticks as knives. In addition to the above items, paper is also very important in Japanese food, but paper is not prepared by the restaurant, but brought by the guests themselves. Huaizhi Huaizhi is a two-fold paper that is folded and put in the kimono's arms and carried around. It is used when changing dishes or wiping the mouth seal of a tea bowl after drinking tea. At present, some restaurants will prepare paper for customers, and the main ways to use paper are as follows: 1. It can replace napkins. You can use it to wipe the corners of your mouth or wipe the stains on the table. 2. It can replace small dishes. When eating food with crumbs such as dry snacks, or when eating food with juice, you can put a piece of pregnant paper on your left hand. 3. When eating grilled fish. Wrap the fish head in paper to remove the fishbone. You can also cover the leftover fish bones with paper, which looks beautiful. If you want to express your knowledge and accomplishment, then the proper use of pregnant paper is a good way to express it. Dining etiquette should express two feelings loudly before and after eating, and should be said before eating? Itadakimasu? I'm going to start eating. Say it after dinner? Go-chiso-samadeshita (thank you for your hospitality)? To express our gratitude to the host for preparing this delicious meal. A Japanese meal usually includes a bowl of rice, a bowl of miso soup and two or three dishes. The more side dishes, the more formal and decent they are. Looking at a table of delicious food, where to start tasting? The correct order of eating is: first sip hot soup, and then begin to taste the dishes in the order of serving. However, if there are many dishes, or they are served together, there is no requirement for the order of eating, but don't concentrate on eating only one dish. There is an order to taste each dish in a cycle, so that each dish is in equal proportion, so that all dishes can be eaten at the same time. Besides, in the process of eating, you need to pay attention to these items: 1. Don't talk about the bathroom when eating; 2. Don't talk when you have food in your mouth; 3. Don't spit out what you have imported; 4. Try to avoid coughing, sneezing and burping when eating; 5. When eating fish, you should not put the fishbone and fishbone on the table, but on the plate; 6. Don't eat food in a hurry; 7. It has been used. 8. Pay attention to the people around you at the dinner table, especially the ladies or older people. 9. Don't eat the food before it's finished. For many friends, when eating food with soup, they always put their hands under it when sending food to their mouths for fear of dripping soup. This is very impolite in Japanese food. If you are worried about soup dripping, use pregnant paper instead of plates, which will not lose courtesy. For women, don't wear too strong perfume when going to dinner, and it's best not to wear a big ring on your hand, because sometimes the utensils containing Japanese materials are very expensive, and if the ring is put on the utensils, it will not be worth the candle. If it is a dinner party, the host will usually arrange the seats of the guests. The host or guest couple will sit facing the host and wife. When you come to a restaurant, the oldest person usually sits first. If there are guests, they will go first. At the formal banquet, the younger generation will arrive before the older generation. After entering the box, the owner or boss should sit farthest from the door, and the person with the lowest position should sit near the door, which is convenient for passing food or closing the door. At a private party, the buyer sits near the door. Sitting posture When eating, if the restaurant provides our common tables and chairs, then it is enough to maintain a normal and decent sitting posture. What we need to pay attention to is not common in life? Tatami? Sitting posture. When you enter the tatami room, you must take off your hat, gloves and shoes, but you can wear socks. When sitting on tatami, the Japanese will sit on a mat (called Zabuton by the Japanese). The correct way to do this is called the front seat, which is called Seiza in Japanese. You need to kneel down with your knees together and your hips pressed against the roots. This sitting method is very formal. Easier ways are cross-legged seat (called Agura in Japanese) and horizontal seat (called Yoko suwari in Japanese). Men are generally cross-legged, that is, crossing their feet in front and landing on their hips. Women are horizontal seats, that is, the legs are slightly sideways, and the body does not press the feet. Above, we talked about the seating order, sitting posture, matters needing attention when eating, the use and placement of tableware and other knowledge in Japanese dining etiquette. Then, when tasting different foods, what other table manners should be paid attention to? Below, let's take a look. In Japan, you will find that you don't need a spoon to drink soup. So you can lift the bowl, smell the fragrance first, and then drink it slowly. If there are edible ingredients in the soup, you can eat them with chopsticks. You can take a sip and then take a bite. If there are shellfish such as clams in the soup, you can press the shell with chopsticks and taste it. Sashimi is sashimi, usually accompanied by white fish, shellfish, tuna, white radish, perilla, wasabi and so on. When eating, you should start with white meat sashimi with less fat, and then go to red meat sashimi with more fat or heavy taste. When eating low-end Japanese food, such as sushi, people often dissolve mustard in soy sauce and then dip it in, but if eating high-end Japanese food, it must be noted that mustard cannot be dissolved in soy sauce! The correct way is: a small amount of mustard should be dipped in sashimi, and then soy sauce should be dipped in the other third, not too much or too little, and a small amount of seasoning should be used to eat the original flavor of the fish fillet. When you eat different sashimi in succession, you can use radish mud to clear your taste buds. Big leaves should also be eaten at the same time, and it is easier to eat them wrapped in big leaves. Cooking is an intermediate dish with cooking as the cooking method. Guandong cooking is generally cooked until the soup is dry and the taste is heavy; Kansai cooking will keep more soup and taste lighter. Foods that are difficult to hold with chopsticks, such as taro, must not be eaten with chopsticks! Remember, tying with chopsticks is absolutely forbidden when using chopsticks. You can't transfer a part of the food in the big plate to your own small plate with your hands. If vegetables are large, they need to be eaten with their faces hidden. Burning is barbecue food, usually grilled fish. When eating grilled fish, you can break the tail of the fish, poke the belly of the fish with chopsticks, hold the head down with a chopstick, and remove the skin with a chopstick (because the skin is grilled with carbon, removing the skin is a healthy and elegant way to eat), and eat from the left. Don't turn over when eating grilled fish. Pick out the fish head, fish tail and bones with chopsticks and put them on the plate, then continue to eat the other side. Eating white radish at the same time has the effect of removing fishy smell. After eating, you need to cover up the food residue with decoration industry. Yang is fried food, and tempura is the most famous Yang in Japanese food, among which shrimp is the crown. The thinner the paste of tempura, the better, the hotter it is, and the more fragrant it is. It is best to fry it and eat it now. A good tempura is crispy and delicious outside, and the lining is soft, smooth and sweet. When eating tempura, you should bite slowly. Don't eat it all at once. It's better to eat it bit by bit. In what order should you taste the food when you eat it? Generally speaking, things are arranged according to taste, usually in the order of fried shrimp, fried fish and fried vegetables. Steamed food is a dish that is mainly steamed, and sometimes it appears as a substitute for boiled food and burned food. When eating steamed tea bowls, hold the cup firmly in one hand and draw the diameter with the spoon in the other, and draw a circle along the inside of the cup wall to perfectly separate the egg from the cup. After that, spoon the person to eat. Stuffed food is a cold dish mixed with vinegar, which can't be used as the main course. After Japanese-style improvement, western-style salad has become an important member of the cold salad series. It is best to eat jealous cold dishes in two or three times, and it is not advisable to eat them all at once. Royal rice, juice and fragrant things are staple foods such as rice and miso soup. Miso soup can be divided into clear soup and miso soup, also known as stop bowl, which means that a complete set of dishes is finished. The rice can only be filled for seven or eight minutes, and filling the rice bowl means farewell. When eating, you must eat with a bowl, and don't just use chopsticks to hold rice. You can't eat kimchi until you're halfway through the meal, and you must eat one piece at a time. Don't just take a bite and put it on the meal temporarily. Soup Miso shiro is very famous in Japan. When drinking soup, you should hold a bowl in your left hand and chopsticks in your right hand, hold the bowl to your mouth and stir it with chopsticks while drinking. When holding the bowl, the thumb buckles the mouth of the bowl, and the index finger, middle finger and ring finger buckle the bottom of the bowl. It's best to make a sound when drinking soup, and don't feel rude. Making a sound shows that the soup is very delicious and is a respect for the chef. Many friends know that when eating noodles in Japan, you must make a noise, which shows that noodles are delicious. That's right, but you can't eat it immediately after serving it to your face. Want to enjoy the next one first? Appearance? Then smell it and eat it at last. Japanese usually suck noodles directly from the soup bowl, and you can't add seasoning before eating noodles, which means that you don't trust the noodles cooked by the chef, but after you have eaten a few mouthfuls, you can add the seasoning you want. When drinking soup, the Japanese usually end up with a bowl to drink, but they can also scoop it with a spoon. The rice here refers to white rice (Gohan). When eating, hold the bowl to your chest with your left hand, buckle the mouth of the bowl with your thumb, buckle the bottom of the bowl with your index finger, middle finger and ring finger, and don't get too close to your mouth. Then hold chopsticks with your right hand. Don't gobble, it's best to finish the food in your mouth before taking a bite. Attention should be paid not to put the food on the rice, but to eat first and then eat the food. Drinking etiquette in Japan, you can't drink until you are 21 years old. The way for men to hold the glass: lightly press the rim of the glass with thumb and forefinger, and the other fingers naturally bend inward. The way for women to hold the glass: hold the glass with their right hand, with their left hand centered on the middle finger, and hold the bottom of the glass with their fingertips. When someone pours wine for you for the first time, you must take a sip out of courtesy. If you are too heavy to drink, you can say it the second time. Japan has no habit of persuading people to drink. In Japan, instead of pouring wine for yourself, two people pour wine for each other, which is the same as in China. When pouring wine, look at the glass mouth. When you leave your seat, don't pour wine with your own bottle. Be sure to pour wine with the bottle on the other table. When pouring wine, be careful not to let the cup collide with the hip flask. If the hip flask or wine bottle is heavy, you can hold it with your right hand and gently hold it with your left hand. Pay attention to filling the wine. The other party should put the glass on the table instead of holding it in his hand when pouring wine. Tea drinking etiquette Japanese love tea, and different kinds of tea will be served at different times of the same meal. Generally speaking, green tea is served before meals, and fried tea is served during and after meals. Tea drinking etiquette is divided into men and women. The correct way for a woman to drink tea is to hold the teacup with her right hand, and the fingers of her left hand should also support the teacup. Men can hold the cup with one or both hands. Sushi has the most exquisite etiquette and too much content, so it is said separately at the end. Sushi is my traditional food. I should wipe my hands with a warm towel before ordering, and then order. If you don't know what to order,