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I do?^^;; For the soy sauce, it's more because I'm lazy and put beef+rice+vegetable+etc. on one big plate, then I just spray the soy wherever I feel like it and it get all mixed up in the rice too^^;; The good thing is I only have to wash one plate. And the chopsticks, if you ground them to the rice, the chopstick won't fall off the plate and down on the floor, when you carry the plate to the dinner table or to another room. ^^;; |
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My step-mother, a proud Japanese woman, didn't care for us learning much of anything about her native country or culture (that's what we got for being white--gaijin in our own home!), but she made SURE that we learned TWO THINGS: First, never stick your chopsticks upright in your food! Second, never pour soy sauce on your rice! This was enforced in ways only used by Asian mothers... I can still feel The Stare. Now, I watch my youngest sister and my cousins, all of whom are half-Japanese, grow up and they all pour soy sauce on their rice. Kids these days have no discipline! |
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2006-11-12, 03:08 | Link #105 |
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So it's seen as impolite or "undisciplined" to stick your chop sticks into the rice?
Hmm, I guess it's the equivelant of eating with your hands -- barring finger foods -- in the United States. You're not supposed to do it unless your a toddler, if seen doing so, generally your parents will smack you up-side the head,or at least be like "are you stupid?" Also, used to have the elbows on table thing, but no one seems to care much anymore. Just trying to relate it anyways . (continues his monologue) I think the US equivelant developed because it is messy. Wonder why the Japanese chopstick taboo developed... |
2006-11-12, 09:47 | Link #107 |
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Adding soy sauce to your rice sometimes is considered an insult to the person who made it, something like, "your rice isn't good enough on its own so I have to add soy sauce to make it taste good."
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2006-11-12, 18:38 | Link #108 | |
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2006-11-13, 20:29 | Link #112 |
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If my Japanese course lecturer was not mistaken, hiragana was not any more Japan's "native script" compared to "Chinese". the Japanese first used "manyogana" to record the pronunciation of the Chinese characters, and the "manyogana" are in fact all Chinese character themselves. the formal "Kaishu" form of "manyogana" ("Chinese") was only used by men, while the informal cursive form of "manyogana" ("Chinese") was used by both men and women. Later the cursive form of manyogana evolved into hiragana, by taking laterals and radicals of the cursive form of manyogana ("Chinese"). So both manyogana ("Chinese") and hiragana are Japan's native script.
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2006-11-13, 21:15 | Link #113 |
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the modern Japanese culture looks to be quite self-centered. Anything profitting them is right, everything else is wrong, almost completely disregarding morals, facts, and truth. And an extreme lack of sense of justice with a strong sense of self-righteous-ness. This is my own experience online. During the recent political clash between Korea/China and Japan, some big bunch of crazy idiots from both sides appear on the WWW. However, for the Korea/China side, whenever some crazy idiots post things like "Japanese are all pigs", "We should massacre Tokyo" in Korea/China online bbs, immediately there will be other Korea/China people come out to tell them "shut up racist", "you are worse than those Japanese extremists". But for the Japan side, when some crazy idiot post things like "Korean/Chinese are all pigs", "Korean/Chinese are bad for human gene pool" in Japan online bbs like 2ch, you can only see other Japanese crazy idiots supporting them, but no good man/woman standing up to tell them they are wrong. It looks like there are bad people in all cultures, but the good people in Japan either don't say anything, or are too afraid to say anything.
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In fact, I like to have mole poured onto my rice, because I like the spicy flavor. |
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Maybe my teenage tastes aren't that refined but I can't tell that much difference between different types of rice, the main difference i see is based on how much water you put in the rice cooker determining how sticky the rice will be
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