Sunday, April 21, 2013

Insights of Cultural Plunge

SUSHI EVERYONE haha i love Japanese cuisine but i have trouble eating with chopsticks. Why because i rarely go to Sushi restaurant when going out to eat but when i do go i just have trouble holding the chopsticks in a certain way. I heard from a friend who went with me to a Sushi restaurant couple days ago she said its disrespectful for poking your food with the chopsticks and she had to re-teach me how to correctly use a chopstick and it took awhile to re-learn it. Well i love to cook in my spare time to ease the everyday stress of life i do other things to relieve stress like for example exercising in gym or training in mma training room etc. But when she told me it was disrespectful to poke the food with chopsticks in Japanese style culture place. I thought of my culture if somebody was doing the wrong thing and disrespecting my culture in a purpose manner. For example in my culture we like to eat with our hands when eating foods we first wash our hands throughly and then we eat whatever food is ok to eat with your hands for example pasta with meatballs or dirty rice with steak or fish we can obviously eat soups or sorbets with our hands we can eat with spoons and forks utensils. When i was at the restaurant i did try to eat with chopsticks and somewhat succeeds it wasn't for my well being i was trying to re-learn and respect the culture of Japanese way of life. It made me more aware of other diverse cultures other my culture that i follow everyday.

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