"Julia Altshuler" > wrote in message
...
>I forget which thread this morphed from, but I got interested in Japanese
>table manners and North American table manners when eating Japanese food.
>I asked a Japanese friend. She lives most of the time in Japan, gets work
>some of the time in the U.S. and Europe, learned English in school and
>speaks English fluently, if somewhat accented.
>
>
> I asked her:
>
> Is sushi or sashimi ever eaten with one's fingers in Japan? I'm not
> talking about times when one's willing to make allowances for the Western
> idiots. In Japan, amongst people who should know better, in restaurants
> and private homes, does one always use chopsticks?
>
>
> She answered:
>
> It's OK to eat Sushi (not Sashimi) with your fingers. But I would
> advise to use chopsticks. If you can't properly eat sushi with fingers,
> it can turn ugly.
>
>
> --Lia

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