Dimitri wrote:
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> "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
>
> So-Des-Ne
>
>
Why the hyphens? And it's spelled "desu" IIRC.

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Jean B.