Table Manners
Q,Have you ever eaten in a foreign restaurant? Where?What did you eat?
Did you make any mistakes?Please explain your experience. Did you learn anything?
When I was a junior high school student, I went to Canada for home stay. It was the first time to go abroad and stay with forigners. There are two young children.
one night, we were eating dinner with them. There were long fried fish or meat on my plate. they has sauce for this so I put it on the fish/meat, then, suddenly, Briana(one of the kids) told me,
" Nami, what are you doing. Don't do that." and the mother said to her,
" it's OK, Briana."
I was not able to recognize why was she saying to me and what was she talking about my dinner. Also I was not able to have enough English skill to ask if there are somethings wrong with me.
At this time, they did not tell me the matter in detail by their consideration to me.
However, after I saw her way to eat the dish, I knew the different way of eating of mine and hers. I put sauce on it directly but she put it side of the dish and after cut it to be a small piece, dip it to the sauce, then they finally can eat it.
After learning it is rude to put sauce on dishes in another countries, I was really embarrassed and also I thought there are another different table manner between Japan and foreign countries so I have to be careful about this when I am in other countries.
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Hello♪I also have been to foreign country like you. I think foreign table manner is very difficult for me because there are a lot of maners, and it is not hte same to Japan. I had experience about using a folk and spoon in Britain. I rarely use them, so it was considered about it.
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