Quiz

BuzzFeed Staff, Español

Food

To slurp or not to slurp? That is the question.

Could You Eat At A Japanese Restaurant Without Embarrassing Yourself?

Doing so during a meal is in poor taste, and it can be VERY offensive.

Sticking your chopsticks in a bowl of rice is a common practice for funerals or memorials, where the rice is presented as an offering to the deceased.

First question: Which of these habits is considered to be rude?

The correct way to hold them is at the back end.

Which part of your chopsticks are you supposed to hold?

It's not rude. In fact, in Japan, this sound means you're enjoying them.

Loudly slurping while eating noodles is...  


Ideally, you should eat a piece of sushi in one bite.

How many bites should it take to eat a piece of sushi?

Remember: it's impolite to wave chopsticks around while making hand gestures.

It's called a _hashioki_, and it's where you rest your chopsticks while you're having a conversation.

What do you use this for?

You should pick up the solid parts with your chopsticks.

Ideally, miso soup — unlike noodle soup — is to be sipped straight from the bowl.

What's the ideal way to consume  
miso soup?

Using chopsticks to take food from other plates is perfectly acceptable, but, due to sanitary norms, you're supposed to pick up your food using the other end of the chopsticks (the end that doesn't touch your mouth!).

If you ordered dishes to share with other people, you should...

The nigiri should only dipped in the soy sauce on the fish side.

Which side of the nigiri are you supposed to dip in the soy sauce?

Pouring yourself a beverage is frowned upon.

Etiquette dictates that you be mindful of filling up the glasses of the other people at your table, and they're supposed to do the same with you.

There's definitely a handful of Japanese customs that you should know about, especially if you're going to be going out for sushi any time soon!

Oooof.

So maybe you won't be heading out to a fancy omakase lunch any time soon, but you at least know enough Japanese dining etiquette to not \*\*totally\*\* embarrass yourself.

Not bad!

You know your Japanese dining etiquette forwards and backwards. Clearly, you're not only a connoisseur of Japanese food, but also the culture! Congrats!

Wow! We are very impressed.

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