In every cuisine, we again have a very personal way to enjoy meaningful and interesting. 

 

 

Cuisine includes not only foreign objects delicacies cooking techniques and craftsmanship. World cuisine exists an array, usually unnoticed, but an actually very important, it is the rules on the table. The Asian countries despite many similarities in food, but in every country, enjoying the food hidden messages and meanings very different. 

India 

Although located in Asia, but in fact India with its South Asian origin to own a culinary culture very different from Vietnam and the other countries of Northeast Asia. One of the most unusual and typical of Indian cuisine is impulsive eating habits. Indians do not use knives, forks, spoons or utensils typical of Asian countries as chopsticks, they leave food on the disc, the disc holding with his left hand and eat with my right hand draw. Rule two hands are strict rules in Indian cuisine, to the lefties will use the right hand to eat, and even liquid foods like curry can also be fed by hand. 

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Why is there such strange customs? Ignore all the comments that keep food handling is unhygienic, uncivilized, ... this habit of Indians need to be recognized on the style of their own culture. 

Affected by the major religions are Buddhism and Islam, Hindus formed cult concept that natural food - beverages given by the supreme being - must be taken with your bare hand catch, as a way expressed respectfully. The country itself originated as Indonesian Muslims also continue handling this eat. And the concept of "toilet" of the Indians we also different: Eating by hand is still considered clean, but with his left hand holding food is taboo, because the left hand represents "evil" consisting these negative factors, wicked and profane, and the right hand represents "the good" with the right properties, high purity and justice. 

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Go to India, you have to remember to eat by hand offline! 

 

China 

 

As the cradle of Chinese culture itself, the source for the entire Northeast Asian cultures and is also one of the great cuisines of the world, Chinese cuisine encompasses the propriety indeed not simple at all public. In China, the meal always been divided into many different forms: breakfast (dimsum), tea ceremonies, banquet round table, ... However, this meal still shared a common view that the the layout dishes "Lazy Susan", aka turntable. 

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This is a popular dish layout is applied most meals and in all circumstances: In the middle of the table there is usually a small tea set, ceramic bowl surrounded with the right set of chopsticks, and absolutely must have toys Statistics chopsticks and porcelain. Food was put on a plane circle with pivot in the middle, he ate just rotate through gentle dish I wanted was out front. The idea of capital arising from the banquet of sumptuous, bold majestic palace, which diners can easily enjoy them in the dish though near or far. 

Besides being familiar with round table, when to China, you also need not pocket at the other diet rules: Except for soup or soup, and other dishes should always be eaten with chopsticks; absolutely no smoking in the table; seating for meals should be based on the arrangement of the owner, must not sit arbitrarily, ... So know to enjoy one of the greatest cuisines in the world is not easy right results! 

Japan 

 

Compared with China, Japanese cuisine dressed up but not showy and extravagant, but also a very special thanks flair, meticulous, and highly aesthetic. To enjoy Japanese food prepared properly, customers need to pay attention to every little detail. First, do not be surprised if the food is usually very low on disk, by the Japanese concept is nothing extra, everything is correlated with each other and balance. Therefore, not only the food but the beautiful decoration on dishes must be manifest, in the not to fill up on food. 

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Second, the meal can not forget invitation "itadakimasu" before eating and "Gochiso deshita sama" after eating (the two are meant to thank you for a good meal). Third, the Japanese are very important "personal space" in the meal. Each self-bowls and chopsticks always on their side, not to bowl his elbows on the table or leaning away "common space". 

With dishes "national spirit and substance" is sushi, a list of rules to keep in mind is even longer: do not knock people out of the rice, not put into the rice section and wasabi soy sauce that just put a fish or shrimp section. Even in some high-end sushi restaurants, chefs will spread a sufficient amount of wasabi on sushi for you and you are not "arbitrarily" nothing more after tasting it. 

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Eating sushi is also very tired that home! 

 

South Korea 

 

One of the biggest features of Korean culture is allowed under the rules. The South considered extremely important in social hierarchy, and also like the respected honorific, once seated at the table of the South, you have to remember a variety of rules "on business ceded under". 

As the pouring drinks, you must comply with the following: It is often circulating generally enjoy a glass of wine, if someone does not give you a glass of wine, do not be surprised that you have to wait for them to fill you. Young people are invited to wine before the elders, and the elders passed the cup for young people, they must be received with both hands and turned away to drink. This is considered polite and respectful of basic food in Korea. 

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In addition, a Korean meal is often very diverse in species: meal includes steamed, baked, fried dishes, dry dishes, water dishes, ... So, you have to remember how to eat properly prepared for each type, as exclusively spoon to eat rice and chopsticks to eat other foods. Pay attention to the food and share with others through large pots placed between tables, by Koreans believe that shared information will lead to more people closer together. 

Vietnam 

 

In Vietnam, the rules become a dinner table topic is extremely interesting. Because it can be both complex problem, again just as simple as "perfunctory." Vietnam is a country had absorbed many different cultures, so style dining table in our country is very diversified: There are still dishes like salad portable, rolling, and there ... dish to spoon, chopsticks, knife, fork, there are still maintaining local order invites the rice on the bottom as the North, there are places to eat drink southern comfort. 

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However, not style cuisine of Vietnam is only collected but lacks personality. It is in the daily diet of the Vietnamese people have shown a simple way of eating that subtle, simple but meaningful. Vietnam on the table, the most important source of starch is rice table will always be the first place where the oldest house still sits (and often women like her or her mother), showing a clear imprint of institutional matriarchy featured in our country. People often turning around a large tray of rice as a common immutable rules, and the other with a focus on Japan and discreet private meal, the Vietnamese prefer to talk and discuss everything going on in the day on his own table. Nature of openness, generosity and warmth of the wet rice civilization are evident in the simple meals such day also. 

True to the saying "When in Rome, from Rome to follow", allowed to behave in general and food in particular ways is not a constant value. In a different area, go along with unique cultural backgrounds have standards, in particular the principle of eating. Read and learn from these principles not only help you while traveling or studying abroad, but above all, it helps us to learn and understand more about the cultural mores of the cuisine world.