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Indian Table Manners  
Indian food tastes best when eaten with your fingers. This is an
unarguable fact. Besides, Indian dishes are designed to be eaten by
hand. Rotis, parathas, nans, and bhakris all need to be torn and
wrapped around the food. Rice blends with spices in the gravies so
that each mouthful is a sensuous explosion. The joy of delicately
licking your fingers after a spicy meal is unparalleled.

The Technique of Eating Gracefully With Your Fingers
Use Your Thumb
Food, say a small amount of rice, is collected in a small pile on your plate,
blended with one or more bits of curry, and then picked up with a twist of
the wrist and held on the four fingers of your hand. The thumb remains free.
Keeping the food level, maneuver your fingers to your mouth until the tips
of your fingers are almost, or just, touching your lower lip. Don't put your
fingers into your mouth. Use your thumb to pop the food inside.

Good Manners
Conventions of good manners vary from region to region. For instance,
in North India it is impolite to dirty more than the first two segments of your
fingers. Since North Indians eat mostly rotis and drier curries, this isn’t too
difficult. In the South, where they eat lots more rice, and enjoy very wet
curries, it is permitted to use your whole hand.
Use Your Right Hand
It is very important to eat with your right hand only. Your left hand rests on
the table or your lap while you eat. Though it is acceptable to tear off a bit
of a roti in your left hand and tear off pieces with your right, it is better to
only use the right hand, pinning it with your little finger and tearing with
your thumb and forefinger.

The question of what a left-handed person should do is a bit complicated.
If it is at all possible, try and eat with your right hand. If it is too awkward,
use the left, but perhaps explain to your dinner companions that you are
left handed and cannot eat with your right hand.

Western Table Manners  
Rules in The West
1.    Either the host will tell you where to sit, or you ask.
2.    Wait for others to start eating. Many homes will pray first.
3.    Family style meal - food is passed to the right.
4.    Try a little of everything - do not take a lot of anything.
5.    If you do not want something, just pass it on; you do not need to say
anything. If they  ask, say, "It looks good, but I think I won't have any,
 thank you."
6.    Keep the table and table-cloth as clean as possible. Do not put bones
or anything on the table. Things that are not eaten should be put on
 your plate.
7.     Do not spit anything out. If there is something in your mouth that you can
 not swallow (e.g. bones, seeds, etc.), quietly put it in your paper napkin
 and then go on.
8.     Do not talk with food in your mouth. Wait until you have swallowed
 everything before talking.
9.     Don’t burp. It is considered rude.
10.    And don't slurping while drinking soup or eating noodles! - do it as
 quietly as possible.
11.     When food is passed to you say, "Thank You."
12.   When you would like more of some food and it is not right in front of you,
 say, "Please pass the (for eg.) green beans."
13.   Do not reach across the table or in front of someone to get something -
 this is rude. Ask them to pass it to you.
14.   If you need to leave the table to go to the bathroom or do something,
 say, "Excuse me for a moment, please."
15.   If your hostess wants to serve you but you don't want to eat it, say, "
Thank you. It looks very good, but I'm not quite used to this kind of
 food yet. Maybe next time, thanks."
16.   Meals are to be slow, pleasant, leisurely activities. Enjoy your food,
 but talk as well.
17.   Watch how fast others are eating. Try not to be too slow or too fast -
 keep up with their pace.
18.   When you have finished eating, wait for all the others to finish before
 leaving the table.
19.   Do not touch your nose, hair or teeth at the table.
20.   Toothpicks are not usually kept on the table in a home. After the meal,
 go to the bathroom and clean your teeth if you need to. In restaurants,
 they are usually at the counter where you pay as you go out. Again, it is
 best to clean your teeth in the bathroom.

Japanese Table Manners  
In Japan, you start eating after saying "Itadakimasu" (I will receive) and
finish with "Gochiso sama deshita" (Thank you for the feast).

When eating noodles or soups, it is Japanese style to slurp. However, it is
considered bad manner to burp. Blowing your nose in public, and especially
at the table, is also considered very rude.

When drinking beer or sake, it is good manners to pour the alcohol into
each other's cups, i.e. one does not pour it into his or her own glass. You
should always check if your friends' cups are getting empty, and then give
them more. If someone wants to give you more to drink, you should hold
your glass towards that person.

How To Eat ...
Rice:
Take the rice bowl into one hand and the chopsticks into the other. Do not
pour soya sauce over white, cooked rice.
Noodles
Lead them with the chopsticks step by step into your mouth. Keep the distance
between the bowl and your mouth small, do not hesitate to slurp.
Soup
Drink the soup out of the bowl as if it were a cup and fish out the solid stuff
with your chopsticks. That is also true for eating noodle soups (e.g. Udon,
Ramen). Sometimes a ceramic spoon will be provided for eating soups.
Sushi (Nigiri, Maki):
Give some soya sauce into a special little plate. The correct way of dipping
nigiri sushi is to dip it upside-down with the fish part into the sauce. A few
kinds of nigiri sushi should be eaten without soya sauce. In general, you
eat a sushi piece in one bite.
Hands or chopsticks can be used to eat sushi.
Sashimi
Give some soya sauce into a special little plate. Add wasabi into the soya
sauce and mix it. Use the sauce for dipping the sashimi pieces. Generally,
you either separate the piece with your chopsticks, or you just bite a piece
off and put the rest back onto your plate.

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