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Before eating, most dining places provide either a hot or cold towel or a plastic-wrapped wet napkin (o-shibori). This is for cleaning hands before eating (and not after). It is rude to use them to wash the face or any part of the body other than the hands, though some Japanese men use their o-shibori to wipe their faces in less formal places.
Food or any small favor in general will generally be offered more than once and it is polite to decline it the first time with an expression implying effort to avoid causing inconvenience. Avoid hand gestures with which one is unfamiliar, such as making a fist with the thumb placed between the middle and index fingers. Many of these are offensive.
A cardinal rule of dining is to use the right hand when eating or receiving food. It is inappropriate to touch any communal utensils by the hand used for eating. If the right hand is used for eating, then the left hand should be used for serving oneself from common utensils. [21]
In traditional restaurants or households that commonly use bare hands to eat, such as Sundanese and Padang restaurants, they usually serve kobokan, a bowl of tap water with a slice of lime in it to give a fresh scent. This bowl of water should not be consumed, rather it is used to wash one's hand before and after eating.
When eating bread, small portions (roti, naan) are folded into a small pocket to scoop the desired amount of curry. [3] Most food is prepared to be bite-sized, but when large items such as a chicken leg are served, it is acceptable to eat with one's hands. [4] [5] [6] Traditionally, sitting down together on floor mats in comfortable clothes is ...
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The knife should be in the right hand and the fork in the left. However, if a knife is not needed – such as when eating pasta – the fork can be held in the right hand. [8] Bread is always served and can be placed on the table cloth itself. It is considered unacceptable to use one's fingers to taste the food.
After boiling, the ears can be fried [4] or baked and eaten separately. The cheeks can be cured and smoked to make jowls , known as carrillada or carrileja in Spanish-speaking countries. The face of Iberian pigs is known as pestorejo or careta , and it includes the ears and snout ( morro ). [ 3 ]