What are the eating habits of the Japanese?

Today's Japanese eat in 3 ways: traditional rice, Chinese rice and Western food. For breakfast they like to have porridge, milk, and a side of bread, while rice is the staple food for Chinese food and dinner. They like to eat lean pork, beef, lamb, chicken, eggs, bamboo shoots, tofu and various fresh vegetables.

The Japanese are particularly fond of fish, shrimp, crab, oyster, kelp and other seafood, especially raw oyster meat, sashimi and blowfish.

In Japan, kimchi and miso soup are a must at the table. Eating miso soup with white rice is a traditional Japanese breakfast.

During meals, the Japanese are very particular about the use of chopsticks, and there are "eight chopsticks to avoid". First, avoid licking chopsticks, that is, can not use the tongue to lick the chopsticks; second, avoid fascinated chopsticks, do not grasp the chopsticks at the table to look around, can not get the idea of what to eat; third, avoid moving chopsticks, that is, can not be clamped a dish and then clamped a dish, and do not eat; fourth, avoid twisting chopsticks, that is, do not put the chopsticks into the mouth to go back and forth, go to the chopsticks to lick the rice; fifth, avoid inserting chopsticks, that is, can not be used as a chopstick fork, forked vegetables to the mouth; sixth, avoid pulling out chopsticks to send; sixth, avoiding pulling out chopsticks to the mouth to send; sixth, avoiding pulling out chopsticks to send. The sixth, avoid pulling out chopsticks, that is, do not use chopsticks to pick vegetables from the dishes, should be eaten from the side; the seventh, avoid cross chopsticks, that is, do not put the chopsticks across the rice bowls and dishes; the eighth, avoid other chopsticks, can not use chopsticks instead of a toothpick to pick your teeth. When eating with Japanese people, you should use communal chopsticks to give food to everyone.

Japanese people generally drink a cup of tea before meals, and attaches great importance to the tea ceremony. The tea ceremony is a form of socializing rituals in the form of tea party, but also a special art of tea cooking and tasting.

The ceremony of the tea ceremony is very tedious, fine tea ceremony is considered to be the identity, cultivation of the best performance. In general, there are two ways to drink tea in the tea ceremony, one is a bowl of tea for each guest; one is a bowl of tea for each person to drink only a mouthful of tea, by all the guests to drink.