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What are the exotic flavors of each country? (Give specific examples)

Japanese etiquette

Japan is known as a "country of manners", and it is customary for Japanese people to pay attention to etiquette. People always bow to each other and say "hello", "goodbye" and "please take care of me".

Japanese people attach great importance to exchanging business cards when they meet for the first time. If you don't bring a card with you when you first meet a Japanese person, not only will you be rude, but the person you meet will think you're not a good person to talk to. When exchanging business cards, you should bow first and receive the card with both hands. After receiving the other party's business card, you should read it carefully to see the other party's identity, position, and company, and nod your head to show that you are clear about the other party's identity. Japanese people believe that a business card is a representative of a person and treat it as if it were their own. It is considered rude to accept a business card and then put it in your pocket without reading it. If you are going to a business negotiation, it is important that you hand your card to everyone in the room and accept theirs without leaving anyone out, although it takes quite a bit of time, but it is a way of showing mutual friendship and respect.

When you go to a Japanese home as a guest, you should make an appointment with the host in advance and ring the doorbell to announce your name before entering. If the home is not installed doorbell, never knock, but open the door on the sliding door, ask a "Excuse me, inside someone?" , enter the door and take the initiative to undress and remove your hat, unclasp your scarf (but be careful not to wear a bare undershirt or go barefoot even in hot weather, as this is rude behavior), put on spare slippers, and give the host the gifts you have brought with you. When you are seated in a house, it is polite to sit with your back to the door, and only at the host's urging may you move to a place of honor (meaning the seat in front of a niche with various works of art and decorations, reserved for distinguished guests). It is not customary for Japanese to allow guests to visit their homes, so do not make requests to look around. It is especially taboo in Japan for men to intrude into the kitchen. You must also ask your host's permission to go to the toilet. When eating, if you are not sure how to eat a certain dish, ask your host for advice, and use your own chopsticks by turning them over to the other side of the table. When saying goodbye, ask the guest to make the first offer and thank the host. When returning to one's residence one should call the other person to tell him/her that he/she has returned safely and to thank him/her again. When you meet your host again after some time, still do not forget to express your gratitude.

The traditional way for the Japanese to toast at a banquet is to place a bowl full of water in the center of the table and a clean white cloth in front of each person. Before pouring the wine, the host will first swish his own glass in the water, press it face down on the cloth so that the water beads up and is sucked dry by the cloth, and then fill it up and hand it over to the guest with both hands. After the guest has finished drinking, the same is done to show the friendship and closeness between the host and the guest.

Japanese people, whether visiting friends or relatives or attending banquets are required to bring gifts, a family spends 7.5% of its monthly income on gifts. When you go to a Japanese house, you must bring a gift with you. The Japanese believe that giving a gift is much more meaningful than saying "thank you" because it expresses gratitude in practical terms. To the Japanese people to give gifts to master the "value of the inch", the gift should not be too heavy, nor too light. If it is too heavy, he will think that you are asking for him, and thus infer that your goods or services are not good; if it is too light, he will think that you are belittling him. When you go to a Japanese family for a general visit, it is more appropriate to bring some packaged food, but do not give flowers, because some flowers are used when people are courting or when they are having a funeral. Japanese people pay attention to the packaging of gifts, gifts to be wrapped on several layers, and then tied with a beautiful ribbon or paper rope. The Japanese believe that the knot in the cord contains the soul of a person and signifies the sincerity of the giver. The person who receives the gift is usually expected to return it. The Japanese do not open gifts in front of guests, mainly to avoid embarrassment due to the discomfort of the gift. The Japanese do not mind if gifts that they cannot use themselves can be passed on to others. Japanese people generally do not use an even number of gifts, this is because the even number of "four" in Japanese and "death" homophonic, in order to avoid bad luck, many occasions do not use "four", over time, simply do not send two, four, six, six and so on. In order to avoid bad luck, they don't use "four" in many occasions, and over time, they simply don't send even numbers such as two, four and six. They love to send single numbers, especially the three single numbers of three, five and seven. But "nine" should also be avoided because it is pronounced the same way as "bitter" in Japanese.

Japanese families make homemade sushi for special occasions; however, it is mostly simple and can be made by adding roasted nori or sliced eggs, pickles or other ingredients to the rice.

Sushi is also popular outside of Japan, and there are many rotary sushi restaurants around the world. However, foreigners sometimes mistakenly confuse "sushi" with "sashimi" (raw fish), which is one of the typical images of Japanese cuisine.

Sushi is a Japanese food, but it is originally from China. The word sushi, also known as "sushi," first appeared in a Chinese dictionary from the 3rd to 4th centuries B.C. called "Erya. The word "sushi" first appeared in the 3rd to 4th century B.C. Chinese dictionary, Erya. It means that the meat paste is called jou (羹) (also known as minced meat, hǎi, orㄞ), and the minced fish is called sushi (qí, ㄑ-ˊ).

The other way of writing sushi, lousy, appeared more than 500 years later, in another dictionary from the Han Dynasty of China in the 2nd century AD. Liu Xi's Shih Ming (释名..... Volume II. Liu Xi's "Interpretation of Names, Volume Two, Dietary Interpretation, Thirteenth" recorded that "lousousousous dregs are also brewed with salt and rice, and then cooked and eaten." It means that lousy slam is a kind of marinated with salt and rice, letting the fish ferment and then chopped, cooked and eaten.

One hundred years later, when the Chinese characters were introduced to Japan, the words sushi and lousousousy were confused; China also stopped using rice to brew food, and by the Ming Dynasty, sushi and lousousy even disappeared from Chinese cuisine.

Sushi is a Japanese dish in which vinegar is put into the rice as the main ingredient, and sushi, like other Japanese dishes, is very colorful. Production, the fresh sea urchin yellow, abalone, oyster shrimp, scallops, salmon roe, cod fish white, tuna, salmon and other seafood cut into slices on the snow-white sticky rice balls, a knead and a pinch, and then smeared with fresh green wasabi sauce, and finally put on the antique porcelain plate ...... such a combination of colors, it is a truly "show colors".

Eating sushi, pay attention to the consumption of the complete, that is, the whole piece of sushi to be eaten in one bite, the only way, rice and sashimi aroma can be completely compatible, the teeth and cheeks filled to the brim, without leaving a gap, that the rich flavor of nowhere to escape, in the mouth for a long time, a wave of three twists and turns