JPNS 2209 Lecture 3: obento handout
18 Jan 2017
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Jpns 2209 obento(boxed lunch/meal: obento is a single-portion takeout or home-packed meal, chopsticks. Chopsticks were originally sacred objects used to offer food to deities. Each family member has his or her own pair. Japanese chopsticks are tapered at the end and are manipulated with the fingers. Hold your disposable chopsticks horizontally and pull the chopsticks apart gently, over your knees. Pull the loose slivers off the chopsticks with your hand instead of rubbing the chopsticks together: bad chopsticks manners. Sticking chopsticks into the bowl of rice. Licking and sucking chopsticks: good table manners. It is proper to drink soup out of the bowl and eat solid food with chopsticks. Tonkatsu, pork-katsu, is the most popular, but it could be chicken- katsu or ham-katsu. Shira- ae contains mashed tofu and white sesame seeds paste with boiled vegetables. It is one of the popular items from shojin-ryori (buddhist vegetarian dishes). Futomaki: it is a type of sushi.
