@yungjerry703: wait.. please explain. I've never heard this before. You flip the chopsticks around when grabbing from a community plate? And then set it on your plate...and then flip back to the normal side and it eat? That makes sense..I guess. I had never heard of this. I need to learn more.
It hasn't been a problem for me though.. If I'm sharing a community plate, then I don't mind swapping spit with them.
@jcrockerman: This is one of those tricky things in life that not everyone does, but some people are adamant about.
As with most of these types of tricky things, the key is to not be the first to act. If you find yourself eating asian cuisine family style, sit back. See what the oldest people in the group do (or what other people do if they are serving the oldest people), and then do the same.
Meh. My Armitron has been employed at a Benihana's in Great Neck for the last 9 years and my VirtualBoy works as a school crossing guard for Anne Arundel County in Maryland.
@SafetyMachete_GitEmSteveDave: No sushi for me today. Maybe tomorrow. And yes, my #Office Jackass tweets are real. If I tweet that I'm eating the wasabi ball, then I'm eating the wasabi ball.
A robot hand handling raw fish or fishy smelling things? Oh this can only lead to commenting hilarity. Hijinxs ensue. Part of Gizmodo's new prime-time line up!
I think it opens up some creativity. Have you seen those sushi that look like pandas and stuff? Instead of figuring out how the sushi will look like decomposed before you rolled it up, you can compose your sushi first, then roll around it.
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It hasn't been a problem for me though.. If I'm sharing a community plate, then I don't mind swapping spit with them.
07/07/09
As with most of these types of tricky things, the key is to not be the first to act. If you find yourself eating asian cuisine family style, sit back. See what the oldest people in the group do (or what other people do if they are serving the oldest people), and then do the same.
06/10/09
ahhh, domo arigato mr. roboto.
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Something doesn't smell right.
06/10/09
I'm not impressed by this man-hand on a stick.
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Or just pick it up?
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Umm...wherever you've been going for sushi, if that's a relevant factor, I don't think I want to eat there.
04/22/09
I can't tell if it's completely at odds with Japanese culture, or the kind of thing that you'd expect the Japanese to invent. Or both.
04/22/09
* confused *
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This was by far the best post on Gizmodo in a long time. The film student in me was captivated.
Thank you so much, Gizmodo.
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