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blackjack
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 Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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Do not make noises with spoon or chopsticks hitting the rice bowl or other food containers.
Eat the rice and side dishes from one side.
Chew food with your closed mouth and do not make noises while chewing.
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Jake_Kim
Joined: 27 Aug 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 10:16 pm Post subject: Re: oops! Did I just a commit a Korean social faux pas? |
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| Ralphie wrote: |
| Jake_Kim wrote: |
| Were you guys sitting in a row tightly to each other? And on which side of you was this 'impolite' colleague of yours? |
Yes, we were sitting in a row. My boss sat on my left. The colleague was on my right at the end of the table. There was plenty of room; we weren't sqeezed in. |
Hmm, I was speculating that your placing your soup bowl on the left was interpreted as passing the bowl onto the next person to your left since soup is 'supposed to be' on the right in Korea. In close proximity reversed placement causes confusion which belongs to whom. Then this 'intervention' was intended to prevent an undesirable mix-up while the food were distributed yet untouched.
Unless that were the case, the next best interpretation given enough space around the table is 'dinner table etiquette correction' which means the colleague in question knew that the bowl belonged to you and rearranged the bowl in the 'right' manner 'for you.' Even so, touching someone else's food among gown-ups once claimed (by the first bite) seems way too proactive, if not invasive, even by Korean standard. |
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McGenghis
Joined: 14 Oct 2008
Location: Gangneung
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| Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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I feel nostalgic when I hearken back to the days when I used to care...^^
For cereals OP, you sound like you�re doing just fine. |
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Quack Addict
Joined: 31 Mar 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2010 1:23 am Post subject: |
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| machoman wrote: |
i don't know if that was a faux paus or not but it shouldn't really matter since you're the foreign teacher.
i just wanted to say eating with korean teachers suck because they usually almost always choose a restaurant where you have to sit on the floor. |
I have some of the biggest slurpees, chompies and smackers of any school I've been at. I really can't stand eating out with these people. I just want to shout, "close your damn mouth, people!" Oh well, it's only once a month. |
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tottenhamtaipeinick
Joined: 05 Sep 2010
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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I havnt been to Korea yet (early next yr  ) though I don't know if this annoys you or maybe I am brought up with a stuck up English background (my dad is a nut case when it comes to table rules) but Asians that I regularly eat with (Taiwanese and Koreans) don't shut their mouth when they eat.
So I am sure if they stopped doing that here I might pay attention to their table etiquette in Korea!
Though I can understand it is how you were brought up! I have told my friends and girl friend off for eating with their mouth open and they obey! Though to them I sound like a nut case with strange rules I guess! |
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Kaypea
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Everybody here makes noise when they eat soup. It's actually quite a mark of refinement to not slurp soup, I think, because it's so much more intuitive to slurp it... it makes more sense. Many Canadians slurp their soup, too. I don't slurp. It's my single refinement... the single one, mind. |
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shinramyun
Joined: 31 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 12:27 am Post subject: |
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| Kaypea wrote: |
| Everybody here makes noise when they eat soup. It's actually quite a mark of refinement to not slurp soup, I think, because it's so much more intuitive to slurp it... it makes more sense. Many Canadians slurp their soup, too. I don't slurp. It's my single refinement... the single one, mind. |
Every single possible asians slurp or make noise when they eat soup or noodle. |
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murmanjake
Joined: 21 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 12:56 am Post subject: |
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From your list:
Chew food with your closed mouth and do not make noises while chewing.
Hmm... |
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Catfisher
Joined: 10 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 5:38 am Post subject: |
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That's like eating at the school cafeteria and one day there's noodles so you pass on the rice to avoid too many starches and the servers and teachers and kids will look like you just wipe your boo-tay with ol' taegukki.
Oh, and never tell them that white rice isn't that nutritional. |
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Lunar Groove Gardener
Joined: 05 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 6:12 am Post subject: |
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| Wait, you got your own bowl of soup? |
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Vagabundo
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| Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 8:51 am Post subject: |
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one of the advantages of not eating rice and not eating their soup (usually fishy, etc) is not having to worry at all about these supposed social faux pas.
(what's the plural of faux pas, btw?)
bah, I've told them many times white rice isn't nutritional 
(usually in response to questions, why no rice?) |
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Vagabundo
Joined: 26 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 10:12 am Post subject: |
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| blackjack wrote: |
Do not make noises with spoon or chopsticks hitting the rice bowl or other food containers.
Eat the rice and side dishes from one side.
Chew food with your closed mouth and do not make noises while chewing.
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yes, very amusing.
I was also amused by this one
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# Do not pick out what you don't like or shake off seasonings. |
sorry, I WILL pick out what I don't like and I WILL shake off whatever nonsense they choose to drown the stuff in, like mayo) |
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Skipperoo
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 10:34 am Post subject: |
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| murmanjake wrote: |
From your list:
Chew food with your closed mouth and do not make noises while chewing.
Hmm... |
Is that so odd? Chewing with one's mouth open is one of the most irritating things in the world. |
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Catfisher
Joined: 10 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 10:36 am Post subject: |
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| Vagabundo wrote: |
one of the advantages of not eating rice and not eating their soup (usually fishy, etc) is not having to worry at all about these supposed social faux pas.
(what's the plural of faux pas, btw?)
bah, I've told them many times white rice isn't nutritional
(usually in response to questions, why no rice?) |
Well, when I said never tell them that about rice, I was being a bit sarastic.
The best was when I explained to a teacher "White rice is a simple sugar, no nutrition."
Teacher: "No, this rice no put sugar. Very healthy." |
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redaxe
Joined: 01 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Lunar Groove Gardener wrote: |
| Wait, you got your own bowl of soup? |
lol good one |
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