One of the confused eating manners in Japan (week 6)[Assessment]

Japan, as a country attach vital importance to the social conventions and has a plenty of etiquette, people their picking up this unique culture and respecting the tangible or intangible rules. There are many complicate aspects that a foreign visitor may not expected to know, so if you have no idea of Japanese culture may experience culture shock when they first go to Japan, even for me, an asian girl.

The first thing that shocked me was Japanese people are supposed to making so much noisy when they eating noodles! In Japan, sound you make while eating the Ramen conveys deliciousness. So maybe your quietly bite without slurping may regards as you don't eat them deliciously or the food is not delicious.

In China, slurping your noodles is really a bad manner, I think it's same in some western countries. In my family, if I make any noise when I am eating, my grandpa will criticize me severely, because it's a manner that kindergarten children may know.

To better adjust to the local culture, we may try to do as Japanese do. But not all kind of slurping is polite during eating, so how to slurp your noodles in right ways? 

Meals are always accompanied with drinks, next, we'll talk about the drinking etiquette. One of the conventions is do not pour for yourself.

Japanese often pour up the glasses for the people seated closely. You should accepted it and then reciprocate. 

While in China, the younger or the lower in positions should pour for the senior of the bunch first. But when peers hang out for a meal, you can just help yourself and do what you would like to.