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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
So we talked about the manners in Japan andabroad, including USA and France.
Do you have anything else like the opposite thing?
Like, oh, how the Americans could be like, yeah,bad manners. Right. The Japan, Japanese do.
Yeah, so several. Okay. One, the ラーメンすする. Oh,yeah. True. It's definitely in France too.
It's, if you do that in, well, ラーメンレストラン, I don'tknow about in ramen restaurants,
like authentic ramen restaurants in Paris, can beallowed because it's Japan. Yeah. Territory.
Right. True. But if you do it like a spaghettithing, you do that, that's, ah, that's no.
Yeah. You know, I was a elementary kid in Americaand I did that with a spaghetti.
All the kids around were like, they were likelooking into my mouth. Like, I don't think
they even understood that it was like a badmanner. They were just curious. Surprised.
How I was doing it. They were looking into mymouth and I was like, oh shit,
wait, is this something that you don't do? Itdoesn't exist in them. Yeah. Right. Right.
Wow. True. So true. Yeah. That culture I got frommy parents, right? Like the ラーメンすする.
Yeah. Right. So I thought you'd do it for allnoodles. Right.
Yeah. Also, um, no tipping. Oh, no tipping. Yeah.I saw a post on social media saying that the
Japanese customers coming into America aren'ttipping. And yeah. And yeah. Like you mean during
the World Cup? Yeah. During the World Cup, all theJapanese coming there. Yeah. Yeah. Because
we don't have that culture. We don't, we don'tknow that maybe. Right. Yeah. Yeah. That's,
yeah, that's one. True. Um, is that, is it likerude if you don't tip at all? Yeah. Okay. Okay.
Even if it, even, even the service itself wasterrible. Yes. You definitely need to. No matter
how much shit you got from them, you have to tip.Okay. It's like a tax. You have to pay. It's like
a tax. Yeah. You have to pay. I see. Which isridiculous, by the way. Yeah, it is. It is
ridiculous. And we're from Japan where thosecustomer services are like very high level
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without paying anything. Without even tipping.Yeah. Let alone the tipflation, right? It's like
the percentage is getting higher. Yeah. Yeah. Butstill. I see. You have to tip.
You have to tip. Um, huh. Other things could belike, huh, I wonder.
Yeah. Very similar to noodles. But some Japanese,um, susuru, some soup. Ah, that's true. Like,
ah, that's true. That's a, that's a Japanesething. Like that. Yeah. That's something youshouldn't.
Yeah. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. That's, yeah.Making noise during the day. Eating. The eating
is not a good thing. I guess. Yeah, that's true.Yeah. You know, I heard it in Korea.
Yeah. Is, uh, is accepted. Yeah. Is that reallytrue? Yeah. Oh, is that actually true? Yes.
Okay. When I went to Korea, when I was elementary,they, um, I learned like, it's okay to
elbows on the table. Yeah. And like, maybe likethis, I guess your feet too. Yeah. Feet on the
chair. Yeah. On the chair, on the floor and likethis and like not closing your mouth.
Oh, that's okay. Okay. Oh. And, and, um, in Japan,we, we bring up the, the bowls, right? Oh yeah.
Yeah. To eat anything. But lift the bowl. Yeah. InKorea, that's not good. I heard that too.
So you have to eat like this. You have to bringyour face down. Yeah. Which in Japan kind of
looks a little bit, you know, right. Like, well,what's up, what's going on here. Right. Yeah. I
mean, so another thing that I noticed, um, wasthe, um, the other arm that you're not using,
it's completely down. Right. Right. Right. And itlooks it to, to the Japanese, it kind of looks
very like, well, like, you know, it's, it's not, Idon't know, sophisticated to me from the Japanese
culture point of view, but at least bring it onthe table. Yeah. Yeah. You should do this, this.
Yeah. But for them, yeah. It's surprising. We'reneighbor. We're in the very close culture world,
I think. And how it's so opposite at the sametime. We're using both like chopsticks
and eating same rice and like, it's kimono things.I know, right? It's interesting. Yeah.
But, you know, what was weird, I thought was, youknow, I went to Korea, right, Dean,
several months ago. Yeah. I didn't see that manypeople just putting their faces. Oh, I see.
Down against the plate. Uh-huh. How they did that?It was like in the middle. It was like in the
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middle. Like this? Yeah. It was like, like subtleenough that they can pass in Japan. Oh, I see.
So maybe that's not that different. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. You know, like same range, maybe? Yeah.Yeah,
maybe. Yeah. But no one had their plates up. Oh,so that's no-no in Korea. And I guess it's a no-no
in Korea. Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah. I wonderwhat it looks, I wonder what we look like
to them, you know, if they have their plates up,you know. Hmm. Very rude, maybe? Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. The opposite of how we're seeing. Yeah.Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. It's interesting.
Also, I guess, uh, kushami is, I think Japan ismuch more open to kushami. True. I think inAmerica,
if you sneeze, you kind of have to really hideyour, like, hide your mouth and nose, sort of,
like, and say, excuse me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.Yeah. In France, too. Oh, yeah. You even say,
yeah, excuse me. Like, I apologize to the people.Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. But in Japan,
it's okay. It's okay. To sneeze. Right. Yeah. Likein China, it's okay to geppu. Okay. After
the meal. Oh, okay. It means, even, it wasdelicious. Oh, really? That's what I heard.
Okay. Yeah. That's very different. Very differentculture there. Yeah.
Oh, that's, that's so interesting.
Thanks for listening, guys. Thank you. Bye.