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Originally Posted by MMM
If my post was too "poetic", well, I am not going to apologize for that. The question struck me and I gave an empassioned and truthful answer.
Noodle, to say that presentation is not a vital part of Japanese cuisine is just plain silly.
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I don't think you give Japanese people enough credit.
I don't know about your Chinese myths, but chopsticks in Japan are NEVER used to pierce food, unless to slice a large piece of tofu in half.
Why would you say "back in the day real people ate like pigs". What a silly thing to say. Sure, back in the caveman days.
Food being appealing to all the senses is hardly a western thing. Have you ever had a meal in England or Ireland?
Noodle, you need to check you facts a little better on this one. I would say the same to Tenchu, but I know he doesn't care.
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MMM, i don't think you understood/read my post clearly...
first.. i didn't ask you to apologize for poetic replies, i just said that i agree a little with what tenchu said.
secondly.. I said that the reason people use chopsticks hasn't got anything to do with presentation... but that doesn't mean that they don't put a lot of effort into presentation... all good restaurants in the world go all out on presentation these days..
thirdly.. what does giving japanese people credit have anything to do with this? if i didn't appreciate the japanese culture, i wouldn't be on this website and i wouldn't be looking forward to living in japan next year.
fourthly.. that was my point with the chinese myth about chopsticks... as they NEVER stab or pierce, they believed this was the reason they used chopsticks.... i hope that makes sense. anyway, just read what i wrote previously more carefully!
fiftly.. back in the day people did eat like that in most countries in the world because 99.9% of people were poor at some point in their countries history. So many people actually ate using their hands or they shared their food in a big dish etc (hence the reason chinese food is still shared and is not seperated out into each plate in the way that western food is done)...
sixthly.. have you ever eaten a meal in a french restaurant???? french food is actually famous for the presentation and extravagence etc of it. not actaully taste... It is the westerners that first started presenting their food nicely (for the rich aristocrats usualy)