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Originally Posted by Nyororin
Umm, I think you`re forgetting that I am American. I visit the US regularly, and in my experience - outside of San Francisco - 95% of the people DO NOT know how to eat Japanese food according Japanese etiquette. If the customer was not Japanese to begin with, even in the big cities, most people didn`t follow Japanese etiquette. Normal, common sense etiquette? Yes.
I was in no way intending to be insulting about it - just stating a fact. I can bet you 95% of the Japanese population also has no clue how to eat according to a certain country`s etiquette. It`s a fact, not an insult. You seem to be assuming that I meant people in America eat like complete slobs and are incredibly horrifying. No. I meant that no one is likely to care whether you sip your soup out of a bowl or use a spoon to do so. Which even in Japan people don`t really care about. Even here they aren`t going to stare and whisper. That`s just silly.
It`s silly to put so much pressure that you can`t enjoy the food for fear of stepping on some little etiquette rule.
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I think you are right, with the exceptions of LA and Hawaii which both have pretty dense japanese populations. I live close to SF and we have a lot of Japanese restaurants run by Japanese but also the "fake" ones which you mentioned in your first post (usually run by koreans, sometimes chinese) which neither would give a crap. I usually avoid these restaurants because the quality isn't usually on par, but for most americans it might be hard to tell the difference between them.