I have a funny culture clash story for you - im from poland, and i have been taught that while being a guest you have to eat everything that is served to you, say thank you and preferably compliment whoever cooked it, now when i visited Germany, they had different attitude : they believed that unless you leave something on the plate they haven't fed you enough - i ended up having seconds, 3 rds, 4ths until i gave up feeling sick. Later it came out while talking to my mom, they said something along the lines : damn, was your boy hungry! Everybody laughed it out :D

@DrTavaresChannel

4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@CollegeBallYouknow

4 ай бұрын

I’m gonna visit Germany in the future just for this

I remember when I was in Japan once, someone specially treated me to a meal that was worth over $70 for one person... it was a very fancy fresh seafood display. However, I can't eat seafood for a number of reasons. It was a beautiful offering, but I definitely couldn't eat it. They ended up bringing me food I was able to eat, but I definitely cried...

@OGamerGirl92

Жыл бұрын

Honestly that's a huge fear of mine because I'm allergic to all shellfish, and wasn't really raised on fish except for lent.

Practicing in a Belgian Dojo, it happens sometimes we invite a Japanese senseï to teach Naginata and afterwards we take a lunch all together with the club. I learned it’s very impolite to pour alcohol in our own glass. It always has to be someone else to do it or you’ll be seen as a selfish alcoholic, and you pay attention to the pleasure of others. And our host served me wine 4 times during the meal ! Without I had to ask anything. Never finish your last glass, it’s a trap !

@Lokesvararaja

3 жыл бұрын

"Yo kouhai, pour me some sake!!!"

@thomasohanlon1060

2 жыл бұрын

Dam, I'm part Irish what you are suggesting is a sin. Just kidding, but for real you can't finish the last drink?

@sarkaztik3228

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomasohanlon1060 I think he meant that as soon as you finish a glass they pour another so the drinks never actually stop so your "last" glass is never really your last glass? I could be misinterpreting it.

@OllamhDrab

2 жыл бұрын

Hee, yeah, that could be a tough one. In the US, pouring for others can be a fine line between conviviality and pressuring people to drink more than they want. :)

@zainnelson4602

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry to be so offtopic but does someone know a way to get back into an Instagram account?? I somehow forgot my login password. I would love any assistance you can offer me!

Shogo “ I have handled over 60k foreign travelers ” Yamaguchi

@patrickdalfre9042

9 ай бұрын

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The last one reminds me of praying/ saying grace before eating which I try to do with each meal

You do such an immeasurable service to your culture and your ancestors by sharing your knowledge like this! Arigatou gozaimasu Shogo-san!

My croatian parents also told me always to eat up, pray before eating, and leave my elbows off the table.

@millz5403

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if my grandparents are like your parents

I feel like the 'Not putting your elbows on the table' rule is common to lot of other places. I remember as a child my parents would remind my sister and I to not put our elbows on the table while we ate.

While I was in Japan, I rarely heard Japanese ppl saying "いただきます、ごちそうさま!" when having meals. Even my Japanese friends don't do that much. When I say those words in front of them, some of them said I reminded them of good virtues of Japanese ppl. They would be laughing and say "Oh you're more Japanese than us". 笑

What a coincidence, my grandma is often roasted me for "Dog-eating" too and the reason is exactly as you said even though we are in different culture and country.

Now I wonder about the turning of chopsticks when grabbing food from a communal bowl like for nabe.

@alexcarter8807

3 жыл бұрын

There are a lot of "chopstick manners" videos on here that cover that.

@sapphireshineauthor

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Gaijin!!!

Your daughter is so cute!

@ethanol4264

2 жыл бұрын

FBI OPEN UP 😂

@MARS-mp5sn

2 жыл бұрын

@@ethanol4264 What???

@lisamuszynski233

2 жыл бұрын

Elbows off the table was a big thing in my house growing up here in the States. I think that's a universal thing tho, I know lots of people from different backgrounds that also grew up with that table manner being taught to them

@Reiseninapringlescan-dx2km

2 жыл бұрын

Do you by any chance play OSU? Maybe Genshin? Perhaps you have watched Monogatari as well? Im sure you browse 4chan

@macro3751

2 жыл бұрын

@@ethanol4264 you're making this weird

Every time I check his sub count, I feel great that he is really getting the attention he deserves. 100k subs is just right around the corner.

@jessemorin7678

2 жыл бұрын

I like this comment because now Shogo has over 1.1 mil...

@gamechep

Жыл бұрын

When I hit the button, it said 1.49 (14.9 lakh actually. 10 lakhs = 1M)

I like how Mr. Shogo always smile while explaining.

Honestly Shogo, you deserve a segment on NHK World by now!

Growing up as a child in a family of 6, 8 counting Grandmothers. We children ate everything served...gratefully. Praying before each meal in thanksgiving...Saying "Grace". Best

Not wasting food is something I try to inculcate in my children as well. Best method is never take more than you know you will eat and ask more more if that's not enough.

in my country pressing hand is actually saying hello we say namaste when pressing our hands and yes we press our hands while praying . Really loved the video helped me to understand a lot more about japan

I find myself wondering if the "Mottainai" concept also explains why it's considered impolite to take the last piece of something from a communal platter, but it's perfectly polite to cut the piece in half and share it with someone? My grandmother always insisted on that, as do my fiance's Japanese grandparents...and it has also become a habit we've both picked up, as we've realized over the years. I also presume that it's probably at least part of why Japanese grandmothers seem impossible to convince that they need to leave the kitchen, even when everything is already prepared and on the table, and everyone's sitting down for a meal. My dad, aunt, and uncle would frequently have to practically carry my grandmother to the table at holiday gatherings, she was so insistent that she needed to be in the kitchen just in case there wasn't enough prepared already!

@LadyPelikan

Жыл бұрын

In Sweden (a very poor country before the industrial revolution), we also cut the last part into half (and again, and again). The very last bit we jokingly call "svenskbiten" (the Swede's bit, or the Swedish bit).

@dslight113

Жыл бұрын

u can just make enough and equal amounts ...

@Mokiefraggle

Жыл бұрын

@@dslight113 It really doesn't matter how much you make, there's not really a concept of "equal amounts" on a communal plate. Everyone is taking at a slightly different pace, everyone has a different appetite, so while one person might still be of a mind to have another piece, someone else at the table might be done. So, when there's only that one last piece remaining, everyone who's still kinda hungry just kinda has to either be "that guy" and take it, or be polite and offer to split it.

@dslight113

Жыл бұрын

@@Mokiefraggle yh in my country its not normal 2 share foods on 1 big platter , therefor i thought if you announce how many everyone can eat, it would make sense, ty for reacting

I always thought it was polite to leave some food, to show that it was so delicious that you can't eat more. アリガト for this video it will be helpful if I ever visit Japan.

With the exception of the last rule, this is essentially how I was brought up in Germany. Given that my parents used to pray before meals, maybe even the last one is somewhat present. Due to memory from WW2, people in my parent's generation did not waste any food and this teaching is still with me today. Don't waste food.

Once again an informative and well presented video. May I humbly add that as a Christian we too usually give thanks and grace before and after our meals. The portions served in N. America tend to be pretty large, and as I get older I find it harder to complete my meals, so the frequent request for a ‘take-out’ container😊

2:01 Yuta (from the KZread channel That Japanese Man Yuta) says that he too was taught to be thankful and not to waste his food. To this day, he still feels bad if he ever has to throw any food away.

Your channel is my survival guide

I’m thinking of visiting my mothers friend in Japan next summer. But I don’t know the language. I’m starting to try to learn the etiquette first. This video was helpful, thank you!

I also was taught that laziness and wastefulness were "sins" which I do believe. We should be mindful because others lack, generous because once someone was generous to us, kind because once someone was kind to us, and forgiving of others because we do not know with what they struggle. Blessings 🥰❤

Wow! This explains manners well, without talking down to the viewer, but rather explaining things that people may not know in a straightforward fashion. It convinced me to subscribe, with thanks!

A very useful lesson in japanese table manners🤗🍜 By the way, that's a very pretty flower arrangement in the background.

I wasn't allowed to leave the table either if I didn't eat everything. And the elbows on table thing is also something I learnt to never do. My parents were really strict about table manners haha. But I'm very glad they taught me that. (I was born in the Netherlands, but American dad and my mom is from Barcelona so funny to see some things are the same in other cultures).

@OllamhDrab

2 жыл бұрын

Heehee, yeah, the elbow thing seems pretty universalto my knowledge. And I know well the having to clean your plate, that was pretty hard on young me with a long-running digestive/food sensitivity problem, the latter of which none of us had a clue about. To this day I live in etiquette fear of overestimating how much I can eat at a sitting. :)

@chey6073

2 жыл бұрын

So wait you guys couldn’t go to the bathroom during dinner?

@garryferrington811

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, yes, "clean your plate" and no elbows on the table were once common in the US as well. We also drank from glasses, not bottles, cans, or cartons. Television eroded all that.

@abbyunicorn5019

2 жыл бұрын

@@chey6073 well I don't know for the two commenters above but in my family (traditional french) you could go before or after, once before dessert if the meal already took 1h-1h30 but yeah leaving the table except for getting salt or something in the fridge was a no go for me too :/

@Fuzz82

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, finishing the plate and no elbows on the table sure is a thing in the Netherlands. Although I see it less these days unfortunately. Elbows on the table never had a lot of meaning so this was not always strict. But finishing the plate always is. Or first eat their vegetables before they have more of what they like. And not leaving the table early. But asking to be excused is okay. For example, if the adults are still eating, but the child has finished eating and wants to go play. The child should politely ask if he/she is allowed to leave the table.

This Japanese restaurant in Florida loved me and my family of 6 for finishing everything we ordered. They were so happy that they came back after we paid and brought us free dessert and free hot sake 🍶 then bowed.

Thank you very much! Manners are not the most interesting thing in the world but you made it so interesting to watch

"Itadakimasu" is my favorite expression in Japanese. I love hearing people say it. Idk why.

I'm always fascinated of Japanese culture eversince..So that l love Japan so much!😊❤️🇯🇵✌🏼️

Thank you so much for all of your content! You sir are respectful, insightful and honorable as the day is long. Please keep up the good work and congrats on blowing it up with the subs. Hello from the Midwest US btw

This is very important for me for visiting japan. Thanks a lot, shogo-san 😊😊😊🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🎌🎌🎌

You have handled 35k foreigners on KZread and 60k in real life, just 5k more to reach 100k handled foreigners🤩

I live in the United States and my dad always taught me to keep my elbows off the table, it’s pretty cool that both of our cultures have similarities

Now I am in love with Japanese culture 😍😍

I'm most grateful for this lesson

*two thumbs up*. re: mottainai. In texas,US, mostly german ancestors. We always do this. I even get after the kids to eat 1 grain of rice or pea left. I think its left over from the great depression (grandparents time) and then later parents growing up with just enough to eat or perhaps I just don't like to see any food wasted knowing how much it costs in money and time to prepare. I was a hungry kid when young also :)

I’m going to Japan soon for a school trip, and while I’m not staying with a host family I do get to have a meal at my school buddy’s house. I was and am still a bit nervous, but this has helped a lot. Thanks dude!

Thank you for your informative videos. You are very kind and respectful. Now please move videos with your beautiful family! Especially your adorable children learning traditional Japanese culture.

Here in the US, it's considered polite also to keep one's elbows off the table and the other hand resting in your lap. Of course, I'd always keep my other hand out of my lap and really didn't know that I was doing one of the table manners you mentioned already as a child. (Perhaps I was from Japan in a former life...)

Huh, some of these things Are or at least used to be in The West aswell

@The_True_

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, almost identical.

Rule number 3 makes me sad, because it is impossible for me. I have one arm and hand affected by disability, and holding a bowl is impossible with it.

@alexcarter8807

3 жыл бұрын

You are excused!!

@RobinTheBot

2 жыл бұрын

The Japanese people I know give disabled people a pass for most things.

I know most cultures have meanings to their names would you please tell us about the Japanese names and their meanings starting with yours?

I think not wasting food is universal but to me one guy and one movie changed my mindset completely especially about rice 20 years ago - its labour intensive, plus scattered rice left behind can amount to form a spoonful to half a bowl which both are still wasteful

You guys are so polite it embarrasses a lot of us that we aren’t that way too. It’s not a bad thing. If the world were as polite to each other as the Japanese were to their guests the world would be a better place.

Shogo has always good explanations XD. Thx Shogo.

Elbows off the table is also a part of us etiquette.

@jakubjandourek2822

3 жыл бұрын

... same in the Czech R.

@Reiseninapringlescan-dx2km

2 жыл бұрын

Lol where, US has barely any etiquete in anything nowadays You will see this etiquette rule only in a few rare families, those borderline ultra-religious Christians who are trying to preserve some small part of culture in the US, which culture barely exists anymore

ありがとがございます for teaching me the important manners I really appreciate it

Thank you. I’m going to look up those phrases to say before and after the meal.

I find the not leaving your food thing interesting, because here in America, it's true that we waste a lot of food, but not many of us really want to. Parents still often teach their children to clear their plate before being excused from the table, but in my personal experience, it didn't always stick, especially when I just felt full.

When you mentioned chopsticks, I bonked my head into the back of a portable fan.

Another informative and fun video! You're almost at 40k! Great work guys! The demonstrations were so helpful 👨‍👩‍👦 I'm so proud that Hinata is growing into such a polite young girl 💖

Aw. I was hoping for the chopstick rules. Will watch this one and the next ones, I guess. 😀

@petercdowney

2 жыл бұрын

Well, the two most important ones are not sticking them in rice like a pair of sticks of incense or passing food between pairs chopsticks like cremated remains.

@thingfish000

2 жыл бұрын

You never spear your food with chopsticks. You shouldn't use them to point as with a finger.

Dear Shogo-Sensei, I am very happy to have discovered this video tonight. Domo Arigato Gozaimasu * bows with gratitude for you teaching * Christie

Hi Shogo! This video has helped me out to clear out any doubt about japanese table manners. Wish you have a nice day!

Very informative as always. Thank you for sharing.

Time and place for everything. Its ok to be relaxed in your local clubs and public areas. Kind of have to read between the lines. A good dining place expects a bit more manners, but when out with your close friends of course live it up and have fun.

Shogo-san, I subscribed to your channel less than ✌🏻 weeks ago and you had 30,000-ish subscribers. Today you have 40,000+ subscribers. Congratulations and arrigato for an informative video.

There is a saying in Austria and Germany for children: "Wenn du nicht aufisst, wird es Morgen regnen" with translates in "If you don't eat up, it will rain tomorrow".

In the present people think you are hiding a smart phone! Hoping to visit one day. Thank you for your helpful videos and guide. I'll make sure to watch others too. They are easy to follow and simple.

Thank you Shogo-san for this wonderful video !

I haven't even watched one of your videos, but I immediately clicked subscribe after reading your channel's name. I've been to Kyoto twice and I can't wait to go back again, it's my favourite city in the world. I loved everything I visited and I could spend hours and hours just walking around randomly :)

Itadakimasu and gochisousamadeshita we still say it in my house. It's a tradition and good manner passed throughout generations, even though we live here in Brazil.

Easy helpful instructions - thank you.

This is super enlightening. Thank you.

Thanks Shojo - this was very helpful!!!

Thank you for all these tips, I am grateful for your channel.

I love you videos so much!! Your one of my favorite KZreadrs and when I go to Japan I can thank you for all of the knowledge you will when I go there👍

Japanese sounds so cool.

Thank you so much for your videos, I really learn something new and I really appreciate the explanations and examples. I also find it interesting because elbows on the table here (in Canada and probably America) is considered rude here too, but in a few countries across the world they consider it more polite to have elbows on the table??? Its really amazing how such small details are culturally important and change across the globe

Thank for this instructive video! Your people are so way ahead! We elsewhere still have to learn to be grateful for all the privileges we enjoy! With Japanese culture, it is already part of everyday mentality! I am in awe!

Awesome tips thank you.

We slurp hot noodles because it helps to cool the hot noodles. An added bonus is it makes the hot soup taste better.

I live in the US, and I respect japanese culture.. I want to learn more japanese, but at some point I want to help people from Japan visit the USA

Elbows off the table is a thing in the US too! I was taught that it could damage the table though. The elegant thing is probably a reason too though.

Wow, Thank you for this lesson.

Thank you very much for this educational Video !

You just changed the way I eat rice. Holding the bowl is so much easier.

That hairstyle looks so great! Happy new year to you!

Thank you. I will endeavor to remember them all. Especially pressing my hands together.

This video was super helpful! About the holding bowls, what if the bowl is hot? I know if I was holding a bowl with any liquid in it I would spill it everywhere bc of my shaky hands 😂

Didn't know about the putting the arms under the table. Good to know.

Such a great video!

I can attest to this video. My Japanese neighbor's girlfriend made us sushi. He was pissed when he found out that we discarded it. He said, "Okamisama wa, okoru yo!"---In English, God will get angry at you! Backstory, I was an exchange student in the mid-90's.

@catsdogswoof3968

Жыл бұрын

I mean you could've given it back

@vidtuby

Жыл бұрын

@@catsdogswoof3968 That would have been insult, my friend.

@catsdogswoof3968

Жыл бұрын

@@vidtuby tf if you didn't like it and weren't hungry then he should at least eat it himself were you hungry?

@vidtuby

Жыл бұрын

@@catsdogswoof3968 It was a lot of food. It was along time ago---1995.

@catsdogswoof3968

Жыл бұрын

@@vidtuby did he make you both eat it all? Or did he serve it

I'm going to have a meal with my Japanese client. Thank you for this wonderful video.

I remember the phrases いただきます and ごちそさまでした(?) from when I was learning Japanese. It’s a really interesting and challenging language to learn, in my opinion.

I just subscribed recently and I love your content and really appreciate your lessons! I'm hoping to get over to Japan one of these days and I'm SUPER PARANOID about being rude and/or disrespectful to the culture and etc so thank you so much for making these videos!

Lovely! Thank you so much.

🍜🙏🏻 great content, as always.

Shogo San can you do a video on etiquette & how to use chopsticks please?

I greatly appreciated this video. ありがとうございます

use everything with care, wisdom to live by and govern your life

It would be a great idea if you were to make a very short video of your daughter’s table manners! It could become a resounding success!

Love your videos ❤️

By the way, Very Cool Channel!! Thank you for sharing the knowledge.

Great video.. Specially the noodle explanation.

The etiquette on finishing your food is very fascinating. Here in Sweden, or at least in Småland prefecture that would be considered insulting. It would be seen as you saying that your host did not prepare enough food for you, so it's best to leave the last bite on the plate.