OUR BIGGEST RACE YET! A Gourmet Race Around Japan

Bunpro
#710

26867 (community total) + 21 (my reviews) = 26888

11 Likes
#711

26 888 (community total) + 37 (my reviews from yesterday) = 26 925

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#712

26925 + 173 = 27098

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#713

27098 (community total) + 50 (my reviews from today) = 27148

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#714

27148 (community total) + 60 (my reviews) = 27208 (new total)

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#715

Well done everyone.
Here’s a few tips for you… things you should NEVER do with chopsticks in Japan:

  1. NEVER stand your chopsticks up in your rice. The reason is that it this symbolises a bridge between this world and the afterlife. It is used as a way of serving rice to deceased loved ones, usually after collection of their ashes. Doing this in a restaurant is unthinkably rude.
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  2. NEVER pass food from your chopsticks to someone else’s. This is also connected to death. After someone has been cremated, their ashes are transferred by loved ones into the urn using chopsticks that are made especially for transporting human bone tissue. Passing food from your chopsticks to someone else’s chopsticks symbolises this and is therefore taboo.
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  3. NEVER pick up your food by stabbing it with one chopstick. This one isn’t connected with death but is extremely bad manners. Chopsticks are used in many Buddhist rituals (don’t ask me about them, I don’t know) and it is considered disrespectful to Buddha. Furthermore, traditionally, chopsticks are viewed as beautiful things that should be respected. If you can’t pick your food up the correct way with your chopsticks, you’re using the wrong ones!
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#716

Since other people have added their reviews backdated to the beginning of the race, I’ll do the same despite not wanting to earlier. Plus today’s reviews.

27148 + 107 = 27255

11 Likes
#717

27255 + 30 = 27285

12 Likes
#718

27285 (community total) + 20 (my reviews) = 27305

13 Likes
#719

27305 (community total) + 17 (my reviews) = 27322

14 Likes
#720

27322 (community total) + 51 (my reviews) = 27 373

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#721

27 373 (community total)+ 17 (my reviews)= 27390

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#722

27390 (community total) + 37 (my reviews)= 27427

12 Likes
#723

27 427 (community total) + 43 (my reviews) = 27 470

13 Likes
#724

27470 (community total) + 14 (my reviews) = 27484

12 Likes
#725

27484 (community total) + 17 (my reviews) = 27501

11 Likes
#726

27501 (community total) + 70 (my reviews) = 27571

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#727

Here’s Akira Kurosawa’s take on ひな祭り. I hope the timestamp works :blush:

27571 (community total) + 10 (my reviews) = 27581

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#728

27581 (community total) + 48 (my reviews) = 27,629

11 Likes
#729

27,629(community total) + 123(my reviews) = 27752

11 Likes