Monday, November 19, 2012

Japanese habit/custom ~7~ Asking for bag at restaurant

   In Japan,  it was - 1 degree at Hokkaido(one of the most coldest place in Japan)
 yesterday. How are you doing?

  When you can't eat up all of the dishes at restaurant, what do you do in your
culture? In Japan, customers sometimes ask for the bag to pack and take out
the foods which they could not eat up.
http://image.search.yahoo.co.jp/search?p=%E9%80%8F%E6%98%8E%E3%83%91%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF+%E7%94%BB%E5%83%8F&aq=-1&oq=&ei=UTF-8#mode%3Ddetail%26index%3D35%26st%3D1290
  Japanese people sometimes do that. (Not always)
 Do you do that in your culture?
 We do that just because you don't want to waste the foods.

 

4 comments:

Saku said...

We do this, too. ^^
I heard in some countries it's impolite to do this, because it seems like you are stingy or something...

marimari said...

Really? That's interesting.
Some of Japanese may think it is
stingy...

Delilah said...

In France, it's really rare when someone ask for this in a restaurant. I remember once, when I was young, I ate only a quarter of my pizza. My grandmother asked for a box to take away the pizza. I've never did it so far!
It's a shame, it would be better if it was in the habit, I don't like to waste food. Why throwing it if you can bring it..
However, here we can ask to take to bottle of wine if we don't drink all. Hopefully, because it's really exepensive in restaurant!

marimari said...

In Japan, customers can ask for
keeping a bottle of sake(or other alcohol)they could not drink all at restaurant or bar.
Do you do that in France?