Okay. So you know Japanese food generally comes in a bunch of different bowls on a tray to disguise the fact that they’re actually giving you feck all food, right? Now the typical custom is to go back and forth between bowls; it’s generally rude to, say, eat all of the rice, then all of the tofu, and so on. This, like most Japanese cultural quirks, apparently has some cultural significance that a Westerner could never hope to grasp. I, of course, have a different theory.

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