The restaurant implication makes sense... hopefully most Japanese eating places will provide higher-quality chopsticks, unlike the cheap US disposable wooden ones that really do require deburring after breaking them apart.
I saw symbolism in the plate placement order (animal, then plant, then sea), symmetry and balance in presentation (even manifest in the odd-shaped tempura vegetables). Or the balance of smoked - raw - steamed on the plate (salmon, yellowfin, prawn) Or a vertical band of seaweed that restrained the long horizontal unagi. Plates of dumplings on opposing corners, flanking the sushi like rooks on a chessboard. Perhaps I was just reading in too much to a simple meal, but I thought I saw multiple layers of meaning beyond simple nourishment. It was fun.
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Date: 2003-05-04 11:53 am (UTC)I saw symbolism in the plate placement order (animal, then plant, then sea), symmetry and balance in presentation (even manifest in the odd-shaped tempura vegetables). Or the balance of smoked - raw - steamed on the plate (salmon, yellowfin, prawn) Or a vertical band of seaweed that restrained the long horizontal unagi. Plates of dumplings on opposing corners, flanking the sushi like rooks on a chessboard. Perhaps I was just reading in too much to a simple meal, but I thought I saw multiple layers of meaning beyond simple nourishment. It was fun.