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Can you eat noodles wrong

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

In some Asian countries it is considered impolite to cut the noodles up, or to bite bits off (e.g when you slurp them into your mouth, but can't fit the whole length of them in, it would be considered impolite to bite off what you have and let the rest fall back onto your plate). This is because noodles are taken to symbolise "long life" or "luck" and in shortening them you are symbolically "shortening your life". Obviously it does require some practice to eat noodles without biting bits off. Luckily this rule does not seem to hold in Western countries.

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14y ago

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