Daniel Considine on sat 17 apr 99
from my Japanes wife on the rice bowl with hashi (chopstick ) holder...an
excerpt from our emails...I told her it was American artistic license
DPC
"Seems totally strange to me. At least, it is not the Japanese
>dish, maybe in somewhere in asia? You know, for westerners, ALL
>Asia look same and mixed up. Maybe some other asian person knows
>about that kind of thing. Korean, Chinese, Taiwan,.......etc.
>i have never seen such bowl in Japan. i don't know maybe 700
>years before people use it even here in Japan?"
Daniel P. CONSIDINE, PhD
Waseda University
102 Century Mansion
4-23-11 Irumagawa
Sayama city 350-1305, Japan
Phone/Fax +81 42-954-2401
Cellular 090-8105-8750
Caroline Cheng on sun 18 apr 99
Rice bowls with chopsticks holder are as oriental as fortune cookies.
However my family occasianlly look forward to going to the good ole USA
Chinatowns and have one of those cookies and we don't mind seeing strange
rice bowls with holes!
American inventions are unique, aren't they?
Caroline in Hong Kong
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