Let me explain the basic manners of eating Japanese food.It's all right to pick up the rice and soup bowls when we eat.We drink the soup directly from the soup bowl.Don't bring your mouth close to the dish on the table.We basically use only chopsticks to eat food.We use a spoon for soupy dishes like japanese rice gruel.This is a chopstick pillow.Put the tip of the chopsticks on the chopstick pillow.Pick the chopsticks up with your right hand and place the left hand under them.Slide the right hand into the correct form.