They gave each person a pair of chopsticks, a soup bowl, a soup spoon, and a rice bowl on a plate.

他们给每人一双筷子，一个汤碗，一个汤勺和一个放在盘子上的饭碗。

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If food is tackled with chopsticks, much of the evil sauces will stay on the plate.

如果用筷子夹起食物，许多有害的酱汁都留在了盘子上。

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Never separate your chopsticks and put them on either side of the plate.

也不要把筷子放在盘子两边。

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Grating turns the yam to a pulp of unbelievable stickiness. (Wikipedia claims that it was used as a sexual lubricant in the Edo period a fact too good to check.) The soba end up bound so firmly together that pulling a few strands with chopsticks lifts the whole mass off the plate.

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