Rice Take the rice bowl into one hand and the chopsticks into the other. Do not pour soy sauce over white, cooked rice. Noodles Lead them with the chopsticks step by step into your mouth. Keep the distance between teh bowl and your mouth small. Soup Drink the soup out of the bowl as if it were a cup and fish out the solid stuff with your chopsticks. That is also true for eating noodle soups (eg.g. Udon, Ramen). Sometimes a ceramic spoon will be provided for eating soups. Sushi (Nigiri, Maki) Pour some soy sauce into a small plate. The correct way of dipping nigiri sushi is to dip it upside-down with the fish part into the sauce. A few kinds of nigiri sushi should be eaten without soy sauce. In general you eat a sushi piece in one bite. Hands or chopsticks can be used to eat sushi. Sashimi Pour soy sauce into a small plate. Add wasabi into the soy sauce and mix. Use the sauce for dipping the sashimi pieces. Some types of sashimi are eaten with ground ginger instead of wasabi. big pieces of food (e.g. tempura prawn, futo maki, tofu) Generally, you can either separate the piece with your chopsticks, or you just bite a piece off and put the rest back onto your plate.