Learning Local Customs and Etiquette

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Learning Local Customs and Etiquette

Rosa had already paid for the meal. The bowl had been hot, the noodles simple, and she had liked them more than she expected. When she could not open the paper on her chopsticks, the server had opened it for her and gone back to the other tables without a speech. Rosa wanted that woman to know the food had mattered. At home she would leave extra coins on the table. She had read that people in Japan did not expect that, and she left the coins anyway, because thanks, in her family, looked like money. She set them beside the receipt and reached for her coat.

The server, a woman about her own age, came back with a small tray. She looked at the coins, then at Rosa, and slid them toward Rosa's hand.