Japanese food question -- please help!?

Question:

What are any differences between Japanese and Australian/Western food cultures?

eg. Australia's stable food is bread, Japan's is rice.

Any ideas would be helpful,
Thanks :)

Answer:

The portion is far smaller in Japan.
I guess portion of Japanese dishes are 2/3 to 1/2, compared with western peoples' average dish.
Plus, half of their dish are rice.
That means they eat about 1/4 amount of fatty dish than Western people.

Japanese dishes usually served on smaller plates or bowls.
Japanese people often hold up these plates/bowls to the mouth height by the left hand, and eat food from the plate using chop sticks.

Slurping noise is considered bad thing in western cultures. It sometime considered good manner in Japan, especially eating noodles and/or soups. It is said that slurping action agitate the air and it enhance the aroma of food.

In Japan, many foods are supposed to be served cold. In western culture, not so many dishes are served cold, except salads and dessert.

In Japanese houses, many of tablewares, plates and utensils belong to each individual person. For example, father's chop sticks are only used by the father, kid's rice bowl is only used by that kid.
Granma's cup is used only by that granma.