Asia – Pacific Rim Dining Etiquette
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The Pacific Rim includes the following groups:
East Asia: Japan, China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), and Korea
Southeast Asia: the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar (Burma)
Australasia: Australia and New Zealand
These links will take you to pages with dining etiquette information for the region. Where a particular country's dining etiquette dominates a region, those dining etiquette rules are incorporated by reference with a link to the page with the dominate dining etiquette.
- Australian Dining Etiquette
- Chinese Dining Etiquette
- Guam Dining Etiquette
- Hong Kong Dining Etiquette
- Indonesian Dining Etiquette
- Japanese Dining Etiquette
- Malaysian Dining Etiquette
- New Zealand Dining Etiquette
- Filipino Dining Etiquette
- Singapore Dining Etiquette
- South Korean Dining Etiquette
- Taiwanese Dining Etiquette
- Thai Dining Etiquette
- Vietnamese Dining Etiquette
asia (south, central, eurasia)
South Asia, Central Asia, and Eurasia are made up of the following countries:
South Asia (the subcontinent): India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and the Himalayan Kingdoms (Nepal and Bhutan)
Central Asia: Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan
Eurasia: Turkey and the Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia)
These links will take you to pages with dining etiquette information for the region. Where a particular country's dining etiquette dominates a region, those dining etiquette rules are incorporated by reference with a link to the page with the dominate dining etiquette.
- Indian Dining Etiquette
- Napal and Bhutan Dining Etiquette
- Central Asian Dining Etiquette
- Pakistani Dining Etiquette
- Sri Lankan Dining Etiquette
- Turkish Dining Etiquette
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