All 23 of us (plus our hosts) were invited to dinner at this house. When we pulled up in our pick up trucks, the streets started to fill with curious neighbors! They watched us for so long that we finally did our school assembly program for them so that we could eat dinner without the audience.

We sat on the floor aaround mats and each had a plate of rice. The food was placed in shared bowls where you were expected to take small portions, eat them with your rice, and then use your eating spoon to get more small portions from the shared bowls. At this early point in the trip, we were still apologizing to each other for "double dipping" but we got over that VERY quickly!