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Part 4: Food
Rice is the absolute staple of the Rokugani diet; it is rare to find a meal that does not contain rice. In addition, there are many different kinds of noodles, beans, sweet potatoes, water chestnuts, seaweed, pickles (vegetables are almost never eaten fresh), fruit, eggs, fish and shellfish. Because the taxes are paid in rice, the lower classes frequently eat millet or other grains instead. The Rokugani equivalents of "fast food", often eaten on the road, are onigiri (rice balls) and dango (millet dumplings).

Only the Unicorn eat red meat regularly; the Shinseist faith, with its ban on such activities, was not yet universally popular in Rokugan when they left, and most modern-day Unicorn still follow the "unclean" ways of their ancestors in this regard. Samurai of all clans still love to hunt, however, and fowl makes a pleasant addition to the menu. Some even hunt boars or deer, though they do not necessarily eat the prey themselves.

Sake comes in dozens of different varieties, and is served warm or cold depending on type. It is drunk from small, broad cups; in a formal setting, a servant or dining companion pours the drinks. Only a barbarian would drink sake directly from the bottle. There are also several kinds of brandy, shochu (like sake, but much stronger) and uishi, a gaijin beverage brewed by the Unicorn.

An average meal consists of a bowl of rice, soup, some seaweed or pickled vegetables, and fish. There are no banquet halls as such; food is served in whatever room suits the purpose. Each diner has his own tiny table, and instead of one large plate or bowl, there is a small one for each dish. Soup is drunk from the bowl. It is considered VERY bad luck to put your chopsticks in your rice bowl so that they stand up - that is how it is done when you offer rice to the spirits of the dead. Nor should you take up food with your chopsticks and pass it to someone else; that is how the bones of the dead are handled after cremation.