Do you share food?

[IHaveBrilloHair]

Dd and I went to Yo Sushi yesterday which is always been somewhere we share the dishes, kinda tapas style.
It suprised me that the other people around us all seemed to order their own.
We always share Indian/Chinese food too and wouldn't think to just get our own dishes, we always choose together.
Obviously in places where you order one dish we don't do anything other than have a taste of each others.
Are you sharers?

My DM used to do this with Chinese takeaway. Everyone chose a dish, plus one rice, and we'd all share. Not actually in a restaurant though.

Yes for yo sushi, Chinese, tapas, not for individually served meals though dp finished mine off!

@tectonicplates

Sushi is for sharing ... always shared family style. Have Japanese friends so learned to cook Japanese food and make sushi 30 years ago. Definitely meant to be communal like Chinese

Out with friends or DC with similar tastes - sure. With DH - not if I'm hungry. We might sample a small forkful off each other's plate, but he eats about three times faster than me, so it might end up in divorce.

I'd share if it were tapas with my family as we'll choose things we all like.
But in a group, if I choose something, I'd generally like to get to eat it.
Chinese - order a banquet. Meant for sharing.

Indian restaurant- I'll order my own thanks. Indian takeaway at home, we share!

Big BUT... please be hygienic or I can't eat at all. No forks in shared dishes. No prodding. No touching. I can't stomach it.

No we never share as we have different tastes. Even in a tapas place we both order what we want and don’t share it.

In general, no.
I don’t want to share anyone else’s food and I don’t want to share mine with anyone else.
I want to eat what I’ve ordered. Which funnily enough is why I’ve ordered it.

We don't "share" unless we're eating Indian or Chinese when it's bowls in the centre and we help ourselves to what we want.

In restaurants we generally don't share.

My ex-SIL would dish up a Chinese takeaway and pile everything on the plates so it was one huge mishmash of flavours. 🤮

If I'm eating sweet and sour prawn balls 😋 I don't want them underneath everything else!

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At least I know we aren't doing it all wrong!

I share takeaways with 2 adult sons but DH is veggie so only share chips with him. We might order BBQ chicken wings, chicken foo young, Jill Yem spare ribs in garlic rub, chips and spring rolls. DH might have bean curd and soft noodles. He will have a couple of spring rolls and a few chips. When DH and I eat out at Italian DH we share a Margarita pizza starter. Then have own main course pastas then sometimes share 2 deserts.

Yes, especially sushi! The whole point is to share.

@SquirrelFan

Chinese, Thai, Indian takeaway = share from middle of table. Otherwise you're stuck with a plate of the same thing! For a western meal, say steak and chips and a salad, that's THREE things on your plate. Why wouldn't you want at least the same when you order a takeaway? You wouldn't have a steak all by itself! For western - style meals out, if we're having trouble deciding or if one thing is markedly healthier, DH and I will sometimes order different things then split them so we each have half.

Completely agree with sharing Indian, Thai, Chinese both as takeaways and at home. Surely that's why the various dishes which have been ordered are served in bowls in the middle of the table and everyone is given an empty plate. You're supposed to server yourself some of however many of the dishes you fancy.

*serve yourself not server