Liitle boy eating from bowl with chopsticks with large pile of watermelons behind.

Young smiling girl in red and white dress with red ribbons in hair eating crisps from a packet

Buddhist monks eating meal in monastery.

Middle class children eating lunch at home. Food is taken from one central dish using right hand only.

Tsukiji Fish Market. Two girls sharing a bowl of noodles at a street stall

Tsukiji Fish Market. People eating with chopsticks at noodle stall

Two Lisu women eating at the village priests house for the New Years festival

Woman and children eating lunch from communal dish using the right hand. At a family meal men are usually served first and women and children eat seperately later.

Refugee children eating maize porridge.Refugees from the Congo and Rwanda fleeing conflict in Burundi Zaire

Woman and children having a meal from a tray on the pavement outside their shop

Woman cooking chapatis outside over simple open top stove and serving them to a man sitting on the ground beside her.

^zaru soba^ cold buckwheat noodles dipped in ^tsuyu^ soy sauce-based broth