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In China and Japan its rude not to finish your rice. So, that should explain my answer. Oh, and the method that the use in China to serve food, which you should know if you've ever been to a decent chinese resturaunt, is called "family style", I think. In China, all the tables are round with a huge circular piece, usually glass, thats on the inside that rotates. You, yourself, are given a suppper super super (really) small plate to eat from which you use to pick off the food from the center piece and place it on your plate. The point to this is you only give yourself what you need, instead of our style which is you fill our huge plates to the max and leave whatever food we cant eat on the plate to be thrown away. Using the Chinese method, more food can be saved... or so they think.

So, if you went by this and left food on your little plate, I believe that would be considered extremely rude.