He has to eat the food even if he doesn't feel like it, because it is considered bad manners in the west to leave one's food on the plate.

即便是不喜欢的菜品，他也得吃下去，因为在西方，把食物剩在盘子里是极不礼貌的行为。

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"Even if you were the prime minister's son, you wouldn't necessarily get in, " said one former mackerel fisherman, guzzling a plate of dolphin in The Whale Bar.

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