Table Manners
While Western-style restaurants use the knife, fork and spoon, the utensils of choice throughout Taiwan are chopsticks. Be free to pick up your bowl and hold it under your chin when you eat and tuck the bones under the edge of your plate.
Make sure to never stand your chopsticks up in your rice bowl – this action is seen as food left for the dead, usually done at funerals. When beckoning someone over, a waiter perhaps, your hand should be palm down to be polite, not palm up as in the west.
Tapping your thumbs on the table is a compliment when eating and a gracious host will tell you the food isn’t as good as he wanted it to be, because they are really humble.