• The manners of chopstick For Japanese
Japan is the only country the only use chopsticks to eat all kinds of food. Whether clamp etc, it is prohibited to use chopsticks properly follows.
- Hold your chopsticks correctly easier said than done. This is the part that really takes some time to master. Watch how other people are doing it and be patient with yourself. If you really want to learn you should get as much practice as possible. Eat with chopsticks at home and don't get lazy holding them just because no one is watching. You will find that when you hold them properly they are much easier to use anyway.
- Don't eat directly from common dishes take food from the shared dishes and place it on your own plate or bowl before eating it.
- Use your chopstick holder many Japanese restaurants will provide a chopstick holder. When you are not using your chopsticks place them on the holder. If the chopsticks are disposable you will not be given a holder. However, you can make one from the wrapper of the chopsticks. Chopsticks should never be placed upright in your rice as this resembles a ceremony performed at funerals in Japan.
- Don't browse with your chopsticks don't hover your chopsticks over all the dishes when thinking what you want. This is considered greedy (sashi bashi).
- Don't dig take food from the top of the dish. Don't dig in the dish looking for something good.
- Don't lick the ends of chopsticks. (Neburi bashi)
- Be careful giving food to others never share food by passing from chopsticks to chopsticks because this resembles a custom at Japanese funerals when cremated bones are ceremoniously transfered to the urn. This is probably the biggest taboo at the Japanese dinner table. You can transfer food using your chopsticks to someone else's plate but get them to pass the plate to you if it is a distance. Ideally you would ask the server for another pair of chopsticks that are placed in the center of the table and used whenever someone needs to transfer food for another person.
- Chopsticks are not a toy. Don't point with your chopsticks when talking or hold them for extended periods of time without eating. Never rub the chopsticks together repeatedly after you break them apart because it is a sign that you think the chopsticks are cheap.
- Don't cross your chopsticks when resting them on the table again, your chopsticks belong in their holder and make sure they are parallel to each other when resting. Crossed chopsticks are another thing that remind people of funeral ceremonies.
- Don't swirl your chopsticks in your soup. When you do this it looks like you are trying to clean them. This is sometimes tempting because miso soup remains suspended and does not dissolve. Resist the temptation. In general the most important rules are the ones that remind people of Japanese funeral rights. Remember that chopsticks are not just two sticks for eating but are deeply ingrained culture symbols.
• Courtesy of a broken chopstick rest chopsticks and chopsticks collectible
Chopsticks in a Japanese restaurant. Most are single-use, disposable, called Wari bashi which are adjacent to the base. Need to be split into two diverging side by chopsticks may put in the envelope. Or no envelope was
• Less chopstick etiquette
- holding chopsticks horizontally parallel to the body. Then broken by chopping chopsticks vertically upwards
- To hold chopsticks vertically. Less then chopsticks by chopping off the left and right. There is bad to the virtual seppuku. (Ripped)
- Less chopsticks. Should not be noisy Less chopsticks should not be above the knees on the table because it could impact on other vessels
- When less then chopsticks. Do not spin chopsticks to remove the splinter. It will signify this is not a good use chopsticks burr, which is considered bad manners. If concern with wood grain the hand-carved out as usual
- For Rikyuu bashi chopsticks with paper fasteners in the middle. The right hand holding chopsticks then use the left hand dislodge paper. Without tearing the paper-based band that chopsticks.
• Break the chopsticks during a meal in a while
- Place the chopsticks on the chopstick rest.
- Do not hold in hand holding chopsticks.
- Do not place the