Not much going on right now, except me trying not to flunk my course. Hah! Saw this interesting poll at
What Japan Thinks. It's about
chopstick etiquette. Geez, I have to immediately say that I'm guilty of the first one. Never knew it was a no-no, I even saw more than a few Japanese men doing it.
Ranking results
Q1: Which chopstick bad manners can you just not break?
Rank | 日本語 | Explanation | Score |
1 | 渡し箸 | watashi bashi: Resting chopsticks sideways across the top of dishes | 100 |
2 | 探り箸 | saguri bashi: Stirring soup trying to find that last chunk of tofu, etc | 83.1 |
3 | 突き箸・刺し箸 | tsuki bashi, sashi bashi: Spearing food then eating it | 79.1 |
4 | 直箸 | choku bashi: Not using the serving chopsticks, but your own sticks to get food from shared plates | 71.2 |
5 | もぎ箸 | mogi bashi: Sucking off grains of rice, etc, stuck to the chopsticks | 65.4 |
6 | 重ね箸 | kasane bashi: Eating just one dish continuously | 61.9 |
7 | 持ち箸 | mochi bashi: Grabbing a dish, glass, etc whilst holding chopsticks in the same hand | 61.6 |
8 | 迷い箸 | mayoi bashi: Hovering chopsticks over the dishes while humming and hawing about what to eat | 54.4 |
9 | 受け箸 | uke bashi: Holding chopsticks when asking for more rice | 44.8 |
10 | 掻き箸 | kaki bashi: Holding a bowl to your mouth and shovelling food in | 43.0 |
11 | 舐り箸 | neburi bashi: Licking your chopsticks | 27.6 |
12 | 撥ね箸 | hane bashi: Pushing away disliked food with chopsticks | 23.8 |
13 | 寄せ箸 | yose bashi: Pulling dishes closer with chopsticks | 23.5 |
14 | 洗い箸 | arai bashi: Washing chopsticks in soup | 16.3 |
15 | 指し箸 | sashi bashi: Pointing at people or things with chopsticks | 15.7 |
16 | すかし箸 | sukashi bashi: Rather than turning over a fish, picking away the meat from under the bones | 14.8 |
17 | 揃え箸 | soroe bashi: Suddenly lunging at dishes with chopsticks ready | 13.1 |
18 | 空箸 | kara bashi: Picking up food but not eating it | 8.7 |
19 | 移り箸・渡り箸 | utsuri bashi, watari bashi: Aiming to pick up one dish, but then suddenly switching to another | 8.7 |
20 | 涙箸 | namida bashi: Allowing tears of soup to drip from your chopsticks | 7.8
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I am sorry I have not been by recently.... I am trying to catch up again with friends.... it has been one of those summers...
ReplyDeleteAs for the Bad manners.... "I am so there"!
Guilty as charged hehe.
ReplyDeletei know only no.8.
ReplyDeletegreat post cavalock chaaaan lol
niki
hi niki! how are u? thanks for dropping by! <^;^>
ReplyDeleteWell, I am guilty of many of them except: 7, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.
ReplyDeleteAs for number 10 (shovelling food into your mouth), Chinese friends told me this was the aceptable way to get rice in your mouth (although, they thought it odd when I did it with a plate).
Don't get the ranking / score though.