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far cathay

Feb 05, 2009 08:36

I'm still pretty high from Chinese New Year. The prolonged break from the frustrations of ladypose moil, combined with the fact that I'm reading The Travels of Marco Polo, a mostly-true catalog of Marky Marc's impressions of unfamiliar provinces, has my soul incandescing daily with delight at the myriad subtle ways in which the Chinese mode of ( Read more... )

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I could be wrong.... anonymous February 5 2009, 16:58:35 UTC

...but I think having your chopsticks sticking out of the bowl like that is a no-no. Something about it resembling the incence stuck in bowls at funerals???

Re: I could be wrong.... elysesewell February 5 2009, 17:15:48 UTC

They're not sticking up; they're resting on the side of the bowl.

Re: I could be wrong.... ext_112857 February 6 2009, 09:27:02 UTC

hmm, sorry, but the original poster still has a point. resting your chopsticks like so is also a dead-on indicator of "wai guo ren."

my gut instinct still says: "mom will flip out if the business ends of the chopsticks are resting in the food." resting them (like a chord across a circle) on the rim of the bowl is always a safe bet. or making a hashi nest from your paper chopstick cover.

Re: I could be wrong.... anonymous February 6 2009, 12:52:32 UTC

Totally, there is always someone who would freak out if I accidently stick my chopsticks into the bowl. Normally I would remember that.

Re: I could be wrong.... naobot February 8 2009, 01:04:16 UTC

This is common in Japan (and perhaps Korea, not sure), but as far as I know, it's not a big deal in China. That's certainly how I'd rest my chopsticks in my bowl (in China, with my family and amongst other Chinese people) and no one's ever mentioned anything. I think it might be more of an issue if it was sticking right up.

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