Chopsticks Taboo 1: Standing Chopsticks
To stick chopsticks in a bowl of rice or a side dish is called “tate hashi” (standing chopsticks).
This is one of the things to offer at the bedside of the deceased. It refers to the way that chopsticks are stuck into the rice and stood up on the dedicated “pillow meal” to the dead.
Therefore, it is best not to do “tate hashi” because sticking chopsticks upright into a bowl of rice in some other place will unintentionally be associated with Buddhist memorial service or funeral services by people around you.
Chopsticks Taboo 2: Chopstick Licking
As the name, licking the things on chopsticks with your tongue is called “Neburibashi”.
When eating other things during a meal, you may unconsciously check that the taste of one thing will not mix･･･