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						Being Uchi-deshi in Iwama Using hashi (chopsticks) • Never stick your chopsticks ( hashi ) points first into the rice in your ricebowl and leave them there. This is only done at Buddhist funerals! • Never pass food from one person to another chopsticks to chopsticks. This is also a funeral ritual. If you wish to pass a piece of food from your chopsticks, then pass it on to the plate or if necessary, the hand of the person you wish to give the food to. • Do not take food from a serving dish with your own chopsticks ( they have been in your mouth! ). Only if what you are taking from the serving dish is in separate pieces so you don’ t touch any of the rest of the food with your own chopsticks. If necessary, when there are not any serving chopsticks on the plate you wish to take food from, you can turn your own chopsticks around and use the ends which have NOT been in your mouth to take food with. This is considered good manners. • Do not point with your chopsticks. • If you are using "wari-bashi" ( disposable chopsticks ), do not polish them by rubbing the two against each other after taking them out of their package, even if you see some Japanese people do this. It is not considered polite. • Do not move dishes around with your chopsticks. >> Next page
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