Chinese Dining Etiquette : Chinese Dining Etiquette: Using Chop Sticks
March 7th, 2010
Don’t use your left hand when using chop sticks. Learn why using your left hand is bad Chinese dining etiquette from an international business consultant in this free etiquette video. Expert: Mark Kemsley Bio: Mark Kemsley has been a business consultant in China for 20 years and speaks both Cantonese and Mandarin and has entertained some of the most prominent business people in China. Filmmaker: Paul Kersey
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…what he’s talking about is a banquet not a restaurant. no one uses a rotating table except for banquets…and large celebratio npartys stuff like that. also, it is customary to provide a bowl of white rice in the middle of the meal. then, at the end of the meal, they bring out fried rice and/or but in my experience both, fried noodles…(is that what you call it?)
noo! no one puts food back in the main plate. i dont know what he’s talking about in your OWN bowl or plate!! that is just gross and rude.
the hand could be positioned alittle higher towards the nonpointed end—-holding it in the middle is kind of kid like (sort of like five fingering a silver ware like a caveman)—and u can hold it on the left
No fear, stabbing and chopstick-sweeping has always been considered ‘lower-class’ acceptable triats.
For ‘higher-class’, Hastiness is considered very rude. Its like saying ‘damn, I gota get outa here asap.’
Besides, proper use of chopsticks without stabbing is considered etiquette and high-class solely for the fact that one has at least mastered the art to a certain degree of expertise. Nothing is too slippery for a good chopstick user.
Btw, he hasn’t explained how to pick up food that drip.
what the heck is he…. nm…
No, you do not ‘even-up’ your chopsticks via taping it on anything ever. Stabbing = for noobs, and also shows a lack of patience/skill/elegance.
Reason for that is that stabbing into a pile of whatever resemble the putting of joss sticks into a pot. The worst thing to do is to stab and leave your chopstick standing in your food.
Also, taping the chopsticks/utensils on the dishes/tables supposedly calls for ’spirits’ to come to dine. Not nice.
well… basically there are main dishes that everyone shares on the rotating circle food placer thing. so people use chopsticks take the food and put it on their own personal plate. And on that plate is where they bite the food and then put it back on the plate.
wait, they dont actually put the bitten thing back onto the plate with all the other unbitten things, do they? they put it on their own eating plate right?
I’m chinese, and i don’t think that its ok to bite something and just put it back o.o thats kind of gross……..bleh XP
this is so bull o.o some chinese ppl uses their left hand to use the chop stick and also with the restaurant and home comparison there is no difference at all >.>
Well if you kept watching you would see where it said “because they are raised right-handed from a very young age.” So if your mom wasn’t raised as a righty, she’d obviously not necessarily be a righty.
I am chinese and there is something to using right hand. Using right hand is prefered because when you are sitting next to someone, you don’t want to “fight” (you using left hand and they use right hand).
Of course you can use chopstick with left hands, but the more traditional/prefered way is to use your right hand.
bullshit
holding the bowl up to your mouth is not proper. has sth to do with the ‘poorer’ workers who eat standing up or any other way besides sitting on a dining table, thats why the holding up of the bowl.
this guy in the video’s a moron, but by ‘putting it back on the plate’ he means putting it back on your OWN plate, not taking a hunk out of the duck and throwing it back onto the main platter. haha.
ok Puting food back in the plate is so so wrong it is considered rude. (if its your own plate then its ok)
Also putting your mouth close to the bowl and scooping it in is considered low class.
This is how you tell the difference between well mannered Chinese and some hick who just began rich.
its not okay to stab it, unless its an informal environment. and if you get them wooden chopsticks (the one where you snap off) NEVER rub the splinters against each other in front of the host (if you were eating at somebodys house). you can rub off the splinters in a restaurant however.
my cousin was originally left handed but got converted at a young age lulz~
I stopped after watching when he said “no chinese are left handed..”
My mom is very chinese, and very left handed
Remeber how i said traditional so much, i actually mean traditional. These etiquette rules apply to oldern chinese traditions. Many now consider some of these acts rude, because they have been influenced by the american/continental way of eating.
source: im an american chinese however; i am first generation american, therefore my elder relatives and ones whove taught me are direct chinese descendants, and still follow these rules. (even though i dont….i also think many things are rude)
3)Stabbing food on a chinese dinning table is okay. Your not stabbing it like you do with a hard piece of steak and knife, you do it softly so that it is silent. Its to pick up objects such as dim sum dumpling so that they do not slip. You just cant like literally stab it like a piece of meat.
2)it always happens in China and for the chinese to bite it and then put it back onto the plate. This is because there are no seperate/other utensils exept for the soup spoon on a traditional chinese table dining set.
actually,
1)it is traditional for people who are actually chinese chinese [olden days...or just super chinese] to only use the right hand. Unless the chinese has been americanized, then its not okay to use the left hand. Its considered rude.
NOT TRUE…plz disregard what he said in this video
you are a sweet man
You absolutely don’t know Chinese dining etiquette at all!
“no Chinese people are left handed”
“pick up something, bite off, and put it back”
“it’s ok to just stab it”
Who taught you all of that?
1. many Chinese people are left handed
2. it could never happen in China that putting the food back into the plate after a bite, how gross would that be! if you do this, no one will eat with you again.
3. never STABING food on a Chinese dinning table! Instead, you can use a spoon to scoop it.