Japan – toothpick Dec13 by Lyndon on December 13, 2006 at 12:13 am Posted In: Beerkada Comics I learned the hard way to never stick a pair of chopsticks upright from a dish bowl. └ Tags: fast food outlets, fe, Gyoza, jimmy, restaurant, Tokyo, toothpick, train tickets, Yoshinoya
why? was that a … jap superstition bout someone’s death or something?
probably a ‘table manners’ of some sort.. talking when your mouth is full.. something like that.. i guess.. hehe
It’s not a superstition, but part of a tradition. That’s how you offer food to the spirit of a dead person, at their deathbed or in front of their photograph on the household Buddhist altar. Very bad manners.