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Maybe it means that you're digging up food that is under other food?
by FartyMcFarter 7mo ago
Maybe it means that you're digging up food that is under other food?
- bigwheels 7mo agoIt's like core-ing out the goody bits from an otherwise bland pint of ice cream. Who would ever do such a disgusting and selfish thing? :-0
- herewulf 7mo agoWho would mine the creamy bit from a wheel of brie and leave the hard rind behind?!?!
- frereubu 7mo agoYeah, could be - that's kind of what I mean in terms of being lost in translation. It feels like there's missing information / context in quite a few of them. Edit: In fact I think you're completely right - "picking out" something near the bottom of the dish does suggest that.
- univerio 7mo agoI think just written in an ambiguous way: "dish" here refers to the food contained in the vessel and not the vessel itself.
- themaninthedark 7mo agoLet me check but I think it refers to a shared dish; at an izakaiya you often order a bunch of shared food plates and then serve yourself from them. It is definitely rude to use chopsticks that you just put in your mouth to go rooting around for something in those. You are supposed to take from the top and ideally turn them around using the back end. Some people frown on using the back ends however as it may have been touched by your hand... Edit add: It means to dig food out, either from your own dish or a shared one. Like mixing the food up to look for something you like in it.
- irishcoffee 7mo ago返し箸 Kaeshibashi (also known as 逆さ箸 sakasabashi) To turn the chopsticks around when serving food so that the tips of the chopsticks that have touched one’s mouth do not touch the food.
- themaninthedark 7mo agoYes, that is why I said that some people frown on it. However, the people that I learned etiquette from taught me to turn the chopsticks around. They were not low class by any means, company owners from Kyoto region.