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Some of the most important chopsticks rules are:
- Never stick the chopsticks into the food, especially not into the rice. Only at the funeral service chopsticks are stuck into the rice that stands on the altar. When you are not using them, put the chopsticks in front of you on the table or a dish with the tip to the left.
- Don't give food from your chopsticks directly to somebody other's chopsticks. Only at funerals the bones of the burned body are given in that way from person to person.
- Don't spear food with your chopsticks.
- Neither point with the chopsticks to something or somebody nor move them too much around in the air.
- If you want to separate a piece of food into two pieces with chopsticks, do it step by step in exerting controlled pressure on your chopsticks.
Once you learned the proper way of using chopsticks, you will be praised for it by the Japanese people all the time.
Knife and fork are used for western food only. Spoons are used for eating certain Japanese dishes, for example curry rice. A Chinese ceramic spoon is sometimes used to eat a soup.
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