Chopstick Etiquette for Truly Having the Nyonyang Experience

The Nyonyang at the Park Plaza provides delicious food on the table; however, the best way to consume them features the usage of chopsticks. Hence, offshoot knowledge about the ways in which chopsticks get used in different parts of the Orient is certainly a useful thing to know.

                                                                  CHINA
• Never-ever point rested chopsticks towards others seated at the table
• Hold the rice bowl close to the mouth and use the chopsticks for pushing the rice inside

                     

                                   HONG KONG AND CANTONESE
• Do not start eating unless the eldest member holds his or her chopsticks
• Do not use chopsticks backwards; except for stirring or transferring food (again, if there are no serving chopsticks present)
• Place the chopsticks inside the bowl after finishing your meal but keep them on a chopstick stand during eating (if you feel like it)

                                                                 TAIWAN
• Don’t transfer food from one chopstick to another
• Use a stand for resting the chopsticks but never place them on the dinner table
• Never bite your chopstick

                                                                JAPANESE
• Don’t stick the chopsticks vertically inside rice present in a rice bowl
• Don’t keep the chopsticks in a crossed position
• If you happen to break wooden chopsticks, then don’t rub the broken ends together
• Place the chopsticks in the right-left direction with the pointed ends on the left

                                                                     KOREA
• Chopsticks are used together with spoons
• Never lay the chopsticks down to the left of the spoon – it not a nice table manner

                                                                  VIETNAM
• Never place chopsticks in a ‘V’ position after finishing your meal
• Always use both chopsticks together, whether during eating, picking or stirring
• Bring the rick bowl close to the mouth and use the chopsticks to transfer the rice inside
The delicacies at the Nyonyang deserve the proper usage of chopsticks as a law. Therefore, it makes more than sense to spend some attentive minutes in reading through this post.

Three Things You Should Never Say/Do during Meal-Time

Delicious food! That’s the first thing we think about when it comes to having lunch or dinner in a restaurant. Still, no matter how hungry we are, table manners have to be adhered to, if one is to dine like a civilized being. Somewhat like the family below.

                                             

Take a look at three, basic pointers that are often ignored or forgotten.

1. The Table is not the side dish!

For some unknown reason, quite a lot of us treat our dinner or lunch tables as side dishes and dump bones and roughage onto it. One can never help but notice the pile of ‘garbage’ surrounding the empty dinner or lunch plates.

2. The Napkin is actually for usage!

Napkins are used for two purposes: keeping clothes safe from stains and smudges and wiping clean soiled fingers. Although, the aroma of a dish may be mind-boggling but it simply becomes into an irritating odour after every finished meal and every unclean hand. Therefore, the usage of napkins is always considered to be a sign of good table manners.

3. Gobbling down food has its visible disadvantages

Taking one bite at a time no matter how hungry you are is the ideal thing to do. Do away with those slurping and swishing noises made while gurgling down soup etc. and crunching and munching sounds made while eating food. Moreover, the act of gobbling down food is a direct invite to a lot of unhygienic practices like getting your hands completely soiled, getting invitations to indigestion owing to swallowing down food not chomped enough.