原文: Don’t do this with your Chopsticks! [The Tokyo Traveler]

In Japan eating with chopsticks or hashi is commonplace and you will often have to ask for a fork if you are unable to use chopsticks. With the proliferation of Asian cuisines throughout the world many people are able to use chopstick quite effectively but how many do you think know their chopstick etiquette?

Yesterday I told you about Ginza Natsuno, your one stop shop for everything chopstick related, and today I want to let you know about 11 things not to do with your newly purchased chopsticks. These things are all considered rude or at least culturally incorrect and some are just plain unsanitary:

1. Thrusting the chopsticks into the food to pick it up. Chopsticks should be treated like tongs not swords!
2. Passing food from chopstick to chopstick. If you want your friend to try something they should pick it up from your plate with their own chopsticks.
3. Licking your chopsticks. Sort of like licking your knife.
4. Making a drumming sound with your chopsticks on the table or dishes. Chopsticks are not to be confused with drum sticks!
5. Biting your chopsticks. You risk damaging the finish on your chopsticks, not to mention eating lacquer which probably isn’t very good for you.
6. Impaling your chopsticks vertically in a bowl of rice. This is only done as an offering at Japanese funerals.
7. Using your chopsticks to push food further into your mouth.
8. Using your chopsticks to pick through the food presented to find the morsel that you want to eat.
9. Using your chopsticks to move the dishes on the table. Don’t use your chopsticks to drag a plate closer to you!
10. Using your chopsticks to point at a person.
11. Chomping down on your chopsticks to free up your hands - you’ll just look silly! Your hand should never leave your chopsticks when they are in or near your mouth.

How well do you know your chopstick etiquette?

译文: 日本文化中的筷子禁忌【东京游记】

      在日本，用筷子进食是一件很平常的事情。而如果你不懂如何使用筷子，则须向人要求给你一只叉子。随着亚洲美食在世界范围内的流行，很多人都能很灵活的使用筷子了，但是你们认为自己了解亚洲人的筷子礼仪吗？

      昨天我告诉大家有关在银座一家名叫Natsuno专卖一切与筷子有关东西的店，这家店值得驻足一看。今天我想要告诉大家11件不能用你新买的那双筷子所做的事。这些事情都是被认为粗鲁的行为或者至少是就当地文化而言不恰当的行为，有些则是很不卫生：

1.   不要将筷子插入食物以将其叉起。筷子应当充当钳子而非利剑。

2.   不要用筷子将食物传递给另一双筷子。如果你想让你的朋友尝尝某道菜时，应该让他们用他们自己的筷子从你的盘中夹。

3.   不要舔舐筷子。这个行为就像你舔舐你的餐刀一样。

4.   不要用筷子在桌子或是碟子上表演击鼓动作。不要把筷子搞错认为是鼓棒。

5.   不要啃筷子。这样做很有可能弄坏你的筷子，更不要说吃到筷子上的漆会有害你的身体健康。

6.   不要将筷子竖直叉在一碗米饭上。这种行为只会在日本葬礼作为供奉先人的习俗进行。

7.   不要用筷子将嘴中的食物推进到更里面。

8.   不要用筷子在放置着的盘子里挑拣你想要吃的那一小撮食物。

9.   不要用筷子移动桌上的碟子。不要用你的筷子将一个盘子拖近你这边。

10.   不要用筷子指着别人。

11.   不要用嘴咬住筷子而不用手——这样会使你看起来像个傻子！即使当筷子在你嘴中或是嘴边，你的手也不能离开你的筷子。

      对于这些关于筷子的礼仪，你知道多少呢？