So-So Japanese

I think that Hashi (chopsticks) is now popular for non-Japanese. I was surprised to meet people using Hashi well, but later, I found that most of foreign people could do that.

By the way, did you know that there is Public side of chopsticks?

I think that Hashi (chopsticks) is now popular for non-Japanese. I was surprised to meet people using Hashi well, but later, I found that most of foreign people could do that.

By the way, do you know there is "public side" on your chopsticks?

A side you are using to eat is "private side", and the other side is "public side". What is it for? This side is used to take food from public dish.

As I wrote, Japanese dinner is going with lots of appetizers to be shared. Appetizers come with big public dish and people takes it to their private small dish. Public side of chopsticks is used for this purpose.

You have to distinguish public side from your private side.

As you can imagine, even Japanese forgot which is which after drinking, though.