You how putting chopsticks straight into the food makes it really practical?
Yeah.
Well you can’t do that because it angers people who don’t exist.
Real_Establishment56 on
Everybody knows you have to pour out half a bottle of soy sauce over the rice first!
wackocoal on
Explanation from someone brought up by Chinese boomers…
Okay, so in western cultures, (or at least in Hollywood movies) when someone pay their respects to a deceased, they put flowers or something significant to the deceased at their headstone.
Now for the Chinese (I think there are others too), instead of flowers, they use lighted joss sticks, specifically 2.
So, if you stick your pair of chopsticks into your bowl of food in that manner shown in picture, it implies you are paying respects to the dead, who happens to be the person seating opposite you.
They see it as you cursing them to die soon.
So, a no-no, especially with very superstitious people.
LouArch on
I’m just waiting for someone to bring this to Peter.
Orio_n on
My mom used to complain whenever I did this lol. I was just lazy to properly set my chopsticks down when my tiny ass bowl was too full with rice
OCafeeiro on
Toes who nose 💀
But fr, that’s considered disrespectful in asian culinary because it’s an offering to the dead
Cutesie117 on
It’s egg fwied wice
No_Situation4785 on
do chinese people actually care about this though? I asked a chinese friend and she just rolled her eyes and said that it’s fine to put chopsticks vertically in food
ZoNeS_v2 on
AraAraAlala on
Well, either they’re for dead people or not, the living people still eat them at the end so I will say my line: they looks yummy.
Clock_Work44 on
You mean to tell me… an egg fried that rice?
HHesse_2281 on
“Do you know who my dad is”
mejlzor on
Imposhibru!
shiroganenohojowo on
Insert: People who know but don’t care cos they’re not supersitious.
Cybertheproto on
One a school trip to Japan a Japanese kid told me not to put chopsticks vertically in a bowl of rice because it means you’re mourning the dead. That guy was kinda annoying but his mom lives in Japan so who am I to doubt it
Mysterious_Turnip945 on
Never put chopsticks 🥢 like that. Nope nope nope
iGrowFurnaces on
Poking chopsticks into rice resemble incense sticks that could be put in front of gravestones
OokiiSaizu32 on
Whoa, who died?
KStang086 on
The only time I’ve ever seen chopsticks like that was at my Grandmothers funeral. So it heavily connotates death and associated ceremonies.
fluentlyAlone on
im asian
my ass freaked out when i see this
i need some bleach for my eyes
LeftieLeftorium on
Superstition is all it is. If you don’t believe it doesn’t last you. Enjoy your bowl rice.
Nera_Sukuri on
I remember this from Wolverine Movie
InternationalOne2055 on
oh hell naww
999samus on
Im not Asian and I felt so disrespected
iamabootdisk on
Only spoon is needed
NaturalAd5751 on
rip😔😔
jackoos88 on
I, too, have watched Mr. Baseball
puffywulf on
I learned this from Sandy Toksvig on QI!
TurboDJ on
There’s an additional hidden meaning to this, which is how chinese netizens silently protest against their government.
Mao Zedong’s son, Mao Anying, famously died on November 25th during the Korean war after cooking egg fried rice during the day, which attracted American planes to bomb his location once they notice the cooking smoke.
This subtle protest is also done on October 24, the day of his birth. Not sure if they still do this now, but I heard chinese officials would remove post or even ban social media accounts (in China) related to egg fried rice around these dates.
IcGil on
Chopstics upright in asia means the same thing as the plate or shot/drink glass placed upside-down in Europe. In memorial of the departed
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18 deaths 😔😔😔😔
I don’t know, pls explain!
“The white man decided to make an asian dinner”
“How can you tell?”
“Graveyard chopsticks and spoons”
You how putting chopsticks straight into the food makes it really practical?
Yeah.
Well you can’t do that because it angers people who don’t exist.
Everybody knows you have to pour out half a bottle of soy sauce over the rice first!
Explanation from someone brought up by Chinese boomers…
Okay, so in western cultures, (or at least in Hollywood movies) when someone pay their respects to a deceased, they put flowers or something significant to the deceased at their headstone.
Now for the Chinese (I think there are others too), instead of flowers, they use lighted joss sticks, specifically 2.
So, if you stick your pair of chopsticks into your bowl of food in that manner shown in picture, it implies you are paying respects to the dead, who happens to be the person seating opposite you.
They see it as you cursing them to die soon.
So, a no-no, especially with very superstitious people.
I’m just waiting for someone to bring this to Peter.
My mom used to complain whenever I did this lol. I was just lazy to properly set my chopsticks down when my tiny ass bowl was too full with rice
Toes who nose 💀
But fr, that’s considered disrespectful in asian culinary because it’s an offering to the dead
It’s egg fwied wice
do chinese people actually care about this though? I asked a chinese friend and she just rolled her eyes and said that it’s fine to put chopsticks vertically in food
Well, either they’re for dead people or not, the living people still eat them at the end so I will say my line: they looks yummy.
You mean to tell me… an egg fried that rice?
“Do you know who my dad is”
Imposhibru!
Insert: People who know but don’t care cos they’re not supersitious.
One a school trip to Japan a Japanese kid told me not to put chopsticks vertically in a bowl of rice because it means you’re mourning the dead. That guy was kinda annoying but his mom lives in Japan so who am I to doubt it
Never put chopsticks 🥢 like that. Nope nope nope
Poking chopsticks into rice resemble incense sticks that could be put in front of gravestones
Whoa, who died?
The only time I’ve ever seen chopsticks like that was at my Grandmothers funeral. So it heavily connotates death and associated ceremonies.
im asian
my ass freaked out when i see this
i need some bleach for my eyes
Superstition is all it is. If you don’t believe it doesn’t last you. Enjoy your bowl rice.
I remember this from Wolverine Movie
oh hell naww
Im not Asian and I felt so disrespected
Only spoon is needed
rip😔😔
I, too, have watched Mr. Baseball
I learned this from Sandy Toksvig on QI!
There’s an additional hidden meaning to this, which is how chinese netizens silently protest against their government.
Mao Zedong’s son, Mao Anying, famously died on November 25th during the Korean war after cooking egg fried rice during the day, which attracted American planes to bomb his location once they notice the cooking smoke.
This subtle protest is also done on October 24, the day of his birth. Not sure if they still do this now, but I heard chinese officials would remove post or even ban social media accounts (in China) related to egg fried rice around these dates.
Chopstics upright in asia means the same thing as the plate or shot/drink glass placed upside-down in Europe. In memorial of the departed