If you ask for a "doggy bag" at the end of your delicious Cantonese meal, the chances are that the waiter (or maybe one of the diners) will pick up a pair of chopsticks, turn them around, and use them to put the food into the take-away container.
OK, so you’ve probably avoided getting someone else’s saliva on the food, but let’s think about where the hands (that were holding the chopsticks) might have been.
No, on second thoughts, let’s not.
Who the heck holds chopsticks near the top?
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Anyone who can use chopsticks correctly and not like a uncultured yob with fingers like pigs tits 😉
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“Delicious”? It’s precisely because Cantonese food is not delicious that there is always some left over.
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Having learnt to use chopsticks before using a knife and fork, I do hold mine near the top but not right at the top. And yes, at restaurants, if there are doggy bags, I turn the chopsticks upside down. Only cos this was what I was taught when I was younger – defeats the object really as throughout the meal, people have been delving into the dishes with their chopsticks and mixing in saliva – culture is wonderful, innit? 🙂
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Ordinary Gweilo 
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