[tanjtanjtanj]

I ate at a very nice restaurant (think The Menu) in Kagaonsen last week and the main course was served with lacquered chopsticks but another course was served with disposable chopsticks and the waiter actually broke them and rubbed them together for me. I think the social faux pas is making a show of doing it.

[fwipsy]

Perhaps they did that because they knew some people would be too polite to?

[AdamN]

You know you're at a fancy restaurant when the waiters have an entire dish emulating what the poors are eating. Reminds me of a restaurant I used to really like in NYC called 'Peasant' :-/

[tanjtanjtanj]

The dish was not emulating anything like that, it just required a second set of chopsticks.