probing with chopsticks; rummaging in shared dishes with chopsticks
A breach of Japanese table manners: using chopsticks to stir or search through shared dishes to pick out preferred morsels.
Probing with chopsticks is a breach of etiquette that makes fellow diners uncomfortable.
When I was a child, my grandmother often scolded me, saying, 'Don't rummage with your chopsticks.'
Standard kanji spelling for this etiquette term.
Compound of 探り (saguri, 'searching, probing') + 箸 (hashi, 'chopsticks'), with rendaku voicing hashi → bashi.