passing food from chopsticks to chopsticks
A breach of Japanese table manners; reminiscent of a funeral rite where bones are passed between chopsticks, making it taboo at meals.
Passing food from chopsticks to chopsticks is an act to avoid as a dining manner.
Compound of 拾い (hiroi, 'picking up') + 箸 (hashi, 'chopsticks'), referring to the act of picking up food with chopsticks from another's chopsticks.