探さぐり箸ばし

noun

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.

• 探さぐり箸ばしは、一いっ緒しょに食しょく事じをする人ひとに不ふ快かい感かんを与あたえるマナー違い反はんです。

  Probing with chopsticks is a breach of etiquette that makes fellow diners uncomfortable.

• 子こどもの頃ころ、祖そ母ぼに「探さぐり箸ばしをしてはいけません」とよく注ちゅう意いされた。

  When I was a child, my grandmother often scolded me, saying, 'Don't rummage with your chopsticks.'