Sara Jane Ho
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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He thinks you're still deciding. Yes, that makes sense. And will not come by. Okay. Okay. That's a good one. And let's say you started eating, you picked up your cutlery, you started eating and you want to take a sip of water, right? You need to put your cutlery down, but just as a rest, right? Then your cutlery should be in an upside down V shape on your plate. Upside down V shape.
Like this is a V. Yeah.
Did you put half on the table, half on the plate? That's a big no-no.
After you eat, they should be parallel, right next to each other parallel, and they should stay on the plate.
Oh, here's a fun one. So when you let's say if you're a woman and you have lipstick on. Right. And you're drinking from your wine glass. Well, you do not want to drink around the rim of your wine glass because that will leave stains all over your wine glass. It'll just look really bad. Make sure you're just drinking from the same one place.
The guest of honor. Yeah. Well, yeah, if it's just, yeah, if it's just you two, the host and the guest, it should be the guest who should get the best seat. Exactly. And so for example, let's say if you're in a restaurant and there's a banquette, let's say there's like one, there's one chair that's with its back against the wall. Let's say that, right.
There's one, let's say there's one chair facing a wall. There's one chair facing the room. Then the better seat is the one facing the room. And you should give that to your guests. That makes sense. But how about at the head of the table? Should that not be the host? Yeah. It depends if you're seating French style or English style.
So let's say the table is rectangular and English style would place the host and hostess at the ends of the table. French style would place host and hostess at the middle of the long table. Oh. So there's a difference between French style and English style. And usually French style is reserved for a big party. So if it's like a 20 person dinner or even more like a state dinner, right? If...
let's say King Charles is hosting a state dinner, then usually the host and hostess sit in the middle of the long table. That way, all the VIPs that sit near the host and hostess can speak to each other. And then the less important you are, the further away from the middle you sit.
And then English style is reserved for small, like at home, for example, a dinner of six people, eight people, 10 people. And the host and hostess are at the ends of the table. And then the VIPs are next to them. And then the less important people are towards the middle of the table. So everybody feels cocooned. But this works for small dinners.
Yeah. Body language is a big part. Yeah. Yeah. This is a nonverbal communication, right? So actually, if I'm, let's say, at a gathering or a social function, sometimes I'll sit or I'll stand with my hands like this and my palms facing up. Because actually, when you show your palm, it's an open gesture. It's an open gesture. Whereas if it's like this and this is a closed gesture. Right.
I mean, this we all know. Right. Right. So so even just small. And so if you're standing, if you're standing and you're like feet are all like tangled up, then that's kind of closed. But if you're if you're like, you know, if your feet are relaxed like that, comfortable in ballet, it's the fifth position. Right. The V. And it's just an open and open gesture.
Yeah. Well, here's a fun thing that's history related. The history behind shaking hands, why do humans shake hands? It's to show that we don't have weapons in our hands. That was the beginning of shaking hands. Toasting, toasting wine. I mean, now we just raise our glass, right? But back then people would really go at it and then wine would fly around into each other's cups. And why was that?
To show that the host had not poisoned their guests' wine. That was the purpose of toasting. So why do we still do it? Do we need to? Because hundreds of years of tradition. And so it's still a nice gesture to toast, to welcome someone or to kick off an event or to, you know, it's just to have that is nice.
Yeah, and that's fine. But hey, listen, we just went through three years of the first... ever kind of event in the world that affected literally the whole world. So we change with the times and etiquette should be updated with the times.
So, I mean, the one that you just mentioned, handshake is a big thing. Let's see. I would say, so here's something funny. In Asia, whenever you are sick, you wear a mask. That was always the case before COVID. So if you see an Asian person wearing a mask, it usually means because they have a sniffle and they don't want to give it to you.
Very different from the West where it's like, okay, I'm going to wear it to protect myself.
In Asia, it was more of a sign of respect where I have a cold. I don't want to pass on my office. Thus, I'm going to wear a mask.
It wasn't. It definitely was not as widespread. And in China, at least, it's more you wear a mask because you are sick and you don't want to. And in Japan as well. You don't want to pass that on to somebody else. But now wearing a mask is much more commonplace. Now when I fly around America, I see Americans wearing masks.
It depends. It really depends. I mean, when I flew back from New York to Hong Kong, on that flight, I got COVID. And then I gave it to my dad who ended up in hospital. And he made it okay. But after that, that made me a lot more careful. So if I'm about to see an old person, then I try to protect myself so that I don't get anything to pass on to an old person.
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