Never use your FINGER like this in CHINA 🇨🇳

[00:00:00]Never use your finger to do these things in China. The first one is at the dinner table because Chinese food is famous for being shared family style, but you should never dig through the shared dish hunting for the best piece of food with your fingers or chopsticks cuz in China [music] you're supposed to directly take whatever's nearest to you. But if you get thirsty and want some tea, be careful where you put the teapot because aiming the finger of a China teapot at somebody is considered really rude. So instead, always point the spout away from everyone at the table. But if someone pours your tea, do not say thank you cuz when the Chinese emperor traveled incognito, his servants couldn't bow without blowing his cover.

[00:00:29]So instead, they tapped two fingers on the table to signify bowing which everybody still does to this day. But if you leave the restaurant and see a friend, you should already know pointing with your index in Asia is bad manners.

[00:00:38]But in China, another finger is even worse cuz if you stick your pinky out and point it at somebody, that is one of the most belittling things you can do in Chinese culture since the pinky is the smallest weakest finger. But be careful which finger you use on yourself cuz if you want to gesture me in China, you should not point at your chest like we do in America because to correctly reference yourself in China, you need to point to your nose. But before your trip is over, you better not count your blessings until you know these two mistakes cuz this sign in America is a weapon, but in China that's just a number eight unless you go to the south side where it means seven. But the only number I care about is one because if just one of you follows me on Instagram, I'd be so happy.