For those unaware, myself and others have authored the "Principles of Yum Cha", otherwise known as 'The Yum-Charter". Principle 23 refers to the 'Lazy Susan Code of Conduct'.
Here it is, a living document, if you will:
The Lazy Susan Code of Conduct
1. Subject to the below clauses, the Lazy Susan ('LS') shall be revolved as fast as is necessary to eat Yum Cha.
2. If someone is retrieving a dim sim from the LS, you shall not revolve the LS to the extent that the retriever has difficulty retrieving the dim sim.
3. As a matter of best practice, you shall wait until the retriever has retrieved their dim sim before revolving the LS.
4. Chilli sauce saucers shall be distributed evenly on the LS.
5. Depending on circumstances, empty bamboo baskets shall be placed in the centre of the LS, OR on a part of the table close to trolley traffic.
6. The LS shall not be spun so fast as to cause any objects on the LS to move, or any sauce in saucers on the LS to spill.
Any others that should be there?
3 comments:
How about the teapot - do you put that on the LS or do you leave it on the table?
1. ensure that all dishes, ladels & spoons are not over the edge of the LS. Good etiquette so that when it turns it doesn't hit people's glasses and plates. Avoids the usual knocking of the tea on the white tablecloth.
2. all sauces closer to the edge of LS for easy access.
3. anti clockwise vs clockwise...not sure what the norm is here. I naturally turn it anti-clockwise as i'm right handed and push it from left to right.
4. i agree with para 4. all empty dishes to be stacked together to make way for more dim sum!
as you can see i've been deep in thought today.
Perhaps along with chilli sauce being distributed evenly, so also should multiple plates of the same dish (e.g. BBQ pork buns, salt and chilli squid).
I think we usually turn the LS clockwise with our left hand because we have our chopsticks in our right hand... perhaps this one should be left to the discretion of the individual yum cha sitting?
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