2006-08-12 13:40:29 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
First of all...if you are pointing it at your guest, you could pour too fast and it would spill hot tea towards them. However, of even more importance is that for you to be pointing the tea pot at your guest, you would have to be directly across from them rudely reaching across the table! If it is an informal setting, pass the teapot and let them pour themselves...if it is Formal you should be serving them tea while standing next to them, in which case it would be about impossible to be pouring towards them if their cup is in front of them. Great Question for Miss Manners!
2006-08-12 13:48:52 · answer #1 · answered by FreedomLover 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I saw this on a tv show. It had a theme on Asian culture. A person set a pot of tea in front of his guest and the spout was faced towars her and she turned it back at him and said "You know it is rude to point the spout at a guest".
2006-08-12 21:00:40 · answer #2 · answered by Abby C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Didn't know it was. If it is, then it probably goes back a long way in history and may be linked to a specific ethnic group. Could be fun to delve into research and find out what you can on it.
When you pour for the guest, the spout is going to be facing them unless you pour from the side, in which case answer #1 may have hit it on the head.
2006-08-12 20:46:06 · answer #3 · answered by St N 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's the first I've ever heard of that! Everybody does it when the server goes from one person to the next. At some point, the spout is going to face somebody.
2006-08-12 20:44:57 · answer #4 · answered by LaRue 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because thats how the tea fairys get out to stain everyones shirts
2006-08-12 20:46:05 · answer #5 · answered by sooperman1234 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it might go off in their face.
2006-08-12 20:45:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe cause you might get tea on them if you jerk it or something......
2006-08-12 20:42:50 · answer #7 · answered by 'Blank' 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is?
Never knew that.
2006-08-12 20:45:23 · answer #8 · answered by Einstein 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋