When drinking soup or tea, it’s one hand under, palm up, the other cradling around from the side. If it’s a soup with chunks, hold your chopsticks thus, and lift the bowl to your lips to sip from it. Do not drown your sushi in soy sauce; to leave granules of rice floating in your dipping sauce is the height of bad taste and brutishness. When your geisha pours you sake (hot sake with cold food; cold sake with hot), wash your cup after drinking and pour her some into the same receptacle. That was not a finger bowl. Wash for dinner. Really wash. Dress appropriately.
