the reason that I was told for the spoon going away from you as you dip it, is so that when you lift it, if there is a drip it will drip over the bowl and not your lap.
Culture Shock is a great book series that goes into local ettiquette and fitting in, my uncle wrote one of them, and I'm finally seeing them in the US.
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