About Etiquetteness

Most travel advice tells you what to see. Almost none of it tells you which hand to pour with, or why leaving your chopsticks standing in a bowl of rice can genuinely unsettle a room. Etiquetteness is a running collection of that second kind of knowledge: the unwritten rules people expect visitors to already know.

Currently 94 rules across 16 countries

How an entry gets made

Every rule here starts from a real source, cited and linked at the bottom of the entry, not a vague sense of "I heard somewhere that..." Each one also gets a plain explanation of the reasoning behind the custom, not just the rule itself, since "don't do X" is a lot easier to remember once you know why X reads as rude in the first place.

Sources get things wrong sometimes, and secondhand travel-blog etiquette advice has a way of copying the same error from site to site. Where possible, entries get checked against someone who actually grew up with the custom in question, rather than taken at face value from a single article.

If something here is wrong

Etiquette is local, it changes over time, and a rule that's strict for one generation can be casual for the next. If an entry is outdated, overstated, or flatly wrong, that's worth fixing rather than leaving up. Treat anything here as a starting point, not the final word, especially against someone who actually lives the custom day to day.

The code and content are open source — open a pull request or an issue on GitHub, or just email wonsukchoi97@gmail.com.