Table sharing

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Table sharing

Table sharing refers to sharing a table in a restaurant by customers or groups of customers who may not know each other.

e sharing is a practice that is common in old-style yum cha
Yum cha

Yum cha is a term in Cantonese which means "drink Chinese tea". It refers to the custom of eating small servings of different foods while sipping Chinese tea in Cantonese speaking areas of northern and southern China China....
Chinese restaurant

Chinese restaurant

See:* Chinese cuisine* American Chinese cuisine* Canadian Chinese cuisine* Glutamic acid #Chinese restaurant syndrome, purportedly caused by the flavor enhancer glutamate...
s, dai pai dong
Dai pai dong

Dai pai dong is a type of open-air food stall once very popular in Hong Kong. The government registration name in Hong Kong is "cooked-food stalls"....
s and cha chaan teng
Cha chaan teng

A cha chaan teng is a type of Chinese food tea restaurant commonly found in Hong Kong, known for its eclectic and affordable menus which include many dishes from Hong Kong cuisine and Hong Kong-style Western cuisine....
s in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
, Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
, and parts of China

China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
. By practicing table sharing, two (or more) groups of customers who may not know each other sit together around a table in the restaurant, and are able to get a table faster than waiting for the first group to finish.

Today, tables are also often shared at Western-style food court

Food court

A food court is a plaza that is contiguous with the counters of multiple food vendors and provides a common area for self-serve dining. Food courts may be found in shopping malls and airports, and in various regions may be a standalone development....
s, as these are very popular and fill up quickly.

(A metaphor

Metaphor

Metaphor is language that directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects. It is a figure of speech that compares two or more things without using the words "like" or "as." More generally, a metaphor describes a first subject as being or equal to a second object in some way....
ical allusion to table-sharing in Chinese restaurants is the use of the term Chinese restaurant process

Chinese restaurant process

In probability theory, the Chinese restaurant process is a discrete-time stochastic process, whose value at any positive-integer time n is a partition of a set Bn of the set whose probability distribution is determined as follows....
to refer to any of certain random processes

Stochastic process

A stochastic process, or sometimes random process, is the counterpart to a deterministic process in probability theory. Instead of dealing with only one possible 'reality' of how the process might evolve under time , in a stochastic or random process there is some indeterminacy in its future evolution described by probability distribu...
in probability theory

Probability theory

Probability theory is the branch of mathematics concerned with analysis of Statistical randomness phenomena. The central objects of probability theory are random variables, stochastic processes, and event s: mathematical abstractions of determinism events or measured quantities that may either be single occurrences or evolve over time in an a...
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Table sharing refers to sharing a table in a restaurant by customers or groups of customers who may not know each other.

Table sharing in Chinese culture

Table sharing is a practice that is common in old-style yum cha
Yum cha

Yum cha is a term in Cantonese which means "drink Chinese tea". It refers to the custom of eating small servings of different foods while sipping Chinese tea in Cantonese speaking areas of northern and southern China China....
Chinese restaurant