Often foreigners in Japan are complimented on how they use chopsticks. Many, however, are not actually using them properly. Then again, neither are most Japanese people. Go figure.

To use the napkin-clad chopsticks, you simply hold the chopsticks as usual, one resting between your thumb and index finger ...

Known as kuàizi in Chinese, jeotgarak in Korean, hashi in Japanese and đũa in Vietnamese, chopsticks spread to the rest of what Wang calls the “chopsticks cultural sphere” from the 6th ...

Consider me one of those people. I still find typical Japanese chopsticks a challenge to use. “Chopstick preference simply depends on what feels right to the user,” Gibbens told me.

Japanese-style chopsticks come to a thinner point and often have threads at those tips for gripping food. Their handles are often square, too, but with rounded edges—unlike the sharper, 90 ...

Chopsticks 101(Unsplash) Chopsticks have been around for many centuries and it is thought to have come into use as a cooking utensil, to toss or pick up food from a hot pot.