Using chopsticks efficiently is a learned, practiced skill. Just like any skill, there are methods that help beginners learn.

Chopsticks are pairs of 15–25-cm (6–10 )-long, about-5-mm (1/5 ) – thin sticks, usually tapered at one end. The materials used vary differently. Bamboo has been the most popular material used for ...

When it comes to styles of chopsticks, there are cultural differences: Japanese chopsticks are typically pointier, for example, while Chinese chopsticks have blunt ends, and Chinese and Vietnamese ...

Created roughly 4,000-5,000 years ago in China, the earliest versions of something like chopsticks were used for cooking (they’re perfect for reaching into pots full of hot water or oil) and were most ...

Sharing is caring, but not when it comes to chopsticks. To use them in a communal bowl, especially with people you don’t know particularly well, is seen as a (unhygienic) faux pas. How to get your ...

We normally unwrap takeout chopsticks, eat with them and dispose of them without much thought. Recently, though, there has been a small wave of transnational activism aimed at reducing the use of ...

The laughter starts before the noodles even hit the ground. Frozen in mid-grasp, I watch a chopstick spin uncontrollably out of my hand, flinging droplets of sesame oil as it falls. “Would you like a ...

Feel like your fridge is always at capacity? Today I'm sharing a super simple hack that will double your fridge space! And ...

Reporting from Beijing — With about 3.5 million tons of illegally reprocessed cooking oil returning to dinner tables each year, Chinese consumers are desperately looking for an easy way to help them ...

A New York Times photo received backlash from Twitter over the inclusion of chopsticks. The Times was reporting on yet-to-be opened “Asian-inspired” steak house, Jade Sixty, which features classic ...