How to Use Chopsticks ?

Question

How to Use Chopsticks ?

Answer 1

Hold your chopsticks towards their end, and not in the middle or the front third.

When you are not using your chopsticks and when you are finished eating, lay them down in front of you with the tip to left.

Do not stick chopsticks into your food, especially not into rice. Only at funerals are chopsticks stuck into the rice that is put onto the altar.

Do not pass food with your chopsticks directly to somebody else's chopsticks. Only at funerals are the bones of the cremated body given in that way from person to person.

Do not spear food with your chopsticks.

Do not point with your chopsticks to something or somebody.

Do not move your chopsticks around in the air too much, nor play with them.

Do not move around plates or bowls with chopsticks.

To separate a piece of food into two pieces, exert controlled pressure on the chopsticks while moving them apart from each other. This needs much exercise.

If you have already used your chopsticks, use the opposite end of your chopsticks in order to move food from a shared plate to your own plate.

Answer 2

tuck one stick under the thumb and hold the other as if it was a pencil. Keep the one below the other in regular position as you move only the top stick up and down.

Answer 3

I like watching adult white people trying to use chopsticks when they clearly can't.  That's pure comedy to us Asian folk.

Answer 4

with great difficulty

Answer 5

use your middle finger, index finger and you thumb. That 3 fingers only. Then when using chopsticks, put the one stick in between the middle finger and index finger, the other one is on the thumb (the thumb will support the another stick goin to your palm).... When picking foods, ONLY the upper stick MUST move....(the stick between your index and middle finger only) should have to move. :-)

Answer 6

Hold chospsticks, balance the food between them, move them, dump the food in ur open mouth and bring them back to your place. Its easy, just needs some practice

Answer 7

Plunge them in your hair. They would like nice there, they are in vogue.

Answer 8

Put one chopstick between the palm and the base of the thumb, using the ring finger (the fourth finger) to support the lower part of the stick. With the thumb, squeeze the stick down while the ring finger pushes it up. The stick should be stationary and very stable.

Use the tips of the thumb, index and middle fingers to hold the other stick like a pen. Make sure the tips of the two sticks line up.

Pivot the upper stick up and down towards the stationary lower stick. With this motion one can pick up food of surprising size.

With enough practice, the two sticks function like a pair of pincers.

Another description is to tuck one stick under the thumb and hold the other as if it was a pencil. Keep the one below the other in regular position as you move only the top stick up and down.

Answer 9

I've spoken to many people on this subject. I think a basic rule of thumb is that if you are able to pick up food then you are using them right.

practice makes perfect.