Learning to use chopsticks has proven to be the bane of many people's existence, so much so that entire instructional videos have been uploaded to YouTube and a number of online articles give detailed ...

Chopsticks are a mainstay of dinner tables in Japan and throughout Asia. Japanese people have been using them since they were small children—that doesn’t mean, however, that they’ve been using them ...

Chopsticks may look tricky at first, but they’re really just about balance and a bit of practice. Used across East Asia for centuries, these slim sticks turn eating into something graceful once you ...

I always thought I was good at eating with chopsticks and could handle them as easily as I would a knife and a fork. Recently, however, I was out with some friends at a Korean restaurant in central ...

Waribashi are wooden, disposable chopsticks — the kind available in just about every Japanese restaurant in Miami. The tapered eating utensils are packaged in white paper, which is typically printed ...

Arguments have raged for years in Japan about the merits of disposable wooden chopsticks, a mainstay of restaurants and ready-made boxed bento meals sold in convenience stores and supermarkets. Japan ...

Behold the humble bamboo chopsticks. A bamboo chopstick, he said, is almost a perfect raw material. Neatly tapered. No knots or cracks. Made with a fast-growing sustainable resource. “It’s just not ...