Chopsticks are a pair of sticks, usually made of wood, used for eating Asian food. In Chinese, the old word for "chopsticks,",and also in some varieties of modern Chinese such as Hokkien, was zhù (箸 ...

Eating with a pair of chopsticks can be tricky, especially if you are just starting out. Traditionally if you were to walk into a Sushi bar in Japan, you would get a platter of sushi, which you could ...

New electric chopsticks have been developed by experts at the Meiji University, the Yoshinori Miyashita Laboratory of the Department of Advanced Media Science, and Kirin, a Japanese food producer. New ...

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 ...

Today, more than a fifth of the planet's population uses chopsticks as their primary dining utensils. Originating in ancient China around 5000 years ago, chopsticks didn't become customary in Japan ...

Here in the U.S., we love our sushi rolls, ramen, and carryout Chinese. This means, of course, that we’re pretty familiar with chopsticks—if not totally adept at using them. But beyond the knack they ...