As a local Hongkonger, I'm proud to use chopsticks, a historic, state-of-the-art utensil invented by the Chinese. Just look at the identical sticks, made of wood, bamboo or metal. They are like an ...

Chopsticks in Chinese cuisine, for example, are usually the longest type. It's common for people within Chinese culture to share food with one another, and the extra length on their chopsticks ...

so chopsticks are longer than the ones used in Japan, as the Japanese tend to eat food separately, having their own bento [box], for example.” Generally, he adds, Chinese chopsticks tend to be ...

Japanese chopsticks are typically pointier, for example, while Chinese chopsticks have blunt ends, and Chinese and Vietnamese chopsticks tend to be longer than those used for Korean or Japanese ...

For instance, in Japan people don't stick their chopsticks straight up in a bowl of Japanese oyako don. In Thai cultures chopsticks aren't used to poke meatballs. Though chopsticks are traditional ...

Guidelines from China’s Ministry of Education say that 3- and 4-year-olds should use spoons skillfully; 4- and 5-year-olds should be able to use chopsticks to some degree; and by 6, children ...

In fact, it was the ancient philosopher and vegetarian Confucius's disdain for another common utensil, the knife, that may have helped cement the chopsticks' role as China's preferred food ...