Thursday, November 16, 2006

How to Use Chopsticks

Dinner behavior is of great importance to everybody in daily life. Knifes and forks are always used in most western countries, while chopsticks in China and some other countries in Asia. Chopsticks are a couple of sticks, which are about 10 inches long. They are usually made in wood. Some more expensive and ornamental chopsticks are made in silver, gold or ivory. I use chopsticks in my right hand, according with my handwriting habits.

Now I can show you how to use them. Firstly put one stick in your hand (ether left or right is OK), and nip it with three fingers.(thumb, forefinger and middle finger), while the other stick beside on ring finger and little finger. Details are shown in the figure. (Referring link).




5 comments:

atilla akkulah said...

When I was in Tokio long time ago, I could not succed to have my meal. But I didn't use fork either. What I did was TO USE CHOPSTICKS LIKE FORK...!!! It took a time to finish my meal...!!!

Jane said...

My daughters both had a year of Japanese in their high school program, so are pretty good with chopsticks. I manage to eat nice and slowly with them. My boys won't even try- they like to eat more quickly than that.

Steph said...

This was a helpful post, at least for me :D

Thanks for sharing Zhiyuan :)

splended said...

how about you used chipsticks? it's so interesting..

Gu Zhiyuan said...

It's not bad. Just like using forks and knifes.