When it comes to styles of chopsticks, there are cultural differences: Japanese chopsticks are typically pointier, for example, while Chinese chopsticks have blunt ends, and Chinese and Vietnamese ...

Attempting to hold a pair of chopsticks properly is no small feat. Using chopsticks to grab the last piece of slippery har gow dim sum is an even greater accomplishment. Unless you’ve grown up in an ...

Electrified chopsticks that change the taste of food extended the winning streak of Japanese researchers for a satiric Ig Nobel Prize to 17 straight years. Hiromi Nakamura, a project associate ...

Created roughly 4,000-5,000 years ago in China, the earliest versions of something like chopsticks were used for cooking (they’re perfect for reaching into pots full of hot water or oil) and were most ...

Park Yeon-ok, CEO of the Jeo-Jip chopsticks gallery in Buam-dong, Jongno District, Seoul, says that chopsticks are culture. For many people, chopsticks and spoons are key utensils in Korean cuisine ...

A New York Times photo received backlash from Twitter over the inclusion of chopsticks. The Times was reporting on yet-to-be opened “Asian-inspired” steak house, Jade Sixty, which features classic ...

It’s hard to believe for us Westerners who work up a sweat at the local P.F. Chang’s while trying to use chopsticks, but the spindly utensils were actually invented as a result of fuel conservation ...