Sushi By Dummies - Chopsticks: Rub Them the Wrong Way

by Sarah J. Gim, Posted Oct 8th 2005 @ 8:33AM

Hopefully, you’d never find yourself at a sushi bar that actually gave you those horrible disposable wooden chopsticks in a paper wrapper that has a three-step diagram of how to hold and use them. (1. Hold one chopstick like a pencil....)

If you do happen to find yourself at such a place, perhaps for a quick lunch because it wasn’t, God forbid, your choice, resist the urge to rub the chopsticks together to “sand” them down. That's just rude.

So then what do you do about possibly piercing your cheek with one of those splinters?! My recommendation is to stay away from that restaurant, duh. Oh, okay, just put the chopsticks down and use your hands instead. We already said that was quite alright.

Filed Under: Ingredients, How To
Tags: asia, dinner, fish, lunch

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10-08-2005 @12:42PM Wing said... Hm, I didn't know that. I thought that places that give you crappy disposible chopsticks in general don't care much about etiqette anyway. Or maybe it's only not rude if you do it in a Chinese place...
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10-08-2005 @3:50PM sarah said... or a Korean place.

i don't think i'd actually WANT to use chopsticks that they "wash" and re-use in a korean joint. ew.
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