How To Use Chopsticks

This blog isn't meant to be purely musings on life in China. In fact, it is meant to be an educational tool. Here, I am about to teach you a very valuable life skill: how to use chopsticks.



1) Put one chopstick the area between your thumb and pointer finger (like you are making a gun with your hands)

2) Hold the second chopsick like you are holding a pencil (preferably a sharpened #2 pencil in classic yellow)

3) Go down for the food keeping the the first chopstick (the one between your thumb and pointer) still

4) Move your index finger, which will move only the upper stick.

5) If all else fails, you can use your chopsticks as a shovel, by places the two together and holding it like spoon. The Chinese actually do this.

6) If that fails, I suppose you could use your chopsticks as spear.