This is the reason food is always served pre-sliced in Chinese restaurants (making it more chopstick-friendly in the process). About a third of people worldwide use chopsticks daily. Some rules of ...

Almost all the sets came from one small drawer in my kitchen — that, yes, is a now little less crowded (but still crammed ...

Arguments have raged for years in Japan about the merits of disposable wooden chopsticks, a mainstay of restaurants and ready-made boxed bento meals sold in convenience stores and supermarkets.

Tanaka also notes many older restaurants in Japan may only offer chopsticks (in addition to spoons for soup and/or dessert), so if you can't use them, you're out of luck. Tanaka's father Toru ...

But melting-pot Chinese food has its place, too, and that place is Chopsticks, a restaurant that serves authentic fare as well as simple sweet-and-sour dishes and protein/noodle combinations.