<story><title>Ten Thousand Ways to Use Chopsticks</title><url>https://marcosticks.org/ten-thousand-ways/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gretch</author><text>As an ethnic chinese person (grew up in the states but parents immigrated and don&amp;#x27;t speak english) I&amp;#x27;ve always tried to convey this to my non-asian friends.&lt;p&gt;When we go out to eat together, they always ask me what&amp;#x27;s the &amp;#x27;right way&amp;#x27; to hold chopsticks and I tell them that you guys think about this way more than any chinese person I&amp;#x27;ve ever met.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s 2 sticks; put the food in your mouth. Did you do it? If so, then you&amp;#x27;re good. It&amp;#x27;s not deeper than that. Plenty of times in my family we would just stab stuff because that was the easiest thing to do and no one thinks twice.&lt;p&gt;addendum: growing up, I organically evolved the &amp;#x27;scissorhand&amp;#x27; grip. At like ~18 years old, I consciously switched to standard because I was trying to pick up something small and realized my grip lacked precision.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ten Thousand Ways to Use Chopsticks</title><url>https://marcosticks.org/ten-thousand-ways/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tonymet</author><text>Any effort to evangelize chopsticks to the west is a welcome one. &amp;quot;chopstick shaming&amp;quot; should be avoided.  There are so many useful applications including cooking, preparing, serving food.  Chopsticks are effectively sanitary fingers (when used politely).&lt;p&gt;Years ago i used chopsticks to eat snacks at work, in order to keep my keyboard clean.  People ridiculed me in a friendly way.  They&amp;#x27;ve since come around.&lt;p&gt;Since covid people have become more conscious of sanitation and to a lesser degree table etiquette and i&amp;#x27;m glad to see chopsticks supporting both of those trends.</text></comment>