Japanese Manners Made Easy. Kotaku’s Opinions For The Week July 05, ... Often foreigners in Japan are complimented on how they use chopsticks. Many, however, are not actually using them properly.

Dear Miss Manners: When I went to dinner with my parents at a fine-dining restaurant serving Japanese cuisine, we ate our appetizers and entrees with chopsticks. For dessert we ordered a warm ...

Chopsticks are a mainstay of dinner tables in Japan and throughout Asia. Japanese people have been using them since they were small children—that doesn't mean, however, that they've been using ...

There is one theory which advocates that the Japanese were already a slurp-friendly nation, dating back more than 1000 years, taking into account the fact that the Japanese wooden spoon (called Saji) ...

When you’re not using them, move the chopsticks to their holder, and try not to fuss with the table setting. “Do not use your chopsticks as a bridge between a plate and the counter or tabletop ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I love Chinese food, but have never been able to master eating it with chopsticks. Whereas others seem to do it with great ease, I fumble and futz and finally resort to using a ...

When you stick your chopsticks upright into food any other time, it’s considered unlucky, and you may even invite a random hungry spirit to your dinner table! Don’t stab your food with a chopstick ...