Chopsticks are now used to eat everything except soup (which should be eaten with a spoon), Peking duck (which should be eaten with your hands), and various desserts.

Picking up your bowl and shovelings rice into your mouth is entirely acceptable in China (as well as Vietnam), yet it is frowned upon elsewhere. When you consider that Chinese chopsticks are circular, unlike their square Japanese and Korean counterparts, this makes sense. With your thumb on the bowl’s mouth and your fingers supporting the bottom, you pick it up. It is considered impolite as well as unhealthy for digestion to not pick up your bowl and simply lean forward into it. Allowing the eating ends of your chopsticks to touch the table is a faux pas, so place them across your bowl or on a convenient chopstick rest.

You’ve had enough practice with the obstacles of eating while typing when you use the computer so frequently. It gets a little messy with all the crumbs and sticky fingers. It’s simple to eat fatty foods like chips or popcorn with chopsticks. Genius! It does, however, appear to be rather ubiquitous in many parts of the world. One gamer comments, “Not using chopsticks is such a noob thing to do.” There are a few strategies that can be employed to make things easier. Keep the ends of the chopsticks in your bag, close to your dominant hand. Wooden waribashi chopsticks with rough and straight edges are the best to use, and puffed corn snacks and corn chips are easier to use for beginners than the more slippery potato chips. If negotiating with the bag is a nuisance, pour the goodies into a bowl, but you’ll get the hang of it.