chopsticks
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40 sectionsContents
- Origin and history
- As cooking utensils
- As cooking thermometers
- As eating utensils
- Propagation throughout the world
- Naming in different countries
- Styles of chopsticks
- Common characteristics
- Sinosphere
- China
- Japan
- Korea
- Vietnam
- Outside of Sinosphere
- Mongolia
- Thailand
- Borneo/Malaysia/Indonesia etc.
- Using chopsticks
- Chopstick grips
- Standard grip
- Learning to use chopsticks
- Full range of chopstick motion
- Learning aids
- Chopstick customs, manners and etiquette
- Sinosphere
- China
- Japan
- Korea
- Vietnam
- Southeast Asia
- Cambodia
- Indonesia and Malaysia
- Thailand
- Global impacts
- Environmental impacts
- Effects on health
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
upright=1.35|thumb|Various chopsticks, from top to bottom, with ruler at top for scale:
Chopsticks are shaped pairs of equal-length sticks that have been used as kitchen and eating utensils in most countries of East Asia for over three millennia. They are held in the dominant hand, secured by fingers, and wielded as extensions of the hand, to pick up food.