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Chow Magazine’s blog The Grinder has picked up on one of the downsides of the East-meets-West cultural showdown:

Worried that students may be losing their culture to the onslaught of hamburgers and spaghetti, a high school in Nagasaki, Japan has added a new test to their entrance exams—chopstick skills.

If Japan must fight to retain this important part of their culinary and cultural heritage, maybe we here can do our part to make chopsticks an integral part of the global table. After all, once you learn how to use them, chopsticks are convenient, delicate and surprisingly adaptable to a variety of tasks. You don’t believe me? Try eating salad with chopsticks; you’ll never go back to the salad fork again.

First things first: Knowing how to use chopsticks is more than just how to hold them and pick things up. There are a few rules of etiquette best followed lest you look like a lumbering oaf with your utensils. Escape Blog highlights a few tips to ensure you’ll be gracious in both Japanese and Chinese settings, and Garrett at Vanilla Garlic has some good all-around usage pointers that should keep you out of imminent trouble.  


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