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Home » Photos » Insta-Updates: How I hold my chopsticks!

Insta-Updates: How I hold my chopsticks!

April 19, 2012 Paris B 54 Comments

I boasted recently that I am a pro at handling chopsticks *ahem!* and that I can manipulate peanuts and fishballs quite easily. I didn’t quite say that I was holding it the right way 😉 However, reader Bugs asked to see how I hold my chopsticks, so here it is.

Such a random little post isn’t it? 😀

This is how I hold my chopsticks. The lower piece does not move and its the top piece that does all the work. I believe this is what’s known as “the right way to hold a chopstick”.

Am I doing it right? I’d like to think so 😀

Paris B

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  1. Honey says

    April 19, 2012 at 4:08 pm

    Yes, good girl! That’s the correct way 🙂

    Reply
    • Paris B says

      April 22, 2012 at 9:01 pm

      Yay! Hard work paid off hehe…

      Reply
  2. xin says

    April 19, 2012 at 4:12 pm

    i can’t manipulate the chopsticks quite well, esp this plastic kind. but, i can hold the korean chopsticks very steadily 😉 we have been using korean chopsticks at home for quite some years hence i guess i am used to it already

    Reply
    • Paris B says

      April 22, 2012 at 9:02 pm

      Do you mean the metal round chopsticks or the flat Korean chopsticks? I handle them all the same way but the flat metal ones at Korean restaurants can be a bit of a challenge

      Reply
  3. passionflower says

    April 19, 2012 at 4:21 pm

    I just can’t hold chopsticks that way. My mom tried to teach it to me but it just doesn’t feel natural. I hold the chopsticks crossed and both of them move when I pick up food. Since everyone I know holds their chopsticks like you Paris, I get some confused stares.

    Reply
    • Paris B says

      April 22, 2012 at 9:05 pm

      I find chopsticks very elegant so I tried hard to make sure I did it right. I started out the crossed way too and it wasn’t easy but you get used to it and it comes naturally after a while. Never too late! 😉

      Reply
  4. Sam says

    April 19, 2012 at 4:24 pm

    I’m not the best at chopsticks, but I think I’m pretty good for an Aussie. I can pick up small stuff reasonably well most of the time.
    Is it incorrect to use chopsticks left handed? I was told it was offensive by an English woman while I was in Japan. There’s no way I can handle chopsticks right handed!

    Reply
    • Paris B says

      April 22, 2012 at 9:11 pm

      I know some traditionalists think that chopsticks shouldn’t be used in the left hand. I personally think its worth doing whatever one can to get food into the mouth lol! Oh and not to poke or clash with the person sitting on your left 😉

      Reply
  5. nia says

    April 19, 2012 at 4:27 pm

    i hold em like that too! 😀

    Reply
    • Paris B says

      April 22, 2012 at 9:11 pm

      Yay! Looks like we’re on the right track 😉

      Reply
  6. beetrice says

    April 19, 2012 at 4:32 pm

    I used to hold my chopsticks crossed and get smacked by my gran cos she said it brought bad luck (or something to that effect – can’t remember anymore!), then managed to switch over to the way you hold it sometime during my teen years.

    I have a tiny bit of a problem when it comes to the slim metal chopsticks you typically see at Korean restaurants (Xin, I’m jealous!) but otherwise, bring on the peanut challenge! 😀 *brandishes bamboo and plastic chopsticks*

    Reply
    • Paris B says

      April 22, 2012 at 9:12 pm

      The flat metal chopsticks are a bother, I find. Hurts my hands when used for too long. But yeah! Chopstick ninjas! 😀

      Reply
  7. Sze Ling says

    April 19, 2012 at 5:03 pm

    Good girl! That’s absolutely the right way. And that’s how I hold my chopsticks too. 🙂

    Reply
    • Paris B says

      April 22, 2012 at 9:13 pm

      Yay for doing it right 😀

      Reply
  8. Ashley says

    April 19, 2012 at 5:04 pm

    I believe that *is* the right way to hold a pair of chopsticks. They’re never supposed to be crossed but of course, I break the rules ;P

    Reply
    • Paris B says

      April 22, 2012 at 9:15 pm

      Haha it’s one thing knowing the theory and another to put it in practice right? Hehe

      Reply
  9. Jess says

    April 19, 2012 at 5:40 pm

    I hold my chopsticks like how I hold my pen.. #embarassing

    Reply
    • Paris B says

      April 22, 2012 at 9:18 pm

      Hmm I can’t quite imagine that. One stick is held like a pencil too, in my case. The other one is the one that moves to pick things up 😉

      Reply
  10. Bugs says

    April 19, 2012 at 5:49 pm

    Thnx PB for the photo… wow, so fast !! …and YEAH ! i’m proud of myself.

    Even though the cross chopsticks way of holding is undoubtedly “wrong”, I’ve seen many with 2 straight chopsticks but the fingers or the hand is so “cross” that I’m curious how they “invent” that way of holding…. hahaaha

    Reply
    • Paris B says

      April 22, 2012 at 9:28 pm

      You’re welcome, Bugs 🙂 I’ve seen lots of different variations of how people hold their chopsticks too!

      Reply
  11. plue says

    April 19, 2012 at 6:18 pm

    i can hold like that but the minute i use it, it goes all haywire! give up already 😛 the only person at home who can do it right is my dad.

    Reply
    • Paris B says

      April 22, 2012 at 9:29 pm

      Lol practice makes perfect m’dear!

      Reply
  12. gin says

    April 19, 2012 at 6:22 pm

    I have problems with plastic chopsticks… somehow or rather they just couldn’t ‘coorporate’ with me!!!
    Not a good thing because the plastics ones are the one we are offered outside!! somewhat embarrassing when eating especially with elder people.
    i am good with wooden and stainless steel ones though…
    weird.

    Reply
    • Paris B says

      April 22, 2012 at 9:30 pm

      Maybe it’s the thickness and the heft. I find chopsticks that are a little heavier easier to handle than very light ones 🙂

      Reply
  13. Jue says

    April 19, 2012 at 8:14 pm

    I’ve heard it somewhere that you hold the top part like a chinese brush and the bottom like you would with a pencil.

    I like Japanese chopstick shape the best. Tapered at the end and it feel just nice at the top.

    Reply
    • Paris B says

      April 22, 2012 at 9:32 pm

      That’s interesting. You got me looking to see if I hold it like a Chinese brush hehe… I do know the bottom is held like a pencil, cos I remember my mom telling me so 🙂 a tapered end makes it much easier to pick small food pieces up, that’s for sure!

      Reply
  14. Hanny says

    April 19, 2012 at 8:33 pm

    When I was a kid, I could manipulate my chopsticks as any proper chopstick holder could, except that I crossed them together. However, after many, many tantrums and fights with me mom, she managed to get me to hold them correctly but I needed time to pick up my peanuts and fishballs.

    Eating pasta with chopsticks as part of the training regime at home was ultimately traumatic.

    Reply
    • Paris B says

      April 22, 2012 at 9:33 pm

      Lol! My parents never quite forced me to use it the right way, but I learnt it up because I thought it looked more elegant 🙂

      Reply
  15. Michelle Beh says

    April 19, 2012 at 8:36 pm

    You are right!!! Till now I can’t really hold it in a correct way..

    Reply
    • Paris B says

      April 22, 2012 at 9:34 pm

      Practice? 😉

      Reply
  16. lavender says

    April 19, 2012 at 8:56 pm

    Yes. you are holding it the correct way. I know it but I cannot change my wrong way due to habit.

    Reply
    • Paris B says

      April 22, 2012 at 9:35 pm

      Hey, never too late to give it a shot! 😉

      Reply
  17. Jyoan says

    April 19, 2012 at 10:15 pm

    yep! I remember that when I taught myself tot use chopsticks, I did it the wrong way. But I already knew what the right way is, and I forced myself very hard to change it to this way. haha.

    Reply
    • Paris B says

      April 22, 2012 at 9:36 pm

      That’s what happened with me too 🙂 I started out the crossed way, but made an effort to learn the proper way. Was torturous initially but it gets easier as we go along

      Reply
  18. Yuki says

    April 20, 2012 at 9:31 am

    Started holding my chopsticks like that after I got tegur-ed by my ice skating coach. I still remember what he said. ” Haiyo, why does yr chopsticks cross one? Look at your cousin (ang moh btw). She can hold better than you”

    So all thanks to him, I started holding my chopsticks the right way 😀

    Reply
    • Paris B says

      April 22, 2012 at 9:46 pm

      Haha that was a cute anecdote and shaming us into doing it right, when someone of a different culture can do it better is a great incentive eh? 😉 btw Ice skating! What fun! I was terrible at it 😛

      Reply
  19. sesame says

    April 20, 2012 at 9:34 am

    I don’t hold chopsticks right…I cross them, and that’s wrong. But as long as I get the food, haha, who cares. :p

    Reply
    • Paris B says

      April 22, 2012 at 9:47 pm

      I think that’s the common consensus 🙂

      Reply
  20. mckhor says

    April 20, 2012 at 10:04 am

    I was used to hold my chopsticks crossed, and after almost few months of practice, i am holding it correctly! yay!

    Reply
    • Paris B says

      April 22, 2012 at 9:48 pm

      Yay! See, practice does make perfect! 😀

      Reply
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