Seven facts about Japanese chopsticks to help you win friends and influence people soranews24.com

We’ve been seeing a lot of articles recently about how to use Japanese chopsticks correctly.
To help you out, we here at RocketNews24 have compiled seven facts about chopsticks to help you along in your quest for perfect Japanese table manners.

2: Most Japanese chopsticks are made of woodAs opposed to countries like Korea where metal chopsticks are extremely common, most Japanese chopsticks are made of wood.

Wooden chopsticks are preferred since they don’t conduct heat (useful when you’re eating very hot food), provide a more stable grip, and are cheaper to produce.
To Japanese people, it looks like a bridge over a river, specifically the Sanzu River, the Japanese river of the dead.