Chopsticks are a pair of sticks, usually made of wood, used for eating Asian food. In Chinese, the old word for "chopsticks,",and also in some varieties of modern Chinese such as Hokkien, was zhù (箸 ...

China's Ministry of Finance announces a new plan to save millions of trees. It's imposing a tax on chopsticks. The Chinese — and overseas lovers of Chinese food — use 15 billion disposable wooden ...

Created roughly 4,000-5,000 years ago in China, the earliest versions of something like chopsticks were used for cooking (they’re perfect for reaching into pots full of hot water or oil) and were most ...

At Chilli Kitchen in Beijing, spicy and mouth-numbing Sichuan dishes are laid out family style. Using red chopsticks, diners dive into steaming bowls of pork wontons bathed in fragrant chili oil and ...

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (WLS) -- You might think all restaurants in India serve similar food - curries, chicken from the tandoor oven and fried samosas. But the Hungry Hound says there is also a ...

With 1.4 billion people ploughing through 80 billion pairs of throwaway chopsticks each year, China has admitted its forests can no longer provide enough cutlery for its dinner tables. "We must change ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad’s reference to the use of chopsticks as the challenges in getting the Chinese community to assimilate in Malaysia was “simplistic and offensive”, ...

It is important to note that chopsticks are used in many different parts of the world, in many different cultures. While the principles of chopstick etiquette are similar in many of these places, the ...