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All About Chopsticks

Katherine / 26 Feb,2016
Now the world's main tool for human consumption divided into three categories: Europe and North America with a knife, fork, spoon, and a meal three is used; China, Japan, Vietnam, South Korea and North Korea with chopsticks; Africa, the Middle East, Indonesia and India subcontinent fingers grasping food.
The survey found that, when using ordinary chopsticks to within 3-6 months time, color itself with time and frequency of occurrence using darker or lighter. In addition, since the frequency of use lead paint chopsticks edible surface subject to wear. Compared to occur as long as chopsticks and later changes, especially the color, they need to be replaced immediately. Chopsticks color change to indicate the nature of the material itself must change. The factors that cause a color change is usually the process of using food, detergents and air, the sideboard and the residue attached to the inner lead. Long-term accumulation of bacteria is also a major factor in color change occurs.

People in Japan, South Korea and China are using chopsticks, but there are some differences between them.
Japan: Japanese chopsticks is quite short and very sharp tip chopsticks. They use wooden chopsticks.
China: Our chopsticks long, heavy, wooden chopsticks mainly, of course, some places also with plastic chopsticks.
South Korea: Chopsticks are flat, usually metal chopsticks.
Why are they not the same length and width of chopsticks?
Japan: Japanese in time to eat like a bowl with chopsticks, so they do not need long chopsticks.
China: Japan and South Korea are rarely used conventional chairs, but in China, eating and sitting on a seat are traditional (Western). Therefore, since the relatively far away from the plate, people use long chopsticks. Koreans eat rice with a spoon using different is that Chinese people even eat rice also use chopsticks. So they not only chopsticks long and very thick.
South Korea: South Korea chopsticks, Chinese chopsticks neither long nor short Japanese chopsticks. You can either pick up beans and pickles in small dishes torn inside, chopsticks finer.
Why chopsticks made of materials different from these countries?
Japan: The Japanese often eat fish with chopsticks when no need to use a lot of energy, so the very sharp tip of chopsticks. And wooden chopsticks very strong, able to meet the Japanese demand.
China: In all three countries, China is the most greasy food. Wooden chopsticks clamped food, you can prevent slipping.
South Korea: Koreans eat when, in addition to rice and soup, all other with chopsticks. So they need to use chopsticks when a very strong, so Koreans accustomed to using metal chopsticks.

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