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When I was younger my family and I would always laugh at the strangely worded directions for chopstick use on the back of their long paper sleeves. Over the years I’ve come to notice the different types of chopsticks found at different Asian restaurants. The long rounded bamboo ones, which are almost never straight, that comes in the red and yellow sleeves. The short, cheap rectangular ones you typically get with sushi, that require that you break them apart like a wishbone, and invariably need a good scraping together to remove any wayward splinters. Finding a wrapper I haven’t seen before is always a small event for me. I’ve collected a lot of chopsticks over the years, but it’s difficult to keep them around. All it takes is one delivery order that doesn’t come with any and you find yourself diving into the drawer for your stash. The ones shown above are from the University of St Thomas cafeteria and Lotus To-Go, both in Minneapolis.
