Chopsticks
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Chopsticks are shaped pairs of equal-length sticks that have been used as kitchen and eating utensils in most countries of the Sinosphere for over three millennia. They are held in the dominant hand,
Various chopsticks, from top to bottom, with 12-inch (30.5 cm) ruler at top for scale: Taiwanese plastic chopsticks Chinese porcelain chopsticks Tibetan bamboo chopsticks Vietnamese palmwood chopsticks Korean stainless steel flat chopsticks Korean matching spoon in a sujeo Japanese palmwood couple's set (two pairs) Japanese child's chopsticks Disposable chopsticks from Japan (in paper wrapper)
Silver chopsticks, spoon, and bowl from the Song dynasty (960–1279)
A painting of a Japanese woman using chopsticks, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Bronze Sujeo set from the Baekje Kingdom period (18 BC–660 AD)
Sujeo
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Sujeo is the Korean term for the set of eating utensils commonly used to eat Korean cuisine. The word is a portmanteau of the words sutgarak and jeotgarak. The sujeo set includes a pair of metal chops
Chopsticks
…jeotgarak (젓가락), which is composed of jeo ("chopsticks") and garak ("stick"). Jeo cannot be used alone, but can be found in other compounds such as sujeo (수저; "spoon and chopsticks"). In Taiwanese Hokkien, which is derived from Hokkien, chopsticks are called tī, written as 箸…
Sujeo, Korean eating utensils.