Hiyokomame is a kit that will help you learn to master the use of chopsticks. All you have to do is catch baby chicks.
Everything you need to learn to eat with chopsticks
Are you still incapable of eating with a pair of chopsticks even though you’ve been told how to use them over a thousand times? Holding and using chopsticks to skillfully put food in your mouth is no easy task, not if you want to do it correctly and hold them the right way.
A good way to learn is to observe how the experts do it and imitate their movements. But if you’re ambitious and what you want is to master the technique, the best thing you can do is practice, practice, practice until you’re able to eat as fast as Asians do. Are you embarrassed to practice in a restaurant?
Now you can do it in complete privacy, without feeling everyone’s eyes on you, because someone’s finally invented a kit to teach you how to eat with chopsticks. What’s interesting is that Westerners did not invent this; the Japanese did. Are they just sick of watching us make fools of ourselves?
Whatever the reason, it’s called Hiyokomame which is the Japanese word for chickpeas. The package includes a brown bowl, a pair of green chopsticks, graphic instructions that will make an expert out of you, and a little pouch full of tiny yellow chickens about the size of a chickpea. To judge from the photograph, we can imagine these baby chicks will be slippery and won’t want to be trapped between two chopsticks. The first one will be hard, but after catching more than 50 you’ll be able to eat anything with chopsticks.
Rice, chicken, noodles, tempura... No morsel will escape your clutches!
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Everything you need to learn to eat with chopsticks
