Are chopsticks hygienic eating utensils?

Answer 1

We always request extra spoons or chopsticks on the dishes, we call them public spoon or public chopsticks. You use them to bring food to your own plate of bowl then eat the food with your own chopsticks.

As for chopsticks themselves, I try not to use those white one-time use chopsticks, people said they are processed with sulphide. Now a day people suggest that you bring your own chopsticks wherever you go.

Answer 2

Depends!
I suggest you prepared it by yourself when having meals.
Chopsticks is the same function of other eating utensils,it can be made of plastic,iron or bamboo.Bamboo chopsticks has notoriuos produce procedure recently,some manufacture factory use chemical solvent (H2O2) or other materials to keep it white and clean,after using these kind of chopsticks for a long time may cause healty problems.

Prepare your own chopsticks is better.

Answer 3

I think so. In most places you get sealed, disposible chopsticks which are good for the environment and you'll be the only person ever to use them. I think chopsticks (or kuaizi) are a very sophisticated way of eating - knives are kept to the kitchen for butchering things and you just pick up and eat with chopsticks.

Answer 4

Now more and more people in China go with a pair of public chopsticks when having meals. They use the chopsticks to get food but don't eat with them.

Answer 5

I can use both naturally, it's mostly a question of speed over utility. I choose chopsticks unless I can have a spoon to go with the fork. However, chopsticks cause a lot of deforestation because of the massive amount of cheap throwaway wooden chopsticks restaurants use.

Answer 6

Not by my standards.

But they make sense here because people don't have the facilities to keep their hands clean, therefore they keep a good distance between food and funky fingers.

In fact, the further your fingers on the chopsticks the more proper they become. LOL

Answer 7

yes, you can even get a pair of white jade chopsticks that can tell you if the food you are eating is bad.

Answer 8

should be used only once. but like using a fork and a spoon, good hygiene must be of great concern.

Answer 9

Maybe you could have your own pair that you carry w you. You can buy a little case for them and keep it under your cowboy hat!