How to Pick Up Anything

Learning to use chopsticks has brought me closer to my culture

Vanessa Hua
ZORA
Published in
6 min readJun 10, 2019

--

Credit: Shaiith/Getty Images

MyMy father handed me a folded slip of red paper. Printed inside were the instructions, saved from a recent restaurant excursion, for using chopsticks: Tuck under thumb and hold firmly. Add second chopstick, hold it as you hold a pencil. Hold first chopstick in original position, move the second one up and down. Now you…

--

--

Vanessa Hua
ZORA
Writer for

Author, A RIVER OF STARS and DECEIT AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES