Learning to eat with chopsticks

We were fortunate to have amongst us Prof. Tom Gally from Tokyo University to teach us to eat with chopsticks. I believe this to be our first step towards learning Japanese culture. We had around five practice sessions with Sir Gally through which we learnt to eat rice, noodles, veggies and chicken with chopsticks.

On 13th August when we had our first session, many of us found it really difficult to eat with chopsticks. So to encourage us, Sir Gally had brought special prizes from Tokyo of which Aishwarya got one for the "BEST FASTEST PICK" i.e. for picking up food from the bowl quickly with chopsticks, whereas I (Ambika) and Ninoshka got prizes for trying hard to grasp the "correct technique" of eating! (There is a specific style of holding the chopsticks which gives you a perfect grip forever, which I realised when we completed all the sessions). Others like Anushka, Saurabhi etc got prizes for their great efforts.

Now, after completing 5 ssessions held on 13th, 17th, 21st, 23rd and 24th August respectively, all 10 of us have acquired the necessary skills of eating with chopsticks required to sustain ourselves in Japan.

Here are some glimpses of of our sessions: