In sushi restaurant your chopsticks usually is lying on a small rest, a hashi-oki. These are usually made of ceramic or wood and very often cutely designed. My favorite is my blue blowfish. The reason for it is that when you need to place your chopsticks back on the table, you don’t want the chopstick-tip to be in contact with the ‘dirty’ table.

But if you’re in an sushi bar and they don’t offer you a choopstick rest, don’t despair. You can make your own! On Flickr I found this guy showing us how to fold a disposable chopstick sleeve into a makeshift chopstick rest.

Essentially, you fold it down the center to make it half the width, fold it into an L shape right in the middle, and then just keep folding the two halves over each other repeatedly. The finished product: just add chopsticks.

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