chopstick rest
{{Short description|Tableware}}
Image:Chopstick.png on a wooden chopstick rest]]
A chopstick rest is tableware, similar to a knife rest or a spoon rest, used to keep chopstick tips off the table and to prevent used chopsticks from contaminating or rolling off tables. Chopstick rests are found more commonly in restaurants than in homes. They come in various shapes and are made from clay, wood, plastic, metal, glass, porcelain or precious stones such as jade. If the chopsticks come in paper sleeves, some people fold the sleeves into chopstick rests.{{in lang|ja}} [http://www.geocities.jp/nisemonon/hashi.htm A video showing the folding of a chopstick rest] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080523041325/http://www.geocities.jp/nisemonon/hashi.htm |date=2008-05-23 }}
In East Asia, chopstick rests are usually used at formal dinners. They are placed on the front-left side of the dishes, with the chopsticks parallel to the table edge and the points toward the left, or to the right side of the dishes, with the chopstick points towards to the front.
Gallery
File:Chopstick position.jpg|Various kinds of rests
File:Sake, Chopsticks, Paper Rest.jpg|Origami chopstick rest
File:Chinese Cutlery.jpg|Chinese style setting
File:Meshi.JPG|A typical Japanese meal—chopsticks on a chopstick rest at the front side of the dishes, pointing to the left
File:Chopsticks, Le Pousse Pousse, 176 Rue de Vaugirard, 75015 Paris, 15 December 2016.jpg
File:Noritake Chinese chopstick rest.jpg|alt=|Noritake Chinese chopstick rest
File:Chinese spoon and chopstick rest.jpg|alt=|Chinese spoon and chopstick rest
File:Spoon and chopsticks.jpg|alt=|Chinese metal dragon shaped chopsticks spoon rack
See also
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External links
{{Commons category|Chopstick rests}}
- [http://hashioki.reeve.ch/ Chopstick rest Collection], A collection of hashioki
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160415135751/https://www.ichizen.com/chopsticks/chopsticks_rests.htm Erick's Chopstick Rests (Hashi Oki) Page]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110717102828/http://jtsdesign.tripod.com/ Jen's Chopstick Rests Gallery]
- [https://archive.today/20130416070059/http://zarzycki.org/jurek/picts/var/hashioki/index.html Jurek Zarzycki's Chopstick Rests collection]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20061021002457/http://www.asianartmall.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=rest Chopstick rests], Asian Art Mall
- [http://www.mrslinskitchen.com/chopsticks-and-chopstick-gift-sets-chopstick-rest-options.html Unique Chopstick Rest]