Chopsticks, pronounced as "kuai zi" in Chinese, are often made from various materials including wood, bamboo, and steel; with few expensive exceptions such as ivory and silver.

Chopsticks usually look like a pair of long, thin cylinders or prisms with threaded ends that help users to handle. Then, gourmets can grab the threaded ends with three fingers, and grab food with the other end by crossing the two sticks.

Chopsticks not only serve as tools in Chinese dinning culture, but also carry the spirituality of Chinese forerunners. It is forbidden to inject the chopsticks straight up into the rice bowl as this behaviour shows disrespect to the ancestors