In Asia and the rest of the world, chopsticks are frequently employed as the preferred eating utensil. The basic chopstick has a fascinating past and is thought to have originated as little more than a simple twig used to pull food out of cooking pots some 5,000 years ago.

In this episode, Yukti Gupta takes us on a historical tale of how these chopsticks were formed and adapted over time in different parts of East and Southeast Asia!