Ambidextrous chopsticks?

This past weekend, Eric and I went to one of our favourite local Hong Kong style cafes where they serve 'westernized' dishes (e.g. Curry beef on rice, with shoestring fries, and baked seafood on rice with cheese <-- Cheese! This is Chinese food, that's why it's odd but sooo good). While we were there, the resident grandma-figure gave Eric a bit of a hard time not because he was a non-Chinese person using chopsticks, but because he was a lefty using chopsticks. She even attempted to make him switch the chopsticks to his other hand. (To Eric's credit, he was quite nice to the woman despite her interference and he uses his chopsticks expertly!)

Now, I don't know how many of you are ambidextrous enough to switch any utensil over to your non-dominant hand, let alone chopsticks. It's a very odd sensation of having absolutely no control, that's for sure. But to help out that cause of developing ambidexterity, Perpetual Kid has a few novelty chopsticks that might help in such a situation (what that would be, I'm not sure).

First off there's the Clothespin chopsticks ($3.89US for a pair)


Or there's the Party People chopsticks ($11.99 for 6 pairs)


Finally, for the younger set, who might just like playing around instead of developing their chopstick ambidexterity, there's the Chopstick Kids ($10.99 for a pair)



If nothing else, these products are an interesting study in the re-design of a centuries old invention. ;) Make sure to check out the rest of the Perpetual Kid site for some other fun yet mostly-useful products (the Play-Doh cologne doesn't quite hit that category though).