Enjoy taste of rice, using chopsticks, and at the same time not to look silly, quite possible if to know methods of treatment of them. Forget about a fork and learn to use sticks for rice!
There is a rice by means of sticks quite difficult, it is possible to pass to this dish only after you learn to eat with sticks other products. There are a method of maneuvering and a method of etiquette allowing to learn to eat correctly rice. According to the first way, take the first stick by means of big and average fingers, clamp well that the stick didn't move at all. A wide part of a stick has to be located on a bend of fingers. The stick has to pass through a small pillow of a thumb and at the same time lie on an average, i.e. practically as you hold the handle, but is much lower.
Clamp the second stick index and big fingers. Place a thumb on the second stick that it was higher, than the first, at the same time the second stick is mobile. Sticks have to adjoin among themselves, the wide ends shouldn't form a cross. Now be trained: if you can freely open and close sticks and only the top stick moves, then all of you made truly. Touch with sticks rice, observing a corner in 45 degrees, take sticks a piece of rice and bring food to a mouth. If during capture of rice you feel instability of sticks, then try once again.
The method of etiquette is that it is impossible to lower the individual sticks in the general plate with rice. To take amount of food necessary to you, use new sticks which nobody used before, or turn your sticks other ends. When you don't eat rice with sticks, it is impossible to stick them in a dish at all. In terms of Asian superstition, such sign is considered the bad omen predicting a funeral. Besides, it is impossible to pierce a dish with rice by means of sticks. It is bad form. Also it is impossible to cross sticks in time or after meal. After a meal just put sticks near a plate from its left side. Don't give food to other person by means of sticks. Don't show on people or objects by means of chopsticks. All these gestures are considered as indecent in Asia and testify to ill-breeding. Rules of the consumption of rice not such cruel to rice, than to other dishes. If before you a plate with rice, then you can put it before yourself most close. And at the time when took rice to sticks and you put in order food in a mouth, permissibly also to lift a plate.