Chopstick variations seem to be a regular feature on OneInchPunch and why not, when there are some bizarre ways to look at this seemingly simple utensil. Here, designer Aïssa Logerot takes a pair of disposable chopsticks and plugs them into a purpose-design soup spoon. What do you think of these?

One-trick pony? I can see these easily falling apart, let alone becoming impractical once the impatient diner breaks the sticks apart.

And by the way, if you ever thought disposable chopsticks, like these ones in the photos, were a good, hygienic idea, you should read Chopstick Alert.

More Chopstick spooning on Yanko Design

Via Gizmodo

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Forty five year old Hatsuyo Sugawara, also known as “the Witch”, blew away her competitors recently when she wolfed down 399 bowls of “soba” buckwheat noodles in 10 minutes! This was her third consecutive win in the annual All-Japan Wanko Soba Eating Championship.

Competition rules require one bowl to hold 10 grams of noodles, or about a tenth the size of a usual soba serving in a restaurant. Sugawara’s 399 bowls, therefore, translate to nearly 40 regular bowls. Sugawara beat second-place Yuko Shoji by more than 100 bowls. Shoji ended up with 295 bowls.

Via TokyoMango

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I hope this young female chef’s cooking is as good as her knife twirling. You seriously don’t wanna mess with her down a dark alley. Watch the video below to see her quick-fingered twirling action…

Via CNN

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The branch of Taste Supermarket in Hong Kong’s Kowloon Tong Festival Walk shopping mall has a display of these strange shaped watermelons from Japan. They’re super expensive! (Prices in Hong Kong dollars)

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Below, a National Geographic video feature on that most putrid smelling of fruits, the durian, also known as the king of fruits, common in parts of East Asia. If you come across this spiky object, you would most likely have smelt the pong first.

Like the buses in Singapore (where they’re banned), the durian fruit is not for me.

Via Belinda Ang

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These are the superb watermelon carvings by Hotel chef Takashi Itoh from Tokyo. He began carving melons in 2001 after being inspired while on holiday in Thailand. It usually takes him one hour to carve, though simpler designs can take only twenty minutes.

Via The Telegraph

Thanks Lilian!

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Four-Hour-Work-Week guru Tim Ferriss turns his attention to using chopsticks as he explains in his short video below on how to get to grips with your food.

Read more on Fourhourworkweek.com

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The Michelin Guide has arrived in Hong Kong but the UK’s Guardian newspaper picks up on all the cheap places to eat where the food is just as good.

Click to read their top ten pick of the country’s best, cheap Chinese food

Via the British-Born Chinese blog

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Korean designers Maezm created the Table-Dish-Cover, a silicon table cloth with integrated dishes. Looks like the sizes are perfect for kimchi with your main meal!

The flexible, injection-moulded silicon product is spread over a table at meal times and then removed and washed afterwards as a complete unit.

Read more on Dezeen

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An Evil Mad Scientist came up with the not-so-evil creation of ice cream gyoza. The typically fried potstickers are given a new take by using ice cream filling and frozen dough.

Visit the Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories to find out how to make them!

Via CraftZine

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