...right, okay, so definitely not putting them upright in food, then. Yuri can't help but look relieved when the discussion returns to the more practical aspects of chopstick use.

It looks like the most straightforward thing in the world when Katsudon does it. The hand position, the movement, all of it. There's no strain in his wrist or lower arm from holding the chopsticks in place, or in the set of his hand as he demonstrates the motion. To tamp down on the prickles of discontent that are starting to itch under his skin, Yuri has to remind himself of the difference between twenty minutes of hard practice and an entire lifetime of doing this at just about every meal. You can do it, too. It's worth it.

'And the rest of the fingers just stay...behind the bottom one there? Holding it in place from the other side?' Again, tilting his head a little to check the angle. Better than ending up with a hand cramp from a bad grip. 'And you move the top one more, and your thumb sort of...keeps them apart the whole time. So how do you pick up the rice?'

His mouth is beginning to water a bit, even from the smell of the plain, unseasoned rice.