Don't hesitate to use your hands to eat your sushi in a Japanese food restaurant, but be sure that they're clean first. Pick the sushi up between your thumb and first two fingers. The pieces are generally small enough for your to eat one all at once, and you're expected to.

If you're sharing food from one serving plate in a Japanese food restaurant, if no serving chopsticks are available, you're expected to use the larger top ends of the chopsticks to transfer food from the serving plate to your own. That way, you're not using a part of the chopstick you've eaten off of.

When eating Japanese food, you should hold your chopsticks this way: the upper stick should be held between the thumb and index and middle finger, while the lower rests on your ring finger, under the base of your thumb. To open and shut the chopsticks, move only the top stick. This may take some practice!