Gerry wrote:

> In article >, Dan Logcher
> > wrote:
>
>
>>Mekare wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Someone recently asked for a good place to buy chopsticks. I just
>>>wanted to say I recently had a very good experience with
>>>EverythingChopsticks.com ( http://www.everythingchopsticks.com/ ).
>>>I ended up speaking with them over the phone, and they were very
>>>friendly and professional. Just my 2 cents!
>>>
>>None of the chopsticks on the site, especially the Japanese ones, had
>>the rough area near the tip. My brother-in-law bought us two sets of
>>Japanese chopsticks during a trip that have this, and it makes
>>picking up the slippery stuff a lot easier.
>>
>>They are veyr nice looking though.. but I have several sets of Thai
>>chopsticks made of different blends of laminated hardwood.
>>
>
> One of those amazing surprises: We bumped into a chopstick store in the
> neightborhood of Kobe named Motomachi where we probably spent 45
> minues. Hundreds of pairs of chopsticks on the wall, each beautiful,
> different, curious, fascinating. On the front (as illustrated below),
> though I can't read the kanji of the store's name, it says it's been
> operating for 1,100+ years; since 894!
>
> <http://tinyurl.com/6k2bt>
>
> Many of these really too expensive, many of them well within reason but
> to what end? Still we got a few. All hand-made by artisans from all
> over the country.

That's a damn lot of chopsticks.. What were some general prices ranges
in $?

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Dan