> You're kidding? EVERY TIME I get these funny looks when I bring mine
> into the "Madras" to have a curry. Or did you mean Oriental Restaurant?



Ah, you're probably just self-conscious. I never got funny looks in
Indian restaurants - well, no funnier than I ordinarily get anyway! -
because of my chopsticks. In Indian restaurants they usually just
don't seem to pay any attention to what I'm eating with.

Oriental people are generally much more conformist than I am. There
would need to be some kind of official conservation movement started
before they would start bringing their own chopsticks en masse.

I'm not sure, but I think that South Korea has banned the use of
disposable chopsticks in restaurants.