Julia Altshuler > wrote:

> It's OK to eat Sushi (not Sashimi) with your fingers. But I would
> advise to use chopsticks. If you can't properly eat sushi with fingers,
> it can turn ugly.

Nonsense. It is the other way around. If you cannot properly eat sushi
with fingers, it would most certainly turn really ugly with chopsticks.

Here is what I posted more than a year ago: "...traditionally, sushi
have always been picked up with fingers. Using chopsticks is usual,
too, but is a relatively new-fangled custom."
<http://groups.google.com/group/rec.food.cooking/msg/5e56fe21486bf22c>.

Victor