Do you own chopsticks that you bring to Japanese/Vietnamese/Thai restaurants?

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We had dinner last night at a sushi restaurant and a couple next to us brought their on chopsticks that they took out of a wooden box.

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This might be the most pretentious thing I have ever heard.

I don't use chopsticks w/ sushi, I pick it up with my fingers.

Actually this is kind of an interesting situation. Most American restaurants have reusable silverware. If you go to a nice place, they usually have a good knife for a steak, soup spoon, etc., so you are getting good utensils to use.

Most Japanese places Just give you the wooden, throwaway ones. I can see people wanting to use a better quality reusable set they can bring.

Would people bring their own utensils to American restaurants if they have you plastic utensils?

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Do you own chopsticks

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Absolutely!

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that you bring to Japanese/Vietnamese/Thai restaurants?

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No.

I'm picturing a couple of people wearing scarves with short sleeve shirts, black rimmed glasses, and over-groomed mustaches.

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They looked expensive..... and bringing your own is probably a good idea during these times..

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As opposed to the individually wrapped wooden ones?

I sat next to a couple at the sushi bar one time who had their own. I struck up a convo with them as they were also wearing leather vests and well they brought their own chopsticks that were in little cases. Their thing was to ride their motorcycle around and go to different sushi restaurants... Probably had one of those 3 wheel bikes with a little trailer on it too. To each their own I guess.

I usually whittle a pair from the bamboo growing at their front door before going in.

shite no man. You’d get your arse kicked at Nakazawa if you pulled something like that.

Telling an Asian restaurant that you think your personal utensils are better than theirs is incredibly insulting. Many owners would consider suicide.

This is what I bring: