And you can buy other cool stuff too. My son and I loaded up with Carp kattobashi at a game we went to in Hiroshima a few years ago – mere days after selecting the finest example of a Hideki Matsui in Borg duds bobblehead at the Shoji temple bazaar.

The problem is, the maple chopsticks shatter when you’re trying to pick up an oddly shaped object, like a cube of agedofu or an uni uzura nigiri. Then you wind up with quail egg in your lap. Probably best to limit their use to shovelling nattomagurodon down your gullet.