Spoon and chopstick rest

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Spoon and chopstick rest

Spoon and chopstick rest is a piece of tableware for resting a spoon and chopsticks without touching the table. In Korean cuisine context, it can be referred to as sujeo rest as sujeo is a paired set of spoon and chopsticks, which is very common in Korea. [1]

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References

  1. "sujeo-batchim" 수저받침 [sujeo rest]. Standard Korean Language Dictionary (in Korean). National Institute of Korean Language . Retrieved 2 June 2017.