No, not full-size pandas. Don’t be silly. They eat only with their bear hands (and an occasional spork). You want tiny little pandas to help you master your chopstickery. That’s exactly what you’ll get with the Panda Darake set – 12 tiny pandas, a pair of chopsticks, and a tiny tire and tabletop to balance them on.

Each set comes with pandas in six completely different poses, so you can really hone your chopstick skills, as you deftly maneuver the mini pandas into different positions, without fear of spilling chicken teriyaki all over the table. Just be sure to stop short of putting the mini pandas in your mouth, unless you want to spend the night in the E.R. Trust me when I say that panda chow mein doesn’t taste very good anyhow.

You can grab the full Panda Darake chopstick practice kit over at Strapya World or on Amazon for about $24 (USD).

The hiyokomame (named for Japanese chick peas) chopstick practice set gives you everything you need to get your ‘stick-wielding talents in order without risk of spilling even a single grain of greasy fried rice on your just-pressed dress shirt.

Instead of trying to pick up bits of real grub, you’ll be delicately dipping into a bowl of little yellow plastic bean-shaped chicks. Each one stares blankly back at you as you pluck them from their bowl and they get ready to meet their maker in a sloshing pool of digestive acids.

While you’ll definitely be able to hone your chopstick skills with this wacky set, you should be reminded that the bite-size hiyokomame dudes are not edible, and gulping down a bowlful of toxic plastic and dyes with your new-found chopstick skills would probably send you to the emergency room to have your stomach pumped.

This oddity from Japan is available just in time for the holidays over at Gizmine for $39.99 (USD). I’ve only got one question… are chick peas really made from baby chickens?