ChopStix Use them?

[Nomenclature]

I've been able to use them efficiently since I was born, but I haven't eaten with them in I don't even know how long. . .probably at least 15 years.

 

[freefall]

I don't eat Asian food without them. It just doesn't feel right, as strange as that sounds.

Not every food, right? I can't imagine drinking soup with chopsticks

 

[BINOWGAYLATER]

"Vibrant", srsly?

 

[G-Lexington]

>>>Not every food, right? I can't imagine drinking soup with chopsticks.

I eat miso soup with chopsticks. Pick the tofu out and stir the broth with them, then pick up the bowl and sip from it.

Lex

 

[BINOWGAYLATER]

wtf? lizzards can slurp? - DAYUMMMM

 

[DonQuixote]

My first non-Scout Camp regular job was Bussing at a Chinese Restaurant, so I learned. I have several pair of bamboo - some better quality than other.

I use them whenever we have Chinese either out or in, or if we've made something else suitable.

I think the food tastes better w/out the metallic flavor of the silverware.

 

[The_Reaper]

I can mostly use them...But I'm still learning.

The b/f is pretty good with them, and every once in awhile we'll head to a local restaurant where all they use is chop sticks.

I run into some difficulty when eating more than a mouthful with them though, given that I have a difficult time chewing through things with my front teeth from a permanent gap between my lower and upper teeth, but otherwise I don't have any problems.

 

[Críostóir]

I think thriving would have been a better word.

I got one of these but it's brown.

Spoons are of Chinese origin. Miso is of Japanese origin. Japanese soup is made to be sipped from the bowl.

This random useless datum brought to you by PedanTech International.

 

[Kester]

Can't use them to save my life.

 

[Paws]

I use chopsticks and not -stix whenever I buy (take-away) sushi and sometimes other Asian food. I don't have any at home though.

 

[Yooper]

A good friend of mine back in college was Japanese.

She hated using chopsticks. She said her parents hated chopsticks too.

She would say 'Technology is not necessarily a bad thing.'

(I use a fork.)

 

[Telstra]

I've tried many times, in vain to make them work. Why in Hell would someone use two sticks to pick up a grain of rice, is beyond me. Give me a fork or spoon, please!

lol, steam rice is sticky and the glued to each other.

You put the bowl near your mouth and use 2 sticks to push the rice in your mouth. Its that simple.

 

[Yooper]

A very funny (true) incident at work the other day:

One of my co workers (who is Mexican) brought a stir-fry for lunch. He was eating with chopsticks. Another co worker (who is Japanese) also brought a stir-fry. She was using a fork. There was a discussion (in very unusual English) on which method was superior.

The girl person appears to have won because the guy now just uses a fork.

(The Japanese girl also drives this uber-hot BMW; the Mexican guy drives a Honda SUV. )

 

[Knucklehead]

No,I'm not trying to get aggravated when I'm eating.I tried them once or twice, but that just wasn't my type of party.

I just never understood why, just because I'm eating some pork lo mein,I'm supposed to abandon the only method I've ever used to feed myself and try my hand at eating with 2 sticks? I don't eat with sticks.It doesn't work for me.

Knife and fork please..

 

[braex27]

I've been able to use them since I was about 4 or 5. Use them whenever I can.

 

[Mako247]

sure, use them for the easy foods like spaghetti, jello and oysters....

but seriously way back when I was starting my career, my company was hosting a delegation from china and we took them to lunch. Being their first day in the us was maybe a bit much for them.....but you should have seen them trying to eat with forks...still brings a smile to my face.......(as a coworker said it must be karmic payback for laughing at us trying to eat with the chopsticks)

 

[VICTORIADON]

I use them every day.

 

[moniker]

Pretentious and stupid to use chopsticks the way we eat in the West. Chinese people eat out of a bowl which they bring up to their mouths. Then it is possible to shovel the food in using chopsticks. But when the bowl rests on the table it is ridiculously difficult to eat with sticks.

 

[star-warrior]

I use them every day for cooking, food related, and picking things out of the toaster that are just too hot to handle.

BTW, a good friend of mine in MA, sent me a set of these

called "forkchops"

 

[BINOWGAYLATER]

Only when I go out for Japanese.

Which I am now craving

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