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Do you know how to eat with Chopsticks?

Do you know how to eat with Chopsticks?

  • Yes

    Votes: 88 75.9%

  • No

    Votes: 28 24.1%
  • Total voters
    116
Travisevian said:
Yes, to some degree but rice is particularly challenging. It takes some discipline and patience but I find that chopsticks force me to eat slowly, which is good for digestion. I really like the custom.
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Me too! I have to not only eat slower because of the chop sticks but I have to take individual bites rather than loading up my fork.
 
I use chopsticks if they're already there on the table and/or if everyone else is using them. Otherwise, I'll stick to a fork/spoon. Age and cultural significance of implements aside, forks and spoons are simply better tools for eating most kinds of food. The only thing chopsticks are good for is bite-sized chunks of food, such as chopped meat, and most food isn't served that way.

Oh, also sushi. I always use chopsticks with my sushi.
 
I'm Asian, though my culture is more influenced by India/Indonesia than China so traditionally my my ancestors ate with their hands.

I only use chopsticks for sushi/sashimi, pho, bite sized morsels of food (like dim sum), noodles not swimming in liquid, and plain steamed white rice. Everything else is mostly spoon/fork.
 
I've tried to down a T-bone steak with chopsticks, to no avail.

Same for the baked potato and watermelon. :(

I mean no disrespect to our Asian friends, but I really think the Western tools work better.
 
T-Rexx said:
I've tried to down a T-bone steak with chopsticks, to no avail.

Same for the baked potato and watermelon. :(

I mean no disrespect to our Asian friends, but I really think the Western tools work better.
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Indeed, for baked potatoes, watermelon and steaks. :D
 
JohannBessler said:
I guess I just don't see the purpose of eating with chopsticks, unless you're just trying to impress somebody.

Guys, don't you think it's a little bit affected?
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So that's why that 98 year old Chinese dude in Zhejiang providence used chopsticks! He was just trying to get laid by impressing the 87 year old chick in the neighboring Jiangsu providence that he spied on while she washed her clothes in the Yangtze River! (!)
 
Yeah, sure. I've eaten with chopsticks and if I'm not an expert, I'm at least comfortable enough to use them on most "chopstickable" foods. I believe the idea behind chopsticks - and maybe somebody here with Chinese ancestry can either correct me or agree - is that it used to be considered impolite for diners to have to cut up their food at the table: the chef should have done that previously, so that all the diners have actually to do is eat. If I'm at an Asian restaurant (Chinese or Vietnamese mainly) I'm very happy to eat with chopsticks.

-T.
 
JohannBessler said:
It's not that, Pianist, it just seems like there's no practical purpose to it.
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Some cuisines and dishes are adapted to the fork and knife. Some may be neutrally enjoyed by a variety of implements, be that finger, fork, chopstick or other tool.

But I'm surprised you don't appreciate the practical purpose chopsticks bring to a great many dishes. Will you really insist that some of the great cuisines of the world--e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese--receive no practical benefit from being eaten with the very tool they are enjoyed with by their billions of patrons?

I am going to feed you Pink Crabflake soup with noodles and pork, JohannBessler. :drool: You will receive chopsticks and a spoon. :spank: If sushi won't convince you, this will. I've watched more than a few people take a fork to such a dish; I'm always appalled by what a crude affair they make of it.
 
JohannBessler said:
But eating with chopsticks doesn't seem to serve a practical purpose, unless the eater'd grown up using them.
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Returning to bun rieu, chopsticks are not merely practical for lifting noodles from soup.

They are much better at it than a fork.

Sit right there, I'll get you a napkin. :roll:
 
The utensil(s) you use are directly related to the way the food is prepared. Chinese food that one uses chopsticks to eat (and to correct one misapprehension stated above, many Chinese dishes are meant to be eaten with spoons or fingers) was created and developed to be eaten with chopsticks, and using anything else for that purpose is crude and inefficient. Just as it would be idiotic to use chopsticks to eat an American dish of steak and baked potato, which were developed to be eaten with a knife and fork.

Yes, you can eat Chinese food with a fork; however, it isn't meant to be eaten that way, so you're getting a different experience than was intended by the creator of the dish. You could eat a corndog with a fork if you really wanted to, but it's better to eat it on a stick.

To say that eating a dish with the utensil for which it was created is "affected" or "inefficient" is deeply culturally insulting. My Chinese grandfather, who taught me to use full-sized ivory chopsticks when I was four years old, would take his razor strop to your butt for such insolence.
 
alfaPA said:
So that's why I can use chop sticks :confused:...
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Well, it's not genetic so much as a result of the American Jewish affinity for East Asian foods.

Though I find the rough snap apart bamboo (non-princess) type are easier to use than the fancy shmancy smooth lacquered ones.
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Likewise. Which annoys me, because I have some pretty chopsticks.
 
Travisevian said:
Now, I understand why you have such difficulty finding jeans that properly fit. :badgrin: Oh and to answer my previous question:

large hands = large chopsticks

:p

I don't eat chicken-fried steak.
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har har har.

I do hear you toss a mean salad though! :p

You can't outwit me Travis!
 
I love 'em. Just finished Chicken Pad Thai (Thai Hot) with some Panang Curry (Thai Hot).

The only way to tell if rice is cooked right for me is if I can pick it up with some sticks. Gotta be sticky rice
 
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