Chopsticks!

[backstept]

no, not the first song you learned on piano, but the utensils!

I finally got the hang of them and I love them!

 

[Roger Wilco]

I think chopsticks are pretty damn stupid eating utensils (what's so damn difficult about making a fork or spoon?), but it certainly feels better to use them when eating food from a country that uses them.

 

[Mallory]

I learned how to use them as a teen but got lazy in my 30's. Now I'm back to needing a fork and/or a spoon.

 

[thestrangequark]

I think chopsticks are pretty damn stupid eating utensils (what's so damn difficult about making a fork or spoon?), but it certainly feels better to use them when eating food from a country that uses them.

What's so difficult about making chopsticks? Their not stupid, just different. If I remember correctly, chopsticks were invented because the enlightened Chinese back in the day considered it in ill taste to use a knife -- a weapon -- at the table. I like that reasoning.

Besides, my chopsticks have bunnies, and flamingos, and flowers, and little villages carved and/or painted into them -- they're pretty! And they slide beautifully into an updo.

 

[Roger Wilco]

What's so difficult about making chopsticks? Their not stupid, just different.

Getting rice that's soaked with sauce or slippery noodles from the plate/bowl into your mouth is way easier with almost anything else but chopsticks.

 

[thestrangequark]

^Not for a man with skilled hands.

 

[backstept]

I think chopsticks are pretty damn stupid eating utensils (what's so damn difficult about making a fork or spoon?), but it certainly feels better to use them when eating food from a country that uses them.

What's so difficult about making chopsticks? Their not stupid, just different. If I remember correctly, chopsticks were invented because the enlightened Chinese back in the day considered it in ill taste to use a knife -- a weapon -- at the table. I like that reasoning.

Besides, my chopsticks have bunnies, and flamingos, and flowers, and little villages carved and/or painted into them -- they're pretty! And they slide beautifully into an updo.

make sure to wash 'em first

Getting rice that's soaked with sauce or slippery noodles from the plate/bowl into your mouth is way easier with almost anything else but chopsticks.

yeah but where's the fun?

 

[Ruaidhri]

^Not for a man with skilled hands.

Hah! Maybe that comment explains why some women are impressed by deft use of choptsticks!

 

[judge alba]

i can sort of use chopsticks my other half taught me after many weeks. oh and the fact she forbid me to take a fork and spoon with me even i did keep them in a nice case for emergencies when we eat round her parents, they eat with them all the time being of oriental descent,

 

[JonathonWally]

I cheat and use a piece of paper wedged and a rubber band.

 

[RoJoHen]

I think chopsticks are pretty damn stupid eating utensils (what's so damn difficult about making a fork or spoon?), but it certainly feels better to use them when eating food from a country that uses them.

What's so difficult about making chopsticks? Their not stupid, just different. If I remember correctly, chopsticks were invented because the enlightened Chinese back in the day considered it in ill taste to use a knife -- a weapon -- at the table. I like that reasoning.

Than again, they don't eat a lot of food that would require a knife.

I am an American, and I like my steak, dammit!

 

[thestrangequark]

I guess I learned to use them very early -- I can't remember a time when I couldn't use them, and I don't see what's so difficult about them.

One of my best friends, Leon, is Chinese, born and raised in Chinatown, hes never learned to use chopsticks. I was mildly offended when we went out to dinner together in Chinatown, along with his sister, and the waitress gave each of them chopsticks and me a fork! Leon and I had to trade.

 

[RoJoHen]

The Chinese restaurant that I go to whenever I'm in downtown Chicago usually supplies everybody with both chops and a fork.

I go with the fork because I'm lazy, but I do know how to use the chopsticks.

 

[backstept]

I cheat and use a piece of paper wedged and a rubber band.

you could also glue them to a wooden clothespin (the spring kind )


last night for my room mate's birthday we went to a local Japanese Steakhouse. Hibachi yay!!
so for about the third time in as many months I experimented with chopsticks and this time my hands didn't cramp up
I liked watching the chef do his tricks with the food. It was funny, he was a big white guy

 

[RoJoHen]

The main problem people have with chopsticks is that they try to hold the top one like a cigarette, between their index and middle finger. That's just not where it goes.

 

[m.lp.ql.m]

Ever since learning how to use them years ago, I've had a hard time eating most Asian foods without them. The reason: Chopsticks make the food taste better!

If you have to ask how, you wouldn't understand anyway...

 

[PKTrekGirl]

Spend a month in China and you'll be able to eat soup with chopsticks.

I spent a month there and in all that time, I don't recall seeing a single fork. You either become expert...or you go hungry.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I'm not great at using them, but I get by. Forks are more convenient, but it's fine otherwise.

 

[Omnius]

The instructions that are written on the wrapper of the chopsticks at my local Chinese restaurant say:
"... Now you can pick up anything!"

Well I haven't quite mastered the anything part, but I'm getting there!

 

[ToddKent]

I like 'em. They're fun. Also, anytime I use them I like to pretend I'm the Grand Nagus.