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[General_Zhaoyun]

Chopsticks are traditional chinese utensils used for eating chinese food. Learning how to use chopsticks is the 1st step towards learning the chinese way of eating. If you go to China today, most of the eating house or restaurants will require you to use chopsticks for noodles or rice.

Singapore's Chinese eating habit have been slightly modified to suit the South East Asian culture. Most of the food center serves chinese food in the form of plate and you eat with fork and spoon, instead of bowl and chopsticks. Only noodles still exist using chopsticks and bowl.

If I eat at home, I would most likely use bowl and chopsticks, instead of plate/fork/spoon.

Just curious, do you use chopsticks when eating chinese food?

[DaMo]

Generally, I try to.

Although I use a spoon to help with rice, and for soups.

And the other food must also conform to chopstick-friendly norms, such as being pre-cut into bite-sized pieces or be easy to pull apart.

[TwinkieDP]

Oh yeah, Chopsticks are generally geared towards eating things that have been cut into bite sized pieces. Its somewhat awkward to eat a slab of steak or Porkchop if they haven't been precut, but possible. I really don't mind using fork, and knife. Fork and knife are generally more elaborate utensils and are quite useful. But I find the decorations on some of the more expensive Chopsticks to be pretty cool.

[kaiselin]

When I was seven or eight, my mother gave me a pair that had been given to her by a childhood friend who was Chinese and lived next door to her when she was growing up.
I learned to use them quite quickly, and when I am eating Chinese food I will use them 75% of the time.
Can never get the last of the rice though and will end up using a fork or a spoon as not to waste any food. (if served in a bowl I have been known to pick up the bowl and shovel the last bits in with the chopsticks rather then use a fork, but that will depend on the company I am with and where I am eating.)

[Thaibebop]

It depends. When we go for dim sum that is what is offer first so I use them. Other times it depends on what mood I am in. I find myself since meeting my wife to work on my skills with western eating tools as her and almost every Thai I have met so far are better at using them than most Americans I know.

[naruwan]

I use chopsticks to eat Italian Pasta, Pizza, vege-German Burtwurst, vege hotdogs, Pad-Thai, falafels, salad, yogurt, fruit, and when i used to eat meat, fish, steak, Shawarma, you name it, i'd probably eaten it with chopsticks.

[Solid_Snake]

I use chopsticks to eat Italian Pasta, Pizza, vege-German Burtwurst, vege hotdogs, Pad-Thai, falafels, salad, yogurt, fruit, and when i used to eat meat, fish, steak, Shawarma, you name it, i'd probably eaten it with chopsticks.

Wow, you must be the chopsticks god!!!! lol.

For me, it's no longer about trying or not trying. But it's already a habit I can't get rid of.

But still, try do imagine eating pizza with chopsticks. lol

Edited by Solid_Snake, 30 April 2007 - 09:31 PM.

[naruwan]

Wow, you must be the chopsticks god!!!! lol.

For me, it's no longer about trying or not trying. But it's already a habit I can't get rid of.

But still, try do imagine eating pizza with chopsticks. lol

did i forget to mention cake?

but, the best part about chopsticks is that it is adaptable. It certainly can't do everything, there are times you need spoon, or knife to go with the chopsticks, but I think chopsticks replaces the fork very easily.

besides.... i like my bamboo or wood made chopsticks becuase i don't like the taste or the feeling a metal fork gives me when I eat.

[mscheun]

Using chopsticks to eat chicken wings elegantly is one skill that I have yet to master!

[General_Zhaoyun]

Using chopsticks to eat chicken wings elegantly is one skill that I have yet to master!

I'm considered a master in the art of using chopsticks. Using chopsticks to eat chicken wings or legs is considered easy for me. I can easily eat chicken wings using chopsticks without the need to use my hands.

Have you guys tried eating prawns (those still having their skins/shells) using the chopsticks? I can easily eat prawns using the chopsticks and with the help of my teeth, which peeled off the skin/shell of the prawn.

I consider eating crabs using chopsticks the most challenging. I've yet to master it until one day I master the art of cutting the crab shell using my razor-like teeth

[naruwan]

I'm considered a master in the art of using chopsticks. Using chopsticks to eat chicken wings or legs is considered easy for me. I can easily eat chicken wings using chopsticks without the need to use my hands.

Have you guys tried eating prawns (those still having their skins/shells) using the chopsticks? I can easily eat prawns using the chopsticks and with the help of my teeth, which peeled off the skin/shell of the prawn.

I consider eating crabs using chopsticks the most challenging. I've yet to master it until one day I master the art of cutting the crab shell using my razor-like teeth

woah~ you beat me. de-shell prawns with just teeth and chopsticks?? i can only do it if the prawns is already halved.

but most shrimps that I have here in Taiwan are smaller than the jumbo prawns in the US. Those are even more difficult to eat when it's not halved.

so GZ, it is now your responsibility to make a youtube video about how to do this with just chopsticks and show the rest of the world the error of their ways!

imagine now if someone can eat crabs with just chopsticks and no hands.......... that'd be level up.

[Moon]

No offense, but the only type of chop sticks I cannot use properly is made from Korea, those metal ones. These are slim, and heave since they are made of metal (or is it stainless steel)? After using it a while, I find my fingers very tired...

[General_Zhaoyun]

so GZ, it is now your responsibility to make a youtube video about how to do this with just chopsticks and show the rest of the world the error of their ways!

Lol.. sure I'll use my handphone to make a video of me eating prawn

[caocao74]

No offense, but the only type of chop sticks I cannot use properly is made from Korea, those metal ones. These are slim, and heave since they are made of metal (or is it stainless steel)? After using it a while, I find my fingers very tired...

After 3 years in Korea I have to agree.

[naruwan]

After 3 years in Korea I have to agree.

and it adds that metal taste in my mouth >_<