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Chopsticks. Why still?
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Tornado Condor
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Yep, tradition.
ReturnOfTheRAT
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Well, I can't use them either way.
Asian food is designed to be eaten with chopsticks.
Unless you want to take a fucking spoon to your rice like some kind of barbarian. Might as well use your fingers.
EDIT: Okay clearly I don't understand much about the eating habits of South/Southeast Asians. I formally apologize for any offense I might've caused.
(Also I use a spoon to eat congee)
Unless you want to take a fucking spoon to your rice like some kind of barbarian. Might as well use your fingers.
EDIT: Okay clearly I don't understand much about the eating habits of South/Southeast Asians. I formally apologize for any offense I might've caused.
(Also I use a spoon to eat congee)
Nightbreeze
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No matter how hard I try I just can't fucken use them!
weekend_warrior
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SolKane said:
why use a spork when the sporknife is even better?
Koreans use spoons with rice dishes. As do a lot of other Asian countries.Halycon said:
But Chopsticks work better than fork and spoons for most asian dishes. Noodles, Korean pancake type dishes, kimbap/sushi, and, well, everything.
The cuisine has evolved with the cutlery it's obvious they'd go hand-in-hand the same as forks, knives, spoons and Western cuisine does.
OP just sounds ignorant.
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NinjaFridge
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weekend_warrior said:
Why use a sporknife when the knifewrench is even better?
No it's not. Thinking that everyone should do the same thing as the Western world is ignorance.DSFan1970 said:
Sushi =/= Pizza. Who the hell eats sushi in a restaurant with their hands?
And a fork for noodles? What? Do you eat it like spaghetti or something? That's weird, not chopsticks.
Treefingers
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EwXeke said:
MetalAlien
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For those tricky peas. Sniper knife.NinjaFridge said:
lol @ ^
They function better depending on what you're eating or trying to eat.
That said, I know that there are tons of asian people who suck at chopsticks--as in they don't hold their chopsticks "properly," often times making their fingers into gruesome twister games in and of themselves. But hey, as long as it "works" and they can pick up the food :S
They function better depending on what you're eating or trying to eat.
That said, I know that there are tons of asian people who suck at chopsticks--as in they don't hold their chopsticks "properly," often times making their fingers into gruesome twister games in and of themselves. But hey, as long as it "works" and they can pick up the food :S
FloppyDelux
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chopsticks are easy to use once you know how to use, just need to practice.
sazabirules
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People should be able to eat however they want. I'm not very good with chopsticks and I want to improve.
Things that are easier eaten with chopsticks:
Salad
Any sort of long noodle
Chips (and variants like cheetoes)
Any kind of pot sticker(stuff you don't want holes in and at the same time can't put all in your mouth at once)
Various Japanese pickles
I probably could think of more but is proves the point the op needs som edjumacation.
To say chopsticks are useless is pretty much silly. They definitely aren't the end all, and even I think spoons are better for rice. I've said it a million times on this forum but every eating tool has its place.
Salad
Any sort of long noodle
Chips (and variants like cheetoes)
Any kind of pot sticker(stuff you don't want holes in and at the same time can't put all in your mouth at once)
Various Japanese pickles
I probably could think of more but is proves the point the op needs som edjumacation.
To say chopsticks are useless is pretty much silly. They definitely aren't the end all, and even I think spoons are better for rice. I've said it a million times on this forum but every eating tool has its place.
Kuro Madoushi
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Ummm...lot of Japanese people do eat sushi with their fingers...
As mentioned, depends in the food.
Looks akward as hell when I see people eat instant noodles or other dishes with a fork.
I also hate Korean chopsticks, screw your crappy metal chopsticks; I can't grip anything! Might as well use two goddamn knives.
As mentioned, depends in the food.
Looks akward as hell when I see people eat instant noodles or other dishes with a fork.
I also hate Korean chopsticks, screw your crappy metal chopsticks; I can't grip anything! Might as well use two goddamn knives.
beelzebozo
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Xeke said:
no, because i wear my taco gloves.
Japanese use chopsticks for rice but they use a really sticky type of rice so no, you don't scoop it up; it literally sticks together in clumps and it's easy to clean a bowl of rice down to the last little bits as they literally stick to the chopsticks.Dresden said:
Countries that don't use sticky rice use spoons to eat rice traditionally - Korea and Thailand come to mind.
When I went to korea when I was like... 7(?) or so, my uncle or someone apparently remarked that I used chopsticks better than his own kids (my cousins are like 2-3 years older than me), saying something along the lines of "How can this american punk can use chopsticks better than native koreans?" followed by similar remarks when I refused having my kimchi watered down and seeked for red hot bean paste.ramyeon said:
makingmusic476
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I only use chopsticks for sushi rolls, and I can't imagine eating them any other way.
I actually had to use a fork once, and they'd just fall apart once you stabbed them. Holding them together with chopsticks works so much better.
I actually had to use a fork once, and they'd just fall apart once you stabbed them. Holding them together with chopsticks works so much better.
abstract alien
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I eat about 80% of my diet with a spoon(which I refer to as a shovel), 15% with chopsticks, and the remaining with my hands. I hate forks, so they get the blue moon schedule.
Really? I wouldn't know from first hand experience in Japan, but everything that I've read and seen pretty much says its entirely open to it unless you are in a formal gathering of some sort. Its always nice to get info like yours. I always take what I hear and see from books and "educational" shows with heaps of salt, and this is why.ramyeon said:
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