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Do Asian Americans eat with chopsticks?
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It doesn't hold as much and are way too shallow
SwiftDeath
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Yep, I read it as if talking about all those Russians using chopsticks
i like eating chips and/or any small greasy foods with chopsticks so i don't need to wash my hands from the flavoring smell or oils. it's especially good when you're playing video games or on the PC. also, i tend to use my tablet a lot at home so that's another reason. better to just use chopsticks than having to constantly go wash my hands.
amusing thing is my sister's friend heard about me using them for chips and now she does it too. lol
Regular spoons aren't shaped to hold as much soup as soup spoons. They're also better at holding solids (ie wontons).
Nothing wrong with regular spoons though. lol
ActStriker
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...what?
CheDominik
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Easier with chopsticks? Are you holding your fork upside down by any chance?
I mean I've learned how tu use chopsticks but I thought it was objectively clear that fork and knife are more efficient.
I don't think I am. Anyway, it can't hurt to be more specific.
As an Asian-American, I never used chopsticks in both my home country and here. Neither did my parents or anyone really, unless we found ourselves in a Chinese or Japanese restaurant specifically?
You chopstickfu is weak, that's why.
And yes, chopsticks for chips is best lifehack
My first daughter is Japanese, and this is pretty much how we roll. Got a chopstick section in the silverware drawer, heh.
CheDominik
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i like eating chips and/or any small greasy foods with chopsticks so i don't need to wash my hands from the flavoring smell or oils. it's especially good when you're playing video games or on the PC. also, i tend to use my tablet a lot at home so that's another reason. better to just use chopsticks than having to constantly go wash my hands.
amusing thing is my sister's friend heard about me using them for chips and now she does it too. lol
Aruarian Reflection
Chauffeur de la gdlk
Superior way of eating the American diet
filipino im guessing ?
They hold more and do not conduct heat. Only reason I have metal spoons is because they came with the forks I bought.
titiklabingapat
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Filipinos usually already eat with silverware or using their hands like Indians do.
Whenever I try to hold chopsticks, the muscles in my hand spasm.
R-Really? Cuz that'd be pretty awesome.
R-Really? Cuz that'd be pretty awesome.
Superior way of eating the American diet
no more cheesy fingers.
TickleMeElbow
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Yep yep.
It has nothing to do with assimilation. A lot of Chinese food is just easier to eat with chopsticks. Some western food as well like raw salads. Ever try forking a single leaf? It's difficult. You neeed jimmy one of the tongs under the leaf and hope it doesn't slip out. With chopsticks it's trivial. Same thing with things diced small or thin, like peas and fried tofu. Yeah, you could use a spoon for that, but generally you'd have a bowl of rice in one hand and chopsticks in the other, rather than constantly switching what utensil you're using to suit the dish.
Impractical for stuff like this:
Coincidentally, using a fork to pick up a xiao long bao would ruin it as well.
Impractical for stuff like this:
Coincidentally, using a fork to pick up a xiao long bao would ruin it as well.
LeroyPantwether
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For all meals, this is the only logical conclusion.
Wow this is a great answer and something I never thought of. Thanksi like eating chips and/or any small greasy foods with chopsticks so i don't need to wash my hands from the flavoring smell or oils. it's especially good when you're playing video games or on the PC. also, i tend to use my tablet a lot at home so that's another reason. better to just use chopsticks than having to constantly go wash my hands.
amusing thing is my sister's friend heard about me using them for chips and now she does it too. lol
voodoojohn
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On second thought, I guess there are a lot of Filipinos in America.
I personally use hands, fork, and chopsticks, probably in that order (spoon is a given complimentary utensil). They're all useful and I'd find it annoying if I was forced to stop using any one. I pretty much refuse to use a knife, however, and don't really eat anything that requires one. Yea, I don't care for steak.
I personally use hands, fork, and chopsticks, probably in that order (spoon is a given complimentary utensil). They're all useful and I'd find it annoying if I was forced to stop using any one. I pretty much refuse to use a knife, however, and don't really eat anything that requires one. Yea, I don't care for steak.
For foods you need to cut yea, as I said I use fork and knife. For foods that you would pick up, snack type things, or let's say noodles, rice, vegetables (salads especially) chopsticks are way more efficient if you know how to use them. They are just an extension of your fingers.
More efficient, cleaner, easier to use. It's easier to grab small things with chopsticks than it is to try and scoop them with a spoon or spear them with a fork. It depends on the food though, and the dish it's served in too I suppose.
Not Asian, but what's so hard/weird about eating rice with a fork?
Prithee, what Asian people are we talking about?
That thing can't work all that well as a fork.
DeployThatPizza
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Yes. I eat with chopsticks and forks or other silverware. I use chopsticks mainly when I eat at home or eat Asian food.
Basically you can't grab your food, compared to other methods.
whoa
BLOODED_hands
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I don't, my friends don't, and my family doesn't. I use them when I get bored of using a fork or when I'm at a restaurant.
CheDominik
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I mean I'm not telling you how you should east but noodles with a fork you just do it like this:
And for vegetables: Forks are pointy, you can just stick it in there and eat.
voodoojohn
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Mostly Chinese people. Then Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese. The ex-Vietnam Southeast Asian population in America is pretty small. I don't know if Filipinos really consider themselves Southeast Asian. They're kind of their own category and the only major ethnic group in America that identifies as Asian who don't primarily use chopsticks.
Rentahamster
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I eat chopsticks with Asian Americans.
I mean I'm not telling you how you should east but noodles with a fork you just it liket this:
You barbarian
andythinkpad
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Unless your rice is very sticky, a fork (not spork) can not scoop the rice.
Aruarian Reflection
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BTW I recently learned that in Thailand, chopsticks are not used for most foods. They predominantly only use the spoon actually, with the fork used to push food onto the spoon. Just goes to show that being Asian doesn't mean you automatically know everything about all the Asian cultures.
Zoe
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The tines don't have enough leverage. A spoon can do everything just about as well.
We eat almost everything with a spoon and a tall bowl these days.
LeroyPantwether
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So use the chopsticks like a spoon.....? Got it....
I mean, it probably depends on what type of rice we're talking about, but it sort of works as a spoon, because rice sort of lumps together (otherwise chopsticks wouldn't work, either).
So instead of stabbing it, you just scoop it up.
Yeah, i guess it depends on the type of rice you're eating.
Usually i had no problems though, unless i was eating particularly wet risotto.
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