I certainly like to show off! When I am in India I also reject the offers of spoons and forks, I enjoy eating with the hand, when I eat Indian food - because it is intended to the consumed that way. I guess that I am using the hashi in Japan is both because I enjoy the challenge, like to show off and because I thereby indirectly send a message about my appreciation of Japanese food/culture. I guess that I sound awfully affected!Mars Man said:Maybe to show off?
Kara_Nari said:Your korean friends chopsticks are like huge blocks of wood? Interesting, what part of Korea is she from? Everywhere I have been in Korea has been inundated with metal flat chopsticks. Or the 'wooden blocks' for cooking, but they really are VERY long, and not at all practical for eating with.
I would say that Chinese chopsticks (from my experience) most resemble huge blocks of wood.
Korea was the first place where I've ever used the metal chopsticks, I've never seen them anywhere else. That, and scisors, to cut meat into smaller pieces for cooking... you're probably well familiar with this, but I found it interesting.Kara_Nari said:Your korean friends chopsticks are like huge blocks of wood? Interesting, what part of Korea is she from? Everywhere I have been in Korea has been inundated with metal flat chopsticks. Or the 'wooden blocks' for cooking, but they really are VERY long, and not at all practical for eating with.
Dissecting a big piece of meat doesn't happen that often in Chinese cuisine, either. Most of the time the stuff is chopped into little pieces, fit for chopstick use (that's one of my main criticisms at Chinese cuisine, because I hate all those bone smithereens in the meat).
Also, rice is difficult to pick up with chopstick (what?!). Let say fried rice, they are fried so they aren't sticky anymore so it's difficult to pick up a big chunk of rice intact with chopstick. You started out with a chunk of rice on your chopstick and they start to fall apart while you're moving the chunk to your mouth. By the time the chopsticks reached your mouth, there are only 1/3 or 1/4 of the original rice left when picking up from bowl.
Spoon works soooo much better in eating rice... anyways just some thought, maybe I am just bad at using chopstick
Your korean friends chopsticks are like huge blocks of wood? Interesting, what part of Korea is she from? Everywhere I have been in Korea has been inundated with metal flat chopsticks. Or the 'wooden blocks' for cooking, but they really are VERY long, and not at all practical for eating with.
Ooh, I hate this. That's why, when I visited China, I was always the last to finish. I only used the chopsticks for rice as you would for meat or stuff, never shoved it from the bowl into my mouth. So, when I finished my 1st bowl of rice, the father of my host family had eaten 3 already & was done.Minty said:This is why you eat East Asian foods with bowl close to your mouth.
bossel said:Ooh, I hate this. That's why, when I visited China, I was always the last to finish. I only used the chopsticks for rice as you would for meat or stuff, never shoved it from the bowl into my mouth. So, when I finished my 1st bowl of rice, the father of my host family had eaten 3 already & was done.
Mars Man said:Yeah...ditto on that one, bossel, I hate it too; and always tell my boys to stop it !! (Poor little Timothy has delveloped the bad habit of doing that with his PLATE...even for western food !! And he even does it (obviously unconsciously) when we eat out !! Oh my god....Timo...put that plate down..I say to him while turning red in the face and looking around to see if anyone had been watching.....
Kara_Nari said:haah Mars Man thats so funny. Your son sounds like someone I would have liked been friends with when I was little.
I used to love wiping my finger on my plate to get every last little bit of sauce off (not quite licking the plate clean). I got that from my grandfather, because he would do it with a piece of bread after every meal. I was always too full, so just used my finger and sucked it off. Gross huh?!
Precious4e... secretly take a photo of your flatmates chopsticks, im really intrigued now! I want to see them!
Minty, I cant stand bones in meat either! I had a big problem in china with that. Here in Korea, I just dont eat at places I know will have bones in the chicken. There is one place though, because I know that the meat around the bone is going to be white and not browny coloured. Thats why I dont like bones though, and I dont want them in my mouth.
However Im not as fussy as I used to be.
Is it ok to use your chopsticks in your left hand ?