Chinese food - chopsticks
Apr 13th 2010, 3:06 am
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Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
We always use chopsticks. In the UK I always had to ask for a pair if we ate at a Chinese restaurant. My parents taught me to use them when I was very young I think, because whenever we had Chinese takeaways as kids, we all used them.
Call me strange, but I think Chinese/Thai food always tastes nicer when I use chopsticks, I don't like eating it with a fork. A bit like proper chip shop chips taste best when I eat them out the paper.....
Call me strange, but I think Chinese/Thai food always tastes nicer when I use chopsticks, I don't like eating it with a fork. A bit like proper chip shop chips taste best when I eat them out the paper.....
Apr 13th 2010, 3:10 am
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Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
Apr 13th 2010, 3:14 am
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Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
We always use chopsticks. In the UK I always had to ask for a pair if we ate at a Chinese restaurant. My parents taught me to use them when I was very young I think, because whenever we had Chinese takeaways as kids, we all used them.
Call me strange, but I think Chinese/Thai food always tastes nicer when I use chopsticks, I don't like eating it with a fork. A bit like proper chip shop chips taste best when I eat them out the paper.....
Call me strange, but I think Chinese/Thai food always tastes nicer when I use chopsticks, I don't like eating it with a fork. A bit like proper chip shop chips taste best when I eat them out the paper.....
Apr 13th 2010, 3:17 am
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Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
The good thing about eating with chopsticks is that my brain realises i'm full after eating a reasonable amount (due to the time taken to eat), while when eating with a spoon or fork i'm more prone to shovelling like a pig and regretting it soon after.
Apr 13th 2010, 4:14 am
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Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
Save a tree, use a fork n spoon. Or better yet your hands, minimize the human footprint, etc,.
Apr 13th 2010, 5:14 am
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Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
1 Chopsticks
2 Hands (and be considered unbearably uncouth)
3 Starve.
As far as I can tell the etiquette in Vancouver is that you eat with whatever you are given.
Apr 13th 2010, 5:33 am
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Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
When eating in Chinese/Thai restaurants in the UK chopsticks were invariably supplied, but rarely used. In Calgary, it is the exception for chopsticks not to be used. It would appear that everyone, except me and those under 18 months of age, can use chopsticks.
Is this a Canada wide phenomenon, or just a Calgary one?
Is this a Canada wide phenomenon, or just a Calgary one?
My experience in Britain is different to yours. Most people I know in Britain (aka most people in Britain) are mediocre to expert with chopsticks. I can't remember seeing anyone eat chinese food with forks or other implements for years now. Perhaps it's just the posh places I go or the snobs I hang around with.
I became hooked on chopsticks when I discovered I could eat a meal AND hold my drink. What an amazing culture!
Apr 13th 2010, 6:11 am
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Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
Dunno, never been to Calgary.
I was answering Souvy's comment about using chopsticks being silly. I don't think it is. Japanese food, for example, is served in a way that facilitates the use of chopsticks. If you have learned to use them in a competent fashion (which I, by necessity, have) it is much easier.
I was answering Souvy's comment about using chopsticks being silly. I don't think it is. Japanese food, for example, is served in a way that facilitates the use of chopsticks. If you have learned to use them in a competent fashion (which I, by necessity, have) it is much easier.
Apr 13th 2010, 6:15 am
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Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
I'm sat here right now eating an authentic Japanese meal of chicken & shrimp with pineapple and rice, with teriyaki sauce.... and I'm using chop sticks.
I can use 'em so dont see why there's a problem.
Besides, I dont like eating with plastic utensils.
I can use 'em so dont see why there's a problem.
Besides, I dont like eating with plastic utensils.
Apr 13th 2010, 6:44 am
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Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
Dunno, never been to Calgary.
I was answering Souvy's comment about using chopsticks being silly. I don't think it is. Japanese food, for example, is served in a way that facilitates the use of chopsticks. If you have learned to use them in a competent fashion (which I, by necessity, have) it is much easier.
I was answering Souvy's comment about using chopsticks being silly. I don't think it is. Japanese food, for example, is served in a way that facilitates the use of chopsticks. If you have learned to use them in a competent fashion (which I, by necessity, have) it is much easier.
Maybe in some japanese or chinese restaurants they add to the general ambience and asian-ness of the place but a fork will usually be easier. The only thing I can think of where chop-sticks are a actually easier than a spoon/fork is with ramen or something like that.
Apr 13th 2010, 6:53 am
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Apr 13th 2010, 7:02 am
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Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
Whoever originally decided that the best way to eat a bowl of grain was with the dubious aid of a pair of pointy sticks must have had masochistic tendencies. Was finding/carving a flat peice of wood with a shallow dished area at one end really that difficult?
