Chinese food - chopsticks
#31
Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
If you're nervous about using chopsticks, you can get them with spring hinges these days. They make eating with them a lot easier and will enhance your overall Asian dining experience. There's no need to suffer in silence anymore.
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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?
A sort of Council of Nicaea moment. Examining all the existing eating implements and specifying that from this date forward only chopsticks must be used. Not because they were the best, but because they were the most convenient to manufacture and so were in the best interests of the food eating utensil industry.
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Which is pretty amazing as ive yet to meet a North American who knows how to use a knife & fork. Even in so called top restaurants they try and hack their way through a steak by just using the fork, or prop themselves up on their elbows whilst wielding the fork in the air with a lump of food on it. Table manners here a pretty non existent
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Which is pretty amazing as ive yet to meet a North American who knows how to use a knife & fork. Even in so called top restaurants they try and hack their way through a steak by just using the fork, or prop themselves up on their elbows whilst wielding the fork in the air with a lump of food on it. Table manners here a pretty non existent
#38
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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?
#39
Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
Which is pretty amazing as ive yet to meet a North American who knows how to use a knife & fork. Even in so called top restaurants they try and hack their way through a steak by just using the fork, or prop themselves up on their elbows whilst wielding the fork in the air with a lump of food on it. Table manners here a pretty non existent
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Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
When I used to eat in Gerrard St in London we used those china spoons to eat with and chopsticks or serving spoons to grab the food with. The chopsticks users were better at grabbing the food than the serving spoon users
Outside of London it was a mixture of chopstick wielders and forkers. Here, we've only eaten in a Canadian chinese restaurant and they were all forkers.
I agree with I2C that a spoon is best utensil. If there is gravy then a spoon is the answer especially if you are a messy eater- qhich I am.
Outside of London it was a mixture of chopstick wielders and forkers. Here, we've only eaten in a Canadian chinese restaurant and they were all forkers.
I agree with I2C that a spoon is best utensil. If there is gravy then a spoon is the answer especially if you are a messy eater- qhich I am.
#41
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We Yanks are very efficient at the task of feeding ourselves. Maximum calories while expending minimal energy.
#42
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It's just that the Asians have to go chop down a tree after each meal so that they can eat their next one. North American spoon heathens will never learn.
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Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
Hi
I think using chopsticks allows you to taste each individual item better. If you can use them you should. It is worth practising at home with either chopstick or as I did with pens...just picking things up. Sometimes it is nice to try something different. My husband on the other hand can't get the food into his mouth quick enough with chopsticks, so prefers a fork......oink.....
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Stef
I think using chopsticks allows you to taste each individual item better. If you can use them you should. It is worth practising at home with either chopstick or as I did with pens...just picking things up. Sometimes it is nice to try something different. My husband on the other hand can't get the food into his mouth quick enough with chopsticks, so prefers a fork......oink.....
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Stef
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?
#44
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This cannot be true. It doesn't matter if an item is placed on one's tongue by chopsticks, by a fork, or by the fingers of one's true love, it's still the same pea, dessicated pineapple chunk or jellied eel as if it were deposited by a zephyr that lifted it from Lorraine Chase's plate. It's just grub, innit?
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Unlike the fork method....chopsticks won't let you put a whole shovel in your mouth at one time.......so unless you do pick each carrot or babycorn, or mushroom out with a fork...the experience is different.
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QUOTE=dbd33;8495602]This cannot be true. It doesn't matter if an item is placed on one's tongue by chopsticks, by a fork, or by the fingers of one's true love, it's still the same pea, dessicated pineapple chunk or jellied eel as if it were deposited by a zephyr that lifted it from Lorraine Chase's plate. It's just grub, innit?[/QUOTE]
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QUOTE=dbd33;8495602]This cannot be true. It doesn't matter if an item is placed on one's tongue by chopsticks, by a fork, or by the fingers of one's true love, it's still the same pea, dessicated pineapple chunk or jellied eel as if it were deposited by a zephyr that lifted it from Lorraine Chase's plate. It's just grub, innit?[/QUOTE]