Chinese food - chopsticks
Apr 14th 2010, 2:11 am
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Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
Ah, what I do with the fork is to spear a single food item (note that this works less than ideally with hard objects such as nuts) and lift it into my mouth. I grant that those who use a fork in a lateral manner, scooping as much as can be balanced upon it in a single pass, will be less able to discern the difference between the flavours of individual items, but I can't recall when I last saw a neurologically typical person eat in such a manner. Do you live in the North?
Apr 14th 2010, 10:21 am
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Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
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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Stef
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?
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Stef
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?
But I've seen Asian people eating and managing to shovel food using chopsticks. The bowl is usually brought up under the chin to facilitate said shoveling.
Apr 14th 2010, 11:18 am
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Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
Japanese rice is much stickier so it is quite easy to pick up a mouthful in one go with chopsticks. No shoveling required.
Apr 14th 2010, 11:25 am
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Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
that they handed me a spoon.
Apr 14th 2010, 11:30 am
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Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
My only complaint about japanese food is this. I don't find this style of rice that palatable as it always tastes starchy and over-cooked to me. It's why I don't like sushi; a tasty piece of fish ruined by crappy rice.
Apr 14th 2010, 11:42 am
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Apr 14th 2010, 11:49 am
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Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
As long as you promise not to tell Mrs JonboyE I will admit that I prefer Thai or Basmati rice to Japanese rice.
There, I've done it. Grounds for divorce.
Apr 14th 2010, 11:57 am
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Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
There are different grades of Japanese rice and cheap sushi places usually use the lowest grades. The difference between top grade rice and the cheap stuff is as pronounced as the difference between a perfectly cooked Fillet Mignon and undercooked stewing steak. Apparently.
As long as you promise not to tell Mrs JonboyE I will admit that I prefer Thai or Basmati rice to Japanese rice.
There, I've done it. Grounds for divorce.
As long as you promise not to tell Mrs JonboyE I will admit that I prefer Thai or Basmati rice to Japanese rice.
There, I've done it. Grounds for divorce.
I'm not knocking japanese food - I really like it. Though in sushi type places I tend to stick to sashimi; something like a nice fresh bit of tuna dunked in some wasabi'd up sauce - very tasty.
Apr 14th 2010, 12:02 pm
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Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
OOO basmati rice, yummy. The king of rice, or summat.
Apr 15th 2010, 11:08 am
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Re: Chinese food - chopsticks
My Indian friends managed to make a neat collection of food between their thumb and 2nd and 3rd fingers. No bread, just neatness. For dhal they used a spoon.
