Use Chopsticks
Chopsticks are the tool for East Asian dining. If you go into a Chinese restaraunt and ask for a fork, you will get dirty looks, so learn to use chopsticks. It is quite easy to use them.
Step-by-step:
1. Hold one chopstick at the valley between your thumb and index finger.
2. Rest it steadily on top of your ring finger. Make sure it doesn't move around.
3. Hold the other one with your thumb, index, and middle fingers like a pen. This one is movable by moving your fingers.
4. Hold food by putting each chopstick on opposite sides of the food and gripping it.
5. To eat rice, either use step 4 or bring the bowl towards your mouth and push the rice towards your mouth.
6. If you are done using chopsticks, place them on top of the bowl or plate, or chopstick rest if provided.
What not to do with chopsticks:
- make noise
- pierce food
- stand vertically in a bowl (resembles incense for offering to the dead)
- point at others
- pass food from chopstick to chopstick (Buddhist funeral rituals pass bones this way)
- put them in your hair
What you can do with chopsticks:
- bring food to someone's bowl or plate
- wedge a piece of food into two
- have an extra pair as serving chopsticks that everyone can use to bring food to their bowl or plate
Comments
Thanks!
Edit: Actually the black one looks quite discreet.
Now those are just tweezers :facepalm:
They don't allow the same movement that chopsticks do, as showin the gif in the op.
True, but at least you can hang your washing up with them
EDIT: Then I stopped being retarded and learned how to use them properly.
Probably not. I bet if you were in a fancy traditional restaurant in Asia it would get you some dirty looks, but almost certainly not here. Do most Chinese places even use chopsticks? Most of the time they have forks and knives, no?
I remember those. I used to feel all badass because I felt like I was really using chopsticks:facepalm:
Don't know about where you are, but here chopsticks are standard and you have to ask for forks and knives.
I guess I just haven't gone to enough Chinese restaurants.
They only give Asian people chopsticks.
They naturally assume us southern wide eyes don't know how to use them.:(
There aren't any where I live. Fuckin mexicans make the food :facepalm:
I've been to a few where you have to ask for silverware. Unfortunatly in America a lot of the restaurants food is so Americanized it can hardly be called Chinese. Chinese food is the food of the God's.
Opps! I forgot....Yum cha give you chopsticks at your table but give you the option of cutlery sitting on the counter.....Love that shit. :thumbsup:
i stab my food all the time, especially when theres this super slippery piece of food