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Miscellaneous => General Chat => Topic started by: Vidgmchtr on October 27, 2007, 09:48:22 PM
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So I tried using chopsticks today while eating a plate of General Tso's chicken, and failed miserably, so I switched back to a fork. As I started to discuss this in IRC, I thought it'd make a good thread here, seeing as Max's toilet paper thread was surprisingly popular.
So, which do you use?
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Chopsticks rule.
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Chopsticks aren't too hard. You just have to make sure to only move one of them using your index finger.
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Silverware, because that's usually all that's available. I know how to use chopsticks, however.
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Chopsticks are fun. Also I heard that one reason Asians seem to be thinner than Americans (not that I support this... stereotype?) is because since they use chopsticks, the oil and fat and stuff they use to cook and garnish with is not ingested as much as it is with our food, thanks to the liquid-holding silverware. Think about that next time you're sucking the goo out of the bottom of your Chinatown Express take-out box, America.
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Think about that next time you're sucking the goo out of the bottom of your Chinatown Express take-out box, America.
Let's not turn this into an "America's fat and it needs to stop being fat" thread. =P
A friend of mine says she was forced to learn how as a child (she's not Asian) by her mother, and can use them quite efficiently now.
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I'm pretty good with chopsticks and always use them at Japanese restaurants. It's interesting to note that most Japanese households have silverware and Japanese children learn to use silverware before being taught to use chopsticks. BTW, I love Japanese food and raw fish and sometimes eat it with sushi since my wife likes the rice, but both of us do not like Chinese food.
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I use my bare hands to eat all my food. Especially meat. Meat is delicious and awesome. But Soup burns my hands, though my hands grow manlier each time I burn them.
But when I'm in a restaurant, It's always silverware for me. Chopsticks slow me down.
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Chopsticks was the first song I learned to play on the piano (no big surprise, though)
Anyway, I like using Chopsticks, except for when it comes to rice.
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I got teh 1337 chopsticks skills! 0rz!
Rice fears me!
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Meh, I barely even use silverware, let alone chopsticks. I'm what would call a finger savage.
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None of the above. Glorb eat with mouth! Glorb like food with sauce and noodles that can slurp noisily!
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I use sticks to amuse myself for about a minute, then I switch back to the fork; I like to have something that gets food to my mouth in the fastest, cleanest way possible, not the utensil equivalent of a puzzle game.
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After I've tried the chopsticks out and I'm not getting enough into my mouth, I go back to my silverware. I use my hands for the vegetables, though ^-^.
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I use Chopsticks, but I like Silverware more.
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Chopsticks pwn silverware very hard. I use them all the time, but only when I'm eating Asian food.
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You eat Asian food all the time?
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Well I mean I use them all the time I'm eating Asian food.
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I don't eat Asian food, but if I did, I might use chopsticks. After all, around 3-6 years ago a guy with a fork lost in an eating contest to a guy with chopsticks.
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I know there are instructions on how to use chopsticks on some packages of them, and how to hold them and stuff, but I still feel clumsy
Add that with the fact that I'm left handed and apparently hold writing utensils incorrectly anyway...
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Chop-ware! Silversticks!!
Ok, so I use silverware since that's what's usually available, but when Nicky and I go out to eat (to a Chinese place we frequent) I try to use the chopsticks before giving up and just either using my hands or the provided silverware.
Somehow, she's better at it than I am..
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Well, I only use silverware. I tried using chopsticks awhile ago when my high school had to read this [aweinspiring] book called Safely Home. People who passed the quiz on the book got a free Chinese [Magic Wok] lunch, involving Chicken Fried Rice, and egg roll, and real tea (which tasted awful and good at the same time.) I tried, and tried, and even scooped up the rice with my chopsticks, but nothing worked as well as my fork. If I could perfect the art of Chopstick-fu, I would use the chopsticks, but until then, my fork is mightier.
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Knives and forks are my thing. I can't use chopsticks to save my life!
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Oh, I'm sure you could, you could poke whoever is attacking you in the eyes!
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
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This is for everyone that voted for chopsticks.
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Did someone just say "weeaboo?" 'cause I thought I just heard someone say "weeaboo."
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Asian does not necessairly equal Japanese.
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This is for MaxVance.
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Dear TEM:
Please stop filling my thread with nonsense that has nothing to do with the topic.
Thanks.
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/me hands Vidgmchtr and MaxVance paddles
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