Chopsticks

[babybunny 2]

I use chop sticks - my husband dont use them.

[Cygnet 0]

Chopsticks just go with Japanese and Chinese food, I guess. Couldn't imagine eating sushi or General Tao with a fork and knife.

[Kajikit 65]

Chopsticks aren't that hard to use... and they just go with Asian food, especially when you go to a more authentic restaurant. I like eating it the way it's meant to eat - it feels more culturally appropriate, and less like an inept Westerner gawking at the natives. (of course if I have chinese food at home we just use a fork because there's nobody there to see!)

[*Robert* 2]

Too look cool and make Asian people laugh at them.

[almaty 19]

top ramien got me through college...

[luvaLimey 0]

I love using chopsticks. My step-mom taught me how when I was a little girl, and there are some things that it's easier to eat with chopsticks than with a fork. In fact, if I eat a veggie bowl from teriyaki stix with a fork I make a complete mess, but if I use chopsticks, everything goes right where it should; in my mouth !

I showed my Fiance how to use them when we were in Amsterdam. he picked it up pretty easily.

[Lou Lou 1]

Hmm...I've been using chopsticks in Asian restaurants for over 20 years so it's certainly not a new thing or fashionable in some parts.

[Scott & Lai 12]

I use them because I grew up with them=). I was very very surprised when my husband and I were going out. He came over to dinner, my mom gave him a fork and he asked for chopsticks.. ahhh scored brownie pts with the parents. I was again surprised when I moved down here and all his friends were using chopsticks! Made me feel a little less foreign.

Same here. I'd been using them for over two decades when I met Lai. And I had the same experience the first time at her house with 15 of her family members; her parents were going to give me a fork, but Lai said, "No, he knows how to use chopsticks!" Everyone was impressed to see the gweilo using chopsticks, and not looking like an idiot in the process Often even at Asian restaurants here, I will be given Western utensils, and I have to ask for chopsticks. To me, it just doesn't seem right to use Western utensils with Asian food; and yes, it tastes better with chopsticks We use chopsticks all the time at home, though not exclusively.

[dalegg 143]

I don't know why, but I like the foreflavor of wood on my tongue better than that of metal with Asian food. Just seems to taste better. I have found it very difficult to eat sushi with a fork or spoon too. You need two firm but gentle sticks to grasp either side of the rolls so that the rice doesn't fall off of the fish.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I don't know why, but I like the foreflavor of wood on my tongue better than that of metal with Asian food.

What if the choice was between wooden western utensils and wooden chopsticks?

[Scott & Lai 12]

I don't know why, but I like the foreflavor of wood on my tongue better than that of metal with Asian food.

What if the choice was between wooden western utensils and wooden chopsticks?

Nah...chopsticks are still better, even if it were wooden Western utensils versus non-wood chopsticks.

[Artegal 1]

I get offended when I am not offered chopsticks at an oriental restaurant. On the flipside, when I was in Asia--I saw an awful lot of spoon usage by the natives.

[Mandi+Ryan 1]

It's kewl to try new things and all, with different cultures, but I still prefer the way the US does it.

[Scott & Lai 12]

I get offended when I am not offered chopsticks at an oriental restaurant. On the flipside, when I was in Asia--I saw an awful lot of spoon usage by the natives.

Spoons, yes. They have a special kind of ceramic spoon with a deep bowl with a flat bottom that is used with soups and such and is often used in tandem with chopsticks (or did you mean Western-style spoons?). But I didn't see many forks or knives in Hong Kong except in more tourist heavy areas or in non-Chinese restaurants (Thai, Turkish, Western, etc.).

[Marc and Olga 0]

I have never been able to use chopsticks =(

My hands don't get "it", I guess.

When I was in Seoul, I tried to use them with limited success as I ate my veggie roll, thank goodness i was in a "tourist" heavy area because I could only tolerate them so long and had to give in to the power of the Fork!

Side note: the chopstick offered where I ate were metal.