in what age you start using chopsticks?
By jHoEn16
@jHoEn16 (2043)
Australia
September 12, 2007 7:48am CST
okay, i know this would be fummy on my side but im just telling the truth...
i love looking at people who used chopsticks, and they used it easily, convenient and looks like they enjoy using it while eating...
i am trying to learn how to used it but i really cant do it properly.. the moment i start to pick up the food the stick moved from my fingers and boom! the food are everywhere lol.. and it give me pain on my fingers.. and makes me more hungry!
i am turning 25 on january but i still dont know how to used it, i start learning it 1 year already lol funny?
how about you? do you used chopsticks? do you enjoy using it? how old are you when you learned how to used it?
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34 responses
@roniroxas (10560)
• Philippines
13 Sep 07
mmmm.... 30 years old, too late. but its okay i am born for spoon and fork. people from the philippines used to eat with their hands and feet up hahaha. but maybe i am late on learning how to use chopstick but im good with it
@roniroxas (10560)
• Philippines
16 Sep 07
i got a lot of friends who eats and dines at restaurant as chinese, japs and korean but never uses chopstick. well i think it is okay to not use one but if you like to learn then it is okay. goodluck.
@noriko (1254)
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20 Sep 07
started to use chopstick when i was seven but didnt use much of it when i was in college. hahaha during college i love eating finger foods than rice meals.
@noriko (1254)
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21 Sep 07
yes i still do know how to. its like riding a bike, you still know how to even you stopped for a long time. if you want to be a pro on using one, practise it in corn kernel. my mom did that to us so we became expert on it. it was not easy but it will help you control the stick properly.
@youless (112108)
• Guangzhou, China
12 Sep 07
I completely forget how old I was when I started to learn using chopsticks. It must be very little. Perhaps it's around 4 years old.
@raychill (6525)
• United States
12 Sep 07
I'm 25. I haven't a clue how to eat with chopsticks. Truthfully I don't really eat anything that requires me to use chopsticks and if I do then I usually just use a fork. To me, it's not important to know how to use chopsticks. Plus, I'm ver uncoordinated so I don't think I ever could use them.
@raychill (6525)
• United States
15 Sep 07
I don't purposely avoid eating thing things that require chopsticks. It's just the things I eat, don't require chopsticks. actually pretty much the only thing I get from chinese food places is Chicken or Shrimp fried rice. and you don't use chopsticks to eat that. at least i've never seen anyone.
It's not important to me. I guess, maybe it's wrong, but I'm American...and I rarely eat chinese or any of those types of food that need chopsticks so it's not my culture and i don't see why I would need to be bothered to learn it.
it sounds bad I'm sure, but I mean... if someone ONLY ate with chopsticks in their culture, and then they came to a place that uses forks, i don't think they should be required to use forks.
@jHoEn16 (2043)
• Australia
15 Sep 07
thats what i did before... i dont want to order foods that requires me to used chopsticks... i always used fork n spoon... i always told my husband that we shouldnt eat on a restaurant using chopsticks... but lately i always saw children eating using chopsticks and i was amaze... i feel ashamed coz i am old but i dont know how to used it... thats why i told myself that i must learn
@kellys3ps (3723)
• United States
30 Mar 08
I have known how to use chopsticks since I was 5 years olds. I asked the waitress at a Chinese restaurant to teach me how. My hubby loves to use chopsticks and will only eat Chinese food with chopsticks.
@kuting (885)
• Philippines
29 Apr 08
most asian countries use chopsticks for their meals. here in the philippines though, we use spoon and fork. i first saw my brother turn his bamboo barbeque sticks into chopsticks when i was just 10years old. i got really curious and tried doing it too. so we'd do that sometime even when eating rice even if it makes eating really hard. but i got better at using it as i am good with the regular spoon and fork. i just turned 26 last saturday and it makes me proud to at least be able to eat using chopsticks at japanese, korean and chinese restaurants.
@dreamy1 (3811)
• United States
13 Sep 07
I'm not Chinese so I didn't grow up using them so I was grown I don't know what age but certainly an adult. I lived in Taiwan for two years and I knew how to use chop sticks before I moved there. I'm good at using them except for the long slippery ones I hate those. I like the wooden ones a lot better. I've had Asian people who saw me use chopsticks said oh you can use them so well. As if just because they invented them that anyone else can't use them as well as they can. It's almost like me telling them oh look how good you use the fork that was so hard to master.
@nyumix (1658)
• Belgium
20 Oct 07
I don't remember exactly the time, but I think it was happen when I was around 12 years old,I can used perfectly chopsticks to eat my noddles.
@meilina (78)
• China
17 Oct 07
Hi, I forget the age when I begin to use chopsticks, maybe two or three.
How did I learn it? I don't know 'coz I was too young to recall it. It's very
common for Asian people to use chopsticks. Having using chopstiks, you'll find
it's a very flexible way to choose and pick up the food you want to have in a dish.
Just keeping practice, you'll have more surprise and fun!!
@shiloh_222 (5479)
• Philippines
15 Oct 07
hi... i cant remember..it seems fairly natural for me...haha..since i am part chinese... well, dont give up... you can practice and practice... we used to have a relay game in high school where we have two bowls... one is filled with peanuts and we have to carry the peanut(s) one by one using chopsticks, to the other side which is empty... the first one to finish wins... haha..it was fun...
@rhane7315 (5649)
• Philippines
29 Apr 08
im 22 right now and i'm starting to learn how to use chopsticks atm
@carolscash (9492)
• United States
21 Sep 07
I am also trying to learn to use chopsticks to eat with as my husband and I will be going to Japan in the spring. I have a hard time holding them and have not been able to eat with them either. I may have to take plastic silverware in my luggage for the trip. LOL!!
@jHoEn16 (2043)
• Australia
21 Sep 07
welcome to my world carolscash! but you need to be patient like me... i was also like that when i am starting, but now i am much better than before coz i do a lot of practice... so just do the same but on the other hand, you were right.. better bring a plastic silverware for reservation... just in case lol
thanks for the responce
@kuting (885)
• Philippines
20 Sep 07
i learned to use chopsticks when i was 10 years old. it was when i saw my older brother use bamboo barbeque sticks as chopsticks. i was really interested but i didnt even know they are called chopsticks then. as i grew up i learned about it and got even more intersted in using them.
once i was on field work and i didnt bring any spoon or fork, i just brought with me a pack of disposable chopsticks.
@jHoEn16 (2043)
• Australia
21 Sep 07
wow thats nice! you have interest of using chopsticks when you were young... your bro was funny... he is using a barbeque sticks?!!! hahahah well atleast its still a stick... he help you get interest of using it.. and look at you now... you are using it...
thanks for the responce pal
@thathalazarini (486)
• Brazil
16 Sep 07
I didn't know how to use them, but now I know and I use chopsticks everytime I'm eating on an Anime meeting
@LadyDulce (830)
• United States
15 Sep 07
I started when I was about 6 or 7, but I grew up in a Korean/soulfood culture in Hawaii, so whenever my grandmother would come over or we'd go out to eat, it was always chopsticks. A lot of Hawaiian places are pure Japanese, so that helped. If you want to accelerate your learning, put away all of your forks and just eat with the chopsticks for a while. Or you could fold up a piece of paper until it's fairly thick, stick it between the chopsticks at the top, and wrap a rubber band around it. The paper will hold the sticks apart and the rubber band will allow you to close them. That's how I taught my younger siblings. It helps you learn the proper form while building your confidence. Good luck!
Blessed Be
@myeyesloveyuu (24)
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16 Sep 07
Hmm! :D I was probably around 7 or 8 when I learned how to use chopsticks. I only got a hang of it when I was around 10 though. XD;; I'm still not very skillful but I can manage. :3
Yeah, using chopsticks is really fun! When I went for a student exchange in program for 8 days in Japan, I used chopsticks every single day. x__x I was lucky that I could use it or else it'd be embarrassing. Since using chopsticks isn't something new or uncommon, I was eating like the rest of my Japanese foster family. :3
I still use chopsticks when I'm at home too~ Can't afford to let the ability to go to waste, nyahaha.
@jHoEn16 (2043)
• Australia
17 Sep 07
see! i am right! using chopsticks is really enjoyable...
were just the same, i feel embarasses everytime i eat on a japanese chinese and korean resto... coz most of them are using chopsticks! thats why i am very eager to learn.. lol
thanks for the responce mate
@foxygirle (376)
• Philippines
21 Sep 07
when i was a kid, maybe five, I've started picking up the chopstick since it was a part of our diner routine. And once my parents saw that I can handle the chopstick, they praised me so using chopstick was not a diffucult thing to do for me. I used chopsticks whenever i can, chinese restos and even banquet celebration with ease. Its really fun and yes very convenient. As much as i can and if there's chopsticks around, i used it since you can get the food you want conveniently.
Just keep practising and watch others how they do it, its really easy and fun.
