Can you eat with chopsticks?

Mee too, I still prefer the fork.

I wpuld never think that using a fork would be problematic. It looks a lot easier than the sticks but it seems that you have to get used to it too.

poor guy. maybe you should show him how to use it properly. and if he prefers his way then let him be. i can't imagine seeing a guy struggling to use the fork. he's probably used to use spoon so it shouldn't be hard to use fork

Well, people still look at me in a strange way when I use the sticks instead of a plastic fork...

i never thought of carrying a pair of chopsticks around. now you give me a good reason on why i should get a nice pair of chopsticks to be carried around everywhere. i often have troubles when eating the light meals (usually noodles) provided when there's a college event going on especially if i happened to be the person after the last person to get the plastic fork/spoon i ended up using my fingers (i don't really mind but washing hands is another thing) or i tear up a bit of the foam container's edge to form a spoon:P

To practise, I used to compete with friends trying to pick the most peas one by one. LOL

I'm ethnic Chinese and so it goes without saying that I know how to eat with chopsticks. I guess, it is something that one learns to do when you're young and it's part of your culture. Eating with chopsticks is, if you look at it, ideal for Chinese food because with Chinese food, the main dishes are shared in the centre and the individuals use the sticks to pick at different dishes from the centre to have with their rice. You'll also find that ingredients in a Chinese dish are usually diced smaller than in comparable Western dishes. So when you look at the way Chinese dine, the chopsticks make sense. If you are sharing food from the centre, the sticks are more hygienic than a fork. If parts of a dish are sliced in small chunks, you can pick them up with sticks. By comparison, you definately cannot pick up a tenderloin with chopsticks.

For me, I can use chopsticks and a fork and knife or a fork and spoon. I try to use the appropriate equipment for the cuisine. I for one, take pride in the fact that I can eat with my hands - which is the only way to enjoy Indian cuisine. There's an technique to using your hands - you're only supposed to eat with the tips of your fingers. The funniest was going to a function of a 100 Indians and the only non-Indian in the whole place (me) was the only person eating with his hands.

wow. that's kinda funny. but i guess they just don't want to dirty their hands. or maybe they don't want people to look down at them for eating with their hands (sometimes people do give that sort of look, like "can't you use utensils for that?") i love eating with my hand but it's funny watching people eating something like rice with more than just the fingers it went to the palm. it almost look like they're gonna make riceballs with the rice in their palm. then again i was like that too

May be not everything. If rice is too loose you have problems to pick it. If grains are all stuck together then it is pretty easy. A rice salad dressed with some olive oil is not an east dish to eat with chopsticks. Too slippery:)

for me these are not a problem. having used chopsticks for the past thirty over years, i've learnt to pick up almost anything with chopsticks. i can pick up glass marbles from oil as well. guess practice really makes perfect in certain matters. i love using chopsticks and carry a pair with me all the time. cheers;p

haha. you're a funny guy

you can eat soup with the chopsticks. but it will take a while for you to finish the whole bowl. it's called the dip-n-lick technique

lol

Dip and LICK, I like that it could catch on with lots of things we do. haha.

What happened it took you 3 months to get back to me, but nice to see you again.

HICCUP/

i was trying to finish the pot of soup with chopsticks. i guess doubling the pair helps a lot. haha

no. actually my motherboard got fried. my bf gave me his old laptop so i can finish my final year project. will be very busy till end of this month