Can you successfully use chopsticks?

Question

I end up laughing so hard the food would get cold if I didn't grab a fork. How about you?

LOL! OK....how in the world do you "stab" rice with a chopstick?

Answer 1

I worked for a Japanese Motorcycle company for eleven years. At one lunch meeting which included Japanese management and my sales administration staff a lot of people were using chopsticks. One of my co-workers pointed out that the Japanese were using forks only. Not a one was eating with chopsticks.
(No, I am clumsy with them. Forks only, please.)

Answer 2

I am a firm believer of "when in Rome, do as the Romans do." I see people using chop sticks to eat chinese food all the time, wonder if it really adds to the flavor (it does not), and wonder why they do this...just to show off that they can master the art of shoveling food into their mouths with two sticks? I prefer my "chopsticks" to be fused together at the base, forming a fork, and that is exactly what I use....a fork! I have never even tried to "master" these things, and don't plan on doing so soon. All my life, I have been harped on about how to eat properly. Now, someone comes along with a pair of sticks and wants to wipe out a lifetime of learning! I don't think so. Goldwing

Answer 3

never got the hang of them. On TV all the time you see people eating out of the cardboard boxes with chop sticks,when we buy Chinese good we open all the boxes and everyone takes from each one and we all eat with a fork,and if I go to a Chinese restaurant, I use a fork, here where I live, near Boston, they don't automatically give you chopsticks unless you ask for them, by the way, we have the best Chinese food in the country,and that includes chinatown in San Francisco, where I paid a fortune for a meal and disliked it, grey lobster sauce?,peas in everything? little baby spare ribs? No duck sauce? Hot ketsup? Yuk!!!

Answer 4

I'm with you girl, never have been able to master the technique, fork does just fine, thank you. Your right the food would get cold waiting for me to figure out chopsticks. I guess I would starve to death if I lived in China, or just have to eat with my fingers.LOL.

Answer 5

Perfectly adept with those devices. I lived in Japan for eight years. So, it was either develop some facility with two pieces of wood or starve to death.
The funniest thing I ever saw was at a Benehana's in Honolulu. The lady next to us at the "show table" (the one where the chef puts on a show while cooking) asked the staff to put a rubber band around her chopsticks so she could work them more easily.

Answer 6

I have been using chopsticks successfully since I taught myself how at age 18. I subsequently taught my two daughters who have taught their sons...so it is not hard to do...just takes a little practise.

And FYI it is perfectly okay to pick up your bowl of rice and carry it to your mouth where you can "shove in" a mouthful, using your chopsticks as a pusher, with or without a "morsel" of something else selected from another bowl, and deposited in your bowl of rice using those chopsticks.

Answer 7

It can all be done with practice. You can always resort to using two hands with chopsticks, or stabbing the food with the chopsticks.

Answer 8

Chopsticks are known as an 'exercise in frustration' to me. I spent time in Asia and love going to the Chinese buffets, but my fingers and mouth just don't coordinate with chopsticks.

Answer 9

I can play chopsticks pretty well on the piano...lol! Eating with them is another story. It looks like quite an art to me.

Answer 10

I learned to use them. The reason for "sticky rice" is so that there is a clump so you can eat it. Many years agao, I had to entertain people in Boston, so used to take them to restaurants and didn't want to look like a fool, so I learned (after already makng a fool out of myself)