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People in Nepal will hardly use chopsticks. Maybe some Tibetan migrants from China but overall either Nepalese will use their hands while eating Dal-Bhaat (Pulses with Rice) or spoon/fork. In South Asia, chopsticks are a decorative element only to make an impression that it is Chinese food but they will use Spoon/Fork to eat. An American is more likely to eat properly with chopsticks then any Nepalese.
In Thailand, chopsticks can be found, and are often used, depending on the dish. But I find the fork/spoon combo (where they don't actually eat with the fork, but use it to push food on to the spoon), the most common
LOL! YAS! That's how we roll in the Philippines it's actually funny when my American husband eat with us during holidays he's the only 1 eating using fork. All of us use spoon.
In fact I remember all of us always asking for spoon in restaurants here in US. Me, not anymore. I got used to the American way of fork and knife. Ugh.
Coz my husband when we eat at home just give me fork and knife, I used to replace the knife with spoon but not anymore.
I had a discussion with someone about whether Thais use chopsticks or not. I said yes but they said no. This leads me to ask which countries in Asia that regularly use chopsticks.
Confucian Asia: China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore (parts), Hong Kong, Malaysia (parts), Vietnam,
Less so: Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia (each has Chinese subcultures/influence)
No: Malayan cultures
^^ Correction to my previous post just mentioned. Mongolia at least did at one point in history but less so now except when eating Chinese influenced and/or noodle dishes (http://www.studymongolian.net/backgr...olian-culture/).
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Why do all of you so-called wannabee food experts, keep referring to the south-east Asians eating with their "hands"?
We do not use our hands but use our fingers.
As a matter of fact, we have great fun when we see westerners try to eat with their fingers, it is a joke and a half when they try it!
Altho, we are civilised enough NOT to laugh right in front of you but kind of snicker when the meal is over!
I was raised in the Orient but now live in the USA after many years in Europe for my education.
I eat western food with a fork and a knife (except for soups), and I NEVER switch the use of the fork or knife.
I also put the food on the back of the fork and not on the front!
When I eat some Oriental food, I use a fork and a spoon and rarely a knife because the food is usually cut in bite-size pieces.
When I am served typical Chinese food, I do use chopsticks in my right hand and often a small spoon with a long handle in my left.
Again because of the small pieces of food, no knife needed.
See the differences in picture below? North Korea and South Korea use the same chopsticks.
They need to reunify the two Koreas.
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