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Chopsticks are weird and strange,if one day I go to a restaurant in Japan and they give me chopsticks with my meal but no fork and I start eating the food with my hands and I am then touched in the shoulder by the server and told it's bad manners to eat with my hands and I should use the chopsticks then I'll think about using those sticks,(for a second),and then I'll continue eating with my hands.
The same question: why use forks and knives? Everything is cut to size, you don't really need a knife. After a little practice you can eat rice corn by corn
With chopsticks you also will eat a bit slower. Good so! You should give you time to chew and enjoy different textures and flavors.
Japanese chopsticks look little different than Chinese. Many Koreans use metal chopstick, some beautiful engraved and decorated. Many rules of etiquette govern the proper conduct of the chopsticks.
So, when I choose to eat ethnic food I will go all the way and eat it "their way". (Same with Arabic food that is eaten with the right hand only ).
Of course you are not obligated to eat using chopsticks. Ask your waiter and he will bring you fork and spoon.
However, eating Asian food with chopsticks feels like connecting to their culture and eating habits. For me, the food taste somehow better that way
I absolutely love them and always use them. Sushy, noodles, rice, chinese, japanese, vietnamese, korean or thai, I always use them. Fun way to eat, authentic, it's a great experience and doesn't take too much work to master at all.
Normally I eat East Asian dishes with a fork and spoon. I always (at least when I remember) have them cut up the noodles when I order noodle dishes or soups - it's easier to eat that way. And rice with chopsticks? How do you eat rice with chopsticks?
Wooden chopsticks I can manipulate with ease (sometimes), but plastic or metal chopsticks - no way.
Either way I eat with a FORK, too lazy to learn the proper use of chopsticks
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