CHOPSTICKS? HAVE YOU EVER USED THEM?

author=demondestiny link=topic=2921.msg56731#msg56731 date=1232281728
So tonight i went out with a friend of mine who i haden't seen in a while. He is japanese so we decided to go to a local japanese restaurant that is close to my house. We both ordered Ramen. For those that don't know,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramen

Anyway, they gave us chopsticks with our meals and i couldn't even grab any of the noodles with those things, meanwhile my friend has almost finished eating his. I seriously could not use them and eventually asked for a fork. :(

So have you ever used chopsticks and if so do you find them easy or hard to use?

Yes. They're not so bad once you get used to them, and I highly suggest you do so.

It helps sets you apart from being a garden variety weeaboo to a social anthropologist. ;)

Yeah, I'm not that great with them but I refuse to ask for the fork

its like admitting defeat

There's always the tried and true method of stabbing it straight through the food instead of trying to pick it up

I had a dream last night that, among other things, was about my plight of not being able to find chopsticks. I don't know what I was eating, but it was either sticky rice or potstickers, and I just couldn't eat the damn things without chopsticks : (.

Some foods are much easier to eat with them... some are easier to eat with a fork. It all comes down to personal preference.

It took me awhile way back when I was younger to get myself accustomed to chopsticks, but after that, they became just as easy to use as any other western utencil. It's almost like holding a pen or pencil, except I eat with it instead of write. :P

Anytime i ask for chopsticks in a Chinese restaurant the waiters and waitresses look at me weird. Maybe it's because I'm black. :-\

i have

I can use chopsticks, and won't ask for a fork. That being said, I don't have much opportunity to use them. Also, I HATE sushi.

author=pantsman9 link=topic=2921.msg56758#msg56758 date=1232303668
I've used chopsticks from time to time. I'll use them for maybe like the first five minutes and if im not having any luck then I'll ask for a fork and/or spoon. If im luck i get a spork, lol

Chex Quest was onto something with the spork.

You want mashed potatoes? Spoon em' down with the spork. Done with the mashed potatoes? Fork your meat and eat it. Need to stir a drink? Stir it with the spoon.

And if it's on an electric spinner you don't need arm power to stir. Plus it boosts the attack power of the spork if you ever need to use it as a weapon.

I said it once and so did many others.

Chex Quest was onto something with the spork.


But I eat with my hands. I once had some tempura udon from this japanese place and I just took the bowl and chugged the soup down. When I was done I shook the bowl lightly to get the noodles and other stuff to slide into my mouth. Once I was done with that I would put the bowl down and give the man his crappy eatery back.

A true man needs no tools. >:(

Plus it's pure win to see people look at you like your a barbarian. They avoid you like the plague for fear that you will eat them. Alive.