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anonymous
Q: Does using a knife and fork just seem like to much bother to you now?
Since I use chopsticks most of the time now, whenever I get handed a knife and fork, it just seems like a lot of effort. I think my left arm has just become lazy. It doesn't want to have to do any work. Anyone else have this feeling?
Been here 7 years... and still hate chopsticks, yet I have gotten lazy with the whole knife and fork thing. So its morphed into me just using my hands alot. I really think sporks should be a bigger deal here. I cant live without mine!
I'm like that too, now, I feel like the whole "I cut my stuffs inside my dish" is just an unecessary step. Cut all that should be cut before, when you cook. Then, chopsticks & spoon. Chopsticks became completely natural. Minimalism, I love you.
PS "but if you love minimalism, then eat with your hands"... I would burn my hands, and would make my hands a mess with sauce-based dished or fried dishes 
And puree-everything would be boring as hell.
icnif77:
My pops was a dentist some 40 Y ago. In that time, dentists weren't required to use gloves. He would/could ate 'chicken on bones' with fork and knife.
at home (in china) i always use fork and knife, so nope
I am comfortable with 'choppies', here. I don't use fork and knife, not even when munching on spaghetti.
No. Chopsticks work fine with some foods like chopped vegetables, noodles and mixed salads. But for thick meat and fish steaks, chopsticks just don't cut it like a knife followed by the spearing action of a fork. Chopsticks can't cut or spear.
And for soups, I like a spoon. Not chopsticks.
icnif77:
My first year here, I was using straw
for my soups.... Chinese said: 'Nie shi laowai'. I was guessing: 'straw laowai…probably'
icnif77:
Thick straw...so you can get noodels
out of the bowl.
Funny with RP
. I was more serious in the beginning, when I was working with F.
There's no any GOOD food invented in China that require the exclusive use of chopsticks to properly eat it.
Think about it, and if I'm wrong, name it.
Noodle888:
Rabbit in spicy oil in take away plastic bowl (nibble food). Spoon won't do it as there's too much oil/messy, fork won't do it as there's bone and you linger for too long trying to score...so chopstick is the only thing to do the job effectively and efficiently, the best thing for the job. Grab it with precision, shake or let it drain and munch it, pick the bone out of mouth if required with the chopstick. Boom.
andy74rc:
1) here we talking about fork AND knife. Have both, they would do the job better than chopsticks even on your rabbit.
2) takeaway rabbit dripping questionable oil doesn't fit into the category of GOOD food. It does into the "choose to starve and die quick, or choose the rabbit and die slowly on poison" one.
Noodle888:
Oh would they now!You speak from experience I take it NOT.
Lets clear this up first. A fork has too much surface area for this dish, the dish itself has depth so yes, a fork would have to submerge itself. With the knife it would also be in the oil which also has a relatively large surface area which would result in dripping. The fork AND knife are much heavier resulting in unnecessary energy expenditure and lack of dexterity, compared to the humble chopsticks.
This dish comes from a famous shop in my area, so what?! I've had rabbit elsewhere and it doesn't even compare, quality cuts. Well this is Sichuan dunno what dump your holed up in to have such a negatively assumptive outlook on local cuisine here. I say 'take away' as you can only take it away. Also, the container is not solid, it like something you put your coleslaw in at the supermarket. If snacking in the park for example ONCE AGAIN chopsticks are your only man, you leave it in this container no matter where it's consumed in my experience.
Accept defeat and move on...
even my wife has adopted a "fork" as a decent utensil to have dinner with............every day at home we have chinese food ..she cooks ... and every day I use whatever tool is best "for me" to fill my gut........ I am good with chopsticks ..... I am good with a fork ....... right hand only..... chopsticks are best for long noodles/soups ...................... excuse me, if you think they are good for finishing a bowl of rice....you are loco.
You sometimes get handed a knife and fork? Get outa here!
Hulk:
Yeah, most of the knives here are incredibly dull. Even when you go to a steakhouse with real steak, it's often too dull to cut well.
I don't think a knife should be used for dinner,.... not even western food ... any piece of meat that can't be made into bite size with the side of a fork is too much work ......so in my world it is one utensil a fork for breakfast lunch and dinner,,,,,, a spoon is handy on occasion.... or just drink it.
I prefer chopsticks personally. My wife prefers western utensils, which she never used before meeting me. She says they're easier, cleaner, safer, etc.
Yeah, it's kind of a bother for me.
I'd use a fork any day over chopsticks. Monkeys can eat bugs out of wood with chopsticks, they're primitive. But a monkey couldn't figure out what to use fork for.
I prefer to use chopsticks for most food items. However I use spoons for the small peas and corn dishes. I had too many of them go flying across the room when using chopsticks. I never use my fork and knife any longer. I never eat a large piece of meat any longer. What is crazy I go local when eating soup and not use a spoon but just slurp and drink it all down. I know I will have to convert back to my old ways when I move back to the states next year.
maybe i attach a fork and a knife to a pair of chopstick
chopknifestick and chopforkstick
dem new inventions
hands. and sitting on the floor. Isan Style baby !
*just kidding , use the funny sticks in Isan,, just some things hands
Wasn't there a movie that taught us "Use the forks Luke" ?
