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In Hong Kong, I've seen some other countries'people use chopsticks and they look like enjoy using them.
How about you?
Do you enjoy using chopsticks?

I look very funny when trying to eat with chopsticks I tried to learn while I was in China but I couldn't... Nobody taught me either... :x

I'm Vietnamese so I use chopstick everyday :) but using a fork with a knife is very difficult :?

Dixie wrote:I look very funny when trying to eat with chopsticks I tried to learn while I was in China but I couldn't... Nobody taught me either... :x

Don't worry. I don't know how to hold them the correct way. I just hold them like I'd hold my pen. It works, though.

LennyeTran wrote:

Dixie wrote:I look very funny when trying to eat with chopsticks I tried to learn while I was in China but I couldn't... Nobody taught me either... :x

Don't worry. I don't know how to hold them the correct way. I just hold them like I'd hold my pen. It works, though.

Me too. I can’t hold chopsticks in the right hand. I use them in the left hand.

Are you left-handed, Vince?

We usually use chopsticks to eat.
I like to use chopsticks.
BTW, two days ago when I was eating lunch as usual,one of my chopsticks broke.
I was really surprised. Because chopsticks seldom broke. And it is said that chopstick broken cause unfortunate things in Japan.
It really became a hard day after that.
I made a mistake at work.
I forgot to go to dentist.
My daughter didn't stop crying at night...

Never used them. I think I would rather use fingers. Just imagine how a hungry cat or puppy try to eat too hot food. Well I would be same mad like that cat/puppy and act similar if cant eat well..

PS. metaltoy believe the fact that I were replying after you here now, is a really very good omen. You will have a really really very good time now on. :)

metaltoy wrote:We usually use chopsticks to eat.
I like to use chopsticks.
BTW, two days ago when I was eating lunch as usual,one of my chopsticks broke.
I was really surprised. Because chopsticks seldom broke. And it is said that chopstick broken cause unfortunate things in Japan.
It really became a hard day after that.
I made a mistake at work.
I forgot to go to dentist.
My daughter didn't stop crying at night...

Really? Does it also count if you broke those wooden, instant chopsticks in Japanese restaurants when you were trying to separate them?

Dixie wrote:I look very funny when trying to eat with chopsticks I tried to learn while I was in China but I couldn't... Nobody taught me either... :x

How to use chopsticks

Thanks Len! :D

LennyeTran wrote:shock: Really? Does it also count if you broke those wooden, instant chopsticks in Japanese restaurants when you were trying to separate them?

No, It's unlucky that chopsticks break in half lengwise while eating.

Hardi wrote:Never used them. I think I would rather use fingers. Just imagine how a hungry cat or puppy try to eat too hot food. Well I would be same mad like that cat/puppy and act similar if cant eat well..

PS. metaltoy believe the fact that I were replying after you here now, is a really very good omen. You will have a really really very good time now on. :)

I recomend you try to use chopstikes.
It is said that using chopsticks is good for our brains in Japan. We need a good hand control to use them.
Having a good hand control leads to having a good brain.

metaltoy wrote:I recomend you try to use chopstikes.
It is said that using chopsticks is good for our brains in Japan. We need a good hand control to use them.
Having a good hand control leads to having a good brain.

I have immunity of brains. It's really bitty, even though I'm so old already, I still haven't get them.. when most other people already have get them in their childhood.

But as brainless person, I understand so that when I use chopsticks here, then as result, you all in Japan will have good brains. So if that's the case I may try. I'm not envious for making your brain better

I tried with 2 pencil to pick stuff it seems it may be possible to use them.

Anyway, I wonder what wood is best for making chopsticks.. I think Juniperus should be best of these trees growing here. It's strong. also wooden spoons usually have made by it.. When I was kid I wanted to make a spoon from Juniperus, but it was so hard to cut That I couldn't. Even though it was a dead tree when I cut it from forest(I had no hearth to cut living one) after it dry inside of house it got so hard. that even sharpest knife couldn't cut it well..

*TriCuong* wrote:I'm Vietnamese so I use chopstick everyday :) but using a fork with a knife is very difficult :?

I guess it's just a matter of getting used to it.. I'm a trying-hard chopstick user. So it's good for you TriCuong, that you use it everyday..

After I have eaten a dish with the use of chopsticks, my hands started to ache.. I guess i put too much pressure to hold it in place so that it doesn't fall.. It's embarassing, so when I go to a Chinese restaurant, I request for spoon and fork..But there's so much room for learning..maybe one day..

I don't know how to use them. One day, a guy invited me to eat Chinese food and we had to use the shopsticks.. wow.. it was so embarrasing for me because I didn't even know how to start.. ( I said I wasn't hungry)

metaltoy wrote:

Hardi wrote:Never used them. I think I would rather use fingers. Just imagine how a hungry cat or puppy try to eat too hot food. Well I would be same mad like that cat/puppy and act similar if cant eat well..

PS. metaltoy believe the fact that I were replying after you here now, is a really very good omen. You will have a really really very good time now on. :)

I recomend you try to use chopstikes.
It is said that using chopsticks is good for our brains in Japan. We need a good hand control to use them.
Having a good hand control leads to having a good brain.

But I thought if you use it too much, it would give you arthritis when you get old? :?

metaltoy wrote:It is said that using chopsticks is good for our brains in Japan.

I heard the same effect gives buttoning a shirt. As to chopsticks, nobody uses them except in a Chinese restaurant here, actually I'm not got used to use them too...But if I'm someday in China, I will. :) ...or When I'm in Rome, I will do as Romans do and so forth. :P

LennyeTran wrote: But I thought if you use it too much, it would give you arthritis when you get old? :?

Never.
Chopstiks for me are something like knife and fork for you.
So I can't use knife and fork well instead. :(

I`d like 2 try but I never tried it cuz in my country isn`t any restaurant that u could eat with chopstticks

I like to eat food with chopsticks, it's just like a culture for us. My grandma don't like people to make some noice with chopstick while eating, she will knock our head with chopsticks if we does it. Chopsticks also can use as weapon to teach a kids...

I tried a couple of times but I jus couldn't grip them :D

MissLT wrote:

Dixie wrote:I look very funny when trying to eat with chopsticks I tried to learn while I was in China but I couldn't... Nobody taught me either... :x

Don't worry. I don't know how to hold them the correct way. I just hold them like I'd hold my pen. It works, though.

that's the correct way I think. I also hold them that way. (read it in a book)

hi , I like them they are funny . I have pair of them

i live in china before 2 year and until now i can't use it.
my chinese freind is teach me how to use it but the spoon is more easier ...

and i feel afraid of my clothes becouse every time when i use it i make some mistake.

Hei everybody!
I used chopsticks in a Chinese restaurant in Vienna.
I found it quite difficult to use them,but after a while everything was alright.

i use chopstick everyday.......I feel very simple when use it....

yo, guys
I think, chopsticks is not only used to eat something but also used to hit someone, it's very useful, right....

hi every body..
i like use chopsticks but i cann't catch it corecctly
i wish to use it in corecct method...

hello
I'm from Taiwan.
In Taiwan, everybody uses the chopsticks to eat meal.
sometimes uses the knife and fork.
And......
What are you usually use the tableware ?

Hello!!!
I like to use chopsticks to eat.Not because I would have is to use chopsticks to eat things because they are really easy chopsticks.As long as two long strips of corn could eat.You can try, really fun.

Just like me, that wanted to know how to use chopsticks to eat foods. This is might interesting to know because I have a friend that from the china, then I wanted to be the part of their culture. This is not difficult to use, I can enjoy it and I am comfortable for this.

I'm from Taiwan.I don't like to eat food with chopsticks.It uses inconvenient.So I always use spoon .

I thought Uses the chopsticks not to be able to be very difficult
The science and technology is getting more and more advanced
One kind of chopsticks are study for the child use
Used for a long time has been possible to begin very much

I am a Taiwan people
Eats meal majority of uses the chopsticks
Is actually not difficult
Very interesting

I thought that uses the chopsticks to be interesting is also convenient
If will often use will think that will be very simple :)

Is very convenient but don't like.
Because it very difficult to use.

I was in Taiwan, and chopsticks for me is a daily necessity, almost every meal on the table will have its existence, and I am also accustomed to using chopsticks.

Yes I do. At first, I was not confident because I was not good at using chopsticks. Good thing there were guides like this one https://pandaprimeph.blogspot.com/2021/ ... o-use.html I saw online.