Poll of the Day > Do you use CHOPSTICKS or a FORK when you eat NOODLES at an Asian Restaurant???

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If you're eating at an asian restaurant and you order up any kind of noodle dish, you'll likely be given chopsticks to eat with it..however there is a fork on your table as well as they offer both but it's generally advised to use the chopstcks since that's how they do it in asian countries where they use chopsticks to eat with..even with RICE!.

You'd be surprised at what most westerners would pick

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I use chopsticks any place they make them available.

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Look I'm not usually a guy who thinks one culture is inherently better than another, but in this instance Asian countries have it wrong. Forks are objectively better in every regard, and I will use one without shame at any restaurant where it's an option.

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Full Throttle posted...

it's generally advised to use the chopstcks since that's how they do it in asian countries where they use chopsticks to eat with..even with RICE!.

Most Asians I know just use a fork for rice and noodles and joke about the fact that white people will try to use chopsticks for it.

I've used chopsticks for noodles before and it's just not terribly effective. With rice, it can be kinda difficult since you're kinda trying to use them to scoop up clumps.

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Bah, I use my fingers and mouth like any civilized person would!!!

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I eat with a fork, my fingers/hands and obviously my mouth. I've no idea how to use chopsticks and have no desire to learn when a fork or my fingers do the same job if not better.

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Zeus posted...

Most Asians I know just use a fork for rice and noodles and joke about the fact that white people will try to use chopsticks for it.

I've used chopsticks for noodles before and it's just not terribly effective. With rice, it can be kinda difficult since you're kinda trying to use them to scoop up clumps.

For rice it's more like using them like a shovel.
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Chopsticks are too difficult. I have terrible hand/eye coordination. At Panda Express, its always a fork for me.

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i can use chopsticks properly, and in a survival situation, they're the superior utensil for ease of manufacture. if you have a pocket knife, and any sort of woody plant at your disposal, you can make chopsticks. the fork is preferable, and for most meals, a spoon is adequate. frankly, for anything rice-sized the spoon is king, but take the most work to make from scratch if you're carving.

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Fork. Don't see the point to chopsticks.

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

i can use chopsticks properly, and in a survival situation, they're the superior utensil for ease of manufacture. if you have a pocket knife, and any sort of woody plant at your disposal, you can make chopsticks. the fork is preferable, and for most meals, a spoon is adequate. frankly, for anything rice-sized the spoon is king, but take the most work to make from scratch if you're carving.

Well, I always keep a very sharp knife in my purse. I could carve a spoon pretty quickly.

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Fierce_Deity_08 posted...

Well, I always keep a very sharp knife in my purse. I could carve a spoon pretty quickly.

i generally have...several good knives on me or near me at any given time. frankly, with two knives all other eating implements are merely conveiniences.

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No option for "fingers"? ( )

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Ill use chopsticks when theyre available. A lot of times Ill use them at home just because.

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Fork. While Ive used chapsticks a few times, theres no point. A fork works better...
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I can use chopsticks but I'm pretty terrible at them so I'd rather use a fork which I'm somewhat competent in.

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Chopsticks with asian food (lo mein, fried rice, chocolate dome lava cake etc)

I think it was 5th grade camp where we had chinese food one night and we given chopsticks

Thanks to a classmate, I was taught that night on how to use them

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Lava cake is Chinese?
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Revelation34 posted...

Lava cake is Chinese?

I don't think it is. Google said the places of origin were France and the United States...
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I usually use chopsticks when the restaurant provides them. I even ask for chopsticks when they provide only forks.

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

i can use chopsticks properly, and in a survival situation, they're the superior utensil for ease of manufacture. if you have a pocket knife, and any sort of woody plant at your disposal, you can make chopsticks. the fork is preferable, and for most meals, a spoon is adequate. frankly, for anything rice-sized the spoon is king, but take the most work to make from scratch if you're carving.

...that or you could just use your hands. In a survival situation, suddenly utensils become a *bit* less necessary >_>


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Yes but it was too easy so I just use one.