LeroyPantwether
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Okay real question. At what age do children usually become proficient with chop sticks? Are training chopsticks an actual thing?
Do Asian Americans eat with chopsticks?
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Dr. Zoidberg
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Around here (SC) the servers always ask "Fork or chopsticks" or just have both available on the table from the start. I'm sure it's probably different in more urban areas. Some people use the sticks, some don't. I've eaten with a couple dudes who were kinda asses about it. "I'll use the chopsticks" they'll smugly declare to the server as if everyone else at the table was a philistine. Douches.
orthodoxy1095
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Oddly enough I don't think I have a pair of chopsticks at home. Usually use them if available when I eat out though.
StarCreator
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Growing up I started using forks only, and didn't start trying to use chopsticks until I was 10 or 11. When I did switch over, I pretty much switched completely and never looked back. Chopsticks are just that much more versatile that forks feel awkward and clumsy to me.
ThisGuy
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I love this picture. I don't know if I want Chinese food or pizza.
FireBeaver
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I'm Asian and never really learned how to use chopsticks. Needless to say my family has made fun of me for that for ages.
I am Asian American and I couldn't use chopsticks (without the rubberband thing) until I was 22 and had to spend 3 weeks in China. My mom is a dope cook, but was born and raised in Chicago; we never really ate Chinese food. I find it funny my aunt (100% ethnically Chinese) has a wall scroll of Chinese characters hung upside down in her house and doesn't know the wiser.
StarCreator
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There are some characters that are supposed to be hung upside down though.
Ragging on Asians is kinda of GAF's outlet for their inate racism. Its the only group the mods tend to let it fly so here we are.
That's actually hilarious.
cpp_is_king
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Yes training chopsticks are a real things. Most kids start learning to use chopsticks around 5, but I've seen kids as young as 4 using them fairly proficiently.
Why?
DeployThatPizza
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I never used training chopsticks. I assume I learned how to use them naturally because I could use them well as a kid.
I only know of the one: the word for "reverse" and "arrive" are homonyms in Chinese, so if you have a character for "fortune" and hang it upside-down, it's supposed to represent the idea of "(may) fortune arrive".
Zoe
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Professor Beef
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what the hell why am i taking strays in here
A Fish Aficionado
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They eat Bimbo's.
TickleMeElbow
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I started using them at 4 years old, but I wasn't proficient with them until I was like 6. The reason why I remember this is because I spent first grade in Japan, and we had to bring our own chopsticks for lunch. I could eat everything fine, so I assume that's around the time they become second nature for most kids in countries that use them.
Training chopsticks are a thing, but I never used them. I just had a pair of small blue ones.
Shit, I'm sorry cuz that's some grade A Bullshit
They don't warp, nor discolor.
Half my family's chopsticks are metal now. Really great, except for soft, smooth noodles.
I'm white as Casper and my Asian in-laws gasp at my chopstick skills like I am Miyagi catching flies. I can do everything from individual grains of rice to atoms.
Get a grip. If anything, there isn't enough weeaboo banning.
I suspect there are more east Asian and southeast Asian countries that DO NOT use chopsticks than ones that do.
USE CHOPSTICKS:
- China (Hong Kong and Taiwan)
- Japan
- South Korea
- North Korea
- Vietnam
DOES NOT USE CHOPSTICKS:
- Philippines
- Malaysia
- Laos
- Myanmar
- Thailand
- Burma
- Indonesia
- etc.
What do you consider small???
Southern California has the largest population of Vietnamese people outside of Vietnam!
USE CHOPSTICKS:
- China (Hong Kong and Taiwan)
- Japan
- South Korea
- North Korea
- Vietnam
DOES NOT USE CHOPSTICKS:
- Philippines
- Malaysia
- Laos
- Myanmar
- Thailand
- Burma
- Indonesia
- etc.
What do you consider small???
Southern California has the largest population of Vietnamese people outside of Vietnam!
Please explain what exactly you mean with this statement.
voodoojohn
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Did you not see the "ex-Vietnam" part of my post?
I'm 32 and I still can't hold chopsticks properly despite using them on a daily basis. I can pick up things just fine but my HK extended family looks at me funny whenever I go visit
newtypepilot
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Does OP use fork when eating sushi?
Honest question.
Honest question.
That's exactly why I replied.
You said that the population of people of Vietnamese descent in the U.S. is small, but So-Cal alone has more Vietnamese people/people of Vietnamese descent outside of Vietnam!
What do you consider to be small?
BocoDragon
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Yup. I'm white and from the boonies of Canada and I was using chopsticks on the regular as a small child 30 years ago, so I'm kind of confused by it...
Korean-Canadian here. Never ever use chopsticks unless at a sushi place.
Even visiting my parents it's always forks/spoons all day every day (though they use chopsticks themselves). And not those asian soup spoon things that are impossible to wrap your mouth around, just plain old spoons.
There was never any pressure to use chopsticks growing up either, even going out to eat at asian restaurants they'd always snag my sister and I a fork. Definitely not about that chopstick life.
Even visiting my parents it's always forks/spoons all day every day (though they use chopsticks themselves). And not those asian soup spoon things that are impossible to wrap your mouth around, just plain old spoons.
There was never any pressure to use chopsticks growing up either, even going out to eat at asian restaurants they'd always snag my sister and I a fork. Definitely not about that chopstick life.
you're supposed to just sip out of them, it actually makes it easier to slurp up hot liquid actually
food-related thread 8)
BronsonLee
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Weebs Gotta Leave
Chaos2Frozen
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...Did you just tried to counter causal racism towards Asians with "too many weeaboos"?
milkham
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I'm 32 and I still can't hold chopsticks properly despite using them on a daily basis. I can pick up things just fine but my HK extended family looks at me funny whenever I go visit
I enjoy secretly observing other people's chopstick technique.
It sure as fuck looks like it.
Which just further goes to show you that a racism towards Asians isn't viewed as seriously, or even fucking recognized, as racism towards blacks, or anti-semitism, or homophobia, or transphobia, etc.
... Black?
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A lot of what I ate as a weeaboo in the UK with chopsticks is actually eaten with Spoons in Asia.
BronsonLee
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Yeah I'm going to go with Stinkles just having a laugh vs anything sinister because ya'll need to chill out
WHAT
nah I'm Hawaiian
Which I find to be ignorant and sad, racism is racism. This thread is a bit of casual racism. Shit ain't right yo.
Demoskinos
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Best first post.
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