Learn to use chopsticks to impress your Asian girlfriend's parents.
Question for members, is using chopsticks when eating at an East Asian restaurant pretentious?
Assuming you're not East Asian, and the restaurant isn't in East Asia, obviously.
Its funny you brought this up because China is starting to tell Chinese people to use a knife and fork.
From The Telegraph
Question for members, is using chopsticks when eating at an East Asian restaurant pretentious?
Assuming you're not East Asian, and the restaurant isn't in East Asia, obviously.
I'll use a pair of chopsticks at an Asian restaurant right up until I need to eat the rice. Then I bust out the fork.
Have you ever seen the proper way to eat rice with chopsticks? You basically have to hold the dish up to your face and shovel it down your gullet. Easy to do when your rice is served in a bowl, but insanely difficult if your whole meal is on a single plate.
I can eat a bowl of rice using chopsticks without the need to bring the bowl to my face. But then again, I'm a black belt when it comes to using chopsticks.
I use chopsticks sometimes but my friends are always like "You're holding them wrong." And I'm like "I'm holding this sushi roll and it got into my mouth, how am I holding it wrong?" It's like when people think there's a right way and a wrong way to hold a pencil.