@George,
Quote:Sometimes my brother-in-law will absent-mindedly twirl one chopstick around like a helicopter blade while keeping the other in position
School kids in Japan do this too.
I saw where it was proffered that playing video games made some better surgeons. I wonder if this also would help in such areas.
@JTT,
If I remember well, it was my preferred, Aishwarya Rai:
@Francis,
A pretty lady, Francis, definitely a pretty lady.
Funny how discussions on the most inane things can lead us to such wonderful places.
@JTT,
When you have beauty in mind, it can be words or anything else..
Btw, I like eating with chopsticks too..
@JTT,
JTT,
Her name was Madhuri Dixit. She is bollywood's Julia Roberts.
She has a million dollar smile. She is now a US citizen. Stays in Denver.
@vinsan,
More of Madz...
yet another of her simple but gorgeous pic (taken in a press conference)
Madz posing as Marylin Monroe few years back...
we went to a korean BBQ joint last night, so i had my first meal with chopsticks.
struggled mightily with the salad, but started to get the hang of it with my entree (chicken, veg + udon noodles).
i now see the benefit of eating this way -- slowing down, savoring each bite.
it may not be for everyone.
but as long as you aren't in a rush, i recommend trying it...
update --
we now eat our nightly salads and some of our dinners with chopsticks...
@Region Philbis,
You should a gold medal winning expert by now.
@tsarstepan,
gettin' better, but don't like eating rice or mashed taters with them.
i either add a binding agent (shredded cheese), or grab a fork...
@Phoenix32890,
I love eating with chopsticks. I have become quite good at it as well.
I think it's fun!
@mismi,
I forgot I had previously posted on this thread. oops.
@Region Philbis,
I don't have the patience to eat nonfried/nonsticky rice with chopsticks.
You'd be consider a martial arts master of the chopsticks if you can use chopsticks to eat (drink) soup broth from soup.
@tsarstepan,
for soup drinking, i hollowed one out and used it as a straw...
R(not really)P
@Region Philbis,
Really was a tough task to eat Thanksgiving dinner with chopsticks last night. I will admit to some difficulty picking up the turkey leg with the chopsticks.
For soup, I used to use chinese ceramic soup spoons.. I've no idea if they are what all in china eat soup with. I bet much of it is just drunk from the bowl, unless the soup is full of bulky ingredients.
@ossobuco,
Japanese drink from the bowl.
Chinese use those spoons you described.
Bulky-ingredients soups (e.g. wonton noodle soup) require a combination
of chopsticks and spoon.
@ossobuco,
we always got chapsticks and the ceramic spoons in CHina and Taiwan
@George,
Yeah.... I just didn't know about all of China, quite a humongous territory.
Picturing slurping from a bowl and being nose smacked with a heavy wonton..
