Chopsticks: Are you a Sith Lord or padawan novice?

Chmee · Post by **Chmee** » 2005-06-21 03:55pm

I'm enjoying a nice Korean BBQ pork lunch and using chopsticks as usual, but when I train people from out of town and take them to lunch near our office (where the food is mostly Asian because we're on the edge of the International District), a lot of them can't use chopsticks at all.

In Seattle, you might as well just give up on dating if you can't use chopsticks, so I thought I'd gauge SD'ers skill level here.

Post by **Zaia** » 2005-06-21 03:56pm

I rock the chopsticks out, yo.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2005-06-21 03:56pm

I fear not the chopsticks. Although I hold them slightly differently. I hold the stationary one on my middle finger instead of my ring finger.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2005-06-21 03:57pm

I'm generally pretty good with chopsticks. I can eat ramen noodles pretty well with them, and steamed rice also. Normal chunks of food, too, obviously. I do not fucking understand how people can eat fried rice with them, though. I'm not a patient enough eater for that.

One thing I've noticed about chopsticks is the disposable wooden ones are definitely superior to the nice ones you can buy in a store. They make look pretty, but if they get a little bit wet they become slippery as hell and hard to handle. The wooden ones are much easier to get a grasp on.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2005-06-21 03:58pm

Having a Korean mother, who ENFORCED to eat this way for many years, along with more then a gaggle of relatives in the Pacfic, I've easily learned how to.

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2005-06-21 03:58pm

I used to get the Walrus Face when using chop-sticks (two sticks hanging down from the mouth), but now I've mastered the art of chop-stick-foo and am skilled and agile in my ability to track down and pick up even the smallest bits of rice or Beef Teriyaki...

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2005-06-21 04:00pm

Padawan novice? Mo' like completely Forceblind!

Bring me a fork!

Chmee · Post by **Chmee** » 2005-06-21 04:00pm

Durandal wrote:I fear not the chopsticks. Although I hold them slightly differently. I hold the stationary one on my middle finger instead of my ring finger.

Same here, but I have very long fingers, no problem getting the spacing you need.

Julhelm · Post by **Julhelm** » 2005-06-21 04:05pm

Never had a problem with them.

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2005-06-21 04:10pm

If we were to set up an experiment where I am tasked with eating rice with chopsticks ten times, nine of those ten times would end with me killing myself with them.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2005-06-21 04:11pm

I have no hope what so ever to eat with chopsticks.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-06-21 04:19pm

I can manage if absolutely forced to. Hell, I could probably even manage rice. Most foodstuffs aren't too tough to manage with chopsticks. But I infinitely prefer forks.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2005-06-21 04:26pm

I usually end up getting frustrated and try to spear the food with one chopstick like it's a kabob. This is usually ineffective on rice, as you might imagine.

But of course, on the rare occasion I'm in an Asian restaurant, I refuse to be the only foreign devil in there eating with a fork. So I struggle with the fucking chopsticks.

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2005-06-21 04:26pm

My chopstick-fu is mighty.

I can use them to pick daintily and shovel mightily. (Though usually shovel, it may not look pretty, but I can pick up more rice on chopsticks than I can on anything short of a dessert spoon)

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2005-06-21 04:28pm

*Use the Fork*

Lancer · Post by **Lancer** » 2005-06-21 04:29pm

The power to use a spork is no match for the power of the chopsticks.

Post by **Zaia** » 2005-06-21 04:33pm

RedImperator wrote:I usually end up getting frustrated and try to spear the food with one chopstick like it's a kabob. This is usually ineffective on rice, as you might imagine.

But highly amusing to watch, I'd wager.

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2005-06-21 04:34pm

Matt Huang wrote:The power to use a spork is no match for the power of the chopsticks.

I imagine that one would feel much more comfortable in a fight with a fork than chopsticks, thereby invalidating your statement.

EDIT: A spork, even!

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2005-06-21 04:35pm

No problem, I would not call myself a master but I can eat with chopsticks wo any trubble

Noble Ire · Post by **Noble Ire** » 2005-06-21 04:48pm

I generally use chopsticks as skewers.

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2005-06-21 04:51pm

The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to foods many would consider to be...tasty.

That aside, it's not a pathway I have a clue in, I'm hopeless with the blasted things.

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2005-06-21 04:55pm

I'm very good with them. I can eat jello with chopsticks. That's skill.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2005-06-21 05:00pm

Considering that I learned at the early age of like 4, yes, using chopsticks is as natural as walking for me. There was this activity in Japanese class last year, where we had a competition on who could pick up the most green beans with chopsticks in a given time period... I won. I can pick up tofu and hard-boiled eggs with chopsticks, without spearing them. Now that's skill

Big Phil · Post by **Big Phil** » 2005-06-21 05:01pm

Chmee wrote:I'm enjoying a nice Korean BBQ pork lunch and using chopsticks as usual, but when I train people from out of town and take them to lunch near our office (where the food is mostly Asian because we're on the edge of the International District), a lot of them can't use chopsticks at all.

In Seattle, you might as well just give up on dating if you can't use chopsticks, so I thought I'd gauge SD'ers skill level here.

What kinds of women are you dating? The furry hippie manhater wannabe's that infest Western and Evergreen, or the pseudo-yuppy sorority sluts that can be found in Belltown and Pioneer Square? Or even worse, the fat chicks who think they're "athletic" because they go for a hike a couple of times during summer.

I know more people here in Seattle that are chopstick-tarded than chopstick-capable.

Chmee · Post by **Chmee** » 2005-06-21 05:15pm

SancheztheWhaler wrote:
Chmee wrote:I'm enjoying a nice Korean BBQ pork lunch and using chopsticks as usual, but when I train people from out of town and take them to lunch near our office (where the food is mostly Asian because we're on the edge of the International District), a lot of them can't use chopsticks at all.

In Seattle, you might as well just give up on dating if you can't use chopsticks, so I thought I'd gauge SD'ers skill level here.

What kinds of women are you dating? The furry hippie manhater wannabe's that infest Western and Evergreen, or the pseudo-yuppy sorority sluts that can be found in Belltown and Pioneer Square? Or even worse, the fat chicks who think they're "athletic" because they go for a hike a couple of times during summer.

I know more people here in Seattle that are chopstick-tarded than chopstick-capable.

Mostly professional women that like to eat out at restaurants that don't have placemats that double as coloring books ....

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