sf wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:51:49 -0400, "Jean B." > wrote:
>
>> I have never seen noodles twirled around chopsticks!
>
> I saw it when we were on the China trip. A waitress in a restaurant
> served noodle soup that way and one of the people on the trip with us
> ate soup noodles that way. She said her family had a Chinese cook who
> taught her how to do it when she was little. I think she said she was
> 3 YO when she learned how. It's very neat, like using a two tined
> fork.
>
How interesting! I have never even seen that in Chinatown, but
the Asians are apt to be using Western utensils while we
non-Asians use chopsticks. Hmmm. Probably more true of older
Asians. I guess I need to look at THEIR techniques.

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Jean B.