On Jan 20, 3:06*am, spamtrap1888 > wrote:
> On Jan 19, 11:04*pm, notbob > wrote:
>
> > Do you use them? *For what?
> > Are you proficient with them?
> > How often? *For non-Asian foods?
>
> At home, I use bamboo chopsticks to eat things I cook in the wok; out,
> mostly for Japanese food. Chinese restaurants give you plastic
> chopsticks to use, which gives me no grip on something round, smooth,
> and greasy like stirfried gai lan. Other than that, I am proficient.
>
> One useful chopstick featu when you're heating oil in the wok,
> stick a (bamboo) chopstick point down into the oil. When you see
> bubbles coming up from the point, the oil is hot enough for frying.
>
> NB: Not even Asians should use chopsticks to eat lunchtime "rice
> plates." The sauce coats and lubricates the rice, forcing one to pick
> it up grain by grain, should you be foolish enough to try to use
> chopsticks.

you're supposed to bring the plate of rice close to your mouth, and
use the chop sticks to shovel it into your mouth.