On 1/24/2012 7:55 AM, gtr wrote:
> On 2012-01-21 21:46:39 +0000, notbob said:
>
>> On 2012-01-21, Ross@home <Ross@home> wrote:
>>
>>> They were very proficient with their chopsticks, deftly using them to
>>> push the food onto their forks.
>>
>> That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard and have never witnessed such
>> a preposterous exercise in my life. In short, yer a lying troll!!
>
> I see this frequently in Japanese restaurants, but not with a fork. They
> use the chopsticks to place the items they want into a soup-spoon,
> neatly meticulously; a little piece of park, a few pieces of this green
> or that. Then they put the spoon in their mouth. I've seen kids do that
> too, but particularly women.
>
> Why they do it just so, I can't say. I prefer a more rapid way of
> getting it in my mouth.

We always eat ramen with chopstick and Chinese style soup spoon. I have
no idea how people eat that dish on the mainland. Probably wrongly.