On 1/24/2012 12:55 PM, 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.

I've seen people who look that they may have used chopsticks for a long
time doing something similar in Pho restaurants. Dipping sauce in soup
spoon, picking up meat in chopsticks, dipping meat in sauce, then
eating. I'm not expert enough for that and just use a plate with the
dipping sauce (1:1 hoisin:sriracha, usually)
--
Jim Silverton

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