Chinese chop-chop

Are you honing your chopstick skills?

  • Every day

    Votes: 21 36.8%

  • Not at all

    Votes: 23 40.4%

  • I'll ask for a fock

    Votes: 19 33.3%

  • This is a ridiculous thread

    Votes: 29 50.9%
  • Total voters
    57
The Tibet thing I'm not for sure. When I was in Tibetan region in Sichuan Province, they drank yak products and ate food (Bread-like products) with hands, like Indians.

Chinese didn't have coat of arms before Republic of China, the Qing Dynasty used Yellow Dragon Flag.

Fish head is delicious, but be sure to wash it carefully--Chinese waters are polluted.

Stormbind: why have a pin between the two chop-sticks?
 
I eat with chopsticks almost every day for dinner...

My skills are extreme.

None shall match them, and by the way, this thread is ridiculous.
 
Actually, I probably have the best skills in both chopsticks and normal cutlery. So, I contest your above statements.

Never had pig brains. I hear they have sandwiches of that in the South.

It's fish cheeks. Soft, but minimal.

This is a ridiculous thread.
 
stormbind said:
Just about everything except big tough things like bacon and whole steak, which the Chinese would cut into bit-sized chunks before serving.

I practiced eating sandwich with chopsticks and even that works. Cut by stabbing holes as in perforated paper. How can you eat rice with a fork? :confused:

How about using a truely modern electric blender and a straw? :)
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Nobody says you have to use chopsticks when eating Chinese food.

I use a fork and spoon myself, most of the time. Chopsticks are better for eating noodles etc though.
 
I use chopsticks most of the time when I get Chinese. Unless it isn't cut properly.
 
stormbind said:
Which religions and are these, and are they common in Beijing? :)

Could American waste shock and congest Chinese plumming? :confused:
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Buddhism.

In my family, it's traditional to go vegetarian on the 1st day of each Lunar New Year.

Vegetarian is actually a significant segment of Chinese cooking. You can find Chinese stalls, dedicated to selling vegetarian food, in commonplace hawker centres all over Singapore.
 
Best of all, they're good for building canoes. ;)

chopsticks_canoe.jpg


Of course it is always best to bring your own chopsticks, but the next best thing is recycling. Shuhei Ogawara, a retired city hall employee in the Fukushima Prefecture, spent three months gluing 7382 used chopsticks into a 66 pound, 13'-4" canoe, and coated it with a polyester resin coat. I don't know if I would want to run it down the Nahanni, but it looks pretty good. Launch is planned for May at Lake Inawahiro.
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stormbind said:
I acknowledge the merit in your argument. However, certain "bad stuff" collects in only certain regions of a consumed organism and selective eating may have health benefits.

For example, I think toxic heavy metals collect under the skin. Certain life-threatening diseases (i.e. vCJD) are believed present in only spinal regions of the body. Pesticides are stored in only certain parts of a vegetable (i.e. the top cm of a carrot).

My appologies to anyone offended by the previous image, my mind doesn't have the required predictive imagery of some other readers. How about the following invention instead?

chopstick-invention.jpg
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What's that metal thing between the chopsticks? It looks like a glorified clothespeg. Why do you need that? Can't people learn to use chopsticks without a training device? That's cheating!:eek:
 
That wouldn't teach you how to use them anyway.
 
I'm hoping to go to China (around the time of the Olympics, but with an unrelated purpose), but this thread reminds me that I might have to work on those chop stick skills....
 
a_propagandist said:
Never had pig brains. I hear they have sandwiches of that in the South.
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Ewwwww... :vomit:

You have all correctly identified that those are noob-chopsticks with MIT* devised integrated stabilizing technology. I'm going to make a new rendition and keep them at home for visitors :crazyeye: (no, really... i will)

* possibly

Exactly, what are fish cheeks? :confused:

How do you type Chinese? I tried to type my name and cannot find the characters.. :(

木々 ⺷ (this is nearest I found and it's not right)
 
While chopsticks are clearly uncivilised, some benighted barbarians misuse the noble fork in ways that are much more horrid.

Some inbred islanders to the west of Europe proper for example hold it upside down, which would make eating anything in a tidy way impossible... if much of their ghastly food wasn't so squishy.

I heard that an even more barbarous people even further removed from civlisation can't tell left from right. Consequently, they constantly change the hand which holds the fork.
 
Iranon said:
While chopsticks are clearly uncivilised, some benighted barbarians misuse the noble fork in ways that are much more horrid.

Some inbred islanders to the west of Europe proper for example hold it upside down, which would make eating anything in a tidy way impossible... if much of their ghastly food wasn't so squishy.

I heard that an even more barbarous people even further removed from civlisation can't tell left from right. Consequently, they constantly change the hand which holds the fork.
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I respect the truth of your observation. However, "seemingly impossible" etiquette has been introduced for particular reasons. For example, modern western table manners began with the barbaric use of only pointed daggers that were optionally used to attack persons sitting opposite.

Following centuries of refinement, the most recent tuning to our table manners were devised by those "inbred islanders" around 1880 and represents the least offensive known way to use metal utensils.
 
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