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March 14, 2005
Two anecdotes from my Chinese food experience today
- One, it appears that once you're used to using chopsticks, it gets really difficult to go back to using a fork.
Using chopsticks in the Western world is a unique experience in that we force ourselves to use the table manners we were raised with - hand-me-downs from the Victorian era - with utensils that were designed as inefficient shovels only.
But once you've mastered the art, attempting to take an object so blunt as a fork to that delicious mein and lemon chicken gets downright hard.
- Two, my fortunate cookie said "If you cannot find wisdom within, try the Internet."
Well, here I am.
Posted by astor at March 14, 2005 09:10 PM
Comments
I have shared your observation on chopsticks vs. fork and knife. Western eating utensils are definately more crude, and to me seem to be less hygenic.
Nice fortune.
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Posted by: guiding at September 25, 2005 10:29 PM