WINTER:
*After watching Youtube tutorials, Googling "how to hold chopsticks", and looking at several step-by-step diagrams, I sat on the couch with my dinner and chopsticks, determined not to get up until I had finished every bite. An hour and a half later.........
*One of my friends took me to a Chinese restaurant (where I typically use a fork...and even that isn't always pretty). She patiently talked me through using my chopsticks and I made it through about half of the meal before I finally gave up, hid all of the dropped rice under my plate, and, defeated, finished my dinner with a fork.
SPRING:
*Back on the couch...dinner time down to about 45 minutes.
*I went to a Korean restaurant and ate my entire meal of bibimbap WITH CHOPSTICKS (and a little guidance from my friends)! *applause* It was a big day.
SUMMER:
*Tonight I went to dinner at a friend's house. I ate salad, rice, beef, and veggies...all with chopsticks. I didn't even get a grain of rice on the table! (Although I did drop a tomato on the floor, but that was just typical clumsiness and not really chopstick-related.)
So....in a week I'll be in China, chopsticks in hand. :)
way to go, girlfriend! i realized a long time ago that no tutorials on how to hold chopsticks actually work... you've just gotta do what feels right for you. it's sort of like teaching someone to hold a pen... everyone has their own style!
ReplyDeleteOh, for sure! Eventually I got frustrated and hungry enough to say, "forget it...this is good enough."
ReplyDeleteMolly, I love you. This was my day at the Vietnamese place I ate a bowl of noodles (that were cut, so I couldn't even twirl them!!!). I think I needed hand surgery after I managed to eat the whole bowl with my chopsticks! But I was also bound and determined!!! Xxoxoxo
ReplyDeletePeople also do the 'lift and scoop' A LOT. You'll see people with bowls at their faces just shoveling in the little bits they couldn't pick up with the chopsticks! :-) And it's so true no one person holds them the same! Do what works and what gets food into your mouth the neatest way possible! :-)
ReplyDeleteCan I just say how proud I am that you EAT Chinese food! I remember Sonnie having to keep her Chinese leftovers in my fridge because it would gross you out! :-)
You're so ambitious, eating bibimbap with chopsticks! It's supposed to be eaten with spoon. lol
ReplyDeleteWe will eat food that require chopsticks everyday when we're in China. :)