On Jan 20, 11:36*am, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:07:36 -0800 (PST), A Moose in Love
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> >On Jan 20, 3:06*am, spamtrap1888 > wrote:
> >> On Jan 19, 11:04*pm, notbob > wrote:
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> >> > Do you use them? *For what?
> >> > Are you proficient with them?
> >> > How often? *For non-Asian foods?
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> >> At home, I use bamboo chopsticks to eat things I cook in the wok; out,
> >> mostly for Japanese food. Chinese restaurants give you plastic
> >> chopsticks to use, which gives me no grip on something round, smooth,
> >> and greasy like stirfried gai lan. Other than that, I am proficient.
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> >> One useful chopstick featu when you're heating oil in the wok,
> >> stick a (bamboo) chopstick point down into the oil. When you see
> >> bubbles coming up from the point, the oil is hot enough for frying.
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> >> NB: Not even Asians should use chopsticks to eat lunchtime "rice
> >> plates." The sauce coats and lubricates the rice, forcing one to pick
> >> it up grain by grain, should you be foolish enough to try to use
> >> chopsticks.
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> >you're supposed to bring the plate of rice close to your mouth, and
> >use the chop sticks to shovel it into your mouth.
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> How uncouth.

That's just the nature of the way things woiks.