I went to a local Korean restaurant tonight where they provided stainless
steel chopsticks to patrons. Any reason what the significance is using
stainless steel as opposed to wooden chopsticks?

thanks,
kate

BMC wrote:
>
> I went to a local Korean restaurant tonight where they provided stainless
> steel chopsticks to patrons. Any reason what the significance is using
> stainless steel as opposed to wooden chopsticks?
>
> thanks,
> kate

Never seen it before. Sounds slippery and not very good for eating. Plus
cold. I'd say a gimmick.
blacksalt

"kalanamak" > wrote in message
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> BMC wrote:
> >
> > I went to a local Korean restaurant tonight where they provided
stainless
> > steel chopsticks to patrons. Any reason what the significance is using
> > stainless steel as opposed to wooden chopsticks?
> >
> > thanks,
> > kate
>
> Never seen it before. Sounds slippery and not very good for eating. Plus
> cold. I'd say a gimmick.
> blacksalt
It's the real deal blacksalt. My ex didn't use them in our house but if we
ate at any of her families' homes or friends' it was metal chopsticks and a
large metal soup spoon.
Here in Colorado Korean restaurants (both little family places and the up
scale) don't do the metal though. I'm reasonably adept with chopsticks for
an Occidental and I find the metal ones harder to use.
John

"kalanamak" > wrote in message
...
> BMC wrote:
> >
> > I went to a local Korean restaurant tonight where they provided
stainless
> > steel chopsticks to patrons. Any reason what the significance is using
> > stainless steel as opposed to wooden chopsticks?
> >
> > thanks,
> > kate
>
> Never seen it before. Sounds slippery and not very good for eating. Plus
> cold. I'd say a gimmick.
> blacksalt
It's the real deal blacksalt. My ex didn't use them in our house but if we
ate at any of her families' homes or friends' it was metal chopsticks and a
large metal soup spoon.
Here in Colorado Korean restaurants (both little family places and the up
scale) don't do the metal though. I'm reasonably adept with chopsticks for
an Occidental and I find the metal ones harder to use.
John

"kalanamak" > wrote in message
...
> BMC wrote:
> >
> > I went to a local Korean restaurant tonight where they provided
stainless
> > steel chopsticks to patrons. Any reason what the significance is using
> > stainless steel as opposed to wooden chopsticks?
> >
> > thanks,
> > kate
>
> Never seen it before. Sounds slippery and not very good for eating. Plus
> cold. I'd say a gimmick.

No, this is actually very common in Korea. In fact, I
can remember getting stainless steel chopsticks WAY
more often than wood or plastic when eating in Seoul.
I'd say you've just found a Korean restaurant that is doing
things the way they do "back home."

Bob M.

"kalanamak" > wrote in message
...
> BMC wrote:
> >
> > I went to a local Korean restaurant tonight where they provided
stainless
> > steel chopsticks to patrons. Any reason what the significance is using
> > stainless steel as opposed to wooden chopsticks?
> >
> > thanks,
> > kate
>
> Never seen it before. Sounds slippery and not very good for eating. Plus
> cold. I'd say a gimmick.

No, this is actually very common in Korea. In fact, I
can remember getting stainless steel chopsticks WAY
more often than wood or plastic when eating in Seoul.
I'd say you've just found a Korean restaurant that is doing
things the way they do "back home."

Bob M.

kalanamak > wrote:

[steel chopsticks]
> Never seen it before. Sounds slippery and not very good for eating. Plus
> cold. I'd say a gimmick.

Not a gimmick. They are traditional in Korea and usually the default,
though wooden or bamboo chopsticks are used, too. My usual Korean
restaurant here in Düsseldorf provides metal chopsticks as a matter of
course. I have no problem using them, except with noodles.

Victor

kalanamak > wrote:

[steel chopsticks]
> Never seen it before. Sounds slippery and not very good for eating. Plus
> cold. I'd say a gimmick.

Not a gimmick. They are traditional in Korea and usually the default,
though wooden or bamboo chopsticks are used, too. My usual Korean
restaurant here in Düsseldorf provides metal chopsticks as a matter of
course. I have no problem using them, except with noodles.

Victor

>I went to a local Korean restaurant tonight where they provided stainless
> steel chopsticks to patrons. Any reason what the significance is using
> stainless steel as opposed to wooden chopsticks?

That's the traditional korean chopstick. We used them at home. Disposable
wooden chopsticks were preferred in korean restaurants(in korea) over metal
ones, because it's not re-usable and thus feels cleaner. I'm a bit
surprised that you were given metal sticks in korean restaurant. Korean
people don't like that.

>I went to a local Korean restaurant tonight where they provided stainless
> steel chopsticks to patrons. Any reason what the significance is using
> stainless steel as opposed to wooden chopsticks?

That's the traditional korean chopstick. We used them at home. Disposable
wooden chopsticks were preferred in korean restaurants(in korea) over metal
ones, because it's not re-usable and thus feels cleaner. I'm a bit
surprised that you were given metal sticks in korean restaurant. Korean
people don't like that.

> That's the traditional korean chopstick. We used them at home.

So do we.

> Disposable wooden chopsticks were preferred in korean restaurants
> (in korea) over metal ones, because it's not re-usable and thus
> feels cleaner.

Nonsense.

> I'm a bit surprised that you were given metal sticks in korean
> restaurant. Korean people don't like that.

That's not true!

Everywhere in South-Korea, metal chop-sticks are used in each and
every kind of *real* restaurant, in small and unexpensive as well
as in expensive ones. And we never met anyone there who wasn't Korean.
Bye, sanne.

> That's the traditional korean chopstick. We used them at home.

So do we.

> Disposable wooden chopsticks were preferred in korean restaurants
> (in korea) over metal ones, because it's not re-usable and thus
> feels cleaner.

Nonsense.

> I'm a bit surprised that you were given metal sticks in korean
> restaurant. Korean people don't like that.

That's not true!

Everywhere in South-Korea, metal chop-sticks are used in each and
every kind of *real* restaurant, in small and unexpensive as well
as in expensive ones. And we never met anyone there who wasn't Korean.
Bye, sanne.