do you eat with chopstick or spoon and forks?

Malaysia
December 28, 2008 10:21am CST
Here in Russia people eat with fork and only forks no spoon, sometimes with knives for steaks. Chinese eat with chopsticks but not many chinese know how to use chopstisks nowadays. I am a chinese myself I know how to use chopsticks but prefer to use spoon and forks best. But sometimes when I eat noodles I like to use chopsticks and when I go to chinese restaurants give me some kind of chinese feel. How abuot you?? Which do you prefer? and which race are you?Is there any traditional way of eating in your race?
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@oyenkai (4394)
• Philippines
29 Dec 08
I can eat with any of those but we mainly use spoon and forks here in the Philippines. We use chopsticks when we're eating Chinese food or Japanese food or Korean - we even have chopsticks in our home for those kinds of dishes. We like using chopsticks for some reason even though it's not really part of our culture, I guess it's just preference and the feel of wood with food is different. Thanks for the comment on my discussion!
• Malaysia
29 Dec 08
I uses all of them, depend on what I'm eating. Noodles will use chopsticks, rice on plate will use spoon n fork. Western food will use knife and fork. It all boil down to what food I'm eating. The only thing I don;t do is using my and to eat, like those Indian. Still can't get used to that.
• Malaysia
29 Dec 08
hehe, thanks for your comment.
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
28 Dec 08
Hi lovesummer I eat with spoon, forks and I do not know how to eat with chopsticks. I am an Indian and traditionally we use our hands to eat. However, things have been changing and now the urban people are comfortable with spoon knife, fork.
• Malaysia
28 Dec 08
hello Mimpi, thanks for your comment. I have indians friends here. they like to eat curry everyday curry hehe and eat with their hands, interesting.
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
28 Dec 08
Oh yes, we do and older generation just go gaga over it and i love them like that.
• Philippines
1 Jan 09
im a filipino people i used fork and spoon. ive never try using the chopstick but if ever i would go to china or korea well im going to try to use it.
• Malaysia
1 Jan 09
cool. Thanks for sharing. Happy New Year!
@hotsummer (13837)
• Philippines
1 Jan 09
hi lovesummer, it is great that we have similiar username. i am filipino. i love to use chopsticks though i am not really good at it. i just loved the oriental feeling or chiense feeling that goeas along with it when i use chopstick. so when i eat on chinese restaurants i don't requrest for spoon. and so do you mean that most chinese don't know how to use chopstcks but i still see many chinese that do know how to use them in restaurants. i just don't know if some chinese people do still use those chopsticks at home or will they prefer to use spons and only use chopsticks in restaurants. do you still use chopsticks at home. before when i was younger i am more comfortable eating by my hands. but of course i clean my hands so well. there is no traditional way here in how we eat. it has been always with the use of spoon and fork.
• Malaysia
1 Jan 09
There are still children that do not know how to use chopsticks and some chinese family brought up in english background some of them too don't practise to use chopsticks that even can't speak their own languages. They speak among themselves english or their native dialects. Those are people that forget about their own cultures. I don't use chopsticcks at home. But I use it here when I come to Russia I mixed with the strong chinese background people here is where I geniunely start using chopsticks. Before I am always been using spoon and forks are home. Thank you Summer for sharing. Happy New YEar. :)
@ronnyb (6113)
• Jamaica
29 Dec 08
Here in Jamaica we only use forks and spoons and sometimes knives but never chopsticks even when we are eating chinese.The principle is to use spoons for liquid meals like soups and porridges and forks or spoons for solid meals.
• Malaysia
29 Dec 08
Just like us. Thanks for ya comment.
@ojoe17 (14)
• Antigua And Barbuda
30 Dec 08
i am black. we eat with forks most of the times. knives to cut meat sommetimes. spoon for soups. when we were young they made us use spoons for everything no knives or falks. use chopsticks sometimes at chinese. got a set at home to. use it when i am bored.
• Malaysia
31 Dec 08
nice to know that. :)
• Norway
28 Dec 08
In the Philippines, we eat using spoon and fork. But wealthy families, use fork and knife in eating. When I came here in Europe, and people are using fork and knife so i have to use the same, too. It was so hard, at first, changing what you've used to do for almost 20 years. But then, im good at using those now. Chopstick? ohh, i have tried many times using chopstick but i never learned on how to hold them nor use them.. pity me!!
• Malaysia
28 Dec 08
Is true it was hard for me too, In fact I found it a bit strange without spoon. aha, but I am pretty much used to it now. Holding chopsticks was hard for me too when I first tried to. Now I am still having a little problem with chopsticks especially when I have to take little food with them in those slippery gravies. I admire my grandma she can eat rice with chopsticks!
@808nala (640)
• United States
28 Dec 08
I normally will eat with fork, knife and spoon. I will use chopsticks for certain things, like noodles. When ever I go to an Asian restaurant, I will use chopsticks. I am mixed; Japanese, Hawaiian and Spanish. I was born and raised in Hawaii and there are many Asian people there. I think most of the population learned how to use chopsticks although more than half would probably prefer to use a fork.
• Malaysia
28 Dec 08
wow, it is so cool that you are mixed and get to expose to so many different cultures.