Yes, I'm Vietnamese from Hai Phong and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), and all the time during dinner and eating I always have to use chop sticks. You get the hang of it soon.
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The Vietnamese of recently immigrated Chinese ancestry usually still use chopsticks, as do others with strong Eastern heritage and influences. Vietnam also had a lot of French influence in the history of their culture and, where that influence was more strong, there is more use of Western flatware along with the use of chopsticks. Both are used now-a-days.
It would take too much space to give detailed instructions on eating with chopsticks, but the links below have excellent directions and a great deal of useful information as well.
The first link has good illustrations, the second link also links to a video on chopstick use - go down the page and click on 'Chopsticks' over the written instructions, or on 'here' for animated photo instructions.
Yes, Cambodians eat with chopsticks we're Asian.
Yes, as a Cambodian I use chopsticks on a daily basis for eating, showering, and baking! Thank you for the wonderful question!
Sure do. :) I use them everyday.
China, India, Vietnam, Tibet, and many others.
In many Eastern cultures, including China, Japan, and South Korea, chopsticks are commonly used instead of a fork.
Yes , many Koreans use chopsticks, they are traditional eating utensils. Unlike the Chinese and Japanese Koreans do not use their chopsticks to eat rice, preferring a spoon. As another difference, Korean chopsticks are often made of stainless steel. As a consequnce first time users may find them more difficult to "steer" than the disposable Chinese restaurant style because of the thinness and slick surface.
Yes, the use of chopsticks is customary in Japan.
About the same size as California's chopsticks; 3/16 inch at the taper, approaching a 1/4 inch at the top.
"Chopsticks are a pair of small, thin sticks used for eating Asian cuisine."
Chopsticks.
People used chopsticks because they were easy and cheap to produce and buy.
no... how about soup? unless you have those chopsticks with the spoon ends on them...
Early Man was the inventor of chopsticks. The early Chinese used sticks and branches to retrieve his food from the fire. There is evidence they were in widespread use by the Shang Dynasty 1766bc to 1122bc Confucius taught "The honorable and upright man keeps well away from the slaughterhouse and the kitchen. And allows no knives on his table." By 500bc chopsticks had spread from China to the surrounding countries of Korea, Japan and Vietnam
Well how many you would grab use but you just use the same pair.
you don't. you use spoons. Chinese had spoons, but no forks, hence the chopsticks