Why would someone use chop sticks to eat rice?!
Answers: I am Vietnamese and I still don't understand why Asians use chopsticks to eat rice? I mean rice is so damn small and chop sticks you can only pickup a few rice, if you are good at using them. I would use a spoon to eat rice. I can pickup about 50 rice pellets with one scoop. With a chop stick, I will be lucky to pick up 5 rice pellets. If it is wet rice, I may be able to squeeze 10 pellets. I guess if you are on a diet then chop sticks for all food is a great idea! Small servings with every bite is a sure way to lose weight. My question....do you use a fork, spoon, or chop sticks to eat rice???
I use a fork, usually, but I have used chop sticks many times to eat rice. The thing is, most asian rice is sticky rice. When prepaired, it is made with oil or sauce that makes it stick together in a sort of a block.So basically when you take chunks of it off, you are getting a whole big clump of rice versus a grain. It is a different matter in european preparation of rice.
Also, if you notice when asians eat regular white rice, they bring the bowl right up to their face and actually shovel in the rice almost. So I suppose that works :)
well the rice is steamed so its steamed kinda together i eat rice with chopsticks its really easy and fun
I have asked the same thing. It makes no sense that they wouldn't adapt to using western utensils.
well normally when people use chopsticks they bring their mouths up to the bowl so you are not holding the rice as much as shoveling it into your mouth. Plus, if you had no utensils wouldn't it have made sense to find two sticks or twigs to eat with without getting your hand dirty?
LOL ur funny, but you can eat rice with chop sticks very well. Sticky rice is usually clumpy and with the bowl to your chin you can shovel it in really easily. Most eat with chop sticks forget that you have to bring the plate/bowl to your face.
I'll use a fork or chopsticks, although I admit a fork is faster if I'm eating off a plate. I thought Asians usually sorta scooped their rice from a bowl into their mouths. They don't pick it up from a plate and lift it into their mouths like westerners do with forks. But really, don't the Vietnamese usually eat their dog out out of a GI helmet? Just kidding.
I agree
On the other hand: if the point of the meal is to consume it as quickly as possible? Why not throw it in the blender along with some tea and just drink it right down??
PLEASE GO BACK TO YOUR ROOTS !!
They usually use a short grain rice which is sticky and easier to pick up with chopsticks. Western style or loose/fluffy rice is too hard to eat with them.
If I'm eating Asian food, I prefer chopsticks even though I'm not remotely Asian.
ALL of you are missing the point of chopsticks. asians normally eat family style, which means all the course are shared amongst those at the table. using a spoon/fork you would have to pick at the community dishes w/ your fork, or use a serving spoon (unecessary expense). chopsticks you can just flip the ends (end that you hold with not eat with) to grab your food. INGENIOUS!
its used more to shovel out of a ricebowl into the mouth than anything else. kinda silly to use chopsticks with rice like you were picking up a slice of meat.
come on now.
Korean people eat rice that is a bit stickier so it stays together nicely and is easy to eat with chopsticks. Vietnamese people usually eat with their hands so they should just forget the chopsticks.