How to Use & Eat With Chopsticks
How to Use & Eat With Chopsticks
Chopsticks are a type of dining utensil typically used to eat East Asian cuisine. It probably the most versatile Chinese utensil ever, Though it may seem confusing or complicated at first, eating with chopsticks. It’s a fork, knife, pair of tongs and a whisk. It is fairly easy once you know how to hold and maneuver the sticks properly.
But for who maybe didn’t using them, they can be a bit of a challenge.
How to Eat With Chopsticks ?
Step 1: Hold your dominant hand loosely
Step 2: Place the second chopstick in the valley between your pointer finger and thumb along with the first chopstick, but rest this one on your middle finger instead of your ring finger.
Step 3: Use your thumb, pointer and middle fingers to grasp the second chopstick a bit more tightly.
Step 4: The first chopstick (on the bottom) remains more or less stationary. The index and middle fingers do all the heavy lifting with the second chopstick. Lets have a demonstration. (Our refrigerator was pretty sparse. So it’s not like you need to use chopsticks for this particular task, but it’s going to have to be the grapes).
Using your index and middle fingers to move the top chopstick up and down, open up your chopsticks.
And close them over the food. Remember to keep your hand loose but still maintain good control over that chopstick. You’ll really be tested when picking up heavier pieces of food.
Once you’ve got a good grip, go ahead and pick it up.
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