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[Hollywoodaction]

I always impress Koreans with my left-handed chopstick technique. That's something they don't see everyday.

Using chopsticks isn't all that difficult. It takes about a month of practice before you stop feeling like a 3 year-old. Takes about 3-6 months to be fully comfortable with it.

[canadian_in_korea]

[red headed stranger]

I generally prefer chopsticks as they slow down my eating so that I do not shovel so much.

I much prefer knives for cutting food however.

[JacktheCat]

I use chopsticks all of the time. Actually I think I'm starting to forget how to use a fork.

Though, I use chopsticks in the Chinese way which Koreans find kind of strange.

[Son Deureo!]

What's the difference?

[JacktheCat]

[JacktheCat]

And then,

I am an American citizen, but I use the British style of eating with a fork and knife.

[thorin]

[thorin]

[JacktheCat]

[JacktheCat]

[numazawa]

[Hollywoodaction]

[Qinella]

Before coming to Korea, I had never used chopsticks. I always thought they were needlessly difficult, and, as Jerry Seinfeld said, the fork is just so obvious!

So for my first three-four days here, eating was a terrible struggle. Restaurant owners would always smile lovingly at me and bring me a fork, but I refused it. After two weeks, I was very proficient.

Now after one month, I'm able to pick up anything with them, even round things like tomatos, curved things like slicked onions, and little things like bean sprouts. Koreans are very impressed at my food stacking technique.

Now that I'm good with the �� �� ��, I love them. Forks just seem so barbaric and garish, and as others have said, invoke too much shoveling.

[manlyboy]

Chopsticks are quaint in a "look how cosmopolitan I am" kinda way, but anything which does not facilitate the shoveling down of mash potatoes and gravy at warp speed, will always be a second rate utensil in my book.