Attn Chopstick using people

At Thai places here in Portland, Oregon, the table service tends to be just a fork.
 
I have family that live in Thailand and I visit them quite often. Thai people just use a fork and spoon for eating just about everything. Chopsticks are just used for Chinese style noodle soups and Korean bbq.
 
smokey616 said:
FYI Thai people don't usually eat with chopsticks and when they do it's mostly for noodle soups.
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With all due respect, I disagree.
You are correct that chopsticks are used for noodle soups, but I lived in Thailand for eight years and watched people use chopsticks for most Thai meals that weren't eaten with fingers. Spoons were used for cutting things like chicken and sausage. I'd say 80%+ of Thai food is eaten with chopsticks. Most of my meals were eaten in restaurants, just as most Thais do, and I was always given chopsticks to use, along with a large spoon. If I needed one, I could ask for and be given a fork.

Edit: Various fried rice dishes were eaten with spoons rather than chopsticks. All noodle dishes were eaten with chopsticks.

Stitchawl
 
Made leather for mine.

Richard

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stitchawl said:
With all due respect, I disagree.
You are correct that chopsticks are used for noodle soups, but I lived in Thailand for eight years and watched people use chopsticks for most Thai meals that weren't eaten with fingers. Spoons were used for cutting things like chicken and sausage. I'd say 80%+ of Thai food is eaten with chopsticks. Most of my meals were eaten in restaurants, just as most Thais do, and I was always given chopsticks to use, along with a large spoon. If I needed one, I could ask for and be given a fork.

Edit: Various fried rice dishes were eaten with spoons rather than chopsticks. All noodle dishes were eaten with chopsticks.

Stitchawl
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It could be a regional thing. Did you live in the north? I only know about the south, where I'm originally from, and Bangkok. There by far the majority use fork and spoon. I grew up using fork and spoon and only learned to use chopsticks later in life.
 
Im not worried about what food i eat with stix aha i just enjoy using them hell the other night at my nonnas i ate lasagna with them =P i do like the leather idea maybe if i fail with the kydex ill give that a go.
 
smokey616 said:
It could be a regional thing. Did you live in the north? I only know about the south, where I'm originally from, and Bangkok. There by far the majority use fork and spoon. I grew up using fork and spoon and only learned to use chopsticks later in life.
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That makes sense. Yes, I lived in the north, closer to the Burmese border. More of a Chinese influence. I guess the Malay influences in southern Thai cooking may have made such a difference.


Stitchawl
 
Well i got my stix and dove right into the kydex and for my first atempt im pretty proud there super simple but i like simple so im happy lol.
pics to come or possibly links to pics if i fail.
 
One of my kids used to like to eat with their fingers when she was younger. I noticed that she really took a liking to using chopsticks. As I thought about it, it occurred to me that the chopsticks were just an extension of her fingers. So its almost like eating with your fingers.

At my former job I was working in a sterile area. We dropped something in a container and needed to retrieve it. Normally we would use a pair of sterilized foreceps (a.k.a. tweezers). We had none. I used some sterile pipets (long thin glass tubes for measuring liquids) like chopsticks to retrieve the part. My coworker just laughed, but it got the job done without contaminating anything.


Ric
 
Phydeaux said:
One of my kids used to like to eat with their fingers when she was younger. I noticed that she really took a liking to using chopsticks. As I thought about it, it occurred to me that the chopsticks were just an extension of her fingers. So its almost like eating with your fingers.

At my former job I was working in a sterile area. We dropped something in a container and needed to retrieve it. Normally we would use a pair of sterilized foreceps (a.k.a. tweezers). We had none. I used some sterile pipets (long thin glass tubes for measuring liquids) like chopsticks to retrieve the part. My coworker just laughed, but it got the job done without contaminating anything.


Ric
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I saw one of the guys that works for me eating noodles with two pens once. I'm not sure how sterile that was but again it got the job done. :D
 
My kids also use chopsticks to stir up their hot chocolate.

The pointy chopsticks are also very good for eating cracked crab. We use them instead of the little crab forks.

In college, my roommate's mom gave us an old fondue pot. So the first time we used it, the bread chunks would slip off the fondue skewers. Not very efficient. I got the chopsticks out. Worked for me. They didn't know how to use them very well, it was quite amusing. They got used them well enough s they didn't starve.

Ric
 
Alrigth heres my finished product.
(if the picture dont work its because i fail with computers)


Just a simple case to keep them together clean and not stabbing through things the tension is kept using a couple o-rings
 
I love you guys but please don't wear chop sticks in kydex on your belt lol.
 
Nice work! That is very clever to use the o rings to provide the tension for retention. We used to use red silicone rubber o rings at a medical device company I worked at, they might look good with the black Kydex.

Ric
 
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