I'll use my chopsticks however is comfortable for me, thank you very much.

USA
I couldn't use chopsticks to save my life. I practice and practice, but the only thing i can do it with is sushi.

feelsbadman

New Zealand.
Knew the more important rules, and probably could have guessed some one the lesser ones.

1. USA
2. Yes, quite well. They're still pointless.

1. Australia

>implying half of Asian doesn't do half of the shit in this video

us but moved here from asia years ago

yes, i'm very proficient with using chopsticks. i actually prefer it to a fork and spoon with certain foods

United States

Yeah, I know more than the averag slob, but some of the stuff in the video surprised me, but mechanically, I am not awful with chopsticks.

>>3604286

I would totally bet that they do. I am almost willing to bet it is a formal dinner thing versus lazy microwave lunch.

Can't remember the last time I put the fork on the left when making a breakfast burrito for myself.

1. USA (Washington)
2. No.

I use the Hanzo deathgrip/Engineer's 2-and-1 fusion style.

And since I have to make it up again each time I use chopsticks, I absolutely can't be doing it right.

I saw a documentary movie on the Japanese countryside once, and those old noice people in that old noice village put their chopsticks into the rice bowl all the time and left them there without any troubles or problems. And noone had died or something.

>>3604258
I made it half way through the video... that must be a record, right?

Seriously, isn't it more rude to use your fingers to pull a bowl closer? Or not being able to sift through your food with the chop sticks? What about placing the chopsticks on your dish? NOT EVERYONE HAS A CHOPSTICK HOLDER BITCH!

I payed for them (whether I purchased a meal, or use them at home), I'll fucking use them how I wish.

1. USA
2. I sometimes rest them on top of a bowl or something.

>>3604318

this is when you are around other people, not at home. You can have one chopstick up your ass and another up your urethra at home if you want, it wont matter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr9DamxISGc&feature=relmfu

OMG, I CAN'T STOP RAFFING!!!

>rice barrs
>how I shape rice barrs

So many r's and so many BALLS.

I eat sushi with my fingers. It's fucking finger food you noobs.

>>3604322

that shits fucking kawaii

you are aware that none of these pics are right...right?

you grab these fuckers from the top, not the middle

Chinese master race posting btw

Chopsticks!

>>3604323

no one even fucking mentioned sushi, give it a rest.

Yes, chopsticks, that's right. Chopsticks are the most elegant utensil on the planet. Poking things and chopping them up with forks and knives is so barbaric! Chopsticks are the best. For me, using chopsticks is truly an art.

>>3604353

Except none of them are in the middle, they're all 3/4 of the way up. Unless you like grabbing the very ends of the chopstick which is WRONG.

also
>eating one dish continuously
>taboo
Fuck outta here.

fork mater race

>>3604371
>mater race

>>3604366
FUCK YO CHOPSTICKS BITCH NIGGA!

I EATS MAH SHEEYATS WIT A SPORK!

THUG LIFE!

>>3604374
A utensil fit for a peasant like yourself.

1. Germany
2. Knew the more important rules, but some of them are pointless, like not pulling a bowl with your chopsticks.

I learned how to use chopsticks when I was like 6 years old, and now I can eat nearly everything with it (as long as it's in bitesizes). I cannot decide whether forks or chopsticks are better utensils, they both have their advantages, and I use both reguarly.

>>3604322
i would fap to that video if i was a weeaboo faggot

Germany
I just impale the food with the chopstick and eat it

Implying I give a shit how to use them correctly

Canada
No
It's never really come up. Other than when my friends went through a weeaboo phase and tried forcing me

>USA
>Yes
I don't care about etiquette, I just know how to get my food with them

>>3604258

1. Poland
2. Fuck yeah I do, my friend taught me, we went to very posh sushi place, I chopsticked the hell out of my meal.

I just use a spoon to eat everything.

Chopstick etiquette changes according to the locale.

Anyway, I'm alright with them due to some time spent in Asia. I still have trouble getting a good grip on larger objects but small stuff is no problem.

1. USA
2. Yes

The only time I use them is when eating at a restaurant where they are offered. The only "taboos" I have committed as far as I remember is passively "pointing" with them, and "digging" in my food with them.

Australia
Yes

You look like a redneck or retard if you can't chopsticks.

1. Finland
2. I don't think I've even seen chopsticks outside of media. So, no, I have absolutely no idea how to use them.

Italy
No and I never even tried

Murrican, living in Thailand
Yeah I can use some fucking chopsticks

As far as all these rules go, I think it's important to point out that 1. That shit only applies in Japan, and 2. even there some of those things are probably pretty obscure and not that offensive. Kind of like someone in America going OH NOES I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU JUST ATE YOUR SALAD WITH THE DESSERT FORK

Anyway, here in Thailand chopsticks are only for noodles and hotpot, we rock a spoon and a fork for pretty much everything else.

I'm Asian-American with a first gen. Taiwanese mother.

I had no choice.

1. USA! USA! USA! HOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
2. Yes, but I don't use them often so I'm clumsy with them at times.

>>3605053
>As far as all these rules go, I think it's important to point out that 1. That shit only applies in Japan
That’s wrong though. China and Korea also have ruuruus for chopsticks. Vietnam too probably.

>>3605143
Yes, but rules of etiquette are going to be different from country to country. The rules stated in the video are Japan specific, and I'm not going to worry about that shit since I'm not in Japan.

1. Norway
2. Pretty much, yes. However, not everything in that video.

>>3604258
>Some examples of chopsticks taboos.
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNFMqE7UMN8
Most of these are rules like, "Don't put your elbows on the table."

They're made up, there's no reason for them, and nobody really follows them or notices when you break them, except in "etiquette" lessons marketed to people who already know how to behave properly (and therefore have to invent problems with people's behavior to have something to sell).

1. Canada
2. yes

1. Germany
2. Actually I prefer to eat rice with chopsticks and can handle them well enough but I doubt I would pass a test for correct usage

Finland.
Yes, I know how to use chopsticks. It's a basic life skill expected from every civilized human being.

1. scotland
2. yes, but i still haven't mastered cutting yet

Fail.

Fail...

>>3605508

>not twirling your noodles for easier eating

Oh wait.

USA, Texas, Dallas
I'm boss with chopsticks. I don't hold them near the eating end, I try to keep them parallel when not in use like you're supposed to.
I never stick them straight up in rice.
I'm also white, but date Asians.

>>3605523

>>3605530
No. I'm not a weeaboo. I rarely watch anime. I'm just cultured.
I have other interests that don't always pertain to something out of Asia.

>>3605523
Azn pussy is the best pussy. Sooooo tight.

>>3605538
I'm actually female and date males. Hahaha.

Yeah I do.
Never done those things in the video. Common sense really.

>>3605541
>implying your white loose pussy is tight enough to stimulate an azn pencil dick to ejaculation

>USA

I maybe used chopsticks all of 3 times, then the novelty wore off.

Eat rice Chinese-style.

>>3605585
told-a-saurus rex

USA
No, never needed to because I can eat Chinese with a fork. And it's not hurting anyone if I don't use chopsticks.

>>3604369
I think it might make more sense in a communal setting where you are sharing food with other people.

But shit that is clearly mine? Yeah, they can get the fuck outta here.

1. USA
2. Pretty well, I think. My dad used to travel to Asia a lot so I thought it was neat to use them when I was little & it stuck. I mean, it's fun. Why not?

USA

I know how to hold them properly, but my hands are messed up so I can't actually eat with them the "proper" way. I hold them strange, but it works just fine for me.

USA
I know how to maneuver them correctly, yes. As for the taboos, I knew several of them like spearing food, and resting on top of a dish, but not ones like moving dishes with them, or holding them in the same hand as a dish.

1. USA, but my parents are chinese immigrants.
2. I know how to use chopsticks better than my parents

México
I do know, learned through practice. Everyone I know doesn't know how to, neither they are interested in learning.

Obligatory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3vBqX1NTBc&feature=related

USA
Yes. I've been using them correctly since I was a child, and I had a wap phase in my teens that taught me all of the taboos.

Fuck the taboos. Other than pointing with them and waving them around the rest of it is common sense (don't dig with them, don't hold something else in the same hand) or pointless shit (don't rest them on a bowl). I use them as a tool, that is all.

Australia

Yes. No i was never a weeaboo or anything, unless you include fucking loving Godzilla and Gamera movies as a kid. I just wasnt an idiot. The first few times going to an asian restaurant i was curious and wanted to try, so i asked a waiter to show me and took it from there.

I have no idea about etiquette and quite frankly dont give a shit. I only use them every once in a while, i dont cook much asian food now that isnt Indian.

>have no idea about etiquette and quite frankly dont give a shit.

that's australia alright.

Some of those are absolutely ridiculous, or would just be considered common sense by other cultures that use other utensils...are japs really that sensitive when it comes this sort of thing?

1. USA
2. I hold my chopsticks the traditional chinese way.

I watched that video and was surprised to see that tamping rice down was improper. A japanese man first showed me to do this, and it really does make getting those last, unstuck bits of rice easier.

>>3605585
Apparently that implication is true. My mouth seems to be pretty good at stimulating, as well.

Video is what you would expect if you were told you were going to eat in some ultra formal place...say with the Emperor of Japan.

Like some other Anon said, some of the more obscure ones aren't closely followed are because it's like saying eating a salad with a dessert fork is "wrong"

Don't point or wave it around, don't stick it into a bowl of rice, don't lick or try and give your chopstick a blowjob or try and dig around the serving dish with it is what I've been told. The other ones don't really apply in 90% of the situations I've been in.

>Country
Of origin: Italy
Of residence: US
>Know how to use chopsticks?
Yes.
>Taboos.
Watched the video. I was unaware of most of those but I can't think of any time I've done any of them except for the kasanebashi one (that one about eating the same thing over and over).

lmao i can't believe all of japan uses chopsticks every day

it's mind boggling

i fee like a caveman with my stabby fork

>>3605760

i guess that means sticking them in my gums to make walrus tusks is right out then....

>>3605832
That's okay to do.

USA

I could use them as a child because my babysitter was an exchange student from Japan, but I've long since forgotten.

Man these are like Japanese chopstick customs not necessarily all asian customs.

Because i'm asian and my family doesn't care if you eat from one dish continuously as long as you finish what you eat and don't waste it. We point with chopsticks too when we're having conversations and rest chopsticks on our bowls. Hell we don't even use chopsticks sometimes depending on the meal we eat.

>>3606507
The chopsticks in the bowl thing is a generic Asian custom (something about the dead), but most countries besides Japan don't give a fuck about them.

>>3606509
Japan seems almost as bad as America when it comes to believing in superstition

Italy
Yes, I even eat noodles with them.
Italians love asian food.

- Belgium
- I can use chopsticks correctly and do so at least 2-3 times per week, though it's definitely not the same for all Belgians

>>3606507
>We point with chopsticks too when we're having conversations

I'm Chinese and I get mad pissed when someone does that to me.
Makes me wanna punch them in the adam's apple.

>>3606611

You should probably learn to control your anger towards inconsequential actions.

>>3606611
I'm a Westerner and I feel the same way when people do this with forks. It's fucking rude.

Canada. I think most people here who aren't from rural areas can use them. I'm a cracker from Vancouver and I can't remember knowing how to use a knife and fork before I could use chopsticks.

>>3606611
>>3607079
This. No matter what kind of utensil you're using, it's rude, poor manners to point at people with them. Ugh....

1. United States
2. No, and I can just barely use them. Growing up in the Midwest there was never really any need to learn.

>not rubber-banding your chopsticks together with a paper wedge

Manual dexterity is for faggots.

>>3607152
>rubber-band
>not using this bad boy in chinese/japanese restaurants

1. United States
2. No, and there's no reason to. We don't typically serve food in bite-sized pieces like Asians so it's useless to us, however weaboos will still continue to call us uncultured because a majority of us don't know how to use them.

>>3607152
>>3607175
>Not using a fork

Just admit your failure

1. America
2. Yes

1) Netherlands
2)Yes, from rice to not too large chunks of meat or whatever.
Eatng sush is like a small race, be quick or they're gone.

Canada

Yes, and that was before I lived in Japan for a year. I've been using them since I was 10.

NO FUN ALLOWED

Fuck you damn Japs and your stupid customs. I'll stick my chopsticks in whatever I want when I'm not using them.

netherlands
yes i do, but when eating alone i don't bother that much, and if i made some fucking delicious rice dish then im gonna shovel it in no matter what the japanese might think about it

>>3608609
寄せ箸(よせばし、YOSE-BASHI)：Don’t move plates or bowls with chopsticks.


刺し箸(さしばし、SASHI-BASHI)：Don’t stick or sting foods with chopsticks.


迷い箸（まよいばし、MAYOI-BASHI)：Don’t wonder what to eat with chopsticks wondering.


空　箸(からばし、KARA-BASHI)：Don’t unhold foods after you pick something with chopsticks.


移し箸(うつしばし、UTSUSHI-BASHI)：Don’t pass foods chopsticks to chopsticks.


立て箸（たてばし、TATE-BASHI）：Don’t stick chopstick strait in rice.

1.USA, currently living in Japan
2. I can eat any kind of food with chopsticks, even single beans, or soups (although I rather hate eating soup with a pair of sticks). At home I still use fork, knife, and spoon because they are superior in every way except maybe economy, but when I do use chopsticks, I don't give a fuck about the Japs and their stupid-as-fuck rules that only make it harder, if not near-impossible to use these fucking things properly.

>eating sushi with chopsticks

>tfw this woman makes these videos to make up for the fact she is an isolated housewife

1. UK
2. Of course I fucking do, it's not rocket science.

1) italy
2) no and not looking forward to learn

I spear and stab my food just fine.

>>3604258

>Vietnam
>U DONT SAY

>>3608629
>Eating sushi with your hands like a barbarian

1. Spain
2. Yep, but sometimes it gets hard sdfjksdfsj

1. UK
2. Yes, because I'm not a complete pleb.

In the US pretty much all you have to worry about is keeping your elbows off the table and chewing with your mouth closed.

1.Italy
2.Only for fucking sushi

>>3608626
>but when I do use chopsticks, I don't give a fuck
so why do you use them at all? And why not just smash your head in the food, it's easier

>>3608740
context, you chose to ignore it.