The Chopsticks

Two chopsticks. This is not something I am used to eating with. It’s not that Chinese restaurants don’t know what spoons and forks are, it’s just culture to use chopsticks and I have embraced this. I haven’t touched a spoon or fork since I remember eating back at home one of my mom’s homemade delicious Mexican meals. I don’t miss it! Actually I do miss the food. I have been eating most meals with chopsticks and it’s not as bad as it may seem. It didn’t take me long to adjust. At first I wasn’t able to pick up my food with my chopsticks so I had to cheat and bring my plate as close as possible to the plate of food to avoid making a mess even though most of the time I still made a mess here and there. The most difficult thing I’ve had to eat chopsticks with would be rice and other smaller pieces of food.  It does seem to take longer to finish eating and often I wished I had a spoon and fork to finish quickly and catch up on my Mandarin homework. However, I have to pick up my bowl of noodles soup and drink the soup. I found this odd because it is not considered good manners around my family to drink out of a bowl.