How did the Chinese drink soup without spoons?

Question

Or did they have spoons, too..?

(I'm Asian, by the way, and this question is asked in earnest.)

Answer 1

they really just imagined it being whip cream and poured it all over each others bodies and licked it up

Answer 2

they sucked up the soup through hollow chopsticks

Answer 3

They do have spoons. But if sppons are not available, just sip from the bowl - i do this all the time no problema!! Are you a South Asian where they use their fingers to eat? Do you have soups then??

Answer 4

Chinese they drink soup with spoon,,,,even many chinese they eat rice or other food with spoon and fork tooo......not all chinese food must eat with chopstick.....i am chinese...(^_^)

Answer 5

My mom loved

all things Asian.

She had a few of these

around the house when I was a kid.

They originate back to 207 BC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soup_spoon

http://www.chow.com/stories/10329

Answer 6

The Chinese have porcelain spoons, used for soups and wet desserts. Sometimes, a Chinese native would eat using chopsticks in one hand and a spoon in the other.

Many Chinese soups are meants to be slurped. When there are solids, the solids are sometimes just fished out and eaten with chopsticks.

Answer 7

they had spoons. If they didn't use it, naturally they would sip it from the bowl.

Answer 8

By Asian, do you meant you are Indian or Oriental? If you don't mind me asking, what nationality are you?

The Chinese, one of the most developed an greatest civilisations in the world (although thanks to Japan, Britian and other countries China i worser now) and most definately had porcelian spoons. And what wrong with el.tuco? what hollow chopsticks, thats just gross, imagine trying to suck lian zi into your mouth with a hollow chopsticks with a 3 cm diametre!

and speaking about japan, they copied everything from China culture to food to clothing to literature (Hanzi)

Answer 9

Some chinese drink it with spoons .

Some just sip it from the bowl..

Whatever's more convienent.