How does one go about eating rice with chopsitcks?

Question

i'd really like to know...

Answer 1

I'm vietnamese and i do it from the table. I just take chunks of it with my chopstick and put it in my mouth and eat it :) lol and when its almost gone i put it at my mouth and shovel it in my mouth then. Yumm

Answer 2

You can do what the others are saying, but if you get good with the chopsticks you can pick up a single grain of rice without much effort.  The way I do it is to slide the chopsticks under the rice, then without closing them together lift the rice up.  The rice will stick together like a little ball and sit on top of the chopsticks.

At my favorite Chinese restaurant they serve rice family style, big bowl, shoveling it out of a small bowl isn't an option.

Answer 3

Asian rice is a little sticky.  You can gently grab chunks of it with your chopsticks.  I know the chinese will eat rice out of a small bowl and hold the bowl close to their mouths.  Not sure if other Asian cultures do that.

Answer 4

In addition to different eating habits, they also use a different kind of rice and cook it slightly differently - it's called 'sticky rice', because it sticks to itself.

This can be confusing because the american standard is to have each rice grain be separate, and the concept of clumpy rice has a negative connotation.  But this kind of rice is practically impossible to eat with chopsticks.  I think sticky rice tastes better, too.

Answer 5

usually rice is in the bowl and you bring it closer to your mouth and use the chop sticks to shovel it into your mouth

Answer 6

I first use the chop sticks and scoop or pinch the rice and eat a small portion at a time. This is only when the bowl is fairly full. When the bowl starts to get empty, I would just do what the first answerer would do.

when eating from a plate, I just use a fork.

Answer 7

hold the rice bowl up to your mouth and shovel the rice in with the chopsticks together. that is how they do it in Japan. don't know about China

Answer 8

you must stab each rice grain with a chopstick. Wait until it stops writhing and quickly bring it to your mouth before it gets cold.

Answer 9

Same way you eat an elephant...

One bite at a time.

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Answer 10

Hold the bowl up to your mouth......don't even try from the table cause you will be there all night with rice.  Really  hold it like under you chin and shovel it in.  People think there is another way......just watch how Asian people do it......that is the way to get it done.

Answer 11

I thought the rice was sticky....so it sticks to the chopsticks