I don’t understand chinese restaurants that will cut broccoli and the like into unmanageable pieces, too big for a bite. Idk if it’s cultural or a scheme of the all you can eat buffets to lessen the ability to shovel food into your mouth so quickly. Didn’t work on me, all you can eat buffets are a mission for me to make them lose money.
I can’t speak to Chinese Chinese, but a lot of east Asia cuts things into pieces one can pick up with chopsticks and eat in one bite. I haven’t been to a US Chinese buffet in years, but I don’t recall overly-large pieces the last time I went. Where I grew up (rural Ohio) not many people used chopsticks I til fairly recently, so maybe I’m forgetting my younger days or perhaps something else is going on.
Soup - drink from bowl and use chopsticks if it has bits
Big soupy thing (ramen, pho, that sort) - spoon and chopsticks
Rice with grains that don’t stick together much - spoon
Things like ice cream (dish), applesauce, that sort of consistency: spoon
Food from countries/places that don’t cut things down to bite size: knife + fork (sometimes replaced by chopsticks when cutting is done)
Most other non-liquids: chopsticks or no utensil depending upon the case.
~ Person in Japan for over a decade
I don’t understand chinese restaurants that will cut broccoli and the like into unmanageable pieces, too big for a bite. Idk if it’s cultural or a scheme of the all you can eat buffets to lessen the ability to shovel food into your mouth so quickly. Didn’t work on me, all you can eat buffets are a mission for me to make them lose money.
I can’t speak to Chinese Chinese, but a lot of east Asia cuts things into pieces one can pick up with chopsticks and eat in one bite. I haven’t been to a US Chinese buffet in years, but I don’t recall overly-large pieces the last time I went. Where I grew up (rural Ohio) not many people used chopsticks I til fairly recently, so maybe I’m forgetting my younger days or perhaps something else is going on.