How do you use chopsticks? Here are the 7 ways! / cicili 1. Selecting 挑 2. Mixing 伴 3. Picking 挾 4. Dipping 沾 5. Cutting 切 6. Scooping舀 7. Digging扒 Stay in touch with CiCi: www.cicili.tv / cicili / cicili / cicisfoodparadise
Thanks, I’m South Asian Australian & we never use chopsticks to eat food. I recently had to ask a Japanese cafe staff to put my noodles soup in a takeaway container after hopelessly trying to eat with chopsticks 😂
Oh Cici, this makes so much sense. I have been using chopsticks for 2 months now as a way to challenge myself. No forks, knives or spoons at all 😊 I am South American, so it was completely new to me. At the beginning my hands were hurting a lot and I could barely grab my food, but now, I love it! I can eat anything with them and prefer them over traditional cutlery. It’s wonderful! All I needed was practice and determination. Thank you for your tips. I did not know how to cut with chopsticks! 😁
I usually rolled my noodles on my chopsticks, which Chinese waitresses found amazing and amusing. They didn't know it is possible to eat noodles silently (SLURP!!!)
Wow, i never thought learning how to hold chopstick is not that difficult as i thought it would be untill i watched your video & I'm glad i did... thanks !
I have never seen a big block of tofu served in any restaurant. In fact, for some long vegetables, the cook doesn't cut it before cooking or serving it, so Chinese use their inborn "knife" - their teeth - to bit off a bit. Same with a pork cutlet, just lift the whole thing and chomp off a bit.
My husband is a chef, and I guess he gave up on teaching me how to use chopsticks. I came across your video and bam! Now I guess I'm a master! Thank you!!!
@@CiCiLi Definitely. I just need to take him casually to sushi and brag about my new skill not taught by him 🤣 Thank you again. You have really good tips!
Hi CiCi. I have a suggestion, which you might or might not think is helpful: When I started using chopsticks, at first (of course) it was difficult and frustrating. I did a lot of experimenting with holding them exactly the right way(s), and this helped a little, but definitely was not the whole answer. Then I found out by accident that I had better luck with them if I stopped thinking like a Westerner. Our fork and spoon are used to support OR stab, that's IT. But with chopsticks, often you have to COMBINE the two, and add-in pinching as well, depending on what you are eating of course. It was this idea of considering what you are eating (which soon becomes a habit you don't even think about), then getting the right COMBINATION of lifting/pinching /stabbing, mainly the first two, which enabled me to use them well.
I became quite proficient in using my left hand with chopsticks (I'm right-handed). Most Chinese found this a great challenge and conceded that my left hand use was better than theirs. I grew up with a left-handed mother and sister, so often in a restaurant, I would use my left hand to avoid elbow bumping (They couldn't switch).
I want to know if you can twirl noodles elegantly without first putting down the chopsticks and reposition them in your hand. Or is that just not a thing?
Chopsticks have been found that are much older than Shang, but judging from their size, were probably just used for cooking. In those times, spoon or fingers were used (抓饭), depending on the liquid level. I found it interesting that many folks, especially young women, in a soup noodles restaurant lift the chunky contents out of the broth in a spoon, before grasping anything from the spoon using chopsticks. Also, I noticed that most Chinese avoid touching food, soch as burgers, fries, fried chicken, even a slice of pizza. Things are changing, of course, as young Chinese now absorb western culture.
This is a great little tutorial. The digging style is definitely my style. Actually its my only style so far. But thank you for this video. I will look sophisticated and worldly the next time I take a lady friend out to a Chinese Restaurant. And I've got one in mind in Chicago's China Town. Just as a side note - In the African American community Chinese food is big. I love love love General Tso Chicken and Egg Fu Young! I am learning from you and I will teach what I learn from you to them. I've got alot of questions for you please reply to my post. Here's a question How is the egg roll wrapping made (The fried Crispy one's) what kind of dough is used and can you make it at home?
+David Shabazz, Thx for the comment! You can definitely make egg rolls at home. We could use egg roll wrappers or even wonton wrappers to wrap egg rolls. I can make a video on how to make egg rolls for you soon.
+CiCi Li Ooh please do, I made some really good one's one time on accident and I haven't been able to re do it. I know they need cabbage, and bean sprouts but what else?
I tried and failed for many years to use them. Then one drunken night I accidentally placed them correctly in my fingers and i've been great with them since. I use all of the ways you do in this at one point or another.
Hello CiCi, another great video, I do use chopsticks quite regularly, actually i always carry a pair with me, in a little pouch, a friend made for me, but i didn't know about the scooping, learned something new today..謝謝 你是那麼可愛，和滑稽也一樣，我真的為你徹底墮落了，你躺在筷子的手指，我想給你買戒指吧.. I am not sure the translation will be correct and carrying my thought exactly, but as long as it is suitable and make you smile.. With all my heart ..
@@CiCiLi Have you watched Food Wars. It’s a Japanese television show, I started watching it because someone suggested it on The John Campea Show. Food wars is not what I expected. A lot more sexual than I thought.
Actually I use chopsticks with spoon to eat in the home because the Indonesian rice isn't sticky like Chinese rice. It's like Korean dining utensils. But the spoon was made from metal and Chopsticks was made from plastic.
digging... is more like shoveling! hahaha i hold chopsticks with bottom stick touching ring fingertip to grip of thumb and top stick is held by tips of both pointing+middle finger and locked in by thumb tip like holding a pencil to write with. i able to pick up cups with that technique. :P
You shouldn't claim "I am going to show you the correct way". I noticed at least three ways among Chinese. Just like holding a pencil, there are several ways. If the writing gets done, it's correct. If the food travels safely from bowl to mouth, that's also correct. In fact, probably half of Americans of European ancestry can use chopsticks well. When I went to restaurants in China with other Americans or Europeans, the waitress (why are they only female?) would ask us if we wanted a spoon (or rarely, a fork). She would always show surprised to see that most "foreigners" could use chopsticks quite well.
largely had it correct...i like using them for french fries and potatoe chips...cant quite do a hamburger though! youre naturally beautiful but a litle make up will help with camera video...because im a nut i bought the big CCK!!!
AShadowWolf yeah I cross mine a lot too but how I use mine is really natural for me and fast and easy but I rely alot on my chopstick ends meeting and touching at the end to pick up small stuff but now that there's a gap from bending all of them I wanted to look this up cuz I remember my parents telling me I held them wrong
AShadowWolf I used to use chopsticks like that. It felt natural. But I couldn't pick up everything that good. After I learned it wasn't correct and used the proper way. I guess I got used to it. But the proper ways is much better. You have much more control once you get used to it
CiCi Li the higher you hold the chopsticks means you are more functional. There was a saying that higher equals more smart or sophisticated or something along those lines. But the reality is that you can eat more different foods across the table cause you have a farther reach and I guess since you can enjoy all the food around the table while the one holding it low can't get food farther away as easily would be stuck with what's in front. I guess that way you'd be more sophisticated since you get to try more different foods each meal
All I want is a Asian girl that will cook and show me how to cook real Chinese food and play Pokémon go with me and show me how to speak it . Is that too much to ask for ?
