Why Do the Chinese Use Chopsticks? 

Taiwan? Don't you mean, real China?

@@bungertheboring2037 Well, the caretakers of traditional Chinese culture, certainly.

@@hetshepsuit Formosa is just historical name the English and Portuguese called it. It’s the Island of Taiwan officially tho, across the Taiwan strait.

@@hetshepsuit that’s why the ROC adopted Taiwan as a second name to call itself, they won’t anymore when they retake China

Taiwan is a country

Not really. Japanese and Korean they use spoon, the only utensil is not in China customaries. Chopsticks were spread to Korea during China’s occupation.

@@jovimathews Yes, and korean chopstick are made with metal

You are wrong, Chinese people use chopsticks because they think they are more elegant and civilized, actually in ancient China they used knives and forks, but after the Zhou Dynasty they thought this kind of eating utensils were too barbaric, so they used chopsticks instead. Japan and Korea use chopsticks because of the strong influence of ancient Chinese culture.

@@jovimathews Chinese also use spoon but only for soup.

@@leezhieng RU-vid was discussing about Customary Chopsticks not spoon, fork, bats, dogs, lightbulbs during Song Dynasty when China was much more cosmopolitan

In Khmer history, we believed "Thon Chey" brought noodles called Nom Banh Jok into ancient China. Nom Banh Jok became so famous thru out China that the Chinese King himself wanted to try Nom Banh Jok. Thon Chey was invited to see the King to make his famous Nom Banh Jok. Thon Chey taught the Chinese King how to use a Chopsticks. It tasted so good that the Chinese King start sipping the broth from the bowl. Thon Chey looks up and noticed how hideous and ugly the Chinese King was and insulted the king and was put in prison.

India: *h a n d*

Well their ancestors used their hands which if you have access to clean water to wash it, is healthy for you as our hands have good bacteria that helps us digest the food. Eating with hands is in every culture, but i still love my chopsticks

Because fingers do everything chopsticks can.

@@boygenius538_8 except keep the food off your fingers and perhaps more importantly, keeping your fingers off the food.

The ironic this is that the result was people started getting good at throwing them like darts. Still however, unlikely to kill someone rather than just anger them.

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It's almost like you build up to that pun in the first place 😆. Good one 👍

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If he'd done his job as a cardinal, instead of playing secular politics all the time, he would have been less hated.

chopsticks is very suit to eat things like noodles

damn i saw around ten viets on youtube, its nearly none just a week ago

Also close to ocean for fishing. Lack of access to ocean and cold are problems with living in most of Russia.

@@freneticness2136 Europe's population is less than 750M, including European Russia. So, only 75% of a billion people, in an area bigger than India, and India is approaching 1.4 billion.

@@freneticness2136 i would disagree. The population of Europe were no match for the Asian civilizations before the Columbian Exchange. After the exchange, potatoes got introduced which helped boosted the population of Europe significantly. Therefore, I would argue plants that contain high amounts of sugar and starch (i.e. potatoes and rice) are the major factor in determining the population of a region.

@@freneticness2136 while I agree that arable land a without a doubt important, I still think a starch rich diet is what contributed to the population growth around the world. When I mentioned the European pre-Columbian exchange, I wanted to emphasize the fact that they DID have arable soil (to an extend). However, what they was lacking was a starch rich food/plant that they could plant in that soil. They did have wheat, but because of their food habits, you have to actually put an effort in to grind it, make a dough, and bake it. It wasn't anything you could cook and eat fast as boiling a potato or rice. Thus, the European population before the exchange was lower than the other civilizations where starch rich food was common (I.e. china, india) Now, after the exchange, we can see the population of Europe practically exploded. This indicates that while good land is important (because again, they DID have good/ok soil, just lacking the plants), the most important player in determining population growth was however the starchy plants. Ok, I admit u really did poked some holes in my argument with those Egyptians, but I'm gonna pull a quick one here and argued that wheat is still a starchy food (just not as effective to consume as rice/potatoes), so my point still hold water (somewhat?). But seriously tho, keep posting ur opinions, I love when people can have nice debate without insulting each others. Rare to find these nowadays

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Sold on the back scrating thing...have to get a pair. 🙂

The stick was like the iPhone in 23000 BC

yeah. when i go to like some east asian restaurant my parents often make me use forks. after i while, i decided to try chopsticks and i never knew how significant this change was for me lol. now im starting to prefer smaller chunks of food

i hear Thais love their spoon for everything 😂

Doesn't a spoon make all of them more convenient?

Don't forget that you can also kill someone with them too!

@@meltherecafe2394 never cook? Try extricating cooked pasta from a pot of water with a spoon, it will fall off right after: no grip . Beat eggs with a 🥄? The least you can do is with a fork.

you can even whip your children with the long chopsticks

@@brosplit Two spoons can handle this exactly as well as two chopsticks, better with some designs of spoon and also with most designs of pasta. A dedicated toothed tool like a "pasta spoon" (not a true spoon) is much better than either at this task though (and can be easily made from any rigid material), so if pasta extraction is your reason for using chopsticks, well, think again! Btw, in case you didn't notice, a spoon has 2 ends, one of which is effectively a chopstick that can have some specialised shape if that's advantageous, so there is just no way a chopstick is ever going to beat a spoon at anything, except possibly threading through a small hole. Unfortunately for the Chinese, they didn't figure out knitting, so the chopstick is just a fool's spoon.

F no fingers....

Imagine being that dumb

@@untontomas891 ahahahah true

Uhh, How often do you miss? Eating and hitting the mouth is a VERY Basic skill...

Only us Americans Aren't coordinated enough to eat using it knife... I'd be willing to bet there's even a law about it somewhere. We've turned into a full Nanny state these days

Chopsticks have a primitive pleasure like eating with your fingers minus the mess

Actually cooking chopsticks are different. They are longer and wider. Meant for easy cooking and you won't burn your hand. Feeding chopsticks are shorter and less pointy.

yah, I eat 7-11 pasta by chopsticks in office.

Do you live near Hannover?

@@JOEFABULOUS. so using fork and knife is just like slicing and piercing food with your nails but less effort, right?

stillll waiting

Ikr?

nope

Still waiting

Not quite there yet, but certainly getting near to breaking into 100k 😁

I love that book; so interesting!

I was told that the fork was invented by Leonardo Da Vinci

I guess now you want to whitewash the history of chopsticks saying it's also invented by white men and got stolen by Chinese somehow? 😂

@@TriviRocks Not sure about Leonardo, but the fork was indeed an Italian invention, introduced in France by Catherine de Medicis when she married Francis the First’s son, who would become Henry II in the 16th century.

@@myriamickx7969 bone forks were found in China dated back to 2000 BC...

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It could be me....... but when I eat Chinese food and use chopsticks, it seems to taste better and seems more authentic.

@@henryottis295 Ah so you're one of those types 🤡

Same, though I see little use for chopsticks outside of ramen. A trusty fork can do so much more

@@RexGalilae if you’re eating a dish which is a kind of wrapping with soft filling inside, using chopsticks to grab, rather than have a fork pierce the food can reduce possibility of breaking open the wrap and the inside falling out. Although a spoon can also be used. There is a type of dim sum Xiao long Bao 小笼包 that has thin Bao skin outside soup and meat inside, it is harder to eat with fork because of the aforementioned reasons, and personally not easy to scoop with a spoon due to it sticking to the container it is on.

@@roboduck7401 those are my absolute fave. Sadly, I'm clumsy with soupy stuff, so I end up stabbing the poor dumpling if it evades me, and drink the soup after. I need chinese spoons!

Chopstick is more versatile once you get good at using it.

i've grown up using both and i prefer to use chopsticks. forks are kind of nasty imo, they're harder to clean and even a lot of restaurants will have gunk on their forks. asians are just cleaner i feel.

Shovel, spoon, hello? You aren't plowing 40 acres with a couple of pool cues!

Can confirm, chopsticks are very useful for whisking

Counter-intuitively, chopsticks can also be used to eat certain foods easier (and therefore, faster/in bigger amounts) than forks. See noodles, long-cut stir-fried vegetables, and starchy rice. Once a person is comfortable with chopsticks, they essentially become extensions of their fingers. So instead of poking, prodding, and spinning your fork around to pick up noodles, it becomes as quick and easy as basically reaching in and grabbing them with your hands, without the mess.

@@icoz7 As someone used to using chopsticks I can confirm.

That was another aspect that Confucius desired in all his philosophy: slow down, enjoy; don't just rush through. It's also why, although I became quite skilled w chopsticks, I now REFUSE to use them. Fork please.

Korean chopsticks are indeed fancier, but its flat handles made it inconvenient for me. I'd rather prefer Chinese one as it is stronger.

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Sadly , they seldom "pick up food" with sticks and place it in the mouth . Most often , they pick up and tilt the bowl and shovel/shove the food into their mouth as if they had to be somewhere important to be and were already 30 minutes late. That is REALLY hard to watch .

If the food is too hot to touch with your hands, then surely it would be to hot to put in your mouth.

@@frankficcle7081 if you pick it piece by piece then it is not that hot

Knife and fork team up well with a flat plate to work on. Chopsticks really need a hand sized small bowl 🥣 for the shovel-rice-in trick. It can be done mannerly. Yes, the Chinese restaurant use of a flat plate to eat from is an awkward hybrid.

Thanks

China: Fully cooks meat to prevent illness Also China: decide to eat it with an inferior eating utensil

I'll use them for knitting needles. I tried using them one time, no luck so you can use them for knitting needles.

@@martinlucas6004 chopsticks are really useful tho

@Martin, when you learn to use them properly then they're really just about as efficient for Chinese dishes as a fork & knife are, if not more efficient. It's much easier to grab food from a hot pot than it is to use a fork. Same for fishing noodles from noodle soup. Learning it can take a few tries, but that really shouldn't deter you from trying them.

Chinese kid: You mean those who are crossing or those who are on the other side? Chinese mother: What?

That's what TRAINING chopsticks are for - my niece (6yo American) is quite good at using regular chopsticks now thanks to that simple present I provided years and years ago.

the great wall was not even built against the Mogols, let alone they are Chinese too in today's world

@@brianuyungele1583 but mongolia is it's own country

@@udozocklein6023 most Mongolians are Chinese citizens.

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how do you like your cats cooked?

SEA gang. Fish oil for life

Southeast Asia is a place with different cultures, I am amazed that the mainstream culture of the world can be seen in Southeast Asia

@@bodhixxx1 It's so delish

You know you're getting good using chopsticks when you eat M&M's with them.

@@Dr.Pepper001 Haha, or catching flies with them like Mr Miyagi 🤣

@@Dr.Pepper001 Do it with tofu can do the same trick, especially the Japanese one if you want it to be challenging

two toothbrushes is my rescue

The slippery metal chopsticks take mastery to a whole different league

Eating knives (at least in Europe) were a lot more friendly than the dagger you would wear at your hip.

@@RhodokTribesman yeah this video really goes overboard trying to portray the act of eating with a knife as negatively as possible

Not my cup of tea. See what I did there?

China has a variety of chopstick designs, metal, bamboo and plastic are common. They even have these evil ones that are flat metal. They were the ones that took me the longest to learn to use, as they want to go sideways on you.

Well some of us barbarians can't get the hang of using chopsticks like the elite snobs that do and like to rub it in our faces, so we prefer forks or spoons. A good Chinese restaurant in the US at least will provide all 3 options and let the paying customer, who they want to return over and over again, choose what to use without begin judgmental. If I have to bring my own fork because they only use chopsticks, then I'm not patronizing that restaurant. I come to eat, not fight a battle with my eating utensils.

Really? Wow! It's like visiting a steakhouse where they have no knives.

Chinese Restaurant turns out to be run by Gweilos and Laogai XD

sorry but there are no good chinese restaurants in perth.

@@Losttoanyreason They do make training pairs that you can use. I've seen them at quite a few Chinese restaurants. They're the equivalent of chopsticks with training wheels lol. You should give it a shot.

I thought that it was one of the early Chinese emperors who banned knives from the dining table as he didn't want to see weapons of war when he was at the dining table!

I'm Asian and never thought about this before either, it's like asking why people use forks. Actually would love a video on forks!

@Wildlife Warrior that's only in China And maybe Japan

@Wildlife Warrior dog actually tastes quite good and is unique from traditional western meats.

@@redundantwithrecumbent6460 That makes sense. Ancient Chinese emperors always afraid of being overthrown by people, some dynasties might even forbade metal objects being use in the public.

Compared to other problematic communities that try to do the same thing I agree

What other “problematic communities“ are you referring to, pray tell?

@@vincedibona4687 the woke squad

The art style reminds me of Dont Starve

@@guillerhonora717 Me too😀

Using chopsticks is like eating with your hands it has a primitive pleasure you don't get with cutlery but you have to learn not to grip them too tightly and get cramp like writers cramp in your hand

@@JOEFABULOUS. I must be using my chopsticks right then.

Smaller bites = more chewing = brain feels fuller. Psychology!

Metal and metal tools were very expensive right up until only a couple hundred years ago. Even making a decent fork or spoon out of wood requires a little bit of time and effort, whilst making chopsticks is simplistic. It really comes down to economics.

economics. If something is cheaper, then you go for it

To be honest I think it didn't. I think there was a lot of holdover that is not discussed. Also if I recall a particular government in China's history deprived gardening tools and other metals from the population to prevent them from being used in revolts. Might be why there is a culture of hand to hand combat today. This isn't verified, btw, because I am recalling an off hand lecture from a boomer teacher back in the day.

Watch the video

Way easier to make, I can just find two sticks and peel them into a set of chopsticks with anything that can cut.

I know the feeling of slippery chopsticks. Usually when we get our lunch in China , it' comes with the takeout variety, cheap, short, rough and disposable bamboo chopsticks. I'm the chopstick master at lunch. But when we go out to the spinning table fancy dinners, with polished chopsticks, I'm humbled. Me trying to grab a moving dumpling at arm's length is a source of great humor to my Chinese hosts.

It's true! I always use chopsticks, but really hate when using the stainless steel chopsticks. It's really not comfortable in my hand. It's too slippery, wet, and its metal tingling sound makes me feel irritated. I prefer using spoon (or even fork) than that weird metal chopsticks.

@@erickchandra3771 Korean chopsticks aren't too difficult, but have a bit of a learning curve even if you are handy with Chinese chopsticks. That said, I know quite a few Koreans (including the one I'm married to) who prefer the Chinese style chopsticks. Especially if they have relatively large hands. BTW: I find Japanese style chopsticks a bit annoying. They are much more tapered/pointy (and often coated making them smooth). Also tend to be a bit too short for me. The longer simple bamboo sticks are our everyday table wear... Along with a spoon of course. Koreans tend to eat rice with a spoon, because of course

indeed, stainless steel chopsticks r popular in China, but they r used at home. but i have no difficult in using stainless steel chopsticks as there r grooves in the tip.

The problem is that Chinese chopsticks are square, which hurts my fingers, but Korean one is round, so it's easier for me.

Bamboo is actually a type of grass. That's why it grows so quickly and why it doesn't taste like wood. It is a very versatile grass.

@@Ikajo well yes duh. Basically a hardened dandelion stem

@@Scarletraven87 Dandelion is a flower 🤨

You would need to heat treat the Bamboo tip for it to hold and edge

@@bryanlee7295 bamboo is ubiquitous, all you need is to make one clean angled cut and use it like a spear...once. if it breaks or bends or splits, pick another one out of a barrel of 500 for the next attack

All that, without a greasy hand. #chopsticksmasterace

Well said. Chopsticks once you get good at using them, are very versatile!

don't lie you don't eat pizza with chopsticks wtf.

@@jp-sn6si 🤣

@@jp-sn6si im chinese and i never eat pizza with chopsticks lol

My mom always said, "hands were made before forks. "

@@ellakajfasz2569 learn to respect. Tell your mom too

This is true. I used to be able to remove fish bones with my chopsticks. I do no believe that it is possible to do that with just one fork. You can also cram one in the side of an ear of corn to use as a holder. Also, if you're eating family style, you can use one end for feeding yourself and the other for grabbing food.

But then again, try eating a steak with chopsticks, or a shepherd's pie

@@mattmanncan Using chopsticks to eat steak is not that hard mate. But it is not the best choice.

@@mattmanncan I‘ve been eating pizza, burger, pretty much everything with chopsticks when I was younger just to annoy my parents and I had the ability to do so. + I wanted to be an edgy anime protagonists who eats everything with chopsticks. It‘s doable and is a lot of fun in addition to that.

Legend has it that the chopsticks champion of the 3rd century used chopsticks to deliver a baby

In different places chopsticks also varie a bit, Korean chopsticks are flat, Japanese chopsticks are short and more pointy, Chinese chopsticks are big, Vietnamese chopsticks are also big, but if you know how to use one, you can use them all.

Chinese invented forks and knives, and used spoon before the west. The earliest recorded accounts of fork and knife usage in fact come from China.

@@ddding9518 cool

There's actually an incorrect way?

@@w.reidripley1968 not really but there is a kind of “standard” grip (the one that you’ll often find written on the packaging for disposable chopsticks at restaurants). Some people like my sister wind up with a more unusual grip but they generally make it work

Imagine using hands…

@@Phantom-bh5ru imagine using 2 metal sticks when the most complex motor system in the world are hands.

@Kevin T yeah i’m aware I just meant we don’t use knives at the dining table. Maybe if we’re eating out at a fancier place. If we want to cut the meat to small pieces, we turn the spoon on it’s side and use it like a knife.

@@joabby4197 As a westerner, living in a knife, fork and plate culture, I have seen past the charade! Now I just eat with a bowl and spoon - it's much more efficient in terms of time, concentration and washing up. I can see how it's useful in formal settings to have inefficient cutlery and crockery though, so the act of eating can last longer, giving people a polite activity to pursue while they think or listen to others speak, instead of feeling awkward when not actively contributing to the conversation.

LOL. I was watching a portrayal of this Hindu Epic and they had pineapples in a couple of scenes. 🙄

Do the restaurants in that Chinatown serve the food on plates or in bowls? I'm married into a Chinese family, and my in-laws find chopsticks far more convenient provided the food is served the Chinese way, with bowls, but not if they have to chase the food around a flat plate the way a lot of westernised Chinese restaurants serve it.

@@digitig I live in NYC and I lived in NY's Chinatown for a while. The restaurants there are supposedly authentic and I did see mostly Chinese people eating in them but they served food in the style of most restaurants in New York City, in plates mostly using bowls for soups, of course.

@@frank124c any plate serving rice is not authentic.

@@hc8714 I was under the impression that Chinese people liked rice. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the places I was eating at were tourist traps.

Chinese living in America will just use whatever is convenient. Those restaurants probably just had forks out by default since all the customers would be able to use them.

We don't like to cut things on our clean dinner table. Sharp objects belong to the messy kitchen and (even worst) slaughter house.

In ancient China, using a knife on the table is rude and offensive, so all cutting should be done inside the kitchen. The fact that chopsticks handle bite size pieces perfectly is more of a bonus.

@@dickiewongtk You'll never know a perfect full-size medium rare steak :(

Oh yes. A steak would not be a steak, if it was cut to pieces - regardless it the cutting was done before or after the cooking (frying). Sorry, chopsticks eater does not know what he/her is missing. I am talking about the taste and "mouthfeel", aromas get lost and that is why you cut the steak as you eat it - you do not cut it to pieces and then put your knife away (hello americans!).

@@MrEqtube i don't know what OP is talking about. if you order a steak you get a steak. he probably ordered something else.

That sort of notion is not entirely incorrect. The Japanese believe that cutting and stabbing should only be reserved for the kitchen, not the table. It may not be disrespectful to the food itself, just rather impolite to the one who prepared it. So it's not entirely uncommon for people to send food back to have it chopped up into more manageable morsels. Here are some Do's and Don'ts regarding Japanese table manners: Do not stab your food. It's simply incorrect chopstick usage and bad table manners. - Some may have tied it with religious practices in the past, but the Japanese nowadays are generally a secular people. Do not pass food chopstick to chopstick. It is rather unclean to do so and also bones are passed chopstick to chopstick at funerals. DO eat a piece of food whole. Do not bite a piece in half. If you must bite, then leave the other half of food midair and do not put it back on the plate. DO slurp your noodles up. Do not bite your noodles in half, to then land back in the bowl. DO pick up small bowls if it helps you eat. Do not pick up small bowls and shovel food in your mouth with the chopsticks. Do not move small bowls with your chopsticks, just pick them up. Do gently stir your soup with chopsticks if necessary. Do not "dig" for pieces of food in a bowl. Do eat a piece at a time. Do not stuff your mouth with many pieces at once. Do not hover over food with your chopsticks without quickly making a decision.

I would assume in that case they discovered the chopstick along with other cooking materials

3000years before is a recorded history in china.

The earliest recorded accounts of fork and knife usage in fact come from China. Chinese invented forks and knives, and used spoon before the west. China used forks before chopsticks

The earliest recorded accounts of fork and knife usage in fact come from China. Chinese invented forks and knives, and used spoon before the west. China used forks before chopsticks