Ok i need to ask this

Hamselv · (#1 (**permalink**))

Well i'm pretty new and all...
But as it is now i'm going to work in japan for half a year
and i wanted to ask do Japanse really use chopsticks everyday or are they just using fork and knife??
(because if they are using chopstick i better pratice a bit before going there)
Please help me out here

tsukimoon · (#2 (**permalink**))

My GUESS is chopsticks because my Chinese friend says that only Koreans use forks regularly... but then again she's Chinese... and I really wouldn't know about Japan.

hennaz · (#3 (**permalink**))

For nearly all their Japanese and other Asian meals, the Japanese eat with chopsticks. But for curry rice and Western food, they use a knife and fork.

Hamselv · (#4 (**permalink**))

Ok thats nice knowing

thanks for the help guys ^^ but we'll see if the compani finds a host familie for me down there

tsukimoon · (#5 (**permalink**))

You're welcome and がんばって！

ThirdSight · (#6 (**permalink**))

Learn how to use chopsticks, and all the proper etiquette on using them.

Yes, there's etiquette to using them. Learn it, or they'll shove the chopsticks up your ass.

Naw, I'm just kidding.

Maybe.

Arikado · (#7 (**permalink**))

I would definitely get used to using chopsticks. In Taiwan atleast, everybody uses chopsticks to eat everything pretty much. Japan is probably similar, but I know they use spoons/forks/knives to eat certain things too, like steak XD It's quite difficult to cut a steak with chopsticks, trust me.. >.>

Nyororin · (#8 (**permalink**))

Yes, everyone uses chopsticks most of the time.
Most normal meals are presented in a way that makes it not all that hard to eat with them.
There is pretty much no way of avoiding them... So learn.

Once you`re good at using them, they`re actually much easier to use and make it much easier to manipulate your food than knife and fork.

yuujirou · (#9 (**permalink**))

Most oriental cuisine is 'designed' to be easily consumed with hashi/chopsticks
and even then... hashi can be used to eat western foods as well...

and then again... since your a gaijin... and if you're going to be in a very modern city.... i'm pretty sure they'd just give you a fork anyway >.>''

SHAD0W · (#10 (**permalink**))

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hamselv

Well i'm pretty new and all...
But as it is now i'm going to work in japan for half a year
and i wanted to ask do Japanse really use chopsticks everyday or are they just using fork and knife??

If you can't use chopsticks then why don't you just ask for a knife and fork?
If you cant do it then.. meh..
Naifu toh fo-ku oh kudasai.. is how you ask..

If you didn't know that (i guess thats why you posted or you would have just asked when you got there) then how are you going to manage working there? Chopsticks will be the least of your worries.

If all else fails just use your hands. I'm sure you'll get dirty looks for fingerpainting the tables with soy sauce but I bet the first dude to pick up a slice of Pizza and stuff his face got the same treatment -> just look at it now though! Good luck.