Picking Up Rice With Chopsticks

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is Hiu on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to use chopsticks today. I know most people when they go to Asian restaurant they really have difficulties in picking up the main food, the rice and the noodles. Using chopsticks they feel like they're small and there slippery is really hard to pick them up. But actually it's not that difficult. For rice usually the the grain usually have a stickiness that you actually just put you chopsticks on the chunk of rice you want to pick up. Try to at least squeeze a little bit, usually you can pick it up relatively easily. There are different kinds of rice available in Asian restaurants if you are going to a Chinese or a tye restaurant for a example, usually you find is a long grain white rice. Usually those rice is usually a less sticky the way Chinese usually eat the rice is bring the bowl towards the body and then they kind of just put the rice right into there mouth. This is a laying the bowl on the table and then get all the way from the bowl to your mouth and that is also consider more polite position, if you pick up the rice directly on the table it's usually consider it's a rude, impolite table manners. In a japanse restaurant the rice they usually serve is a soft grain sushi rice, which is actually kind of sticky rice they are more sticky so that actually if you want to hold your bowl a little bit further from your mouth and your hat in general and even though the distant between the bowl and your mouth is greater and when you pick up the rice because the rice is stickier. Usually the rice will not fall in the middle of the way so actually if you want to practice eating the rice I will recommend if you want to gain some confidence you can use the sharp grain sushi rice at first, and once you graduate you can move on to the longer grain rice like tiny jazzman's rice and things like that."