D_Gunther Snotpole
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When I was briefly living in Hong Kong, a Cantonese friend took me out several times for dim sum and gave me a few instructions on chop stick technique.
At that time I had severe carpal tunnel syndrome and I really couldn't manipulate the chop sticks for more than a minute. But my host could do wonderfully dextrous things with them ... easily pick up a very small bean, for example. He said many Chinese never really get the niceties of using them down, and very very few do so before the age of 12 or so. (Of course, every Chinese person can eat serviceably with them.)
Now, for a variety of reasons, I frequently have to eat with chop sticks -- and for that reason as much as any, I had carpal tunnel surgery. The improvement, and the recovery, was instantaneous. Best surgery since my circumcision.:yikes: (On the down side, there's now no obvious place on my person to keep my chop sticks.:tongue
I'm not baaaad now. I can eat anything, partly because, as DC notes, it's perfectly polite to bring your bowl to your mouth and scrape food southward, counting on the odd fortuitous avalanche.
At that time I had severe carpal tunnel syndrome and I really couldn't manipulate the chop sticks for more than a minute. But my host could do wonderfully dextrous things with them ... easily pick up a very small bean, for example. He said many Chinese never really get the niceties of using them down, and very very few do so before the age of 12 or so. (Of course, every Chinese person can eat serviceably with them.)
Now, for a variety of reasons, I frequently have to eat with chop sticks -- and for that reason as much as any, I had carpal tunnel surgery. The improvement, and the recovery, was instantaneous. Best surgery since my circumcision.:yikes: (On the down side, there's now no obvious place on my person to keep my chop sticks.:tongue
I'm not baaaad now. I can eat anything, partly because, as DC notes, it's perfectly polite to bring your bowl to your mouth and scrape food southward, counting on the odd fortuitous avalanche.