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The main utility is to allow me to continue eating whilst simultaneously dumping more food into the hotpot or doing the courtesy thing where you serve everyone up to two seats away from you the stuff from the new dish that just got placed onto the lazy susan.
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Doesn't everyone hold the spoon in their off-hand when using chopsticks 
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Trying to think when that combination would be needed and all I can come up with is when I'm playing it safe with my xiaolongbaos.
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Soup spoon + chopsticks is the superior method for eating noodle soups. You can put multiple ingredients and broth in the spoon and eat them together in one bite. It also works for Taiwanese-style hot pot places where you get your own pot with everything already cooked in it.
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Jan 19, 2022 13:28
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I would not at all trust myself to hold a spoon and chopsticks at the same time. That spoon is going to send broth everywhere.
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Banana Canada posted:Anyone else try training chopsticks with their non-dominant hand? It was literally impossible for me to even close the tips the first and second times I tried but the pain and difficulty subsides significantly with every subsequent attempt and I managed to get decent at it after about a dozen lunches and dinners. I can dual wield now as neat table trick! Yeah, not so hard, and a lot of people will look at you like you're some sort of wizard-monster.
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Atopian posted:Yeah, not so hard, and a lot of people will look at you like you're some sort of wizard-monster. I get the impression that a lot of people in China learn to use chopsticks adequately when they're quite young (and badly coordinated) and then understandably never find a reason to get any better at it
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I spent seven years in east Asia all told and in multiple countries, across social classes, belief systems, cultural mores and ethnic origins, the one thing that united all the good people I met on my way was holy poo poo that white lady can use chopsticks?!?!?!?!?! But do you like spicy?
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Blistex posted:But do you like spicy? Yes. No, really. No, it's fine, I put that chili on myse-- Goddammit.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Yes. In this scenario, the Korean school nutritionist has yet again confiscated my lunch plate with a condescending little shake of the head. Now she will make me eat a naked bibimbap.
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Jan 19, 2022 14:29
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since this is basically the East Asia thread, here's a fun fact about koreans: they're really loving angry: "since 2015 it's been recognized that some fifty percent of Korean adults are afflicted with an "impulse control disorder"—plainly put, an anger management problem."
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Legit question, but isn't that the concept of "han"? Apologies for what I'm sure is a very un-nuanced take.
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95.5% of the Chinese people agree: Daddy Xi loving rules.
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Jeoh posted:since this is basically the East Asia thread, here's a fun fact about koreans: they're really loving angry: "since 2015 it's been recognized that some fifty percent of Korean adults are afflicted with an "impulse control disorder"—plainly put, an anger management problem." It's a child abuse problem that shows itself as an anger/crime problem.
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How are u posted:95.5% of the Chinese people agree: Daddy Xi loving rules. 95.5% is kind of low, COMRADE.
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Seth Pecksniff posted:95.5% is kind of low, COMRADE. Yeah, Uyghurs only make up like .3%
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Legit question, but isn't that the concept of "han"? Apologies for what I'm sure is a very un-nuanced take. you use the concept of han when you're angry and maybe passive aggressive and you wanna pretend that other nations peeps dont get angry too
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Jeoh posted:since this is basically the East Asia thread, here's a fun fact about koreans: they're really loving angry: "since 2015 it's been recognized that some fifty percent of Korean adults are afflicted with an "impulse control disorder"—plainly put, an anger management problem." This was something Koreans told me all the time. So many told me they were happy guns were illegal because everyone in Korea would be dead within the week. My anecdote data is just the sheer number of fights, I've never seen anything like it anywhere else. School was the worst of course, the first place I worked was loving Thunderdome with blood on the walls every day.
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I'd be angry if I had to live in Korea too.
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maybe they should take a trip to takeshima island to chill out 
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They're angry because all there is to drink is Cass and soju.
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People are weird It's like "to record" versus "a vinyl record" I assume the ones doing this are some kind of "cool-to-be-dumb" losers
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McGavin posted:They're angry because all there is to drink is Cass and soju. hey, they have coolpis and lovely aussie style lager too
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Why are the koreans so angry?
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colonialism same deal w the revanchism you can tell this because the northerners have it too so you cant really blame capitalism. the official north korean policy on the island is basically similar to south koreas bob dobbs is dead fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Jan 19, 2022 |
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Steakandchips posted:Why are the koreans so angry? Child abuse is definitely a big part of it. It's really bad, and even the kids who aren't being hit are often seeing it between parents because the domestic violence rate is also loving insane, if they see their dads at all. If you ask kids in Korea to do an impression of dad everybody starts staggering drunk and yelling. It's not great.
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thats just the mechanism of perpetuation, not the original source
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It's also because they learned how to make coffee from the americans. 
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Workplace culture, presumably? I mean I don't hear about the Korean version of Karoshi but sure as hell it's gotta be there. Korean Air Flight 801 wasn't that long ago.
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Grand Fromage posted:Child abuse is definitely a big part of it. It's really bad, and even the kids who aren't being hit are often seeing it between parents because the domestic violence rate is also loving insane, if they see their dads at all. If you ask kids in Korea to do an impression of dad everybody starts staggering drunk and yelling. It's not great. This is horrible. bob dobbs is dead posted:colonialism Can you expand on "colonialism" and "revanchism"?
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ili posted:I'd be angry if I had to live in Korea too. Goddammit beaten. Yeah, can't imagine it's fun to be Korean in Korea unless you're an old rich dude.
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Grand Fromage posted:This was something Koreans told me all the time. So many told me they were happy guns were illegal because everyone in Korea would be dead within the week. My anecdote data is just the sheer number of fights, I've never seen anything like it anywhere else. School was the worst of course, the first place I worked was loving Thunderdome with blood on the walls every day. After going to several different Hanabank branches, I noticed that all the armed guards were women. I asked one of the security guards why this was, and she said it's because women are less likely to go on a shooting spree.
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Blistex posted:After going to several different Hanabank branches, I noticed that all the armed guards were women. I asked one of the security guards why this was, and she said it's because women are less likely to go on a shooting spree. Well, she has a point.
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South Korea was also military dictatorship in living memory. That can’t be good for the ol’ national psyche. Seems like it’s a bunch of reasons that, once they took root, became a cycle of generational trauma that’s very hard to escape. This certainly helps shed light on why so many young Korean men are essentially gamer gaters in how violently opposed to feminism they are
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You've also got mandatory conscription for Korean men, and the violence and abuse they all suffer during their service to normalise it.
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Grand Fromage posted:It's just what you prefer to use. Japanese ones come to a point at the end, Chinese ones are fatter, Korean ones are flat. The Korean ones are steel because the dictator at the time was into steel production and wanted everyone to use all steel plates/spoons/cups/etc, which is still standard in a lot of situations. Yeah I don't notice literally any difference between style or materials used in chopsticks. I do like a bit of texture on the bottom just so they hold stuff better, also the korean chopsticks being harder is specifically perplexing given just how much of korean food is exceedingly chopsticks-friendly
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Blistex posted:After going to several different Hanabank branches, I noticed that all the armed guards were women. I asked one of the security guards why this was, and she said it's because women are less likely to go on a shooting spree. "Less" likely, does that mean some female guards have gone crazy with their gun?
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Let's not forget the neo-Confucianism. I'm older than you, that means I can do whatever I want to you and you have to take it.
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The metal chopsticks are heavy. When my kids first went to a Chinese restaurant that only had big chunky plastic chopsticks, it was a struggle. In Japan, disposable chopsticks are preferred for most noodles and other foods that require serious gripping.
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