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[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I once went to a Chinese restaurant and when food arrived they also gave me a fork, when I looked around all the Asian customers were given chopsticks.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 28 points 1 day ago

Just ask for chop sticks, I do all the time. They are just playing the odds.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I was on a date with an Asian woman years ago, and she decided to order Chicken Fried Rice. I don't remember what I ordered, but it was something less stereotypically "white".

They gave me the fried rice, and a fork. We just laughed, traded dishes, and asked for another pair of chopsticks.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 2 points 14 hours ago

My wife asks for forks and knives all the time at Chinese restaurants. It's more efficient for her.

[–] kionay@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

did you go to Dim Sum Paradise?

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago

My first partner was adopted from China as a baby, so she looked Chinese but culturally she was 100% Canadian, raised in a very meat & potatoes kind of family.

My mom is a bit of a hippy, so she loved cooking stuff from all different cuisines and we'd regularly use chopsticks at home if eating Asian foods.

We went to a Chinese place together once and the staff were howling with laughter at the white kid using chopsticks opposite the Asian woman with a knife and fork. She learned how to use chopsticks shortly after, haha.