Chopsticks, folk, or none?

She open up a box of sushi from the Honor Roll
She skillfully peers off the plastic rapping
She takes out the bamboo chopsticks
She rubs the chopsticks to remove the excessive bamboo pieces
She's ready to dig in.
She holds the chopsticks at the very end
Trying to pick up a piece of roll
She failed.
She pocks the rice
The chopstick pierced through the roll like a needle.
She try to pick it up again
The roll fillings are squeezed out of the rice and seaweed shell
She tries one more time
The tips of the chopsticks cut through the shell
She opens the roll
She sorts the ingredients like a anatomist examining a dead body
The roll now is no longer a roll
It becomes a strip of rice, seaweed
And unknown mushy fillings laying above each other

And I am sitting across to her
Wanting to tell her this real bad, "Please, just use a folk if you don't know how to use chopstick! It's okay to eat Asian food with folk! For God's sake, don't dissect food like this! "


I have no problem with people don't know how to use chopsticks, after all, it took me 18 years to learn how to use it properly. And until now, my grandma still picks on me for my way of holding the chopsticks, because I always have my thumb sticks up. She said as if i am telling everyone i am the number one.
But, I found people sometimes trying too hard to prove themselves can master this Asian could-be weapon. It is used for eating, thus if you are really hungry, pretending know how to use the chopsticks only causes troubles and suppress your appetite. It also causes indescribable pain for people like me, who does not looking at my own plate while I eat.

Learning is a process, not a one day thing. It may look easy, but please learn from someone who really knows. Sometimes I think our ancestor intentionally designed the chopsticks into such simple shape, making it looked so slick and easy to use, yet if not learned, it can make the food on your plate look so gross.

I am bitchy today. =P