I’m just curious. I’ve never seen anyone do this. But on television and in movies it’s the only way to eat it. Apparently on the screen they all eat only 1 item, no plates, no sharing. You get your one box and chopsticks and eat. Oh well just thinking out loud.

I saw your thread title and I was going to answer "No, because I am not a character on a television show."

Then I read your post, and thought, "Aha!"

We put all the boxes in the middle of the table with spoons in them...then take some out onto our plate...family style.

No chop sticks either...

Kind of.
The local Chinese restaurant no longer uses the old fashion looking boxes.
The restaurant we go to uses plastic trays with lids and I eat out of that with chopsticks.

It’s a TV trope, same as the paper grocery bag with the requisite celery sticking out the top. I’ve not used a paper bag in 20 years and don’t just jam my celery in the top like that.

My favorite are the clearly empty cups of coffee whenever a character is carrying a paper cup of coffee or a carrier with multiples. Why wouldn’t they at least fill them halfway up with water or something to give it some weight?

My local Chinese place still uses the boxes and we take it out and put it in Tupperware containers and from there to plates.

I suppose my radicalization is complete. I can’t watch the TV anymore without wanting to throw a remote at it. There is nothing there I find even remotely interesting. The 24/7 commercials that try to one up each other on ignorance and double down stupid got old years ago.

I probably sound like an angry old man. I don’t think I changed TV did.

No, but I plate and then eat with chopsticks.

I don't get the whole eating with chopsticks thing . I have nothing to prove and don't tell me it's more efficient than a fork because that's bullshit .

1. I call it food, not Chinese food
2. Is there any other way to eat it?

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Originally posted by selogic:
I don't get the whole eating with chopsticks thing . I have nothing to prove and don't tell me it's more efficient than a fork because that's bullshit .

How do you think they are all so thin.

I eat out of the box it came in it alone or at work. I use a fork though. My daughter showed me that if you pull the tabs out your box becomes a handy plate w/ your food still conveniently in the middle. Who knew?

Asian restaurants around here don't use boxes any longer but, tray/lid combo. There are boxes used, usually for rice but, that's it. I usually get everything home, sometime re-heat everything in serving dishes, I like my meals hot.

The whole TV-image of everyone passing around a box, sticking their chopsticks in or, only eating one item for 'takeout' , never ever seen anyone do that. It's a made up image created by the film industry. If i'm getting Chinese to bring home, I'm buying at least 3-5 dishes, none of this single item baloney.

As for using chopsticks, unless its a sit-down dinner, where everything is laid-out and there's BOWLS, I'm using a fork. Can't use chopsticks if there's no BOWLS, nothing worse that seeing people attempt to be 'culturally aware' then see them chase their food around a PLATE, because they're using chopsticks

50/50. I've been known to just eat right out of the box with the chop sticks. Especially the steamed rice.

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Originally posted by selogic:
I don't get the whole eating with chopsticks thing . I have nothing to prove and don't tell me it's more efficient than a fork because that's bullshit .

*shrug*
It’s kinda like wearing a different pair of shoes just because. Or taking a different route to work than you usually do, also just because. At least it is for me. Just something different to mix it up.

Chinese food taste better when you use chopsticks, at least that's what my wife tells me

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Originally posted by selogic:
I don't get the whole eating with chopsticks thing .

Because sometimes it's fun?

I've never eaten the stuff straight out of the container with chopsticks, though.

I do eat Chinese food (and many other foods) using chopsticks.

But the Chinese food I eat doesn't come in cheap takeout boxes.

Back in the dark ages, they learned this because they didn't have forks.