Even though you have mastered eating meats, vegetables, and sushi with chopsticks, you still can't eat rice.Don't worry anymore.Almost anyone can become an expert with a pair of Kuaizi if they brush up on the basics of good chopstick form and learn a few rice-specific tips.
Step 1: The chopsticks should be held sideways.
Rice can be hard to eat if you don't know how to chopsticks.There are a few tricks you can learn in this section.Take the basic form and turn your hand 90 degrees to the side.Instead of beside it, your chopsticks should rest above your hand.You should be able to move the chopsticks with ease.It is easier to support balls of rice when you lift them up.It's difficult for the rice to fall between sticks.It is easier to fall to either side when it is balanced between two sticks.
Step 2: The rice needs to be lifted from below.
Picking up rice with chopsticks is a combined "scooping/pinching" motion.If you want to pick up some rice, hold your chopsticks open so that one is on the other side of the clump.As you lift the chopsticks upwards, gently squeeze them near the bottom of the clump.Lifting the rice makes it easier to handle.Your set of chopsticks can be turned into a makeshift spoon by the tightly packed rice between them.
Step 3: Place the bowl in your mouth.
A big piece of the puzzle for people who are struggling with eating rice is this.Bring the rice bowl a few inches from your mouth by using the hand that isn't holding chopsticks.The pinching and scooping method is used to transfer rice from the bowl to the mouth.The bowl is used to catch mistakes.It doesn't make the task any easier.It is considered more polite in countries that use chopsticks.It's not a good idea to shovel food directly from the bowl into your mouth.Pick up some rice and put it in your mouth.Don't just move the rice to your mouth and put your lips in the bowl.
Step 4: Pick sticky rice if you can.
There are different rices with different weight and texture.Pick a short-grained white rice that forms clumps that are easier to pick up.It's much easier to spill or drop brown rice because it sticks to itself less.
Step 5: The chopsticks should be held with the side of your thumb.
If you use your chopsticks the way they were intended to be used, eating rice with a set of chopsticks is easy.This is easy to understand.Put your two chopsticks in your dominant hand.You can put them between your thumb and the side of your hand.The "squishy" part at the base of your thumb should hold them in place.The chopsticks should be lined up on top of each other.
Step 6: The top chopstick should be grasped like a pencil.
If you want to hold the chopsticks with your thumb, index, and middle fingers, you need to slide the top one up.The stick should be held from the side by your thumb.Rest your index finger on top.The stick should be supported by your middle finger.It should be similar to how you would hold a pen or pencil.Set the other chopstick down so you can concentrate on this one.It's easy to go back in.
Step 7: The bottom chopstick needs to be kept steady.
One of the most important things to remember when using chopsticks is that the bottom chopstick doesn't move.The part at the base of your thumb needs to be held in place.Light pressure needs to be found.It's not necessary for you to keep a death grip on it.Place your ring finger on the side of your last knuckle to support the bottom of the stick.
Step 8: The top chopstick can be moved with your thumb, index, and middle finger.
Keeping the rest of your form, bend and extend your middle and index fingers.The top chopstick should point up when you extend them.It should point down when you bend them.Until you're comfortable with it, practice this up-and-down motion.As you do this, keep your thumb straight.It's easier for your form to collapse if you bend it to move the top chopstick down.The bottom chopstick doesn't move.Keep it in place with your ring finger.
Step 9: You can grab bits of food by pinching them.
A plate of food is needed for practice.If you don't want to, you can crumple up a few pieces of notebook paper and place them on a plate.Use the pinching motion of the chopsticks to pick up the food or paper balls between the sticks and bring them up to your mouth.It can take a bit of practice to get used to holding food by squeezing it between two sticks.If you are using food for the first time, you might want to lay down a towel.
Step 10: Don't use your chopsticks like spears.
Once you learn how to use chopsticks, it's a good idea to teach them a few simple rules.These are easy to learn and don't make eating any harder.Chopsticks are not to be used to spear food.This is crude.It's like going to a fancy restaurant and spearing food on your knife instead of using your fork.
Step 11: They don't want you to stick your chopsticks into your food.
The incense used at Buddhist funerals is considered taboo.
Step 12: Don't pass food to another person.
If you pick up a piece of food and hold it for someone else, don't use your own chopsticks.Place the food on the plate.This also has a negative connection to funeral rituals.If someone wants to give you food, offer your plate, rather than grabbing it with your own chopsticks.
Step 13: Don't use your chopsticks to take food from a plate.
If the chopsticks have touched your mouth, this is unsanitary.Use the utensils provided.A serving spoon or similar tool can be used to transfer food to your plate.