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[bulkbiker]

I'll admit that it would take forever to eat the liquids with chopsticks Modern times have no doubt caught up with the Chinese too, but I'm curious to know if the way of doing it the way I suggest is old fashioned. Would you please ask them next time you get a chance?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_spoon

Second millenium BC..

 

[Klpville]

Really? You ever watched Chinese people eat soup with chopsticks?

Nope. I've never seen them eating soups with chopsticks. But I have also never seen them eating soups with spoons either. They usually drink soups straight from bowls, the rest of the world uses spoons. Although I am not an expert on Asian cultures and cuisines, perhaps there was once a tradition let's 200 years ago when it took them 10 hours to eat just one single bowl of soup with chopsticks

 

[Resurgam]

The far east is a large place with many different cultures and languages, their customs must differ too.
The way food is cooked and eaten is - I suspect, also very local, as are the cutlery and the ways to use it.
Having seen it as a child, even in old age I often cook in a 'gunge' - if that is the right way to spell it, and then serve up the result, sometimes as separate courses and without most of the liquid most of the time. When eating soup - even with a spoon, I put soup with bits in into a deeply curved plate rather than the shallow soup plate of traditional English design which I only use for smooth soup.
One of the sections of my cutlery drawer is for chopsticks, and a few weeks ago I bemused my fellow band members by eating fish with a set of them.
On the subject of soup, it is perfectly OK to slurp up the liquid once you have eaten the solid part - almost the only polite way - as tipping up the plate and swallowing great mouthfuls is incorrect - it might result in spilling the soup on yourself, so you lower your head and tilt the plate as little as possible. It is the 'dainty' way - like tipping the flat soup plate away from you and spooning up from the far side.