a question about angel

[oranthal]

actually it is about chinese food. in the beginning of this week's angel, gunn and wesley is eating chinese food with chopsticks (they were ordering out, not sitting in the restaurant). just about all other shows that have people eating chinese food such as "friends" or "seinfeld," they are always using chopsticks. when i buy chinese food from various restaurants, they always give me disposable plastic forks. for those who have ordered chinese food, do they give you chop sticks or plastic forks?

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

I get plastic forks as well-which sucks. I wanna learn to use chopsticks (without resorting to twigs)! :mad: I suppose they consider most folk too clumsy to handle chopsticks properly and not give them out at all...and the chopsticks seen in TV are just to tell you it's a Chinese restaurant.

[Joe Tully]

I get plastic forks. I prefer these to chopsticks because, while I think that it would be cool to be able to use chopsticks, I really just want to get the food in mah belly! Plastic forks usually are too weak to penetrate the food well, so I just use silverware when I get home with the food.

[zero zero nine]

well... if you go to those places in like Chinatown, you get chopsticks... anywhere else: plastic... personally, I just ask for chopsticks.:p

[killercroc]

Yep, around here they give you silverware unless you request chopsticks. Of course, Angel is in LA, so it could be different out there.

[Nightflower]

I've only eaten "Chinese" take-out once, and they included plastic forks (I usually eat the real thing on a daily basis, and doggone it, I am sick of eating Chinese food).

You know, so many of my white friends claim they know how to use chopsticks. Well, good for them. I use a fork.

[Failure]

I usually get Chinese food a couple times a week from vendors. Usually I get forks, however I have these cool pair of bamboo chopsticks laying right in front of me, and I'm not sure where it came from. They've been there for weeks.

[killercroc]

On the other hand we have a sushi restaurant here in OKC that doesn't have any silverware. I took my wife in there and she asked for a fork. after about 15 minutes they came back with a plastic one that looked like it was in one of their cars.

[DR. BELCH]

Whenever I go out for Chinese I eat with a fork, knife and spoon (for the egg-drop soup--surely they don't eat that in China with chopsticks). Though the way I see it I should probably employ a pickaxe and shovel...to employ an anime-inspired allusion, I eat like a Saijin. ;) In fact, the only time I've ever seen a set of chopsticks is with McDonald's chicken nuggets, oddly enough. I would impale several nuggets on a stick like a shish kebob, sauce them, and have at it. Note that Fred, somewhat fork-phobic, eats with her fingers. Fine for pasta and eggrolls, but I hope they didn't give her soup. (Though I guess she can hold the bowl like a cup and sip....)
Finally saw this one tonight, and thought the actress playing Cordy gave a very convincing performance, right down to the crack in her voice as she lay covered in festering sores in her sickbed (kudos also to the makeup man for making her blisters look so real...not a good idea to eat dinner during this one.)
Where can I get a job like Skip's? You get to torture infidels, silence their howls of agony, and only a twenty-minute commute to work. Loved the idle friendly banter between him and Angel before they got down to tussling. "No hard feelings, huh?"
For an unofficial member of Angel Investigations, Lorne sure takes it on the big green chin a lot. I wonder if they give Purple Hearts to demons?
Another don't-eat-during-this moment: the Indian guy removed his fez, revealing his huge pulsating brain...and later, when Angel callously threw a dagger into his skull. Though he's put his darkness behind him somewhat, he does show Lila he is still very capable of brutality (in the name of honor) by seizing her throat and threatening to kill her if she ever pulls this sort of stunt again.
Note Cordy serves Angel a waffle at the end, which shows her domestic side (such as it is) and that she thinks of him as more than just some animal to plunk a dish of blood down in front of every now and again. He may not be able to taste the food per se, but I imagine he appreciates the gesture.

[Ruffian]

Heh, I made an observation at the food court at the mall here in one of the cities within LA county. The asian people I noticed eating the fast chinese food from China Inn were eating with plastic foods. The non-asian people that were eating the fast chinese food were eating it with chopsitcks. I thought it was nifty. :)

[Calhoun07]

I never asked for chopsticks at a Chinese restaurant, nor ever thought I should. I don't want a plastic fork either. I want a spork.

[oranthal]

eating plasitc food? sounds tasty! :)


Originally posted by Twilight
eating with plastic foods.

[Jowy Blight]

(without resorting to twigs)!

That's actually how I learned to use chopsticks. :D

[Lodoss War Fan]

I get plastic forks, but you can ask for chopsticks and they will give you one of those wooden like chopsticks.

[Danielle]

The only Chinese I like is the kind of chicken on the pu-pu platter. And chicken bread. (Being in a family which practically worships Chinese doesn't help much) The times we go out, we usually get chopsticks, but they also give silverware for those who don't know how to use them.


How did I learn? I dunno. First time I ate Chinese, I just picked them up and used them. {*shrugs*}