[Manchester, city centre] Hunan

Yes, in dai chow (cooked food places) in Kuala Lumpur, tze char places in Singapore, and casual family restaurants in Penang, where the clientele are often wholly-Chinese, you don’t even have the option of eating with chopsticks from rice bowls. You can ask for those specifically - your wait-staff would probably have raised eye-brows. :grin:

The Chinese here might have gone full circle, for long before chopsticks was invented (sometime during the Han Dynasty in 300 AD), the Chinese were using knives & forks for food preparation, and hands for eating.
https://www.learnchinesehistory.com/history-chinese-chopsticks/

In this video of Kuala Lumpur’s oldest Cantonese restaurant, the 73-year-old Sek Yuen, notice at around 0:36 of the video, you can see two diners - one using chopsticks, the other opting for fork-and-spoon.

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