Instructions for White People.
Tuck under
thumb
and hold firmly.
Add second chopstick
hold it as you hold
a pencil.
Hold first
chopstick
in original
position.
Move the
second one
up
and
down.
Now you can pick up anything.
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ha! brilliant (and slathered with irony??)! anyway, have you read truong tran’s ‘placing the accents’?
good one, teach-
Aray, di rin ako marunong mag-chopsticks. Well, actually, I manage. But barely. Can’t eat rice with them though. And my 11-year-old daughter learned all by herself. Haaayyy….
Chopsticks, schmopsticks. Just put the food on a nice clean banana leaf and I’ll save you the trouble of digging up some utensils.
my favorite is when there are no words to instruct you, only pictures… and for the record, *I* have taught many a Filipino how to use chopsticks… talk about that irony…
Now you can pick up anything.
How ’bout chicks? :p
For the record, I actually didn’t know how to use chopsticks until I had to meet my future mother-in-law. So there. (There really isn’t much of a tradition in the Philippines for non-Chinese to use anything other than either bare hands (right, Joey?) or fork and spoon — not knife.)
But the “instructions for white people” title came from the last line — exactly psychicpants’ point.
(Barb: no, I haven’t read it, but Dust and Conscience (is that the title?) has been sitting on my shelf for a while now.)