Wednesday, December 19, 2007

To Teach A Friend How To Use Chopsticks

Arren is my youngest son’s classmate. He is an American born Filipino. He likes to eat Chinese food especially Kwong Tong dim sum.


Two weeks ago, Sunday, we brought him with my family to a Chinese restaurant to enjoy “Yum Cha”. We planned to teach him how to use chopsticks correctly.


This restaurant is on Powell Street in San Francisco. That day, just a few people were waiting for tables.


We just waited for ten minutes before we got a table. We appreciated that. After the busboy delivered the dishes and tea cups, we found that he hadn’t brought any chopsticks. We asked a captain for them. The captain said they were short of chopsticks and he asked if we could use forks instead. The restaurant unexpectedly did not have enough chopsticks. This had never happened to us before in a Chinese restaurant.

When the forks were delivered to us, Arren said, “This time I can teach you how to use a fork!”

1 comment:

Richard Blum said...

Arren is my youngest son classmate. He is an American born Pilipino. He likes to eat Chinese food especially Kwong Tong dim sum.
Two weeks ago, Sunday, we brought him with my family to go to a Chinese restaurant to enjoy “Yum Cha”. We planned to teach him how to use chopsticks correctly.
This restaurant is on the Powell Street in San Francisco. That day, just a few people needed to wait for the tables.
We just waited for ten minutes, we got a table. We appreciated it. After a busboy delivering the dishes and tea cups, we found that it was short of chopsticks. We asked a captain for them. The captain said they lacked for chopsticks and they would deliver the forks for eating. The restaurant unexpectedly did not have enough chopsticks to serve. It was what we have never met.
When the forks were delivered to us, Arren said, “This time I can teach you how to use the fork!”