After you sit down, read the menu on the wall or the menu on the table and order good food. Soon, the aunt in the restaurant will come to you with a tray. She will take out the tableware from the tray first, and then the food. Of course, some restaurants have already prepared tableware on the table. But exquisite shops personally deliver them to their guests: chopsticks are covered with paper clothes, spoons cover their faces-a round paper bag the size of a spoon is covered on it, and pipes and hats are painted on the paper-the elephant class of the former Korean aristocrat "Class Two". I collected it when I thought it was fresh at first, but it was not surprising that restaurants in several big cities in Korea used this model.
Chopsticks and spoons are made of brass, in addition to wedding gifts and silver products that are afraid of killing people. However, these two kinds of chopsticks are not common, and ordinary people use flat-headed stainless steel chopsticks. Wooden chopsticks are disposable. According to my observation, most Koreans only use Japanese noodles and kimbap. I have never seen Koreans use bamboo chopsticks, ivory chopsticks and plastic chopsticks. The handle of the spoon is very long, and the head is round and big. I am afraid I will hurt my mouth when I first use it.
Both China and Japan have the habit of eating with rice bowls, but Koreans think this behavior is not standardized. So you must remember that you can't touch the rice bowl on the table with your hands, let alone touch the rice bowl with your mouth. Then you will notice that the rice bowl is made of stainless steel (ceramic at home or in a fancy restaurant), and the round bottom is "sitting" on a covered table without a handle for you to hold. Coupled with the heat from the rice to the bowl, it is reasonable not to touch it. As for the bowl cover, you can take it off and put it on the table at will.
Since you are acting recklessly, your left hand must be obedient and honestly hidden under the table, and you can't "shine" on the table. Your right hand must first pick up the spoon, take a sip of soup from the kimchi (when there is no kimchi, you can use other soups instead), then take a bite of rice with the spoon, then take a sip of soup with the spoon, and then you can eat whatever you want. This is the order in which Koreans eat.
On it, you may notice that Koreans drink soup and eat with spoons. This is different from the eating habits of China and Japanese. Koreans using spoons and chopsticks at the same time is not a recent invention, but originated in ancient times. In the National Duke of Zhou Museum, I have seen iron spoons and chopsticks put together in the Baekje era. In Korean, besides the words spoon and chopsticks, there are two letters to indicate that spoon and chopsticks are put together.
Spoons are more important than chopsticks in Korean diet. They are responsible for holding the soup, fishing for the dishes in the soup, and holding the rice, and putting them on the rice bowl or other utensils when not in use. Chopsticks, on the other hand, are only responsible for serving vegetables. Under no circumstances can you take bean sprouts out of your soup bowl with a spoon, and you can't use chopsticks. First of all, there is the problem of food ceremony, and secondly, soup may flow down the chopsticks to the table. When chopsticks don't hold vegetables, the traditional practice in Korea is to put them on the table in the right hand direction, with two chopsticks close together, two-thirds on the table and 1/3 outside the table-this is for the convenience of picking them up and using them again. Koreans have no habit of using chopsticks racks. This practice, some people think that unless the desktop is wiped clean, it is unsanitary, so put chopsticks on a small plate instead. Finally, when you finish eating, you should still put the spoon and chopsticks in their original shapes, beginning and ending.
People in China eat with chopsticks and drink soup with spoons. Koreans eat and drink soup with spoons and hold vegetables with chopsticks. Japanese eat and drink soup with chopsticks. Why are there no spoons in Japanese diet? An old Japanese man once told me: "Spoons only spread from China to the Korean peninsula, because there is a sea between the Korean peninsula and Japan, so spoons did not spread to Japan." Later, I saw this in "Traveling Around the World in Korea" (version 1995): It is said that in the past, when Japan ate with its hands, Koreans felt sorry for themselves, so they taught the Japanese to use chopsticks instead of spoons. South Korea is a single nation, so the whole country is like a big family, which is reflected in eating together.
People in China may not use chopsticks and spoons at home, but when they eat in restaurants, they all use ordinary tableware to put food into their bowls and plates. Besides a meal, so do the Japanese. However, the situation in South Korea is different. Koreans eat common soups and vegetables directly with their own tableware. Koreans are an emotional people. I think people should fully understand them when they express their feelings by sharing food.