I am highly skilled with chopsticks. It's quite embarrasing if you're out eating sushi and your friend asks for a knife and fork. Makes me want to stab the fork in his eye.
Why is that embarassing? Seriously, I've never understood this.
In the US we use forks, in Japan they use chopsticks. They have sushi and steak in both countries. I've never eaten in a US steakhouse and once seen someone ask for chopsticks. If I were in a Japanese steakhouse I'd expect to see a bunch of folks eating steak with chopsticks. So you're eating sushi with a fork in the US.....and? I've never understood that. "Oh we're eating Japanese sushi or Chinese fried rice in the US.....better get my chopsticks!!"
Folks in the US use a fork with almost every meal, but since it's Japanese or Chinese food gotta have the chopsticks. If you're a US citizen but grew up in Japan and prefer chopsticks I get that. But a bunch of folks born and raised in the US that MUST switch to chopsticks in the Japanese restaurant because forks aren't used in Japan and that makes it embarassing for the homegrown US chopstick users LOL.....huh?
Me, I have nothing against those who use chopsticks, but I also have no problem with US folks in US restaurants always using a fork