One thing we learned really fast upon our arrival is that we should have practiced more with Chop Sticks! You can readily find strange looking soup spoons, however, other silverware is hard to find.
On this day, a family friend took us out to dinner at a real Chinese restaurant. When dining with the Chinese be prepared for them to order way too much food as a way to impress you, and of course they pick up the tab. Don't even offer to pay - as it is an honor to treat you to dinner out. We had a lot of fun - it took us forever to eat because we could not get the hang of picking up the food.
Even the children have started to use chop sticks. We had a lot of food left over, they are still picky eaters. The restaurant packaged the food to go - however, not in the traditional Chinese paper boxes we are used to - no they use ziploc plastic bowls!
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