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Note: Asian soup is generally less viscous
Depends on the kind of soup and how you’re eating it.
Left one is good for slurping but bad for taking a mouthful – not ergonomic for the human mouth. Right is a jack of all trades, master of none.
Fair statement, unfair picture. The spoon on the right is a dessert spoon. Regular tablespons are way deeper and elongated than that.
I like Asian spoons… once in a while. They feel fancy, but I can’t imagine myself always using them.
Especially because of the many different types of soups, and not all working well with them.
Yeah, let me just pick up this awkward square measuring cup on a spindly little stick and try to fit this in my mouth in polite company, before realizing it’s way too deep to actually get the food off of it. How does somebody look at that shoebox-on-a-stick and think, “yeah, that’s an upgrade on a spoon. What a glow-up”?
We’re unserious? *You’re* unserious.
Soup game: leveled up. Next, they’ll revolutionize cereal.
yeah but they’re way messier, i always end up with a ton of soup on my sweater when failing to make it go through the gutter-handle at the right speed.
You can cut with it too, if it’s the thinner stainless steel ones.
Don’t they usually have like giant ingredients? Like whole wontons? Western soup tends to have smaller ingredients.
Where do I buy good quality spoons like those on the right? I bought some off Amazon but they’re not of very good quality. Extra long handles are a plus too.
Specially designed to make the disgusting slurping twice as loud
That thing on the left is a ladle, not a spoon, lol
Basically a spoon-shaped bowl.
No, I dislike the Asian spoon because I don’t know how to align it with my mouth. It gets so awkward.
Try eating a creamy broccoli soup or similar with the one on the left, and you’ll change your mind.
Yes but knives beat chopsticks for chopping
Asian spoon is amazing for broth but terrible for broth + solids.
Yeah, no. Asian spoons suck.
This obsession with ‘how Americans suck’ is obtuse.
Lets compare the superior and easier to use forks to the inferior chopsticks next.
Pho, miso, tom yum ….. Asia has some heavy hitters in the soup game
Not about that soup life.
It sluurp longer too.
My mum (and the rest of the family) didn’t understand that a small bowl and a large spoon had anything to do with soup..
They got used as a suger-bowl and -spoon!
Western soups are often more viscous, East Asian soups are generally a lighter broth.
I bet someone has the *real* answer about the superiority of specific cutlery. Can someone point me to the correct anecdote?
SO UNseRIouS!!!
Now let’s talk about chopsticks vs forks
Because soup is what we eat when we are destitute and starving to death or before a real meal. I.E. soup kitchens.
Table spoons are MUCH BETTER FOR RICE.
Just use a fork, if you are fast enough it works.
I’m not taking utensil slander from the guys who invented chopsticks.
I can’t find them, there’s only soup.
And yet I have both of those types of spoons and several more that I bought in the West. something something use the right tool for the job.
Not that crazy. Soup is not even a real foot group quite frankly. Ofcourse its not gonna be treated with a propper spoon
what they lack in forks they make up for in spoons
I don’t want to hear any lectures about soup spoons from folks who need everything to be in tiny bites so they can pick it up with a pair of sticks
I’d rather eat with a regular soup spoon so I don’t have to contort into uncomfortable positions with my arm or head, or make rude noises.
Oh absolutely fucking not. I used the left spoon multiple times and it’s awkward as hell.
I use a small ladle.
Omg I have that Asian spoon…
TBF that soup spoon on the right is a crappy looking soup spoon by western soup spoon standards.
I AM unserious about my soup, one may say im even Goofy about it
Says the mother fuckers picking up their chicken with sticks…
If their spoons are so well designed then why can’t they rest inside a bowl without falling in
asian soup spoons also dont get as hot so you can sip on really hot broth without scalding your lips on a 200 degree metal spoon
Saw a guy at a restaurant who had like a chicken curry or something, loaded up his spoon, and freaking unhinged his jaw to get the whole thing in his mouth.
I thought “one of us is clearly not doing this right and I think that may be me”
Korean spoons beg to differ.
omg literally – i love using western soup spoons for pretty much everything except soup. i especially love them for ice cream. but anytime i do have soup, i’m using the asian spoon, absolutely.