It is usually difficult for people to accuse me of ethnocentrism, but my dislike of chopsticks is an exception. They seem to have been designed to prevent food from being eaten, though I'll admit that solution could be useful here in the States. My girlfriend is Asian, and I've been through enough dinners to be okay with trading the shame of using silverware for a full stomach. The latest place we went to served traditional food [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_pot]"hot pot"[/url] style. It was pretty good.