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| sally |
Posted
on 15-Oct-02 02:37 PM
Apropos of nothing in particular, I just heard a comment from an Indian woman about chopsticks being part of Tibetan culture.
I don't recall chopsticks in Tibetan or Sherpa homes, either in KTM or around the Tibet border, but I might not have noticed, and (sadly) I haven't had much real exposure to the culture. So I plead ignorance.
True or not? Are chopsticks Tibetan, or do they just get put on the table at Tibetan restaurants in India?
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| chipledhunga |
Posted
on 15-Oct-02 02:53 PM
Sally, as far as I know, Tibetans do NOT use chopstiks.
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| chipledhunga |
Posted
on 15-Oct-02 02:54 PM
Using chopsticks seems to be more of Chinese as well as Japanese and Korean cultures.
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| sally |
Posted
on 15-Oct-02 03:18 PM
That's my impression, but it's just a sort of vague feeling I have. Her comment made me realize that I'm not very personally familiar with Tibetan or Sherpa culture. I've been near the border, and everyone was just eating with their hands, but I have no way of knowing if that was a representative experience. Ditto the few homes I've been to in KTM.
So I wonder if there are any Tibetans or Sherpas on sajhaland who would know more "whereof they speak" than I would! (Then I can go ahead and correct the Indian woman for conflating Tibetan and Chinese ;-) )
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| Junkie |
Posted
on 15-Oct-02 03:52 PM
Aaye .... I get it Sally ..... it's one of those tricky questions huh ...... is it Dumpling or Momo ....... Is it Chowmein or waiwai ....... It's not the chopstick yaar ..... it's FREE TIBET that resonates in our homes ...... :-)
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| tabponski |
Posted
on 15-Oct-02 04:37 PM
I think they do use chopstick. I have seen lamas using them. But may this came to tibet very late may be after china's invasion over tibet in late 50s. It is something like Nepali celebrating rakhi . I have seen in KTM these days. But I am sure when I was a kid very rarely people talk about rakhi or wear rakhi. These days it has been fashion. May be chopstck is rakhi in tibet
Tabponski
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| wit's end |
Posted
on 17-Oct-02 07:37 AM
sally...tibetans use chopsticks and it's an integral part of their culture. Tibetans have used chopsticks for ages, and used them before china's official take over of tibet. This infact is mainly due to influence of chinese culture over a long period of time. Infact, Tibetans have picked up many things...the dress that they wear is of mongolian origin. And momo is ofcourse one of the many things that tibetan borrowed from china. And religion...buddhism..as we all know .....
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| dirk |
Posted
on 17-Oct-02 08:36 AM
I agree with Wit's End that the use of chopsticks in Tibet was not uncommon before the 1959 takeover. But, has proliferated rapidly since. It is especially useful when having Thukpa. Another Chinese trait that is common amongst the Tibetans is the playing Magh-jong as a form of gambling.
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| Harvard_Dropout |
Posted
on 17-Oct-02 09:58 AM
If you read through the various writers accounts of the lifestyle and social structure in Tibet prior to 1959 there is very little, if any, refernce to Tibetans using chopsticks prior to the Chinese takeover. Actually, there are several references in Bell's accounts of the 13th Dalai Lama and how he was served with spoons and fork and knives. There is a whole section on his dining out at Kalinpong while he was undergoing his second self-imposed exile. Harrer also does not once mention the use of chopsticks in his "Seven Years in Tibet."
Mary Craig and her accounts of the Dalai Lama's family does not mention anything about chopsticks. Again, the use of chopsticks may have been a minor distraction in comparision to what the Tibetan society was about to undergo.
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| Biruwa |
Posted
on 17-Oct-02 10:15 AM
What do the chineese call noodles? and what do they call momo in their language? My chineese friend doesn't know chowchow or momo !!!!!!!!!!
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| dirk |
Posted
on 17-Oct-02 10:21 AM
I'm not too sure but the word for momos in Chinese is kothay...which in Nepal means a fried momo. Chow Chow could be either Chow Mein or Lo Mein.
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| ChuchiDidi |
Posted
on 20-Oct-02 10:22 PM
Chopstick=quatse was not used by Tibetans before chinese gov took over tibet. It became popular among tibetan after that.
To the person who said that tibetans cloth is Mongolian :) It is not true Tibetans have their own traditional dress. It is true that during Jangistans son or sons son i don't rember very well. He tired to make Tibet "union" He did suceed but then there came king and got rid of jangistans son. Tibetans did follow the "union"wthat jangishtans son started. That's why in Tib gov you might have seen Mongolian dress. It used to show what kindof gov position u were in :)
Sincerly,
Chuchi
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| ChuchiDidi |
Posted
on 20-Oct-02 10:26 PM
Sally sorry but tibetan don't use hands to eat their food :( They use spoons. about border people they are influenced so much by Nepal so that's why u saw them eating by hand:) ehhhe now they sell dal bhat in capital of Tibet and you can hear indian music in the rest and people singing it :) in't it great? :)
Sincerly,
Chuchi
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| Logical Sense |
Posted
on 21-Oct-02 12:36 PM
ChuchiDidi - I love your name. Made me smile all over my cheek :] - (Smile Squared, got it from NK.)
You don't seem to be Chuchi though!
Dhani Manis Ko Nam 'Garib Das' Bhaneko Jasto Ho Ki Kya Ho?
About Chopsticks - your logic seems more close to the facts!
- iti
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| ChuchiDidi |
Posted
on 23-Oct-02 09:44 PM
ogic jii i am darn chuchi tesae lae mero nick chuchi ho :) gali garera dekhau? ehhe just kiding :) it is the fact nii about chopstick.
Sally nakalli did u see it or not? :P
extreme chuchi
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