That’s the question. I find it much easier to scoop cooked rice, especially the long grain ones, onto a spoon and transferring it to my mouth.
Yet I find spoons only for soup in restaurants and other houses of eating. It’s fork and knife for the rest. Why?
Because people have always eaten with forks and knives, and that’s how they’ll KEEP eating, dangnabbit!
What kind of rice and what kind of restaurant?
Good sticky rice is not well served by being eaten with a spoon. It sticks to the spoon too much which I find unappealing. Fork or chopsticks work much better.
Restaurants that serve dry rice usually have knife fork and spoon all available.
It’s Western custom to eat with knife and fork for basically everything but soup and ice cream. Why would rice be any different?
In Korea and Thailand, everyone eats rice with a spoon. Maybe you want to eat at a Korean or Thai place when you get a hankering for rice.
My Korean friends use tiny metal chopsticks.
It some strange western predilection to separate foods one eats on a plate. Dry rice?
BLAH!!
Which Korea are you refering to? Is there are Korea, IL? 'Cause the Koreans in Korea use their heavy metal chopsticks.
Which as is it should be. Any rice that can’t be picked up with chopsticks is inedible gravel.
Yes, my family uses metal chopsticks too and all the other Koreans I know do so as well. My Chinese friends ask me how I can use such heavy chopsticks because I think they’re more accustomed to wooden ones. Anyways, to the OP, depending on the type of rice, it’s easier to eat it with a spoon than a fork. For rice that isn’t very sticky, it might be hard for people to keep it on their fork. For rice that is sticky, there’s less chance of it falling over the place if one uses a spoon. But, I generally use chopsticks because I’m more used to them.