Chopsticks are the perfect tool for eating noodles, but many of us don't do it correctly. If you didn't grow up learning to eat with chopsticks, then trying to pick up the cutlery for the first time can be daunting. There's a specific way chopsticks should be held in order to be able to grasp onto the slippery noodles , and it can take some time to get used to.
When you've finally mastered the art of holding chopsticks, however, how do you eat with them? Picking up a bunch of long noodles can mean having to slurp them up with little to no decorum, but you don't have the support of a spoon to twirl the noodles around into a circle like you do when you have spaghetti. But it turns out there is a way to twirl your noodles in order to get the "perfect bite" every time - you've just been using your chopsticks incorrectly this whole time. In a video shared on TikTok by Saemmul Song, there's a specific hack you have to use if you want to eat your noodles without slurping them, and it's all to do with how you pick them up.
Saemmul said: "I don't know if this is a Korean thing, it's probably not, but in case you didn't know, this is how you twirl noodles using chopsticks. It's not going to work if you try to twist it like a fork. Instead, pick up a little bit of your noodles and just make circles around your plate or bowl.
" The woman showed herself circling her chopsticks around her bowl, and as she did so, the noodles began to wrap perfectly around the bottom of her chopsticks until .