I know exactly what you mean Claire, and agree with Jimbo, but I've eaten some crazy things during my time abroad. That reminds me of a very funny clip from Gordon Ramsay's F word, regarding the topic of eclectic foods. I'll post that below.
I learnt to use Chop Sticks when we lived in Japan ( Nagoya and Toyota City ) at the age of 9
, which i picked up surprisingly easy. I can use chop sticks as well as anybody local in Hong Kong, but still prefer the finer tipped Japanese hashi, over the Chinese more blunt ended variety.
The worst chop sticks of all are the Korean variety, which are thinly oval in shape, which is a pain to hold comfortably, for any length of time.
This clip is hilarious and bags of respect given to James May, he really has true stiff upper lip grit.
