Chopsticks impose a tempo on the meal.
It is not possible for most westerners to wolf down their food with 'sticks as fast as with irons and that makes it be savoured.
I'm a southpaw, and when I was in Asia my hosts were fascinated with left-stick-using white guy.
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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