Do You Share Dishes at Chinese and Other Asian Restaurants?

[Grey Fox]

I always thought people who ordered individual meals at Chinese restaurants were kind of weird.

Sharing food is barbaric. Plus, depending on personal manners of the people you are with, it may be stomach-churning (e.g. people who put food on their plate with their own fork or spoon  ).

So how dry is your skin?

I didn't get the reference.

You're a clean freak, you shower too often therefor your skin might be dry. I'm asking how much?

[derspiess]

I always thought people who ordered individual meals at Chinese restaurants were kind of weird.

Sharing food is barbaric. Plus, depending on personal manners of the people you are with, it may be stomach-churning (e.g. people who put food on their plate with their own fork or spoon  ).

[frunk]

OvB's post matches with a book I read on Chinatowns from ~10-15 years ago.  It describes them as entry points for new, poor immigrants.  If they or (more frequently) their kids achieve some measure of success they leave for other parts of the US and start businesses (amongst them Ameri-Chinese restaurants).  At that point they are pretty well Americanized.

If I remember right the book described this as the old pattern, and that fewer immigrants were sticking to the Chinatowns as long (or at all).