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Soup Spoons

lindag

By lindag
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lindag

lindag

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Who decided that the world no longer needed a soup spoon?

I'm old enough to remember when flatware sets included them.

Much nicer for eating soup than the more common tablespoon.

There are some stubborn folk like me available on Amazon.

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Ddanno

Ddanno

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25 minutes ago, lindag said:

 

There are some stubborn folk like me available on Amazon.

 

I'll buy you.

 

Frippery aside, I agree. Dessertspoons are rubbish for soup, you need that mini-bowl shape to get a good slurp.

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liuzhou

liuzhou

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I eat my soup with chopsticks!

 

 

Seriously. The local way is to pick out any solids with your chopsticks, then pick the bowl up and drink the liquid part.  I haven't seen a soup spoon in 30 years.

 

🥢

 

 

 

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Anchobrie

Anchobrie

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Much more annoyed by the lack of fish table knives...

 

I still see spoons around, both clasic european (for me) and asian looking ones.

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Shel_B

Shel_B

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On 8/12/2025 at 6:31 AM, lindag said:

Who decided that the world no longer needed a soup spoon?

[...]

Much nicer for eating soup than the more common tablespoon.

What is the difference between a soup spoon and a tablespoon? What's a tablespoon used for, or intended to be used for?

 ... Shel


 

blue_dolphin

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On 8/12/2025 at 7:24 AM, liuzhou said:

I eat my soup with chopsticks!

 

 

Seriously. The local way is to pick out any solids with your chopsticks, then pick the bowl up and drink the liquid part.  I haven't seen a soup spoon in 30 years.

 

🥢

 


Are short-handled, often flat-bottomed spoons of this general type never used for soup in China?  If it’s not a soup spoon, does it have a different name?
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I’ve been served soup in both Chinese and Japanese restaurants in the US with chopsticks only or with both chopsticks and one of these spoons.

I’m pretty sure I saw them in restaurants in China as well but it’s been a while and I don’t remember exactly. 

Some of my Chinese colleagues often used this style of spoon, usually metal instead of porcelain, along with chopsticks for soups they'd brought for lunch. 
 

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