Whether you spoon-and-fork directly from the platter or ask for some extra plates to share, there’s enough food to go around. Round off the meal with your choice of traditional East Asian desserts.

Confused? Here’s a tale this writer made up as a child: the fork is a gallant knight that must cross a round lake (the plate) to rescue his love, the spoon, who is guarded with a fiercely sharp ...

Myself, I use chopsticks some of the time. Other people, like my husband, seem to like a regular old fork. But Sohla El-Waylly prefers a spoon. At least, that’s her recommendation for quinoa and ...