Who looks at you weird? Other white people or asians? I use chop sticks when I get chinese or I got to a Japanese Cuisine place. The chinese restaraunt you have to ask for them but in the Japanese Cuisine place they are automatically given and a customer has to ask for a fork/knife/spoon. I like using chop sticks when eating oriental food for that is how it is eaten. I eat pasta with a fork, sushi with chop sticks. Not that I wouldn't eat pasta one day with chopsticks but that would be weird.