A 200Lb adult needs a minimum of 140g of protein daily to remain healthy.

The standard recommendation is about 0.8g per kilogram of body weight. So 200 lbs is 91 kg, which corresponds with 73g.

There’s some more recent advocacy for more protein, especially for active or older people, but that’s talking about more than just the minimum requirements to be healthy, and more towards optimizing for performance.

There’s a literal character already named Shu Mai.

Beans are a starch

Beans are more than that. Beans/legumes/pulses are, as the children’s song suggests, magical (even if they are not fruit).

They can take the place of meat or other proteins, like in a stew/chili/curry, a proteiny topping on rice/pasta, slabs of tofu, or even as a sandwich stuffing (falafel in pita, black bean burger in bun, peanut butter in a sandwich, filling in a burrito).

They can take the place of starch, as in a bean porridge or baked beans in some circumstances.

They can act as a green vegetable, as green beans or edamame or peas.

They can be a handy ready-to-eat snack, like peanuts or wasabi peas.

They’re a sweet filling for desserts, like peanut butter or peanut brittle or whole peanuts in chocolate bars, or Chinese red bean paste, or all sorts of Vietnamese and Thai dishes.

Even on the non-food side of things they’re excellent high protein feed for livestock, green “manure” for nitrogen fixation in soil, and useful for production of various industrial chemicals and materials.

Skewers and other utensils are obviously OK. Some parts of natural foods can sometimes act like skewers or utensils, too, so that just becomes a normal part of the presentation and eating method. Like cocktail shrimp should still have the tails on, as a little handle.