The guy who eat bread everyday tried to advice the guy who eat rice everyday ..WTH

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GEORGE TOWN: Eating rice with the hand involves the adroit use of the thumb to slide rice soaked in sauce on the fingers into the mouth, says former president of Consumers International Datuk Anwar Fazal.

“I take all international visitors I host for vegetarian rice on banana leaf in Penang Gandhi Ashram.

“I give them a short lesson on how to eat with your hands in 10 easy steps, ” he said when presented with “advice” from self-proclaimed English etiquette expert Grant Harrold on how to eat rice.

Harrold, a former butler of Prince Charles and his sons, told his Twitter followers on March 6 to “remember we always use knife and fork or chopsticks to eat rice. We do not use our hands or fingers (sic).”

Anwar responded: “The only rice he can eat like that are perhaps ketupat or chicken rice balls.

“The art and science of eating developed differently in various civilisations. The earliest is the use of hands, followed by chopsticks and then cutlery, ” Anwar said.

Malaysian culinary maestro Chef Wan, also known as is Redzuawan Ismail, had even stronger words.

“Don’t bodohly (foolishly) follow white people’s thinking. Rice is a grain. It’s not like pasta you can catch with a fork, ” he said.

As far as eating utensils are concerned, Chef Wan said the spoon was “plain common sense and so convenient” to eat rice with.

“Asian cuisine is full of gulai (curries). If you only have a fork and knife, how are you going to scoop all that without a spoon?

“We have our culture too. There’s no right or wrong. If some of us love to eat rice with the hand, then it’s ok too. Don’t be so rigid, ” he said.

Thousands of people worldwide scoffed at Harrold’s view on how to eat rice.


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I learn new words

Bodohly

chopstick is the right way to eat rice with...ohwait...

How to eat rice also triggered?

I use spoon, some food texture just feels gross on the hand

i can eat fried rice with only chopsticks.

Eating from own plate is ok

But the gross thing is when they use the same hand, to take dish from the main shared plate.... Especially when eating fish or whole chicken where they peeling time will touch the whole chicken.

Or when taking chicken pieces, some will choose.
Hence touching other pieces of chicken.

Yucks

hand > all

on the topic of eating rice with hand, i actually asked a Malay friend about the reason behind it. She explained that if the food is too hot (temperature wise) to hold, then it is not suitable to put into your mouth. kind of make sense...

Vaseline shortage?

I eat rice with a straw

Old technology and claim is very good just like proton.

When the food is soaked then it's gross.

Also if the food is soaked with gravy meaning the liquid easy to travel in between your fingernails gaps and the food hence less hygienic than eating dry food with bare hands.

u can scoop using spoon and feel the heat of food too

There is always a purpose for cutlery set

Unless some ppl still with cave mentality and don't know how to use it

The traditional Chinese way of eating rice with chopstick is also eating with a small bowl, they scoop up the rice with chopstick while holding the rice bowl close to the mouth.

Since most chinese nowadays uses dish to place their rice and do not hold up the dish next to their mouth, it doesn't make sense to try eating rice with chopstick anymore.

Kepci is dried food, not soaked in gravy the last time I ate it... but then again long time didn't eat Kepci liao

If we follow the logic, say cannot eat rice with fork (coz, how to scoop?) then how to eat with chopstick?

Just wondering...

human evolve to use tool instead of just use hand.