Why need to test food temperature with hand when you can also observe the food with eyes if it is "steamy" hot? You don't eat with hand and how many times did your tongue got burned as a result? None right?

The risk of getting burnt by food is when drinking soup when one is not careful. Last I check nobody test soup temperature with bare hands also....

But your hands/fingers have higher tolerance to hear compare to your mouth, tongue.

True, that is how human were able to transcend beyond the physiological limit and gain the biggest advantage over animals.

eat rice use mouth.

Got wrong way to eat rice meh?

i dont understand all this fuss, with some people even going as far as to say some methods are best.

'civilised' people will know that the proper conduct (for a guest) is to graciously adapt to whatever method their host prefers. if an asian host invites you to eat dinner with fork and spoon, do so. if a western host invites you to eat dinner with your hands, do so. if someone invites you to eat using nothing but your elbows, you do so.

the purpose of learning how to use cutlery (or any other method of eating) is for the guest to adapt to the host, not the other way round.

I cannot stand the sight of gravy wet hands, oily and the bits of rice still on the hand makes it worse. Yucks.

musim pkp semua jadi lemah

Actually eat rice with hand quite nice...

Should try it sometimes

Some claimed that eating with hand is more sedap which i've no idea why.

Good food is good no matter using what to eat.

I know, but I can eat rice on a plate with chopsticks. No issue. Sometimes I prefer to do it due to few friends eating slow.

problem is, after using hands, the smell kenot be washed off with soap

The main concern is hygiene, germs and dirt easily hid in the fingernails gap and almost impossible to clean thoroughly. Food soaked with gravy make it even more likely for the germs in the fingernails to travel onto your food and into your mouth.

I have friend who's a Chinese who grew up near the Kampung. She can use hand and chopstick but say rice taste better with hands.

Harrold may not be entirely correct

But using hands is just fucking barbaric

If I have to choose between fork and hands, I know which one I'm choosing, and that's not acting like a fucking caveman

P.s. Harrold is correct in the sense that it is traditional table manners to eat even loose items like rice or peas with a fork. But since vast majority of aSiAn ExPeRtS barely even know how to use a spoon and fork properly... well...

Not entirely correct

That is peasant way. Educated way is to use chopsticks and pick up the rice, NEVER slurp from bowl.

You think the Emperors, queens, concubines and eunuchs etc will "pa fan" like that?

This post has been edited by KLthinker91: Mar 10 2021, 09:21 AM

added flavors with hands, meaning everyone also get their own secret flavor

but maruah dicabar now

I don't know leh, do we have actual documentary video of actual Tongshan royalty eating rice?

I don't like eating rice using my fingers unless I have to. Just feel more comfortable with a spoon.

I'm ok with kuih, pizza, fried chicken, fruit etc. Just not rice. Don't know why.

no wonder malay food always served cold

chinese food usually steamy piping hot when served and must be eaten immediately