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which countries use a spoon to shovel the food into mouth?
filipinos eat with fork and spoon. Food goes in mouth on spoon, fork
is only the auxiliary device. Any other countries do it that way? |
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which countries use a spoon to shovel the food into mouth?
Alan Horowitz wrote:
filipinos eat with fork and spoon. Food goes in mouth on spoon, fork is only the auxiliary device. Any other countries do it that way? The average South East Asian actually uses the hands when eating, Filipinos learned to eat with fork and spoon to please what is considered "polite" society, who is more colonial than normal. Chopsticks arrived in mainland South East Asia much the same way spoons and fork did and with the same reason as to why it is used. Along the boonies of the same mainland S.E.A., people use their hands more than chopsticks. Actually all the way to India, people use their hands. That doesn't mean the implements did not exist, they do right from the start, it is just not used normally for eating. |
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Thailand
"Alan Horowitz" wrote in message om... filipinos eat with fork and spoon. Food goes in mouth on spoon, fork is only the auxiliary device. Any other countries do it that way? |
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Thailand , they have much more class and culture than the Pinoy Tree Monkey
(Alan Horowitz) wrote in message . com... filipinos eat with fork and spoon. Food goes in mouth on spoon, fork is only the auxiliary device. Any other countries do it that way? |
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Helo Alan
You get no spoon and fork to eat with at both my ex wife's granparents homes on Leyte. They eat with hands only. Regards: Jim Sibbick "Alan Horowitz" wrote in message om... filipinos eat with fork and spoon. Food goes in mouth on spoon, fork is only the auxiliary device. Any other countries do it that way? |
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Alan Horowitz wrote: filipinos eat with fork and spoon. Food goes in mouth on spoon, fork is only the auxiliary device. Any other countries do it that way? Depends what we're eating... It's hard to eat soup with a fork or roast beef with a spoon. Here in the UK we take the pragmatic approach and use the tools best suited to the job. You will find a typical UK family will happily tuck into their Chinese meal with chopsticks (or a fork, if like me they have problems with chopsticks. I used to be fine with them, but have difficulty now as they set off my RSI), and using the chapattis in traditional manner with the Friday night curry. We'll then revert to spoon and fork for pasta on Saturday, and a full set of cutlery for Sunday dinner. We find the American habit of chopping everything up and shovelling it in with the fork in the right hand very odd. In the UK the knife lives in the right hand, the fork in the left, and you cut the food as you go. And from a 19th C book of manners: 'One can never be too quiet with teeth or cutlery'. -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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which countries use a spoon to shovel the food into mouth?
SweeTips wrote:
Thailand , they have much more class and culture than the Pinoy Tree Monkey (Alan Horowitz) wrote in message . com... filipinos eat with fork and spoon. Food goes in mouth on spoon, fork is only the auxiliary device. Any other countries do it that way? Silly, Thailand uses their hands or chopsticks, spoons and forks is used only by westerners. |
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tansong tumbaga wrote in message .com...
Alan Horowitz wrote: filipinos eat with fork and spoon. Food goes in mouth on spoon, fork is only the auxiliary device. Any other countries do it that way? The average South East Asian actually uses the hands when eating, Filipinos learned to eat with fork and spoon to please what is considered "polite" society, who is more colonial than normal. Besides the Philippines, I've lived for extended periods in Korea, Hong Kong, and Vietnam and I've visited Japan, Singapore, Thailand, and Laos for periods of a week or more at a time. All of these countries are Asian, not all are Southeast Asian. Of these, the only place I remember it being fairly commonplace to eat with the hands is the Philippines. Of course, the practice is found pretty much everywhere in certain specialty restaurants and among some ethnic minorities. Using the list of countries in the Lonely Planet Southeast Asia book plus two I added, I've indicated below my best guess about whether the average person in each commonly eats with their hands. I've probably gotten some of my guesses and/or observations wrong, and just out of curiosity I would appreciate knowing about my errors. Brunei guess yes Cambodia guess no Hong Kong observed no Indonesia guess no Laos observed no Malaysia guess yes Myanmar guess no Philippines observed yes Singapore observed no Thailand observed no Vietnam observed no I added two Macau observed no Taiwan observed no "Observed no" here means that I did not observe many people eating with their hands. The practice might have been common and I just missed observing it. Even in the Philippines, a foreign visitor could spend quite some time here and travel around pretty widely without noticeably encountering the practice. |
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which countries use a spoon to shovel the food into mouth?
"Boracay Bill" wrote in message om... .....(cut) Using the list of countries in the Lonely Planet Southeast Asia book plus two I added, I've indicated below my best guess about whether the average person in each commonly eats with their hands. I've probably gotten some of my guesses and/or observations wrong, and just out of curiosity I would appreciate knowing about my errors. .............. Indonesia guess no Very much yes especially at home. Not so common in city restaurants (but depends on style of food). .............. Singapore observed no Depends which culture in Singapore. Chinese no I think. Indian definitely yes. Malay maybe. |
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