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?

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.

Thailand



"Alan Horowitz" wrote in message
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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?

In article ,
(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?

I'd say just about every country in SE Asia and possibly south Asia
(primary or secondary). For sure, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand,
Cambodia, Indonesia. Maybe Vietnam too.

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?

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
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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?

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'.
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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?

Silly, Thailand uses their hands or chopsticks, spoons and forks is used
only by westerners.

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.

"Boracay Bill" wrote in message
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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).
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Singapore observed no
Depends which culture in Singapore. Chinese no I think. Indian definitely
yes. Malay maybe.