You eat dinner with a spoon?

[Guest lazyphil]

Well I disagree, they're fiddly and the food gets cold before finishing the meal for posers really

[samak]

very practical...if you can handle them!

[BelgianBoy]

limbo said:

Very practical tools Phil. Enjoy eating with them very much, if it's the right food for them.

or do a nosejob with them :)

 

BB

[preahko]

when in thailand, only spoon just like the thais (the fork is only used to scoop stuff into the spoon). of course, chopsticks for noodles.

 

when elsewhere, fork like the rest of the farangs. chopsticks for noodles.

 

preahko

[limbo]

to Phil and BB.

[rookie]

Definitely...in Thailand it's a table spoon and fork. Chopsticks only for certain soup dishes, along with a spoon for the liquid portion.

 

What I find really _strange_ is seeing Brits using a fork and pushing the food (farang or Thai) onto it with a knife. I always thought a knife was an implement for cutting up your food... not pushing things around!

[Mekong]

I Just use my hands, any food that needs utensils to be consumed is not thoroughly prepared in my book.

[..]

Really? What do you use to push food onto a fork/spoon, your fingers? Ewww. Who taught you manners?

 

When eating farang style, I use a knife to assist getting food on the fork. When eating Thai style, I use the fork to help fill the spoon.

 

Mekong, I certainly use right hand fingers to eat when it is called for as local custom (e.g., at a banana-leaf curry place in Malaysia)

 

Cheers,

SD

[Torneyboy]

samak said:

of course spoon and fork for thai food!

wooden chopsticks for japanese and metal ones for korean food!

and a knife for western food!

 

just a knife for western...love to see that

[samak]

SD, do you use your hands only in India to accommodate local customs and please your customers??

tried it and the fingers get so dirty of all the gravy so that i nowadays always use fork and knife, whether all other Indians at the table use hands only or not....