Monday, September 08, 2014

I've Been Doin' It Wrong Redux

My original "wrong" post was all about sushi.  Today we learned we've been eating Thai food wrong, according to this lady:

What would we do without these inter-tubes?  OTOH, now I'm hungry for Thai food.  Mebbe I'll head over to The Big(ger) CityTM later today.
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9 comments:

  1. Old NFO08 September, 2014 16:28

    Thankfully I had 'good' lessons back in the 70's in Pattaya... ;-)

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    1. Buck09 September, 2014 09:49

      Hey! We might have unknowingly ran into each other back then. I made a couple o' trips from U-Tapao down to Pattaya in '76 and '77. I had some good lessons there, too. ;-)

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  2. OldAFSarge08 September, 2014 17:02

    Ehhhhhhh.

    There is no "wrong" way to eat. The Thais do it this way, the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans do it another. China and Japan (I've witnessed this first hand) you hold the rice bowl (always a bowl, never a dish) and use the sticks to shovel the rice in. The chopsticks are also used to sample the other dishes, one does not shovel this stuff onto your "flattened" rice. In Korea that's bad form (at least in my neck of the woods). In Korea one eats one's rice with a large spoon. Out of (again) a bowl. Forks are a Western thing. "No hab" in the olden days. A friend of mine from the boondocks (heh) in the Philippines informed us that in her village, you ate with your fingers. Cutlery was high-falutin' and for dandified city folk.

    American and Western European cutlery usage is also different. What they do there is considered bad form here. Well, at least by my Mom.

    Many right ways, no "wrong" way. Whoever made the video needs to get out more. Just sayin'...

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    1. Buck09 September, 2014 09:52

      Concur with everything you said. My "doin' it wrong" verbiage was meant to be tongue-in-cheek but it's hard to convey that in writing, innit?

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    2. OldAFSarge09 September, 2014 17:59

      分かりました!

      ICSFTH

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  3. HMS Defiant08 September, 2014 22:40

    What OldAFghanistan Sarge says. Those sticks aren't a tricky delivery system, they're a scoop. The bowl of rice is right up there next to you stache.

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    1. Buck09 September, 2014 09:55

      I can validate what you say based on my five years of living in Nippon. My personal rice bowl is one of my Little Treasures (everyone has one, and The Second Mrs. Pennington took hers with her when she left).

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  4. (not necessarily your) Uncle Skip09 September, 2014 12:04

    Doesn't everyone have a rice bowl?

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    1. Buck09 September, 2014 12:10

      I dunno! Unless you're speaking of that ol' "that's not my rice bowl" thing... AKA, "ees not my job, Man!"

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