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If you go to high end social functions in Europe and the USA, you sometimes need to be aware of some basic differences in dining etiquette between the two areas:
I got 8/11. I think the first one about China was misleading. If eating at home, a mother wouldn't supply her child with more rice and he or she could possibly eat. Although not in China, my grandma was ethnically Chinese in Singapore, and she would make my mother eat all her rice up. Or at least threaten her with the superstitious old wives tale that if you left grains of rice in the bowl you'd get lots of pimples!
I got 8/11. I think the first one about China was misleading. If eating at home, a mother wouldn't supply her child with more rice and he or she could possibly eat. Although not in China, my grandma was ethnically Chinese in Singapore, and she would make my mother eat all her rice up. Or at least threaten her with the superstitious old wives tale that if you left grains of rice in the bowl you'd get lots of pimples!
A Vietnamese colleague told me her mother told her that every grain of rice you left in your bowl was one more worm you had to eat in hell.
A Vietnamese colleague told me her mother told her that every grain of rice you left in your bowl was one more worm you had to eat in hell.
Wow, yeah similar Asian customs...Asian parents can be harsh...my mum said that one of the punishment's her mother used to give her was to rub really hot chilli on her lips!
Got them all, but put in the answers based on what I think were the most common (mis)perceptions. For a lot of Chinese families, it's common to clean the bowl out for various reasons (with things like every grain of rice becomes another wart on your future spouse or the other examples people have listed). Slurping the noodles isn't always done as a compliment to the chef--it's because it's a way to eat really hot soup noodles as that sucking supposedly cools it down really quickly.
It was kind of fun to look at a shockwave site though. Haven't seen something like that in a long while.
If you go to high end social functions in Europe and the USA, you sometimes need to be aware of some basic differences in dining etiquette between the two areas:
Damn! Are people really that picky? I'm glad I'm not on the high end of the social spectrum!
To be frank, it's rare for people to be as specific as the instructions in the video, even in high society events. This kind of thing is mainly intended for young women/socialites trying to be meticulously presentable to important guests, potential suitors and the like.
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