Prior to moving to SEA I was a knife and fork guy, spoons were reserved for cereal and soup. Now that I have been here a while it makes a whole lotta sense to me to eat food the way the locals do.
But it has a lot to do with rice being a staple I think because have you ever tried to eat rice with a fork? Doesn't work out so well.
Rice is the worst possible food to try and stack on a fork. I see it in the USA, Ecuador, and even here in Suriname. What I love most is the look on my wife's face when she's served a fried rice with only a fork or fork and knife combo. It should only take one try to realize a knife is not designed to help push rice onto a fork, a utensil which has rice-sized gaps in it.
When I explain to Cambodians how most Americans poop and deal with their butt-stuff, they are revolted. We have a lot of catching up to do, and only when westerners are blasting their booties with a bum gun and eating rice with a spoon will the world ever find peace. !ENGAGE 35
We have a lot of catching up to do
Friends of mine that have returned to USA install bum guns in their bathrooms, the only problem being that most of the bathrooms back in the states are not "wet bathrooms" so it can cause structural damage if there is a leak. After living overseas for a while I can't understand why the bathrooms in the west are not wet bathrooms. My parents had bathrooms that were carpeted! How dirty is that carpet?
I grew up in a home with a carpeted bathroom. My parents once caught me sleepwalking at the age of 6, and I was peeing in the wicker basket trashcan (it didn't have a trashbag in it) in the bathroom .
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