By M.L.Sirichalerm Svasti from www.Mcdang.com/HomeB.asp "Gateway to Thai food and resturant" - Thai's most favorite food website
In Asian cultures, rice plays the central part of every meal. That is to say that we eat everything with rice…well almost everything. The other important element of every meal, is that, we share many dishes with our family. Unlike the Western eating culture where everyone has his or her own plate of selected food. We have many dishes prepared and put them in platters or bowls and place them in the middle of the table, each person is given a plate with rice and take what ever food they want from the middle of the table. Since everything is already cut up for you in all the dishes, we eat Thai food with fork and spoon. The spoon is in your right hand and the fork is in your left hand. You put food that you want to eat in the spoon and put the spoon in your mouth not the fork. Most Western cultures put the fork, which is in your left hand in your mouth because they have to cut their food. We also use chopsticks in Thailand and we have the Chinese to thank for introducing them to us. But we mainly use chopsticks
when we eat noodles or rice porridge, which has many accompanying condiments. Fork and spoons were brought here to Thailand by Westerners but we use them differently.
