An old custom in the Philippines, when you and family/friends are eating, and through the half-eaten dish that you need to go immediately because of important reasons... you need to rotate (clockwise or counterclockwise) your plate of half-eaten meal at least once so you will not meet an accident along your way.... Don't know if it still being done in provinces/rural areas.
BRIGHT SIDE, first of all India is in South Asia and it is not a rule to not to touch your Food with left hand, after the prayer of God in Temple or during festival, some traditional sweet is made for all and they give us the sweet, we should take it from our right hand, I don't why? But it is a tradition, even if a child takes it from left hand, no one give punishment to the child they just suggest to not use their left hand. ☺️. We can eat any other food with the hand we wish to eat.
I went to Portugal for vacation last year. I don't know about salt and pepper but I do know to turn away the bread, ham and cheese they bring to your table. If you don't send it away it'll cost 25€
@@davemack1946 you went to the wrong places then! if you go to some fancy place they'll charge you more, but on most restaurants they have menus with bread, olives, main course, drink, dessert and coffee, all that for just 7-10€
Não acho que seja assim tão literal... Quando comecei a ver este filme pensei nisto mesmo, e surpreendentemente surgiu no filme... é como levar amigos a jantar a casa da mãe, dizendo que é a melhor cozinheira do mundo, e um dos amigos pede temperos e despeja-os no prato... não se sentiria insultado - a minha mãe é a melhor cozinheira do mundo, para que é que precisas de maionese e sal?! É como os cozinheiros se sentem. Ninguem vai ser insultado por pedir sal e pimenta em Portugal, mas claro que quem cozinha fica chateado - porque não correspondeu ao que pretendia ;).
In India we mostly have our food with right hand. So left hand is kept clean to have water, second helping and for passing the serving bowls! Looking at so many comments it seems you have half knowledge and did the video without going to depths. Sad!
My Great-Grand mother was from China and my Grandfather learned from her. My Grandparents raised me until I was 6 while my mother worked. You came to the table, and if you were a child, you kept your silence and listened to your elders. No belching, farting or acting up. You cleaned your plate and never complained if you did not like the taste of something because there were always children who were going hungry that would be grateful to have what you have.
i live in china for long time. one important rule when eating "eat everything whats on the table and make sure not a single rice left on your bowl" 😂😂😂
Maybe my situation is a bit awkward, because my parents come from Hong Kong, but we always try to clean our plates. If we can’t, that’s fine, but if we can and leave rice on it, then we’re going to grow pimples or something...
In the Netherlands we have ‘oprotkoffie’ (=“get lost-coffee”) That’s basically the last cup of coffee (or tea) served after a birthday/party/event which indicates the time that the guests have to leave after finishing it ;) If they don’t get the hint, the host starts vacuum cleaning the house
Vacuum cleaning the house?!! that's something we do in new zealand :) edit; after luxing a room for no necesssary reason, it is with a small blush I admit we sometimes will handwash the dishes as ...bombasticly as possible. Or wash the windows if things get really desperate (seen this happen, other neighbours will 'pop by' to see if everything's "allright with the fireplace" ..and i've seen the police rung a few times when a particularly obnoxious gang family simply refused to get the hint because our blatant discomfort were more entertaining than the mid-day soap opera's.
It's okay to use your left hand in India as far as I know coz I never came across someone saying not to use it while eating... I often end up with food on both of my hands and it's pretty normal coz in our tradition we mostly eat with hands rather than using spoon and forks(we just use them only when needed)
I am from a middle-eastern country, and in our country if you leave food on your plate after you have had your meal it is considered to be a bad etiquette. In our country we believe that if food is left on the plate after you have had a meal it means you are disrespecting the food and the cooks as well.
Drop Bear Interactive, then you have no option left than to leave without emptying your plate but before you do so make sure to deliver your thanks and pure feelings of having your dish to your host or the cooks. This would easily help you in leaving the place without emptying your plate as well as without upsetting anyone.😊😊
The comments for this video were brilliant. Fascinating stuff, far more entertaining and informative than the video! I live in the Southern USA and can't speak for any but my own family, but growing up the rules were: No talking with food in your mouth, chew with your mouth closed, no elbows on the table, clean your plate 'cause there are little children starving in China (I once made the mistake of suggesting we send what I didn't want to eat to one of those children ... never did that again), take seconds if you're still hungry but you better finish them, and never, ever finish off the last of anything because Daddy might want a snack later. I really enjoyed reading everyone's comments.
leaving food in your plate after finishing is considered rude in china. these are all really bad stereotypes. we are brought up to not waste even a single grain of rice. 谁知盘中餐，粒粒皆辛苦
although we're americans, my granddaughter and her family lived in hong kong for four years. they all use chopsticks when we eat in chinese, japanese and viet namese restaurants. i try and try, but just can't learn how to use them. i've even been gifted with a pair, but i always end up using a fork.
Actually, the Japanese one is right. I went on tour in Japan and one of the tour mates done this and our Japanese tour guide told him to lay them down, he was uncomfortable with it because of such and such tradition
Im Japanese and yes this fact is absolute real also theres these wooden chopsticks where you need to split it open, dont ever ever try nor even think about rubbing these together cuz the owner or any employees might think that ur saying theyre chopsticks are cheap
@@tigerseatpeople I know someone from Japan, she's a family friend, and she taught me not to stand my chopsticks in my rice. Though, I'm not sure about the one on serving yourself a cup. Is that true, too?
in Morocco it's insulting to refuse food when it's served especially if it's made for you. and we serve tea the same way Kazakhstan people do. about "cleaning your plate" it's a good thing here means you liked the food and you want more and don't be surprised if they gave you more without asking :p
I'm American and lived with my husband's family in Morocco for 3 years. I was surprised when I first got to Morocco and found that everyone eats from one plate in the center of the table with their hands! My mother in law noticed that I wasn't eating at the same speed as everyone else and she was concerned that I wouldn't get enough to eat so she began to make a special plate separate for me and I was able to use a fork or spoon to eat my meal. They also left the meat for last when the meal was finished my mother in law would divide it equally among everyone. There were many times that I didn't care for the food being served so she would make me something else to eat.
Toasting is only on special occasions though and it's not only Georgia but much of the South. It's mostly done at weddings and ceremonies, typically nobody cares how you consume your wine 😅
That one is pretty commonly well know amongst Arab cultures. Ask your parents or look it up. More interesting is the fact that you don't know--is it generational? You don't live in the Middle East--have you ever been? Which country? In Israel that is not the custom. Just Arab cultures (when one is eating in the floor obviously). Just as you never show the bottom of your foot to anyone while seated. Also considered rude.
@@skontheroad2666 I'm Lebanese, have lived in the country all my life, and everyone I told about touching food with left hand being taboo laughed out loud- strangely enough all the sources come from the US. As for the second one, does any culture appreciate having someone foot in another's face? Of course it's rude- it's just common sense.
@@stickfigure4276 maybe it is a generational thing. But Google cultural traditions. While things have changed ober the years, you should be able to find the traditions that many know and recognize and still adhere to amongst their contemporaries.
You don't need to ask for salt and pepper in Portugal. The waiter will bring it. It's usual. You don't insult anyone. Food is cooked for everyone taste. If you like more salt ask for it: the waiter will apologize for forgetting to put it in your table.
We do not have much food etiquette rules in Canada, some provinces have their different traditions but, here is a hint that may help you if you travel to the Great Land of the North. In Canada when you order a coffee, if you like two sugars and two creamers in your brew ask for a double double.
In India, as the narrator said, it's wierd to eat with your left hand. (FYI, we eat with our hands in South India, for almost all dishes, not with forks and spoons (at least at home)) But it's considered okay, if you are a left handed person, but only to eat with forks and spoons.
@@Jessica-rx4qg We inherited from the Indus valley civilization, so we didn't like to change to some new methods. (We also consider our hands more sacred than our legs, and our food as a God's gift, so we try not to touch our food with our legs in any manner.) There is so much more to the way the Middle east works. For us, the rest of the world is weird and for the later it's vice-versa.
My friend came to Japan to visit me and we went out together for a meal. He stuck his chopsticks in the rice standing up and everyone surrounding us went quiet and looked at us, i quickly placed them to lay across the bowl and all he said was 'hey, why are you touching my chopsticks', if only he knew what it meant.
I did when we had left because i was still very embarrassed, but became even more so when he ran back in and started bowing and saying 'i'm sorry!' in Japanese.
At funerals we place the incense sticks standing up, during the ceremony. so everyone becomes surprised when they see it in public, because it symbolises something we do when there is death.
@Bastette W From the Chinese perspective, when paying respect to the lately departed, we offer 2 sticks of incense (and 3 sticks if paying respects to gods and deities), and in case of no incense sticks are available, 2 chopsticks can be used as replacement, and stick them up in the rice bowl (as a replacement incense holder). This usually is when proper incense and holder are unavailable due to unexpected departure, or poverty. It is also an offering to the lately departed as his/her last meal so that he/she don't have to cross over to the netherworld with empty stomach.
Also applies to Taiwan. (A small country island beside China that is friendly and one of the safest countries in the world. You might even be helped by friendly old people in Taiwan as a foreigner.
I'm an Indian, and it is true that we don't eat with our left hand but (in my family at least) holding the plate with the left hand isn't bad, we use it to carry the plate and put it in the sink-
Dude I’m in Thai land we use fork and spoon to eat we use the forks to like sweep the food in to our spoons then we put it in our mouths. Just for the people that are interested 👌🏽 Edit: Nvm didn’t watch his whole statement 😂😂😂 Also for number 6 that’s for Muslims too but it’s not that u can’t touch it with ur left hand. It’s if you use it to put it in ur mouth
Here's a thought. In today's world, where cultures mix so much, why don't chefs and everyone else get used to the idea of letting people enjoy their meals, extra cheese extra salt and the works, without being offended left and right?
Anyone got hungry when the bowl of rice was shown? lol (I didn't eat much for supper earlier - just one potato, a few canned beets, and a cup of vegetable juice)
Speaking from my experiences as a Thai, you can use anything you want to eat your food in Thailand. Fork with rice is ok if you can do it. No judgment here. Fork and spoon, it’s just easier, not a rule, to use them together for Thai dish.
I'm an Indian... And I'm quite sure about this thing that ...it's really okay if u have food with your left hand and as much as Ik India has adopted the many different ways of all the other places
LOL!!! I am from Portugal and i never knew about that crazy etiquette rule of never asking for salt and pepper!!! That's insane!!! Only a crazy and silly "Karen Chef" would get mad just because someone ask for salt and pepper!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I'm Thai and we can use forks my mom doesn't say that I cannot use forks. My family doesn't talk about this and my mom thinks that this is not true. In my house we use forks to eat noodles for f sake.
Where I live in China you should eat every single grain of rice and clean your bowl or plate since wasting a grain of rice would be an insult to the poor hard working farmer that produced it.
in my country Pakistan you have to eat with right hand and you have to sit together and enjoy the meal and no TV or any activities while eating or it be disrespect you have to focus on your meal
As a Chinese I want to say pls don’t believe this video, if you don’t clean your plate, Asian parents will force you to eat up, specially from what we learned from school, never ever waste food.
Definitely not at home, but in restaurants my parents always leave a bit. It is kind of true, i think it just depends on what part of China you come from.
I'm Italian, there's no such thing as insulting a chef just because you're asking for extra cheese. In restaurants waiters often bring extra cheese at your table anyway! And yes, cappuccino mainly is a breakfast drink but it's nice to sip on it during cold afternoons. So tourists from all around the world, you can have as much cheese as you want and as many cappuccinos as your heart desires!
@@Ana-od5wm "Why?" It seems that there are a number of people who loudly complain that it is somehow "incorrect" to put pineapple on a pizza. I don't understand why they should think this.
im from China and its rude to leave food because food come from hard work every ancient powerful figure and a lot of poetry teach children not to waste food, every single piece of rice come from hard work and sweat! i really dont know where you got your Chinese etiquette from. belching is also rude in China, its what low class people do, not people with manners you dont belch, thats disgusting. check your facts please!
I guess the only way to learn etiquette for a country with certainty is to go there and learn how it's done and hope that does you are with will understand if you're not sure what to do or what not to do.
I'm the kind that doesn't like to waste food. If I can't finish it at the restaurant, I usually take it to go, and put it in my lunch for work for the next day. That way, food doesn't get wasted.
Thats weird, both my parents are chinese and they told me that is bad manner not to finish eating the food because there are many poor people who needs food in this world....
Indians wash our hands before and after a meal. It's just the norm to eat with your right hand. It's true Indians do clean yourself with the left hand but that doesn't mean Indians don't wash their hands after they go to the loo. We're not barbarians. I live in south India and we don't find it disgusting to touch the plate with the left hand. You should really check your facts.
I was in India on a business trip, and was treated to dinner by a group of executives from work (me and 5 Indian execs). I ordered the food I wanted and was told I had to order something different. Turns out it was expected that we each order some unique and it's all placed in the center of the table and shared. That was probably the closest anyone got to being offended by etiquette despite what followed: I am left handed. I picked up each and every dish with my right hand and used a spoon in my left hand to scoop food onto my plate. I then proceeded to eat with the fork in my left hand and scooping with the naan bread in my right hand. Not once didn't anyone look uncomfortable or offended, and not once did anyone say anything to me or make me feel uncomfortable. Most cultures understand that tourists and visitors don't fully understand the local etiquette and don't expect them to.
As a person that has Chinese roots, I can say there is no such thing as "if you want to compliment the chef, leave some". This is a complete misrepresentation of Chinese culture. Leaving food only applies to situations when we celebrate Chinese New Year. Its a tradition to not finish the food on the table to signify that the coming year has something to eat ("年年有余") during Chinese New Year. Other times of the year if you don't clear your plate parents would scold you for having leftovers.
I don't know if this is a Chinese or a Taoist thing but a half-chinese friend of mine had chinese guests and she said they will eat everything in their plate, including the Ice on the soda cup because one shouldn't be leaving food.
@@charlieextra9406 I'm not Taoist so I'm in no place to say but chinese don't have to finish EVERYTHING like you can leave the ice and stuff,just eat as much as you can.
@@frizuo I forgot to say that the guests were kids, maybe that's how they were being brought up. But that did happened, their parents were Chinese Taoists who were guest speakers for a Taoist temple. or maybe they just wanted the ice lol.
In Chinese restaurants, if you leave a plate with some food on it, the chef's salary lowers. We also have a saying that basically means farmers work hard to grow the food we eat so we should never waste food...so idk where u got the leaving food=compliment from.
I’m Chinese, in my region there is indeed a saying that eating up all the food in your plate would make the host think the food is not enough for you, also making the host uneasy. So do not jump the conclude. Just because you are Chinese doesn’t mean you know all Chinese language.
Good point. But in Brazil, burgers come in a paper sleeve and you eat the burger holding the sleeve. You never touch the burger with your hands. Also in Brazil, in high-class restaurants, leave a quarter to a third of the meal on the plate. This proves you are dining for the taste and the experience, not because you are hungry. You satisfy your hunger at home.
it's true. one time my friend from the usa came to visit me and she had the audacity to ask if i had anything other than poutine... let's just say the local prison is pretty packed right now
I am an ethiopian and you'er right we always share a plate .And the plate will be served by different traditional foodes for example doro wet, injera, shiro and so on.And like you say"only grab from the part of serving dish closet to you; reaching across is considered rude" you are also right about it. how many peoples like ethiopia?
Hi, thank you for talking good about my country, Portugal. But as I'm Portuguese I know the truth is that what you said about salt and pepper is completly fake. Portuguese servers that judge you by that are just rude and bad workers and in Portugal, we are so hospitable that we love for everyone to get the food exactly to their taste, going to the extend of adding, taking or changing ingridients on the dishes, and being completely friendly if you dont like the food, and, in case you don't eat it because it's not to your taste, a refund will be done and you can chose something else, most of the cases at least, and on good restaurants, not on the fast food chains, although there this might happen too. The salt and pepper thing you talked about is just a rumor, and it's mostly because we use a lot of salt in everything, and a lot of pepper in traditional cuisine, and for foreign people, as we do not know their habbits and tastes, we prefer to put less and let them put as much as the love to so they eat well, also, salt and pepper is always in the table, allways. For those who took the time to read this, thank you for your attention! :)
True!! Portuguese people are often described as very welcoming and accepting! It's completely okay to ask for salt and pepper!! I'm from portugal and I used to do that all the time when I lived there, I like things saltier than most people!
@@rachelleanngalorio7698 If your going to give info about other countries, at least get it right..the best way to know and present the correct info. is to speak to individuals from the countries your researching..Also, know your geography, India is not in the middle east..
Umm well of course they will , if u are a indain they of course will think that why so much attitude just eat the food . But if you're applying it for a foreigner u are probably wrong if u are foreigner they themselves will give u spoon
In italy we are very proud of our cheese, please always ask for more cheese, even though in most restaurants they already leave it on your table in a container. And like the cappuccino after noon, cutting your spaghetti is considered weird and a very easy way to recognise a tourist. What is actually considered rude is chewing with your mouth open, making weird noises or not talking at all when you're at the table. And of course, asking for a pineapple pizza.
One, leaving food is considered wasteful in China. Two, chopsticks on rice bowl is also a Chinese thing. It symbolizes burning incense during offering to the dead, which is Taoist. Also, who told you we burp at the table? You are not to make sounds at the table other than talking. Do your research before posting.
Ruoying Feng when I was in China two months ago, I was appalled by the amount of food people left on the table and on their plates at restaurants- especially young people!
Sue DeSimone What they do does not mean that was how they should have been taught. What’s respected culturally sadly does not get transmitted by the current generation.
The "no chopsticks in rice" also goes for Japan. Same applies for passing food with chopsticks - congratulations, you basically turned dinner into a funeral...
I believe that any "People in China" video can only be seen as "people in china exist that". China is far too diverse to make any general statement about chinese people other than them being citizens of china. When people say, chinese eat cats and dogs, you can't understand it as "everyone does it" just like you can't say that no one in the history of china ever did. Just like when you talk about Texans and roadkill...
Depends where you go. Young people in the major cities like Beijing and Shanghai, are largely very wasteful in my experience, as they're the first generation to really be raised without hardship or poverty. Going to smaller cities, towns, or villages, food waste is a much bigger deal. From my personal experience living in China the past year and a half, it's a bit of a balance. You'll want to leave just a tiny little bit of rice (just rice, not meat/veggies) at the bottom of your bowl to show "yes, I'm really actually full, there is enough, I don't want more" but not enough that it's wasteful. Maybe as a local it's more expected to clean your plate, but I'm a foreigner so I kind of get treated as a VIP guest wherever I go with Chinese people. The burping thing confuses me a bit, though. From what I know, that's much more a Korean mannerism, so maybe it's more popular in the area near that border. I've had a handful of people express disgust at the idea of that. As said above, the only noise you're supposed to make is talking. My girlfriend often gets upset at me for humming at the table when we go out for dinner and the restaurant is playing music.
Neither did I. I live here since 1974. All my Thai relatives and colleagues are using forks etc. as long as I remember. There was never a discussion or mentioning about. Maybe this is the etiquette from another country, but definitely not from here (Thailand).
While serving in the US Navy, one of the places i traveled to was china. I was exploring the area and decided to grab some food in a small local restaurant and ordered off a Chinese menu, I received some sort of a noodle dish with lots of vegetables and meat. I only had a pair of chop sticks with the meal and had to prior education in the use of them nor the cultural etiquette. Being very hungry I dove into the savory meal and quickly started to devour it. Shortly after I started, I heard a commotion coming from the cooking area. I looked over to see a waitress holding back an angry man waving a large cleaver around who was not only yelling in Chinese... he was glaring at me. The waitress calmed him down, he returned to the cooking area, and she immediately said in broken English that I cannot stab the meat with the chop sticks to pick up the meat. I apologized, she showed me how to use the chop sticks. After I had finished and paid for the meal, I advised her the meal was very good and asked why he was so mad. She said that stabbing the food means death to the cook. Lesson learned.
Oh Jesus. That is terrifying. Yes, that is true, you NEVER stab food with your chopsticks, always try to separate big chunks of food with your chopsticks as well. I'm glad the waitress difused the situation for you. I actually had chills reading your comment. I can't imagine how scary that must have been to just be eating and seeing a chef causing a commotion and waving his meat cleaver around in the air. 😣
Yup, most food is bite sized, but sometimes you have to tease a large piece apart. I'm only somewhat proficient with chopsticks so my friends know to keep an eye out for anything that might come flying from my direction. I'm getting better-- almost as good as most five year olds 🙃
I think rather than meaning death to the cook, it mean more of attracting the dead to eat your food since stabbing the food with chopsticks resembles inserting joss sticks into food.
The only tourists that Speak english in italy are from Uk or US because they never learned other Languages in their whole life. Its just rude to enter a country without learning basic sentences like ordering food, asking for directions etc. Lazy....
i am from india and i am left - handed . in past my family members try to make me right - handed but i am still left-handed and eat with my left hand . and get quite a weird looks from strangers
Number 0: asking for extra sauce with you chicken nuggets at McDonald’s in the USA It is offensive to the chef because they think you think it is missing something
As someone who's been to multiple countries, I can guarantee that no host expects any local etiquette from their guest. As long as you are polite, like a civilised human being, and show interest in local practices and manners, you'll be fine.
@@jorgepalacio6910 But this video is aimed for people who like to travel into different countries, not towards the locals of specific countries who should know these anyways.
Hey guys! Are there any unusual food etiquette rules in your countries? Tell us about them! :)
India is not in the Middle East. It's in South Asia.
An old custom in the Philippines, when you and family/friends are eating, and through the half-eaten dish that you need to go immediately because of important reasons... you need to rotate (clockwise or counterclockwise) your plate of half-eaten meal at least once so you will not meet an accident along your way.... Don't know if it still being done in provinces/rural areas.
BRIGHT SIDE, first of all India is in South Asia and it is not a rule to not to touch your Food with left hand, after the prayer of God in Temple or during festival, some traditional sweet is made for all and they give us the sweet, we should take it from our right hand, I don't why? But it is a tradition, even if a child takes it from left hand, no one give punishment to the child they just suggest to not use their left hand. ☺️. We can eat any other food with the hand we wish to eat.
In parts of West Africa you ARE supposed to eat with your left hand
In France it's an insult to use ketchup as a way to spice up a dish. They tolerate it for fries but mostly use mayo.
I am Portuguese, and I've never heard that it's considered rude to ask for salt and pepper. Some restaurants already have that on the tables 😂
Alfa Romeo Same applies for asking cheese in Italy! It’s ridiculous! All Americans are rude when it comes to European style....
Alfa Romeo same
I bet Ronaldo asks for more salt and pepper 😂😂
@@Medo-ge3bb Ronaldo doesn't ask, people already know what he wants 🤣
Alfa Romeo 😂😂💀💀
Man, seems like most of these are wrong
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We Indians love the food to eat with hand
No CHOPSTICKS, No SPOONS
True bhai
Yes but only with your RIGHT hand!
I am an Indian & I don't like messy greesy hands
@@asmitas3691 tbh yea me too
@@asmitas3691 there's a way to eat with your hand too like I prefer to eat with my hands after cleaning it properly.
Im portuguese and i know u can ask salt or pepper! No one gets angry, that guy just lied!!!
I went to Portugal for vacation last year. I don't know about salt and pepper but I do know to turn away the bread, ham and cheese they bring to your table. If you don't send it away it'll cost 25€
@@davemack1946 you went to the wrong places then! if you go to some fancy place they'll charge you more, but on most restaurants they have menus with bread, olives, main course, drink, dessert and coffee, all that for just 7-10€
Bread with butter in a portuguese restaurant is like 1€
Não acho que seja assim tão literal... Quando comecei a ver este filme pensei nisto mesmo, e surpreendentemente surgiu no filme... é como levar amigos a jantar a casa da mãe, dizendo que é a melhor cozinheira do mundo, e um dos amigos pede temperos e despeja-os no prato... não se sentiria insultado - a minha mãe é a melhor cozinheira do mundo, para que é que precisas de maionese e sal?! É como os cozinheiros se sentem. Ninguem vai ser insultado por pedir sal e pimenta em Portugal, mas claro que quem cozinha fica chateado - porque não correspondeu ao que pretendia ;).
@@davidp1311 ahahah the restaurant Dave wenr might not be even Portuguese... Anyway there are portuguese smart guys...
In India we mostly have our food with right hand. So left hand is kept clean to have water, second helping and for passing the serving bowls!
Looking at so many comments it seems you have half knowledge and did the video without going to depths. Sad!
yes alright they have wrong stuff ..I am right anjali
Lol I'm not Indian
@713cooldude I'm also indian and we eat burgers like everyone else does sorry if that sounded a little harsh
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anjali shejwalkar no left hand is considered bad becuz people usally clean ..
I'm Chinese and I've never heard that belching is polite?!
My aunt is chinese and she said belching is as bad as farting :3 sorry I can't stop laughing when I mention it =DD
@@just_a_cup_of_milk8027 my mom sometimes forces me to eat everything on my plate lol (I’m Chinese)
My Great-Grand mother was from China and my Grandfather learned from her. My Grandparents raised me until I was 6 while my mother worked. You came to the table, and if you were a child, you kept your silence and listened to your elders. No belching, farting or acting up. You cleaned your plate and never complained if you did not like the taste of something because there were always children who were going hungry that would be grateful to have what you have.
People stare when you burb and some shrug it off.
@@rebbetzenheinisch7291 what is your point???
i live in china for long time. one important rule when eating "eat everything whats on the table and make sure not a single rice left on your bowl" 😂😂😂
or you will have pimples
Same too in India.
Same
Maybe my situation is a bit awkward, because my parents come from Hong Kong, but we always try to clean our plates. If we can’t, that’s fine, but if we can and leave rice on it, then we’re going to grow pimples or something...
@@ayonroymahapatra3884 yes 😂😂😂
I'm Italian and it's not rude to ask for extra cheese. 🇮🇹🤔
Cheese is good food but I don't like the smell of some sorts of cheese
Good to know coz im going to italy soon and i really would like to ask for extra cheese 😂
Yeah
@@banml5919 lol
@@banml5919 usually parmesan is on the table, you choose how much to add but not on pizza please
In the Netherlands we have ‘oprotkoffie’ (=“get lost-coffee”) That’s basically the last cup of coffee (or tea) served after a birthday/party/event which indicates the time that the guests have to leave after finishing it ;) If they don’t get the hint, the host starts vacuum cleaning the house
the Netherlands is my host country and I don't know much about it all I know is that it's an amazing country,
thanks for the new info. : )
Hahah, that is so true! My parents always expect me to leave after the coffee when I don’t stay overnight. 😂
'Get lost coffee'? Idk why but I find it fun and funny. I would like to go to Netherlands and host a party please!
I have heard that sticky bottoms tradition
Vacuum cleaning the house?!! that's something we do in new zealand :)
edit; after luxing a room for no necesssary reason, it is with a small blush I admit we sometimes will handwash the dishes as ...bombasticly as possible. Or wash the windows if things get really desperate (seen this happen, other neighbours will 'pop by' to see if everything's "allright with the fireplace" ..and i've seen the police rung a few times when a particularly obnoxious gang family simply refused to get the hint because our blatant discomfort were more entertaining than the mid-day soap opera's.
I'm Italian. I never, ever heard about asking for extra cheese being rude to the chef. And if there's ONE statement that doesn't ring true...
It ok
In Thailand you all can use fork to eat food
In this video is old fact
I've also been to Thailand and I used a fork.
Yup im thai too i could use forks
Panupong Real i was thinking the same because Pai Chongchitnant (Hot Thai Kitchen) uses a fork and spoon.
Yeah
Gets a drop of tea
Me "you like me, you really like me"
Hehehe.....
It's okay to use your left hand in India as far as I know coz I never came across someone saying not to use it while eating... I often end up with food on both of my hands and it's pretty normal coz in our tradition we mostly eat with hands rather than using spoon and forks(we just use them only when needed)
I am from a middle-eastern country, and in our country if you leave food on your plate after you have had your meal it is considered to be a bad etiquette. In our country we believe that if food is left on the plate after you have had a meal it means you are disrespecting the food and the cooks as well.
I am from a Muslim country named Sudan and in my country leaving food is just considered unthoughtful for the people who don't have food.
Same in India. Children are taught that food is a deity and we must respect it.
or you know your just full and dont want to make yourself sick just to clean the plate lol
Drop Bear Interactive, then you have no option left than to leave without emptying your plate but before you do so make sure to deliver your thanks and pure feelings of having your dish to your host or the cooks. This would easily help you in leaving the place without emptying your plate as well as without upsetting anyone.😊😊
I agree with you I m also from middle East
The comments for this video were brilliant. Fascinating stuff, far more entertaining and informative than the video! I live in the Southern USA and can't speak for any but my own family, but growing up the rules were: No talking with food in your mouth, chew with your mouth closed, no elbows on the table, clean your plate 'cause there are little children starving in China (I once made the mistake of suggesting we send what I didn't want to eat to one of those children ... never did that again), take seconds if you're still hungry but you better finish them, and never, ever finish off the last of anything because Daddy might want a snack later. I really enjoyed reading everyone's comments.
I was raised the same except my parents said there were starving children in Ethiopia..otherwise exactly the same and I'm from Canada
'Leave a snack for daddy'? Lol I find that rule funny
leaving food in your plate after finishing is considered rude in china. these are all really bad stereotypes. we are brought up to not waste even a single grain of rice. 谁知盘中餐，粒粒皆辛苦
I'd like to know, when eating soup from China is it good to slurp your soup? I was told it's a great compliment to the chef, I love soup as well.
@@myworld654 Er not really, it's considered pretty rude. (People around the person won't like it!)
@@angelayan9357 thanks just wanted to know
I'm not Chinese, and i've never been there but your statement sounds more right then what the guy in the video said.
@Claire Rong Yes!! 中国同胞你好 握手握手
Yeah, I live in Japan, they're strict on the chopstick rules. Of course, I STILL haven't properly learned how to use them yet anyway.
Get the baby one like Korean to try ;)
Oof
although we're americans, my granddaughter and her family lived in hong kong for four years. they all use chopsticks when we eat in chinese, japanese and viet namese restaurants. i try and try, but just can't learn how to use them. i've even been gifted with a pair, but i always end up using a fork.
I learned to use chopsticks in a single meal that too the proper way
Ethiopian people we like to share anything we have and we can!!!Love Ethiopia ❤
I've always wanted to visit there!
Ethiopian food is delicious!!!
yea i need my own plate cuz i don't like sharing
I know. We are living in Eritrea. Same tradition.🇪🇷🇪🇹
Dude ALL the facts were wrong
Actually, the Japanese one is right. I went on tour in Japan and one of the tour mates done this and our Japanese tour guide told him to lay them down, he was uncomfortable with it because of such and such tradition
Sew crazy is right. I've read this in many Japanese guild books too
Im Japanese and yes this fact is absolute real also theres these wooden chopsticks where you need to split it open, dont ever ever try nor even think about rubbing these together cuz the owner or any employees might think that ur saying theyre chopsticks are cheap
@@tigerseatpeople I know someone from Japan, she's a family friend, and she taught me not to stand my chopsticks in my rice.
Though, I'm not sure about the one on serving yourself a cup. Is that true, too?
All?
It's so enjoyable to eat with no judgement
in Morocco it's insulting to refuse food when it's served especially if it's made for you. and we serve tea the same way Kazakhstan people do. about "cleaning your plate" it's a good thing here means you liked the food and you want more and don't be surprised if they gave you more without asking :p
4tunesQUEEN true XD (tho am not Moroccan am Egyptian half Kuwaiti somehow) it happens to other middle eastern countries
@@ZhongliSimp0206 yeah true that xD
I am Egyptian it happens alot and whenever I finish my plate 1 sec it's full again
I’m Algerian and my country is next to Morocco 🇲🇦🇩🇿
I'm American and lived with my husband's family in Morocco for 3 years. I was surprised when I first got to Morocco and found that everyone eats from one plate in the center of the table with their hands! My mother in law noticed that I wasn't eating at the same speed as everyone else and she was concerned that I wouldn't get enough to eat so she began to make a special plate separate for me and I was able to use a fork or spoon to eat my meal. They also left the meat for last when the meal was finished my mother in law would divide it equally among everyone. There were many times that I didn't care for the food being served so she would make me something else to eat.
Toasting is only on special occasions though and it's not only Georgia but much of the South. It's mostly done at weddings and ceremonies, typically nobody cares how you consume your wine 😅
Really, it’s even insulting if you leave food into your plate...it’s a compliment if you finish your food and the host would want to served you more
I'm from the middle east and I've literally never heard of the left hand thing, which casts doubt on the other "rules" of this list.
This is the worst channel ever!! But in the middle east, traditionally one eats with their right hand only....
@@skontheroad2666 I must not have gotten the memo then :)
That one is pretty commonly well know amongst Arab cultures. Ask your parents or look it up. More interesting is the fact that you don't know--is it generational? You don't live in the Middle East--have you ever been? Which country? In Israel that is not the custom. Just Arab cultures (when one is eating in the floor obviously). Just as you never show the bottom of your foot to anyone while seated. Also considered rude.
@@skontheroad2666 I'm Lebanese, have lived in the country all my life, and everyone I told about touching food with left hand being taboo laughed out loud- strangely enough all the sources come from the US. As for the second one, does any culture appreciate having someone foot in another's face? Of course it's rude- it's just common sense.
@@stickfigure4276 maybe it is a generational thing. But Google cultural traditions. While things have changed ober the years, you should be able to find the traditions that many know and recognize and still adhere to amongst their contemporaries.
5:58 Preeeetty sure that's the left hand again.
Unless we've all been fooled.
Ye I was thinking the same thing
I don't care what you think. but in India especially in south India where I live bright side right w should use the left hand.
LOL when i clicked this time stamp a n ad came and the first thing that came out of that ad is a hand
You don't need to ask for salt and pepper in Portugal. The waiter will bring it. It's usual. You don't insult anyone. Food is cooked for everyone taste. If you like more salt ask for it: the waiter will apologize for forgetting to put it in your table.
We do not have much food etiquette rules in Canada, some provinces have their different traditions but, here is a hint that may help you if you travel to the Great Land of the North. In Canada when you order a coffee, if you like two sugars and two creamers in your brew ask for a double double.
And if it’s 3 and 3, a triple triple. Regular is only 1 and 1, not black
Fellow Canadians here eh? I'll drink a
Triple-Triple from Tim's to that.
@@SledRider-bf3ih WHY does everyone think our main thing is Timmies...
it is... 😭
@@YourLocalLaure Ya knows. Lol
I am from the Middle East but I speak English thank you Brightside
In India, as the narrator said, it's wierd to eat with your left hand.
(FYI, we eat with our hands in South India, for almost all dishes, not with forks and spoons (at least at home))
But it's considered okay, if you are a left handed person, but only to eat with forks and spoons.
It's same in my country too..i'm from Malaysia 😊
why would yall eat with your hands........
lil suicide Idk it just the way it work we even eat rice with our hands at Bangladesh
@@Jessica-rx4qg
We inherited from the Indus valley civilization, so we didn't like to change to some new methods.
(We also consider our hands more sacred than our legs, and our food as a God's gift, so we try not to touch our food with our legs in any manner.)
There is so much more to the way the Middle east works.
For us, the rest of the world is weird and for the later it's vice-versa.
Number 11 Cleaning your plate in China is actually not disrespectful its actually showing the chef you really liked the food
You forgot one “eating pizza with ketchup makes italy mad”
And pineaple pizza🤮
it makes everyone mad, only Australians are doing that :-D
@@rainewhispers5029 but i like them-
6:00 "go with your right hand" -- shows a left hand. Are you trying to get me in trouble?
My friend came to Japan to visit me and we went out together for a meal. He stuck his chopsticks in the rice standing up and everyone surrounding us went quiet and looked at us, i quickly placed them to lay across the bowl and all he said was 'hey, why are you touching my chopsticks', if only he knew what it meant.
I did when we had left because i was still very embarrassed, but became even more so when he ran back in and started bowing and saying 'i'm sorry!' in Japanese.
Yes we still laugh about it, all is good, though the smack i got on my shoulder when i told him did hurt a bit.
So, what is the reason?
At funerals we place the incense sticks standing up, during the ceremony. so everyone becomes surprised when they see it in public, because it symbolises something we do when there is death.
@Bastette W From the Chinese perspective, when paying respect to the lately departed, we offer 2 sticks of incense (and 3 sticks if paying respects to gods and deities), and in case of no incense sticks are available, 2 chopsticks can be used as replacement, and stick them up in the rice bowl (as a replacement incense holder). This usually is when proper incense and holder are unavailable due to unexpected departure, or poverty.
It is also an offering to the lately departed as his/her last meal so that he/she don't have to cross over to the netherworld with empty stomach.
I was in Thailand, I saw a lot of Thai people using forks to eat
Shahar Yaron my mom is from Thailand she imgrate
When I was in the city 🌃 was
My mom eats with out no fork and 2007, 2013 &/2012
The sticking up chopsticks in your rice bowl also applies to some other Asian countries not just Japan. :D Hope this helps!
Also applies to Taiwan. (A small country island beside China that is friendly and one of the safest countries in the world. You might even be helped by friendly old people in Taiwan as a foreigner.
You're gonna get punished if you place your chopsticks like that. :(
(From China)
WAIT I CAN'T EVEN ASK FOR SOME STINKING SALT AND PEPPER??? Aw I love them
@Rydan Beere What do you mean
I wasn't trying to be impolite you know
I'm an Indian, and it is true that we don't eat with our left hand but (in my family at least) holding the plate with the left hand isn't bad, we use it to carry the plate and put it in the sink-
6:00
You do realize thats a left hand right
That's a right hand.. ;-;
YESS SOMEONE NOTICED
Bruh look carefully
And BRIGHT SIDE EXPOSED
90% of these comments
BuT iN (country) iT’s Ok To (food custom)
I cant stop looking at the hot dog man in the corner ._.
Riiiiiiight? I think it's there to help distract people from realizing the video is BS.
Great point@@mrthisbetterstick7776
I live in ethiopia and your'e very right . please can you tell us about language rules in the globe.
Dude I’m in Thai land we use fork and spoon to eat we use the forks to like sweep the food in to our spoons then we put it in our mouths.
Just for the people that are interested 👌🏽
Edit: Nvm didn’t watch his whole statement 😂😂😂
Also for number 6 that’s for Muslims too but it’s not that u can’t touch it with ur left hand. It’s if you use it to put it in ur mouth
Muslims are part of India..dude😔😒
Bablu Khan never said they werent
@@BabluKhan-du1cb actually I don't think so
Here's a thought. In today's world, where cultures mix so much, why don't chefs and everyone else get used to the idea of letting people enjoy their meals, extra cheese extra salt and the works, without being offended left and right?
(Imagine your in Kazakhstan) Your enemy has come to your home. Just give them a full cup of tea and will they Go back home??
Anyone got hungry when the bowl of rice was shown? lol (I didn't eat much for supper earlier - just one potato, a few canned beets, and a cup of vegetable juice)
Speaking from my experiences as a Thai, you can use anything you want to eat your food in Thailand. Fork with rice is ok if you can do it. No judgment here.
Fork and spoon, it’s just easier, not a rule, to use them together for Thai dish.
The one where you can’t ask for salt in Portugal is not real I know this because I live in Portugal
theese guys on Bright side are fake
It is okay to use your left hand,but it is not extremely pleasent.
And you forgot... we can not stand the choptsticks because it will make ur parents old
In my country, we don't have any specific rules for eating
I'm an Indian... And I'm quite sure about this thing that ...it's really okay if u have food with your left hand and as much as Ik India has adopted the many different ways of all the other places
Well In Middle eastern country Left handed people are also bound to eat with right hand as they are being trained since childhood to do so.
As me being Thai I've seen people sticking forks in food in Thai restaurants
In America: Take what you want, but eat what you take.
LOL!!! I am from Portugal and i never knew about that crazy etiquette rule of never asking for salt and pepper!!! That's insane!!! Only a crazy and silly "Karen Chef" would get mad just because someone ask for salt and pepper!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I live in America, and I don't know if a lot of people even care about food etiquette anymore!
We dont consider finishing food rude, we just consider licking ur plate rude. Get ur facts straight beforehand
I like Ice cream off my bowl (secertly)
As we, Bangladeshi, use hand to eat, most of the time we don’t have to think about the gestures.
I'm Thai and we can use forks my mom doesn't say that I cannot use forks. My family doesn't talk about this and my mom thinks that this is not true. In my house we use forks to eat noodles for f sake.
chill
GUNEL MUSTAFAZADE I know
Where I live in China you should eat every single grain of rice and clean your bowl or plate since wasting a grain of rice would be an insult to the poor hard working farmer that produced it.
in my country Pakistan you have to eat with right hand and you have to sit together and enjoy the meal and no TV or any activities while eating or it be disrespect you have to focus on your meal
Guess I can't go there. I'm left handed.
... what if you are left handed?
@@marshy_5406 so you have clean your poop with right and eat with right and never clean your your poop with left
@@adrianostrowski6431 so you have clean your poop with right and eat with right and never clean your your poop with left
In Philippines and other countries , you shouldn't eat loudly . They say people who eat that way doesn't have table manners.
I am a South Indian and yes we eat food with right hand but there is no rule of not touching the plate
As a Chinese I want to say pls don’t believe this video, if you don’t clean your plate, Asian parents will force you to eat up, specially from what we learned from school, never ever waste food.
Hahahaha indeed, never ever waste food anywhere!
that's true my parents FORCE me to eat everything so yeah
Definitely not at home, but in restaurants my parents always leave a bit. It is kind of true, i think it just depends on what part of China you come from.
Pkcgg TRUE
from living in China for 8 months never heard people burping except in the countryside but even then.
Him: you dont wanna embarrass yourself
also him: wearing a hot dog costume
🤣🤣🤣
Nice one😂
Oof that guy is saddd
I beg to differ he looks great
True!
I'm Italian, there's no such thing as insulting a chef just because you're asking for extra cheese. In restaurants waiters often bring extra cheese at your table anyway! And yes, cappuccino mainly is a breakfast drink but it's nice to sip on it during cold afternoons. So tourists from all around the world, you can have as much cheese as you want and as many cappuccinos as your heart desires!
Gracie!
I feel like this whole comment just...revived me...
Im Italian and I was thinking the same thing.
It depends on where you put the cheese.
If you put it on a fish dish you are indeed offending the whole country.
actually I've heard many stories of chefs getting offended for it xD
I'm just not ready, to believe anything that a talking hotdog, has to say.
That sad looking, wobbly man-dog is creepy af. I couldn't watch with it lurching drunkenly around the screen, blech!
ProNoober8 don’t many of these are fake (ex. Italy and cheese/cupachino, South India and left hands, along with giving yourself a refill in Japan)
Achol Aroman all of my examples are tings I saw people say in the comments except for chopsticks in Japan. I’ve been there.
Funey
@@justa_snowmothblm7656 Its true about india lol
*"Also, never ask for pineapple pizza in Italy."*
Before you comment, this is a joke.
Really, there's absolutely nothing wrong with a ham and pineapple pizza. Delicious!
Why?
@@Ana-od5wm "Why?"
It seems that there are a number of people who loudly complain that it is somehow "incorrect" to put pineapple on a pizza.
I don't understand why they should think this.
Best pizza ever with pineapple
i did ask for pineapple pizza in Italy and i was scold pretty weird
The food rules in all countries...
Dont break the plate
Dont break the spoon or fork
Dont drop the food
Enjoy your meal
Calvin Posumah Don’t drop your spoon/fork
I dropped my plate and it broke. In the USA It is ok to drop your plate..
*ONLY ON ACCIDENT*
And finish it
Except for Greece😂
My country! Im greek
im from China and its rude to leave food because food come from hard work
every ancient powerful figure and a lot of poetry teach children not to waste food, every single piece of rice come from hard work and sweat!
i really dont know where you got your Chinese etiquette from.
belching is also rude in China, its what low class people do, not people with manners you dont belch, thats disgusting.
check your facts please!
I guess the only way to learn etiquette for a country with certainty is to go there and learn how it's done and hope that does you are with will understand if you're not sure what to do or what not to do.
Same goes on in India.
粒粒皆辛苦
I'm the kind that doesn't like to waste food. If I can't finish it at the restaurant, I usually take it to go, and put it in my lunch for work for the next day. That way, food doesn't get wasted.
Thanks! Im visitng china soon and i was practising my long burps :P
Thats weird, both my parents are chinese and they told me that is bad manner not to finish eating the food because there are many poor people who needs food in this world....
Listen to your parents.Not this trash channel.Have a great day!
Exactly
If I've paid for a meal and I want to finish it. I'm going to finish it
thats what my mum says to me all the time, they have all wrong facts
是的，在家里要全都吃完。但是在饭店你留一点是更好。。。
Indians wash our hands before and after a meal. It's just the norm to eat with your right hand. It's true Indians do clean yourself with the left hand but that doesn't mean Indians don't wash their hands after they go to the loo. We're not barbarians. I live in south India and we don't find it disgusting to touch the plate with the left hand. You should really check your facts.
I thought that bathroom was dunny. Im in forth grade so, my teacer lied.
Devika Raju ikr these facts are all wrong
Anthony Thomas Yeah. Some of it is actually offensive.
I was in India on a business trip, and was treated to dinner by a group of executives from work (me and 5 Indian execs). I ordered the food I wanted and was told I had to order something different. Turns out it was expected that we each order some unique and it's all placed in the center of the table and shared. That was probably the closest anyone got to being offended by etiquette despite what followed: I am left handed. I picked up each and every dish with my right hand and used a spoon in my left hand to scoop food onto my plate. I then proceeded to eat with the fork in my left hand and scooping with the naan bread in my right hand. Not once didn't anyone look uncomfortable or offended, and not once did anyone say anything to me or make me feel uncomfortable. Most cultures understand that tourists and visitors don't fully understand the local etiquette and don't expect them to.
Colin Greig Exactly. Thank you for sharing your experience!
As a person that has Chinese roots, I can say there is no such thing as "if you want to compliment the chef, leave some". This is a complete misrepresentation of Chinese culture. Leaving food only applies to situations when we celebrate Chinese New Year. Its a tradition to not finish the food on the table to signify that the coming year has something to eat ("年年有余") during Chinese New Year. Other times of the year if you don't clear your plate parents would scold you for having leftovers.
Thats mean if you just get scolded for not eating everything on your plate.
@@themagicsquad7101 I think so
@@themagicsquad7101 We were taught it's a waste of food. To say that you probably leave a lot of food in your bowl or plate.
@@themagicsquad7101 yeah I have to leave all the meat
Gõød mòrñïñg
You do not need to leave food on your plate in China to be polite, that is just nonsense.
can confirm
Exactly. I have been to China before.
Thanks for the information.
Yup. My mother would just say to me "don't leave food on your bowl otherwise you will grow some spots on your face". And yes, I am Chinese xD
mtlicq I agree, all these facts are wrong and this video is clickbait and for them to make money
I'm Chinese and the stereotype is wrong,belching is still impolite and leaving food is impolite as well.
yes
I don't know if this is a Chinese or a Taoist thing but a half-chinese friend of mine had chinese guests and she said they will eat everything in their plate, including the Ice on the soda cup because one shouldn't be leaving food.
@@charlieextra9406 I'm not Taoist so I'm in no place to say but chinese don't have to finish EVERYTHING like you can leave the ice and stuff,just eat as much as you can.
@@frizuo I forgot to say that the guests were kids, maybe that's how they were being brought up. But that did happened, their parents were Chinese Taoists who were guest speakers for a Taoist temple. or maybe they just wanted the ice lol.
@@frizuo And of course I don't want to generalize anything, I just want to mention that that was what my friend told me.
In Chinese restaurants, if you leave a plate with some food on it, the chef's salary lowers. We also have a saying that basically means farmers work hard to grow the food we eat so we should never waste food...so idk where u got the leaving food=compliment from.
We have the same saying in India too!
I'm Chinese
Yeah agree he says wrong infos. Specifically in chinese, never leave a single food on your plate except bones.
yomomma_likesme I’m Chinese too and btw my dad works at a Chinese restaurant
I’m Chinese, in my region there is indeed a saying that eating up all the food in your plate would make the host think the food is not enough for you, also making the host uneasy. So do not jump the conclude. Just because you are Chinese doesn’t mean you know all Chinese language.
"Don't sip on your wine in Georgia"
Me: which one?
@Fish 😂
The country.
Or state?
I'm from middle East. And I think that no 6 is wrong.
Try eating a burger with one hand🍔🍔
Good point. But in Brazil, burgers come in a paper sleeve and you eat the burger holding the sleeve. You never touch the burger with your hands. Also in Brazil, in high-class restaurants, leave a quarter to a third of the meal on the plate. This proves you are dining for the taste and the experience, not because you are hungry. You satisfy your hunger at home.
I'm sure for sunnah rasul you supposed to eat with the right hand. Burger is just improvisation of food. Not a healthy n recommended food in islam
I'm sure for sunnah rasul you supposed to eat with the right hand. Burger is just improvisation of food. Not a healthy n recommended food in islam
I'm Egyptian
i'm come south asian, i'm always eat with right hand, and left hand for cover up droping food. No probs with burger, naccos, and large size food
It's illegal in Canada for food to come in a form other than poutine. Also, we don't have salt & pepper, but 2 containers each containing maple syrup.
Love canada
Richybear they come in two flavours
Left maple syrup, and right maple syrup
it's true. one time my friend from the usa came to visit me and she had the audacity to ask if i had anything other than poutine... let's just say the local prison is pretty packed right now
😂😂😂
I live in Maine and I went to Qubec and this wasn't true
I'm asian...I love rice! I always eat rice with a spoon.
Same
I only use spoons when eating
Same. But most of the time we use our hands to eat.
@@noirbelle5201 Are you Indian?
I am a Indian and even I like to eat rice with my rice
@@shivaniverma8446 Yes
I am an ethiopian and you'er right we always share a plate .And the plate will be served by different traditional foodes for example doro wet, injera, shiro and so on.And like you say"only grab from the part of serving dish closet to you; reaching across is considered rude" you are also right about it.
how many peoples like ethiopia?
I do. I am Ethiopian as well.
Is it considered rude to ask for something that’s far from you?
Hi, thank you for talking good about my country, Portugal. But as I'm Portuguese I know the truth is that what you said about salt and pepper is completly fake. Portuguese servers that judge you by that are just rude and bad workers and in Portugal, we are so hospitable that we love for everyone to get the food exactly to their taste, going to the extend of adding, taking or changing ingridients on the dishes, and being completely friendly if you dont like the food, and, in case you don't eat it because it's not to your taste, a refund will be done and you can chose something else, most of the cases at least, and on good restaurants, not on the fast food chains, although there this might happen too.
The salt and pepper thing you talked about is just a rumor, and it's mostly because we use a lot of salt in everything, and a lot of pepper in traditional cuisine, and for foreign people, as we do not know their habbits and tastes, we prefer to put less and let them put as much as the love to so they eat well, also, salt and pepper is always in the table, allways.
For those who took the time to read this, thank you for your attention! :)
verdade
I took my time to read the whole thing
True!! Portuguese people are often described as very welcoming and accepting! It's completely okay to ask for salt and pepper!! I'm from portugal and I used to do that all the time when I lived there, I like things saltier than most people!
@@k-popfan7758 congrats and thanks! :)
I wanted to say the same thing
Other countries : *keeps on disagreeing*
Philippines: *keeps on scrolling and reading if the whole video was correct*
Yeo min I am a Filipino
Even me but I'm Indian 😅
Yeah ur right ako din
Hahaha
@@rachelleanngalorio7698 If your going to give info about other countries, at least get it right..the best way to know and present the correct info. is to speak to individuals from the countries your researching..Also, know your geography, India is not in the middle east..
You missed 1, in india if you eat rice with spoon in a village people will say ज़्यादा अंग्रेज़ बन रहा है
Umm well of course they will , if u are a indain they of course will think that why so much attitude just eat the food . But if you're applying it for a foreigner u are probably wrong if u are foreigner they themselves will give u spoon
Can someone translate
Translation please
@@shahmir14 can you guys can translate from feature but still there you go it says:you are acting like an english person
In italy we are very proud of our cheese, please always ask for more cheese, even though in most restaurants they already leave it on your table in a container. And like the cappuccino after noon, cutting your spaghetti is considered weird and a very easy way to recognise a tourist.
What is actually considered rude is chewing with your mouth open, making weird noises or not talking at all when you're at the table. And of course, asking for a pineapple pizza.
I am Canadian.
We made pineapple pizza (Hawaiian)
I take offended
(Jk, it's a joke)
Fra Don't mess with beans all of these facts are wrong so yeah
WOW
i know its... Sad? Wird?
Fra Don't mess with beans
I love cheese
One, leaving food is considered wasteful in China. Two, chopsticks on rice bowl is also a Chinese thing. It symbolizes burning incense during offering to the dead, which is Taoist. Also, who told you we burp at the table? You are not to make sounds at the table other than talking. Do your research before posting.
Ruoying Feng when I was in China two months ago, I was appalled by the amount of food people left on the table and on their plates at restaurants- especially young people!
Sue DeSimone What they do does not mean that was how they should have been taught. What’s respected culturally sadly does not get transmitted by the current generation.
The "no chopsticks in rice" also goes for Japan. Same applies for passing food with chopsticks - congratulations, you basically turned dinner into a funeral...
I believe that any "People in China" video can only be seen as "people in china exist that". China is far too diverse to make any general statement about chinese people other than them being citizens of china.
When people say, chinese eat cats and dogs, you can't understand it as "everyone does it" just like you can't say that no one in the history of china ever did.
Just like when you talk about Texans and roadkill...
Depends where you go. Young people in the major cities like Beijing and Shanghai, are largely very wasteful in my experience, as they're the first generation to really be raised without hardship or poverty. Going to smaller cities, towns, or villages, food waste is a much bigger deal. From my personal experience living in China the past year and a half, it's a bit of a balance. You'll want to leave just a tiny little bit of rice (just rice, not meat/veggies) at the bottom of your bowl to show "yes, I'm really actually full, there is enough, I don't want more" but not enough that it's wasteful. Maybe as a local it's more expected to clean your plate, but I'm a foreigner so I kind of get treated as a VIP guest wherever I go with Chinese people.
The burping thing confuses me a bit, though. From what I know, that's much more a Korean mannerism, so maybe it's more popular in the area near that border. I've had a handful of people express disgust at the idea of that. As said above, the only noise you're supposed to make is talking. My girlfriend often gets upset at me for humming at the table when we go out for dinner and the restaurant is playing music.
I live in Thailand for 11 years now and I never heard about the forks thing.... Even my mom doesn’t agree with you..
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Neither did I. I live here since 1974. All my Thai relatives and colleagues are using forks etc. as long as I remember. There was never a discussion or mentioning about. Maybe this is the etiquette from another country, but definitely not from here (Thailand).
I just finished eating my PatThai with folk
Nan Houm Sian 😅😅😀
Mee too i have lived in thailand for 11 years and yet have I ever heard of that fork thingmajig nobody in my family agrees with this rule!
I live in thailand because im thai but i dont use fork the whole time
While serving in the US Navy, one of the places i traveled to was china. I was exploring the area and decided to grab some food in a small local restaurant and ordered off a Chinese menu, I received some sort of a noodle dish with lots of vegetables and meat. I only had a pair of chop sticks with the meal and had to prior education in the use of them nor the cultural etiquette. Being very hungry I dove into the savory meal and quickly started to devour it. Shortly after I started, I heard a commotion coming from the cooking area. I looked over to see a waitress holding back an angry man waving a large cleaver around who was not only yelling in Chinese... he was glaring at me. The waitress calmed him down, he returned to the cooking area, and she immediately said in broken English that I cannot stab the meat with the chop sticks to pick up the meat. I apologized, she showed me how to use the chop sticks. After I had finished and paid for the meal, I advised her the meal was very good and asked why he was so mad. She said that stabbing the food means death to the cook. Lesson learned.
Oh Jesus. That is terrifying. Yes, that is true, you NEVER stab food with your chopsticks, always try to separate big chunks of food with your chopsticks as well. I'm glad the waitress difused the situation for you. I actually had chills reading your comment. I can't imagine how scary that must have been to just be eating and seeing a chef causing a commotion and waving his meat cleaver around in the air. 😣
Yup, most food is bite sized, but sometimes you have to tease a large piece apart. I'm only somewhat proficient with chopsticks so my friends know to keep an eye out for anything that might come flying from my direction. I'm getting better-- almost as good as most five year olds 🙃
Im chinese and umm thats not a problem i stab my food ALOT the guy is just mad you got a better meal XD
oof
I think rather than meaning death to the cook, it mean more of attracting the dead to eat your food since stabbing the food with chopsticks resembles inserting joss sticks into food.
I'm just not ready, to believe anything that a talking hotdog has to say.
😂 Comments like these usually have 1000s of likes. Remember me when you get there! 😉
@@insanelyawesam1420 I'm number 100 lol
Did you copy? You could credit them you know. Or at least correct the grammar mistake? 😉
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You do know you copied the exact same comment a few comments below you? You didn’t even bother changing sentences or the grammar. Wow. Just wow.
Well... if you're a tourist in Italy and you order cappuccino they'll know you're a tourist because you'll speak English... just saying...
And big smoke can't compile his order
not all tourists speak english, so you can say majority of the tourists will speak in a different language... just saying...
If I'm in Italy I eat all the food. Best food in the world.
When I order a cappuccino after noon, the bartender knows I passed all night in parties and afterparties.
The only tourists that Speak english in italy are from Uk or US because they never learned other Languages in their whole life. Its just rude to enter a country without learning basic sentences like ordering food, asking for directions etc.
Lazy....
I live in georgia bro. Nobody has ANY issue with sipping wine
witch Georgia the Georiga near Russia or the state Georiga in America
din t you realize? he is lying don t trust him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
im from georgia too and there is no problem with it trust me.
troll face
Georgia the country not the U.S. State.
axla ar aqvt, magram ar gagigonia mamashenisgan rom unda bolomde dalio?
i am from india and i am left - handed . in past my family members try to make me right - handed but i am still left-handed and eat with my left hand . and get quite a weird looks from strangers
That is completely true i also had that happen to me
I'd rather get weird looks from chef than not enjoying the meal I paid for. I'll definitely ask for more cheese.
@@iHeartFeministss you feel the same?
Ty! Chef better get over himself, give the ppl what they want.
true foodlover
20cm pizza with 4kg cheese. More cheese....Really? (Im sorry. I would blame Socrates!)
Don't belive in this video, Asian parents force their kids to finisnh everything (From VN)
Seeing the talking cartoon hot dog dude in this was completely unexpected.😳
LOL YEAH IT CREEPED ME OUT ^^
He's just doing some free-lance gigs until the next season of BuzzFeed Unsolved and the Hotdaga start up again. 😉😂
Ahh!! true that.
Very distracting from the video
IKR
As an Asian I can verify that many of the things mentioned here are misleading and incorrect
No, they are true- 🤨
Number 0: asking for extra sauce with you chicken nuggets at McDonald’s in the USA
It is offensive to the chef because they think you think it is missing something
Lol. "Chef"
Yeah, more like "fry bucket holding crew" than chef... Chefs are properly trained professionals or at least well experienced cooks. LOL.
I did not know that and I love usa mcdonalds
Ronald mcdonald had a farm. It was called mcdonalds
@@cactcoal6178 it's a joke
As someone who's been to multiple countries, I can guarantee that no host expects any local etiquette from their guest. As long as you are polite, like a civilised human being, and show interest in local practices and manners, you'll be fine.
So true. Just be observant as to what they do and follow.
Civilized human being, well, that leaves out Biden and company.
Yeah, because you were a foreigner.
But they do expect local etiquette from their local guests.
@@jorgepalacio6910 But this video is aimed for people who like to travel into different countries, not towards the locals of specific countries who should know these anyways.
@@tovarishchfeixiao okay? I was replying to the comment, not to the video.
I'm Italian and I've never heard something about drinking capucino in the afternoon. If you want to drink one, just do it, nobody cares what you do.
A am Italian two and never heard of any of the two rules
Idem
Never Heard this stuff
Same!!!
Ah don't care about it bright side makes everything they say up
"Be patient and respectful!"
*blast loud music in our ears*