When you eat rice do you...

[Kim]

If you're Asian (chinese mainly), you might've heard the myth that older folk will tell you when you are young, saying that if you don't finish all the rice in your bowl, all the leftover grains of rice in your bowl will end up on your future husband or wife's face in the form of pimples.

After that, I've had the habit of cleaning out my bowl clean, sometimes using some tongue action. Wasting food is bad anyhow. How about you, you, and YOU?

Also: When you're finished eating dinner with chopsticks, do you leave the chopsticks on the table or lying across the bowl. Apparently if you lay your chopsticks across the bowl, it means you show no respect to the person who made it for you. So me, being a sucker for these things since I was young, never place my chopsticks on top of the bowl when I'm finished.

There's also a few ways to hold your bowl properly, but I won't get into that :greedy:

[PH]

This thread is racist.

[Fidel Castro]

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[R1pp3r]

I once accidently left the chopsticks so that they were facing up from the bowl. This was not too popular and I was told that it is bad luck because it looks like when you pray to the dead and use two insence sticks.

[Kim]

I once accidently left the chopsticks so that they were facing up from the bowl. This was not too popular and I was told that it is bad luck because it looks like when you pray to the dead and use two insence sticks.

Or if you stick it right into the rice hahah, yes that does ressemble incense sticks in that case

[Pandagirl!]

Yum, rice. Whenever I eat rice I also eat all of it because it's good. I use a fork to eat it though - chopsticks don't work unless the rice is clumpy. Anywho, I pick up the straggling pieces of rice with my fingers, and my mom always yells at me because I have no table manners.

[Emaho]

I think you should always respect the one who made the food and eat it all up, and if you think your not going to like it, dont take so much.
As for table manners with cutlery, i always put the knife and the fork in 8:20 pos. when im not done, and at 4 when im done.

[Nethila]

i eat my rice with my hands

[Galleleo]

I have always learned to put my knife and fork on the same side of the plate to show you're done.

[Colonel]

i once shoved chopsticks up my nose... i'll never do it again.

[project dragon]

i am currently picking the leftover rice with my fingers.
most of the time my bowl is clean, but probably some is left over. meh
and i put my chopsticks both ways (on top of the bowl, and to the side on the plate). I never did grow up knowing too much of these superstitions, so that is probably why i dont really care much. I usually just try to be polite and finish my meal. :)

[Mulkero]

I never eat rice out of a bowl (I don't even have bowls) and when I'm finished, I put my knife and fork facing 5 o'clock knife on the right. I do get kinda pissed off if I make dinner and someone doesn't finish.

[stark]

And you don't get to join the clean plate club.

[Rab]

In England, when we eat rice, it's usually in a form similar to this: http://www.cullyandsully.com/pressph...en%20curry.JPG and we use a knife and fork.

The thing about emptying the bowl is cultural. In Britain, you generally leave a little food to show the host that they have been hospitable enough to fill you - that makes them happy. In some Asian places, or so i've heard, they get offended if you don't finish everything they give you.

Any more takes on this?

[KiAN]

With all this placing of the knife at 6:00 and spoon at 3:56, makes me think you guys are perfectisonists. Therefore making me think you all have OCD. :P