Do you know other countries’ food etiquette rules? 🍽 When you travel abroad and try the local cuisine, you might notice how a certain country’s table manners are very different from your own. Here are 12 quite unexpected food etiquette rules from across the globe! 🌎
TIMESTAMPS:
Don’t use forks in Thailand 1:10
Don’t “clean your plate” in China 1:55
Be ready to share a plate in Ethiopia 2:39
In Italy, you’ll insult the chef if you ask for extra cheese 3:22
Don’t ask for salt and pepper in Portugal 4:05
Be careful with chopsticks in Japan 4:45
Don’t touch food with your left hand in the Middle East 5:32
Don’t just sip on your wine in Georgia 6:18
Don’t fill your own glass in Japan 6:56
Only drink cappuccino before noon in Italy 7:32
Guests are welcomed with half a cup of tea in Kazakhstan 8:21
A clean teapot is a teapot without a soul in China 9:17
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SUMMARY:
– In Thailand, picking food up with a fork is considered bad form. However, you are allowed to push food onto a spoon using a fork… that’s it!
– In China, however, it’s impolite to finish eating everything on your plate. Empty plates indicate that a host hasn’t served enough food and guests are still hungry.
– As you sit at the table in Ethiopia waiting for someone to give you a plate to eat from, you might miss the actual meal! Everyone else will just eat from one large serving plate in the middle of the table without using any cutlery.
– Although Italians do love this product, it’s considered rude to ask for extra cheese. It may insult the chef because they take it as you not liking the dish the way they’ve prepared it and wanting to change it.
– If you ask for salt or pepper in Portugal, you may hurt people’s feelings. It’s kinda like with Italy; the cook may feel insulted by the fact that you need to “spice up” the dish they’ve served you.
– According to tradition, people place chopsticks vertically during funerals. In a restaurant, doing this may insult the owner.
– In the Middle East, India, and some African countries, the left hand is used for…uh…cleaning yourself up after going to the bathroom.
– If you find yourself at a dinner party in Japan and wine is involved, never get a refill yourself. You’re supposed to fill the glass of the person sitting next to you at the table, and they’ll return the favor.
– Italians do drink cappuccinos, of course, but it’s mostly a breakfast drink or even a substitute for breakfast. But if you drink this milky foamy coffee later in the day, it can upset your stomach, at least according to the locals.
– When we think “tea ceremony,” we usually associate it with the UK and all their fancy tea-drinking etiquette. But it turns out there are plenty of tea fans in Kazakhstan, and they’ve got rules when it comes to drinking it as well.
– If you’ve been invited to a tea ceremony in China and offer your help with the dishes afterwards, don’t even think about washing that teapot! The Chinese don’t wash teapots, especially traditional clay ones, with dish liquid.
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36 Comments
Hey guys! Are there any unusual food etiquette rules in your countries? Tell us about them! 🙂
Thanks for the video 🙂
As an Asian i want to tell you that touching your food with left hand or leaving some food on your plate is completely wrong. First of all I'm left-handed and i eat food with left and right hand i know it sounds weird but it's true. Second of all leaving some food on your plate is worse than eating it all because if you eat all the chef or whoever thinks that you really enjoyed your food but when you leave some food they think you didn't like it and left it so do not believe in anything he said
The tea ceremony is associated with Japan.
Dres eticettt
In England uk 🇬🇧 you have to use a special cup if you don’t want to get tea or hot chocolate in your moustache btw I’m English uk 🇬🇧
Italian and Portuguese chefs sounded pathetic!
no no you messed it up , you cant eat with left hand in middle east because its considered prohibited to eat with left hand for religous reasons
As we, Bangladeshi, use hand to eat, most of the time we don’t have to think about the gestures.
This is not true
You have to poor wine in the robe in iran
Do believe this video about the don't use your left hand thing . As an Indian I guarantee it's true
i am fromsouth Indiaa and this rule is true
In the UK, we drink a cup of tea normally not fancy lol
Bro I'm from Portugal I never need a bit of salt or pepper
how must i eat dan
Am I to believe that Satan, who can literally take away your soul, was the inventor of Dish Soap?
All and all of the above
Nobody gives a toss what you do with your fork in Thailand.
Interesting topic and very informative! Loved the comments the most!
I'm from thailand and uh- yeah no we use forks to eat XD
i'm so glad I didn't go around the world and I also don't like too much cheese
I'd love to know how we Brits have gained this reputation for our „Love” of Tea! Yes we like it, and we like it a lot …But we also heavily commercialise it, blend and process it en-masse, and then – The ultimate insult to traditional Tea – We seal it in a convenient paper bag because we seem to think „Traditional” Tea is made by plonking that in a mug and spilling boiling water haphazardly over it! 🫖🇬🇧 😳
I'll say this: I'm pretty sure most Brits would be vastly taken aback by the (Genuinely more traditional) way Tea is served in Turkey, Russia, Kazakhstan, China and other non- Britishised places… 🫖🏛😇
I am Ugandan we say women and children sit on a mat while men sit the table
Spreading complete misinformation about India
As an Indian we do listen that from our grandparents that we should not eat from our left hand but it's totally okay to eat with the left hand here. I'm a lefty and do I do eat from my left hand even though we prefer eating using hands than using spoons and forks traditionally eating with my left hand never had been a problem
this is BS
0:14
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I live in India and eating or touching food with left hand is allowed. I am a North Indian but I live in south India
🚫 If 🚫 forks 🚫 are 🚫 prohibited 🚫🚫 in 🚫 Thailand 🚫 then 🚫 how 🚫 they 🚫 eat 🚫 noodles 🚫 🚫
☺️ I ☺️ am ☺️ Indian ☺️ but ☺️ I ☺️ am ☺️ NORTH ☺️ indian ☺️ so ☺️ I ☺️ don't ☺️ why 😂 left ☺️ hand ✋ is ☺️ prohibited 🚫 in ☺️ South ⬇️ INDIA
we are from India
& bangladesh
I am Indian and left hand can be used
I live in India🇮🇳
I am Georgian and and it's OK to sip