I have never attended an important international conference with Indians, but I have dealt with Indians in third countries, so I don't think so. As the saying goes, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do," the Indians will have to take into account the "international outlook" when they are not surrounded by many compatriots. We have a restaurant for Indian, Nepalese, Indonesian and Fijian personnel, and I was invited by the Indonesians to eat there once. I saw Indians and Nepalese eating with disposable utensils. When it comes to chicken with bones and such there is no way, you have to use your hands. But it's not just them, they use their hands as well as other countries. Even the Chinese, who can't use chopsticks that well, use their hands. I've asked Nepalis privately and they do use their hands at home. Didn't ask about wiping their asses, thought it was impolite. But inside the bathroom of the Nepalese dormitory, the toilet comes with a flushing nozzle. The reason for this is that Nepal and India are very similar in terms of living habits and religion.

India, despite belonging to the four ancient civilizations, the hegemony of the South Asian region, but a people ludicrous, difficult to understand the country. "Eat without chopsticks with hand grasp, toilet without toilet paper with hand gouge, not into the train compartment to squeeze the roof" is a distinctive feature of Indian life. We often hear stories of nationals entertaining Indian guests with hot pots, which makes people laugh their asses off.

As for the Indian state dinner whether also with the hand, I have not participated in the Indian state dinner, but listened to a friend told the visit to India to participate in the real experience of the state dinner.

The state banquet As a banquet to entertain foreign guests, it should reflect the characteristics of their own country, generally in the Presidential Palace or the Prime Minister's Office of the banquet hall. Indian people also appreciate the foreign friends for the hand grasping this feature and do not understand, very uncomfortable, so, often provide foreign friends with knives and forks and other cutlery. Only when on the Indian specialties, Indians will extend the right hand to show the depth of Indian civilization, will also invite foreign guests to use their right hand to experience some of the Indian style.

But, some foreign guests out of diplomatic etiquette and diplomatic protocol, even if you can not accept the hand-held rice, but also have to eat. Moreover, Indians often put lemonade in the vessel on the table, but this water is not used to drink, but the end of the meal to clean up the right hand. But the ice water in the glass is drinkable.

As the average Indian, eating time is generally accustomed to use their hands to grasp, this is a long history of dining habits. Indians eat, must use the right hand to grasp the food, specifically with the thumb, index finger and middle finger, will be mixed, and then a handful of grasping to eat, generally do not have chopsticks, forks and spoons. Indians hands are very clear division of labor, toilet with the left hand, eat rice with the right hand. Because of this habit, most of the Indian dishes are made into a paste, so that it is easy to eat with hand-held pancake rolled, or hand-held rice mixed to eat.

India's hand-caught rice can be said to be world famous, almost the entire Indian society of men and women of all ages, whether grass-roots workers or white-collar workers or government officials are directly hand-caught rice sent to the mouth without chopsticks, knives and forks and other utensils, which in the modern society seems to be a bit uncivilized feeling, but this is just the traditional eating habits of the people, we should look at rationally.

Indian hand-held rice

In fact, Indian restaurants will generally provide cutlery and other tableware, but you do not deliberately want to, they will not take the initiative to give you, but to the reception of foreign guests of the state banquet occasions, the Government of India to prepare meals for foreign guests to prepare cutlery and other tableware, although there are in the local customs of the country, but can not be adapted to the other people to adapt to their own customs, the whole world has a variety of customs, many of which are still the same as in the past. There are a variety of customs, many of them are still very heavy taste, so the international standard of preparation for the state dinner can not not provide tableware, more can not only provide the national flavor of the dishes, or else full of curry taste is not good ah.

Indian Prime Minister Singh entertained visiting U.S. President Barack Obama

What should be known is that the Indians eat hand-held rice only with the right hand, because the left hand to do something else (everyone comment area to add ha), a cup of water will be used to wash their hands before eating, this water can not drink ha, after the meal there is a cup of lemonade used to wash the hands of the food oil stains.

I personally like to eat curry rice, but if you use your hands to grab it, you may not have an appetite.

So, what are your thoughts on Indians eating with their hands? Please leave your comments in the comments section!

State dinner, as a country's highest level of dining courtesy, whether in the manifestation of the country's long-established characteristics of the food, or as a means of diplomacy to show the country's status and strength of the means, are playing an extremely hardcore role, acting as a national gift in the facade.

In the world's various national banquets, each country has retained the classic pattern of national banquets inherited over the generations, in the mouth to mouth taste with the elements of the trend of the times, that is, rich in a sense of ceremony, the hall-level national banquets: Chinese and Western tableware combined, single eating food as a feature of the Great Hall of the people with the characteristics of the form of banquet service of the Chinese national banquets; to show that the royal momentum and demeanor, to say that the Sunset Empire's glory full of militarized taste Imperial splendor full of militarized taste of the British state dinner; simple and unadorned three dishes and a soup, dense in the flowers and music, enjoy the feeling of being at home in the Swiss state dinner ...... in these countless state dinners, with the hand instead of cutlery of the Indian state dinner has aroused the author's curiosity, although I have not experienced the highest catering treatment in India, but combined with the limited information, the author has been able to find out more about the Indian state dinner, which is the most popular. But combined with limited information, the author still talk about the Indian state dinner whether to use the hands of food views.

As an agricultural powerhouse on the South Asian continent, the Indian people have thousands of years of experience in crop cultivation, in the long-term cultivation of the natural formation of the tradition of eating rice; in addition, in the South Asian continent is rich in spices, the ancient Indian people have also found the charm of the curry, the modern Indian diet in the common roasted spring chicken, curry broth, Mumbai butterflies, etc. are all a variety of ingredients and curry of the marvelous "love affair". "Curry. When the Indian people like to eat rice and curry after the collision, also formed the most Indian characteristics of the meal - hand-held rice.

In the enjoyment of the traditional hand grabbed rice, diners need to use the right hand (do not use the left hand of the reason not to do more explanation, I think all readers know a little bit) will be repeatedly stirred and rice, and then with the right thumb, index finger and middle finger will be handful of rice into the mouth. And the formation of this hand instead of tableware eating habits, but also attributed to the ancient Indian belief that tableware will block the enjoyment of food, only with the hands of the real food and soul contact.

However, with the development of time, in the increasingly modern Indian high-end restaurants or formal occasions, have been equipped with knives and forks as cutlery, so it is difficult to see the phenomenon of hand food, of course, does not mean that those who have been accustomed to the hand of the older generation will give up this traditional "craft", in the relatively backward villages or streets, the phenomenon of hand food is still retained.

As the Indian food in the highest specification of the Indian national feast, the most traditional food representative of the hand grabbed rice is naturally among them. The organizers try to take care of the dietary needs of VIPs from all over the world, the configuration of tableware is still comprehensive, knives, forks, spoons and so on in the banquet everywhere.

First, foreign guests follow the customs of the country, well versed in Indian food culture, some of them will independently choose to eat with their hands, to experience a unique food culture.

Second, foreign guests follow their own long-established eating habits, for the food can be obtained with tableware, will not use their hands instead.

Third, the domestic guests in order to show the country's tolerance of food culture, will also "echo" (or follow the heart) foreign guests, choose to hold tableware, give up the country's traditional "craft".

Fourth, the domestic guests to foreign guests to show the country's culinary characteristics, in the consumption of certain dishes will choose to grab; or completely ignore the so-called tradition, just to achieve the best way of eating self. For example, the famous Mrs. Indira Gandhi was eating with her hands.

So in the author's opinion, whether the Indian state dinner with hand-caught food is difficult to escape these four situations, the emergence of hand-caught is not surprising.

I excerpted from the network down the Indian media published some of the recipes of the state dinner on the Indian cuisine:

1, Rajwadi chaas mixed mint, coriander buttermilk drink. 2, khandvu. 3, Sev khamni , rice and lentils made. 4, large shallow plate, Gujarati specialties. 5, Nylon khaman, rice and chickpea flour.6, Sandwish dhokla, a steamed cake made of chickpea flour......

The menu alone does not provide evidence of the exactness of the state dinner, but when we turn our attention to the Indian aristocracy, which is a little lower in the pecking order than the state dinner, we may be able to guess the final result.

In the dining of the Indian aristocracy, we also find those dishes on the state banquet, such as curry soybean puree, cheese spinach. These two dishes, although the practice is very different, but the final product can not escape the "paste" style. The Indian character of the dish also means that the most satisfying experience can only be had by hand: a banana leaf is prepared at the diner's place, and the host then pours water over it to remove any foreign matter and keep the "utensils" clean and tidy. The host then serves rice, curry, naan (bread) and other meals in turn. Guests or curry on the rice, or naan pulled into a slice dipped dishes, curry to eat, until the end of the meal.

In addition, in these aristocrats in the meal is almost finished, the host will often bring a bowl of warm water floating lemon slices, but this "lemonade" is not for the guests to quench their thirst, but used to wash their hands of food debris. The real thirst-quencher is laksa, a mixture of tea, milk and curry juice, or chai tea with milk, ginger, sugar, spices and condensed milk. In addition, at the end of the meal, the host will serve a plate of spices in the form of green grains of wheat to remove the bad taste in the mouth of the guests.

Through the daily eating habits of the aristocrats rose to the state banquet, more or less can provide us with some evidence of food with the hands.

Although this hand food in the eyes of our countrymen may seem extremely indecent, and can also be on the state banquet this elegant hall, it is really puzzling.

But no matter how much we think their way of life is incomprehensible, we can't use it as a way of comparison. Indeed, we may feel unhygienic, not clean, but this is their daily life, they are used to and did not feel unclean, learn to respect the culture of other countries, understand the different behavioral differences, which is not only the embodiment of the quality of the people of the country, but also the Chinese culture of inclusiveness in the humanities show.

For their daily diet, even if it is a national feast, most of us can not adapt to accept them this way of eating, feel unhygienic, can not eat, but please put away the face of ridicule, piggybacking on a little respect for the heart.

India is really an enigmatic country, Sango's magical Gaijin, as one of the four ancient civilizations, the development of India still retains a lot of strange way of life, for example, it is difficult to find a toilet in India, every corner is a public toilet, randomly spread, Indians regard the cow as a god, good food and drink for it, let it run all over the street, eat with their hands, for the Indian people. In the meal time is generally accustomed to use their hands to grab, many people for this strange way of eating is difficult to understand, but in India, this is a dining habits that have been passed down for a long time. Indians generally to rice, wheat as the main food. Generally do not drink alcohol, alcohol is considered a violation of religious customs, drinking alcohol is very limited. Drinking tea, coffee, milk, cold water, etc. is more common, Indians eat grab rice, right hand to grab food, using 3 fingers thumb, index finger and middle finger, will be mixed with rice, followed by a handful of grabbing and eating, generally do not have chopsticks, forks and spoons. The Indian people's hands are clearly divided, the toilet with the left hand, grabbing rice with the right hand.

So why are Indians so keen to eat with their hands? Indians generally believe that when eating a lot of pleasure from the sense of touch, knife and fork and chopsticks to prevent this feeling, so also blocked the food originally have the pleasure. With the hand to grab the rice can be known beforehand the temperature of the food, to avoid burning the tongue or mouth and other beautiful reasons, but also because of the hand to grab this habit, so that most of the Indian dishes are made into a paste, so that it is easy to use the hand to grab the cake rolled to eat, or hand to grab the rice mixed to eat.

Since in India, people are keen to use hand-rolled rice, when entertaining VIPs, will also make hand-rolled rice, so the Indian state dinner is also all with hand-rolled rice? The state banquet is the highest level of a country's banquet, is used to entertain the leaders and dignitaries of various countries, other countries can accept them to eat in such a way? India to entertain foreign guests of the state dinner, generally in the Presidential Palace of the banquet hall, the state dinner is served on the Indian flavor of the dishes. Indians are also known for their vegetarianism, so Indian state banquets are also vegetarian. But the Indian people also appreciate the foreign friends for the hand grasping this feature is not very understanding, not accustomed to hand grasping to eat, so often provide to the VIP knife and fork and other tableware. Only when eating Indian specialties, will suggest that the VIP guests with their hands to eat. Out of social courtesy and diplomatic etiquette, even if the leaders of some countries can not accept the hand grasped rice, but also have to eat it.

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