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When I see people eating Thai food, 99% of the time, they’re not doing it correctly. So let’s talk about it! What utensils to use, and more importantly what NOT to use! Chopsticks? Hands? Fork? Plus some common dining etiquette so you can start eating Thai food like a local!
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00:00 Introduction
00:44 What utensils to use and how
02:35 Why fork and spoon?
04:33 How to Tackle a Typical Thai Meal + Etiquette
09:07 What about Chopsticks?
10:37 Do Thai People Eat with Hands
11:05 What about dinner knives?
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About Pai:
Pailin “Pai” Chongchitnant is the author of the Hot Thai Kitchen cookbook, co-host of a Canadian TV series One World Kitchen on Gusto TV, and creator and host of the YouTube channel Pailin’s Kitchen.
Pai was born and raised in southern Thailand where she spent much of her “playtime” in the kitchen. She traveled to Canada to study Nutritional Sciences at the University of British Columbia, and was later trained as a chef at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school in San Francisco.
After working in both Western and Thai professional kitchens, she decided that her passion really lies in educating and empowering others to cook at home via YouTube videos, her cookbook, and cooking classes. She currently lives in Vancouver, and goes to Thailand every year to visit her family. Visit her at http://hot-thai-kitchen.com
I did see people eating cereal with fork. I also did see an Asian dad feeding his kid cereal with chopsticks. No kidding.
Anyhow, it's all about happy eating and staying healthy.
Thank you! I learn so much from you, and keep smiling!
Coming from a Chinese background, I use chopsticks and spoon for everything. Chopsticks are just so versatile. After more than 10 years together with my Thai wife, she still gives me the stares when I ask for a pair at a restaurant.
I hope this video helps a lot of people out ????????
Fun fact: The Japanese usually eat their very popular kare risu (Japanese rice curry) with a spoon only. No fork or chopsticks in curry restaurants in Japan.
You can see in many YouTube videos where visitors to Thailand shove spoonfuls of curry into their mouth and then go ooh aah too spicy! too salty! You virtually always need to have some rice on your spoon with your curry to temper the strong flavor of the curry.
I understand the motivation to explain etiquette, since that is only established protocol and has no logic. But to justify this as the only proper way is pretty risky. The Thai ate with their hands, like most people in India and other Asian countries. That is, until the colonists came. To assert the spoon and fork is somehow more logical is to side with the colonists. There's no good reason not to eat with chopsticks and lift broths to the mouth, as one does in China. There's no good reason not to use one's hands. It's all just custom.
Such an interesting video! I love your cooking videos but all these extra ones are always so good and informative (like the supermarket video and the video where you visited local Thai restaurants etc.)
Thanks for this nice video! Finally this cleared out a lot for me. I love Thai food and have been to Thailand, now i'm safe to eat it correctly. And i love Indian food and have been to India. Your video tells me also, that a lot of the eating habits are similar to Indian habits, although traditionally they eat everything with their hands (which i love a lot). And they also often have plenty of dishes on a table (mostly when you eat a so called dish/talli) and can select what to eat with the main thing: the rice on the plate! The difference is, that all the selection possibilities are only for you, nobody else would grab into your food, i guess this is because of the Indian habit to not touch someone else and what he is eating or drinking.
My grandma is from Thailand and she eat almost everything with a spoon. even using a spoon as a knife.
1:19 I couldn't help but giggle too, Pai ????????????????
I am SO happy you did this. I’m always on the lookout for etiquette techniques outside of the European default. I wish you’d shown us a table setting.
Wow palina, never have I ever pushed rice into a spoon!!! Lol
Thanks for this video. I'm like you, it drives me nuts when people don't eat Thai food with a spoon and fork properly ????
This is the way I was taught to use utensils as well and I still eat with a fork and spoon when eating rice dishes.
I love your content so much! Very informative without being arrogant ! You are the best!
Great video! You mentioned some of these tips in a previous video, but I appreciate the clear explanation of Thai dining etiquette. It can be frustrating to eat rice with a fork or chopsticks when it's soaked in sauce. On the other hand, it's annoying when I go to restaurants of cultures where chopsticks are usually used and they assume I can't use them because I'm not Asian and give me a knife and fork instead.
This is how Filipinos eat, fork and spoon. Yes, it is much more effective when eating Thai and Filipino food, to enjoy the saucy food with rice. ♥️♥️♥️
great to see a new vid. thanks !!!!!
Didnt even realize the difference but the rice definitely impacted the reason why chinese use chopsticks and thai use forks/spoons. Chinese rice is much more sticky so its easier to separate/pick up using chopsticks. Also chinese people usually use bowls, so we can use the rim of the bowl to pick stuff up. Quite hard on a plate! Hahha
As a Chinese whenever I go to Thai restaurants I was always baffled why they don’t give me chopsticks????????!! Personally I find chopsticks a lot easier to eat with, but nice to know the proper way to eat Thai food!
Make sure its soaked in MSG and sugar syrup.
Just like Filipinos. That’s how we eat at home, too! …except when we do away with utensils altogether and go native and do “kamayan”. ????
Cutting meat into smaller bites using a spoon, a former coworker could not get over it and found it so odd… ????
Thank you. This was informative. What about the fish? You didn't touch it. Was kinda hoping you would.
This is a VERY interesting video. Thank you!!