Thai Dining Etiquette

[Chris Daley]

How do you get on with Thai dining etiquette?  Have you ever made a mistake?  Here are a few:

 

-  let the old people eat first

-  don't eat the food furthest away from you.  it is reserved for someone else usually the most expensive dish.

-  only drink water or maybe coke.  don't ask for anything hot.

-  only take 10 minutes to eat the meal.  yes it took us ten hours to drive here, but wolf it down and don't look around.

-  don't remove the bones from fish.  just eat it down.

-  don't leave any meat on the bone.  eat it down and chew the ends off.  if you leave anything you will get ''why did you leave everything!!''

-  say everything is delicious

-  don't go to the kitchen area

-  wash your hands before eating

-  never bring bread to the table

-  don't add or change anything.  only use the sauces provided.

-  eat fruit after the meal

-  chew loudly

-  speak while chewing

-  always use a phone

-  bring the soup to the rice, don't put the rice in the soup

-  roll sticky rice in your hand.  make it into a ball.

-  sit on the floor at the slightest opportunity

-  put soft drinks into the deep freeze solid

-  put cakes into the cooler so it is melted and ruined

 

 

[KannikaP]

Members of my Thai family must be the most un-ettiquetable in the country. Are these things we should or should not do?

 

Water or coke? How about fruit juice or the devil's beer.

I am the oldest one in the party so do I get to eat first.

And what's the last two about putting stuff in the freezer or fridge, cakes DO NOT melt in the cooler!. 

[soi3eddie]

13 minutes ago, Chris Daley said:

-  always use a phone

What no spoon and fork?

 

[proton]

Eat on the floor, even when the room has table and chairs, take endless photos of the same old food and the same old people! Must have Tv on loud even though nobody is looking at it.

[Celsius]

Oh I get it, it's a piss-take

[novacova]

No one really cares, though I’ve been laughed at by my wife when I use chopsticks eating kra phrao 

[FritsSikkink]

What a load of BS

[marin]

On 10/24/2023 at 5:44 PM, proton said:

Eat on the floor, even when the room has table and chairs, take endless photos of the same old food and the same old people! Must have Tv on loud even though nobody is looking at it.

Don't be complaining, these are the people you have chosen to be around. Myself been married 32 years and have never experienced this. Nor any of the crap the OP posted. As they say, "you made your bed now sleep in it".