Khmer table manners
- David Gordon
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Khmer table manners
She likes to call me when she’s eating and it’s really not pretty - truth is she eats like a pig. Stuffing in massive spoons full of rice and chewing with her mouth open. It’s not only hard to watch it horrifies me to think of her eating like that at the tables of my family or friends in the west.
Is this typical or she’s just a pig? Do you think they are able to change these bad habit(s)?
Is this typical or she’s just a pig? Do you think they are able to change these bad habit(s)?
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Re: Khmer table manners
You're lucky she uses a spoon instead of her hand.
Re: Khmer table manners
Chewing loudly with open mouth is as Cambodian as the krama. Try it for a bit and you'll realize it's many benefits.
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Re: Khmer table manners
I promise you they do this around close friends and family, not out in public. My wife is the same way at home, eats slower than a snail and covers her mouth to talk when chewing when we're out dining.
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Re: Khmer table manners
I would venture that, just like in the West, it is a lack of education. Table manners across Asia can be shocking, to our eyes anyway, but there are plenty of people that do know how to eat.
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Re: Khmer table manners
It's hard to have proper table manners when using a fork and spoon.
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khmer table manners
LOL funny one
non existent
LOL funny one
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In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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Re: Khmer table manners
I started reading the reply and mentally hearing ‘when you have no table’.John Bingham wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 10:33 am It's hard to have proper table manners when using a fork and spoon.
Table manners is something which I’ve tried to instil in the older kids, win one lose one, and slowly but with some success got my point across with the other half. But generally, it’s not too bad. Thank the gods my family have never met my brother. It’s hard to believe we’re from the same family, what with belching, farting, swearing and lewd conversation.
OP- Tell her? If nothing else, the make up shag might be great, assuming she’s not still eating.
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Re: Khmer table manners
I took my gf and her grandma to kampot. Gf was no issue. Grandma, on the other hand, was a savage.
While eating at the fish market restaurant she threw her bones and tissues on the floor like it was a 3000rl rice/soup shop.
I didn't mind too much. Food was awful.
While eating at the fish market restaurant she threw her bones and tissues on the floor like it was a 3000rl rice/soup shop.
I didn't mind too much. Food was awful.
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