Asian Crew, how do you eat your rice.

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: Saulbadguy

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: Saulbadguy
Soy sauce on steamed white rice tastes good. I don't really cares if its not proper or not.

edit: NM. I'm not asian.

That is really BAD for you. Honest. Soy Sauce is for cooking/dipping, nothing else.

How is it bad for you? Especially if you get the lite stuff with not so much sodium.

Lite compared to the real deal. Normally, in a dish you may get a few ml of soy sauce. From what I have seen people put more than that on the bowl of rice. NASTY!

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: PeeluckyDuckee
A bit OT, but one of our roommates who is a mideastern gentleman eats rice on a plate with his fingers. He claims it is healthier than using chopsticks or any type of utensils. I've never seen or heard of such a thing before.

I usually eat with chopsticks. Sometimes with a spoon if the side dishes doesn't require any nit picking.

Muslims in general (and most south asian) use their hands. I don't know if it is healthier...

 

[MasonLuke]

Originally posted by: Dumac
I eat rice with a fork and the bowl remains on the table, but my family is Filipino and extremely Americanized. I never use chopsticks for any dish, unless sushi is for some reason inexcusably drenched in some weird sauce.

I dont think Filipinos use chopticks. From my contacts with Filipinos, they use their hands.

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: MasonLuke

Originally posted by: Dumac
I eat rice with a fork and the bowl remains on the table, but my family is Filipino and extremely Americanized. I never use chopsticks for any dish, unless sushi is for some reason inexcusably drenched in some weird sauce.

I dont think Filipinos use chopticks. From my contacts with Filipinos, they use their hands.

I'm 1/4 filipino.

filipinos will use like spoons and forks, it dependson the dish. you cant eat say palabok with your hands or a lechon (well probably not unless you were a total barbarian) , though sticks of bbq, and things like a lumpia you could easily do with your hands.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: DVK916

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: DVK916

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: Farang

Originally posted by: DVK916
Do Chinese have a dish that is sort of like chow mien, but instead it is made with flat rice noodles, and it is fried. Not chow fun noodles, around 1cm wide.

That sounds like Pad Thai, but that isn't Chinese of course.

this isn't pc and a random aside, but most asian foods seem like a takeoff on chinese food, just with different spices... with the exception of sushi, which, though invented in china, has since evolved to a substantially different form.

anyways, i use a bowl, chopsticks, hold it up... i think that at least part of the difficulty westerners have when learning how to use chopsticks is that they keep the bowl on the table, which prevents them from shoveling food into their mouths.

posts asserting that soy sauce or any other sauce on rice is somehow not asian-kosher are simply wrong - though rice is usually not served with sauce on it (except for japanese curry, and some others), sauce on rice is a natural byproduct of having dishes with sauce on them, and it is not uncommon for people to spoon some extra sauce so as to add flavor, a more cohesive texture, and facilitate mixing. soy sauce on rice, though perhaps not common, is not unheard of. mix it with some seasame seed oil, and it's pretty tasty.

There are some really tasty purly, viet dishes. That have no chinese influence. Like Banh Coun. http://www.chezpei.com/uploaded_images/DSCN2468-753162.JPG

Very yummy.

they look pretty similar to a popular dim sum item (and a quick google search shows that many people consider them related):

http://beverlys.net/photos/2006/SGxmas/KamboatCheong.jpg

but of course, i don't claim to have any food history expertise, so it is conceivable that the influence went the other way.

The sheet of rice is essentially the same, but the vietnamese one has meat in it.

see the other post by luphoki... if you've been getting empty ones at dim sum, then they're taking you for a ride

 

[DVK916]

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: DVK916

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: DVK916

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: Farang

Originally posted by: DVK916
Do Chinese have a dish that is sort of like chow mien, but instead it is made with flat rice noodles, and it is fried. Not chow fun noodles, around 1cm wide.

That sounds like Pad Thai, but that isn't Chinese of course.

this isn't pc and a random aside, but most asian foods seem like a takeoff on chinese food, just with different spices... with the exception of sushi, which, though invented in china, has since evolved to a substantially different form.

anyways, i use a bowl, chopsticks, hold it up... i think that at least part of the difficulty westerners have when learning how to use chopsticks is that they keep the bowl on the table, which prevents them from shoveling food into their mouths.

posts asserting that soy sauce or any other sauce on rice is somehow not asian-kosher are simply wrong - though rice is usually not served with sauce on it (except for japanese curry, and some others), sauce on rice is a natural byproduct of having dishes with sauce on them, and it is not uncommon for people to spoon some extra sauce so as to add flavor, a more cohesive texture, and facilitate mixing. soy sauce on rice, though perhaps not common, is not unheard of. mix it with some seasame seed oil, and it's pretty tasty.

There are some really tasty purly, viet dishes. That have no chinese influence. Like Banh Coun. http://www.chezpei.com/uploaded_images/DSCN2468-753162.JPG

Very yummy.

they look pretty similar to a popular dim sum item (and a quick google search shows that many people consider them related):

http://beverlys.net/photos/2006/SGxmas/KamboatCheong.jpg

but of course, i don't claim to have any food history expertise, so it is conceivable that the influence went the other way.

The sheet of rice is essentially the same, but the vietnamese one has meat in it.

see the other post by luphoki... if you've been getting empty ones at dim sum, then they're taking you for a ride

The most common filling in the viet one is ground pork, and if remember right chinese people don't eat ground pork, it is a vientamese thing.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: DVK916

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: DVK916

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: DVK916

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: Farang

Originally posted by: DVK916
Do Chinese have a dish that is sort of like chow mien, but instead it is made with flat rice noodles, and it is fried. Not chow fun noodles, around 1cm wide.

That sounds like Pad Thai, but that isn't Chinese of course.

this isn't pc and a random aside, but most asian foods seem like a takeoff on chinese food, just with different spices... with the exception of sushi, which, though invented in china, has since evolved to a substantially different form.

anyways, i use a bowl, chopsticks, hold it up... i think that at least part of the difficulty westerners have when learning how to use chopsticks is that they keep the bowl on the table, which prevents them from shoveling food into their mouths.

posts asserting that soy sauce or any other sauce on rice is somehow not asian-kosher are simply wrong - though rice is usually not served with sauce on it (except for japanese curry, and some others), sauce on rice is a natural byproduct of having dishes with sauce on them, and it is not uncommon for people to spoon some extra sauce so as to add flavor, a more cohesive texture, and facilitate mixing. soy sauce on rice, though perhaps not common, is not unheard of. mix it with some seasame seed oil, and it's pretty tasty.

There are some really tasty purly, viet dishes. That have no chinese influence. Like Banh Coun. http://www.chezpei.com/uploaded_images/DSCN2468-753162.JPG

Very yummy.

they look pretty similar to a popular dim sum item (and a quick google search shows that many people consider them related):

http://beverlys.net/photos/2006/SGxmas/KamboatCheong.jpg

but of course, i don't claim to have any food history expertise, so it is conceivable that the influence went the other way.

The sheet of rice is essentially the same, but the vietnamese one has meat in it.

see the other post by luphoki... if you've been getting empty ones at dim sum, then they're taking you for a ride

The most common filling in the viet one is ground pork, and if remember right chinese people don't eat ground pork, it is a vientamese thing.

we eat ground pork all the time... it's everywhere... in dumplings, wonton, noodle dishes, vegetable dishes, tofu dishes, buns, etc... it's really common in chinese cooking. i think the most common fillings in these particular items though is beef or shrimp. the article luphoki posted lists some other fillings, but i've not personally seen them before.

anyways, i'm not claiming that they're 100% identical, just substantially similar

 

[gourmettea]

chopsticks with the rice in a bowl ONLY! Pick up bowl and shovel in rice in mouth....rinse with beverage and repeat..

rice on plates is whacked!....that's panda express style...

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: DVK916
The most common filling in the viet one is ground pork, and if remember right chinese people don't eat ground pork, it is a vientamese thing.

You remember wrongly There are tons of dishes involving ground pork. Coarse ground, but still ground.

 

[randomlinh]

Fork or spoon. Depending of if it's rice with meat, or rice with a broth. I could never get the hang of shoveling rice w/ chopsticks. But I'll use chopsticks with sticky rice. Or if the meal involves picking food from a central plate often (dim sum for example). Or sushi. Or pho.

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

Chopsticks with a bowl. I don't like eating rice on a plate. It's hard to pick up.

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13

Originally posted by: DVK916

Originally posted by: Farang
I love sauce-covered rice.

IS THERE SOME SECRET I AM MISSING ABOUT EATING SAUCE-COVERED RICE WITH CHOPSTICKS?!?!?!?!?! IT IS FREAKING IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!

Sauce belongs in a separate tiny dish. You don't drench the rice in sauce. You dip meats and such in it.

True. It always irks me to see white people drowning their rice in Soy Sauce. I don't even know how you eat something that salty...

Maybe because rice in and of itself is bland and rather tasteless?

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: Feldenak
Maybe because rice in and of itself is bland and rather tasteless?

That is why you got a myriad of different dishes sitting in front of you. Those are the side dishes that help you eat the main staple, bland, steamed rice.

 

[torpid]

So I guess we're not including India even though it's in Asia?

 

[Imaginer]

Originally posted by: DLeRium
Currentlyl, bowl.. big bowl, like I could put dry noodles in.

I put at least 2 small bowls of rice in there and then I stuff my meat and veggies on top and I throw it into the microwave.

I was raised using those corning bento boxes. I'm an only child with a single parent, and we never eat dinner together. More like my mom kinda eats dinner while reading the newspaper and I eat at the dinner table. IT's a lot easier to put stuff into the bento box and just heat it up instead of bringing 4 seperate dishes out and then giving me a bowl of rice.

I was raised using mainly a fork and spoon, but thats because my mom never cared what I used. I still usually get a fork at home, but I'd say I'm decent with chopsticks. Sometimes my mom does give me chopsticks though, but it depends. I cross them, but then again so many ABCs do, and I would say I'm mediocre to above average with chopsticks. I usually eat with chopsticks in my apartment now.

I just dont like the idea of using a small bowl of rice. I'm a messy eater. I like my big bowl so I can cover my mess. With a small bowl, I'd have to refill too because 1 bowl is never enough. 2 is barely enough, and 3 would be great. Moreoever, I feel that by loading up my big noodle bowls with my dishes, I force myself to eat a buttload of dishes rather than to pick them one bite at at time off the dinner table. THat way I end up eating MORE of the entrees than the rice. Otherwise, it's like rationing. 1 bite of rice from the small rice bowl + 1 chopstick full from the entree... repeat. I prefer to have it all laid out for me on a plate/big bowl.

Oh wow. I thought I was the only one that did this.

Ever since living alone, I find this is a more efficient way of eating. Combine all of my desired quantities and fixings with the rice and eat it with a spoon. I do not need to eat my rice traditionally (small bowl and chopsticks) unless I am eating family style - with more than 3 people or with my family.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: jacob0401

Originally posted by: Kaido
What's the name of the sticky rice? My local shop sells Minute and Basmati that I know of.

you can go to asian store, or buy calrose rice (california grown, short grain) and cook it properly in a rice cooker, should turn out right.

Hit up a local Asian store last week and got some sticky rice, going to try it out this week. My rice cooker has cooked brown rice & basmati successfully, looking forward to making some sushi rolls next

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: MasonLuke

Originally posted by: Dumac
I eat rice with a fork and the bowl remains on the table, but my family is Filipino and extremely Americanized. I never use chopsticks for any dish, unless sushi is for some reason inexcusably drenched in some weird sauce.

I dont think Filipinos use chopticks. From my contacts with Filipinos, they use their hands.

:thumbsup: My wife is Filipina. When I was there they all used their hands when eating at home and when out it depended on the restaurant - either hands or forks.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
arent u the fattie?

yeah, I doubt he's even asian

 

[oslama]

bowl and spoon, drenched in curry or lentil soup.

 

[Farang]

I'd like to add that you're a fool to use chopsticks in a Thai restaurant.

 

[Superrock]

If I have other dishes with the rice I eat it with chopsticks. If the rice has the dishes in it already I like to spoon it up in a fork or spoon. I normally finish eating rice with a spoon since tis hard to pick up the last of it with chopstix.