However, although the development of India is not as fast as ours, it is not difficult to popularize the use of tableware in all aspects under their current conditions.
On the one hand, they insist on grasping food by hand, because it is a long-standing custom, on the other hand, it also contains their unique table culture.
We shouldn't belittle their habits just because our habits are different from theirs. Now that we're talking about this, let's learn more about the hand-grabbed rice culture in India, see if they all eat with their hands, and see if they also eat with their hands when entertaining foreign guests.
In their country, the custom of eating by hand stems from their attitude towards food. Speaking of food culture and food, no country in the world should have such exquisite and diverse food as ours. Our nation attaches great importance to diet, which has been going on for a long time? People eat for the sky? Such a proverb.
But Indians are different. They don't value food as much as we do. Instead, I think that eating is just a process of filling my stomach, and there is not much pressure. Therefore, they have no pursuit in diet, and naturally they will not pay attention to the use of tableware.
Although they don't pay attention to tableware, people of different classes in their country still have differences in the way they eat. Presumably, everyone knows that India is a country with obvious class differentiation, so relatively speaking, there are nobles and civilians under their identity.
For the bottom people who make a living from this, they are not so particular about eating, just eat enough, and naturally they are also very open-minded in their attitude. But a nobleman of status wouldn't do that. They don't eat with five fingers at the same time.
The food they eat with their hands is usually rice with vegetables and soup, so nobles usually knead rice into a ball with their first three fingers and then slowly send it to their mouths to show their cultivation.
The above answers my own question. Indians don't eat with their hands on all occasions. On more formal occasions, they will use tools such as knives and forks.
In some very formal occasions, such as entertaining foreign guests, they will also prepare corresponding tableware according to the guests' dining habits. However, at their state banquet, there is nothing to say about tableware, but the variety of dishes is worth mentioning.
When the leader visited India, the Indian Prime Minister hosted a banquet in his hometown to entertain the distinguished guests. There are more than 100 dishes, all of which are vegetarian. In this famous gourmet town, people pursue vegetarianism, and it is difficult to see meat.
Although there are no meat dishes, the dishes are also exquisite, among which steamed rice cakes and whole wheat mung bean cakes are the characteristic staple foods in their country. There are many other desserts on the menu, as well as local specialty drinks made with unique ingredients.
After thousands of years of development, they have learned to skillfully use various ingredients to add color to dishes at banquets, which is also one of the major characteristics of Indian cuisine. Among their dishes, curry is the most used, and they seem to have a natural love for this ingredient.
So most of them like curry rice best. Mixing meat, vegetables and beans into a thick sauce with rice is convenient and delicious food in their eyes.
This is the end of the article. Finally, I want to sum up some reasons why they are keen on grasping food with their hands. First of all, because this is a tradition handed down for thousands of years, they think it is more natural to eat with their hands. Secondly, their daily food, such as curry rice, is mostly mushy, so it is more convenient to eat it with their hands.
Third, in their concept, to enjoy food depends not only on taste, but also on touch. The use of tableware will block this feeling. In addition, the use of pilaf can also sense the temperature of food in advance to avoid being burned. I have to say that this is a real benefit.