Contest| "Tools to Spark Culinary Inspiration #19"

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What are "table manners"? Explain some examples.

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Table manners are those vital courtesies we should observe during mealtime to ensure safety and a proper and enjoyable mealtime experience for everyone. These behaviours can help avoid spills, choking and accidents at mealtime, making the environment comfortable.

Some Examples of table manners

• Wash up properly before coming to the dining table to avoid contamination

• Make use of the napkin properly; put the napkin on your lap at the start of the meal in your lap upon sitting down. You use the napkin to dap your mouth to clean up food particles.

• Use the utensils properly, like know how to hold. The fork and knife to cut food.

• Chew with your mouth closed and do not talk while chewing this will help prevent spilling food from the mouth

• Take food in smaller bites, so you don't overload your mouth with large sizes of food.

• You can offer help to tidy up the table after a meal or help in washing dirty dishes.

Do you think children should be taught table manners or wait till they are grown before they can learn it?

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Children should be taught table manners at a tender age because whatever you teach a child at this, their learning or copying stage remains with them. Teaching them table manners in childhood will be of great advantage which will take them all through their lifetime. Some adult today finds it difficult to learn or adhere to proper table manners because they were not taught at their childhood stage.

Additionally, children being taught table manners builds their self-confidence from a younger age in attending social and formal events as they have that mindful eating habit.

What is the most tasking table manner for you? Share with us

The tasking table manner for me is using utensils properly. Holding the fork and knife in the left hand and right hand, respectively, is quite tasking for me. When I try using them, I don't enjoy my meal because I am not used to it.

As I said in the previous question, children should be taught proper table manners from childhood. I was not taught to use a fork and knife to cut and eat meals, so I find them difficult to use. Even when I have tried to learn them now, it does not still feel comfortable eating with them.

Is it best to avoid a meal on the menu because you can't pronounce the name? Have you ever done it?

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Oh yes, whatever meal I don't know or can't pronounce the name, I don't eat. I need to have an idea of what I am eating so that I don't end up requesting a meal I will regret or can't eat.

Yes, I have done that many times. I pass the meal, I cannot pronounce the name, and I focus on the meal I know to get an enjoyable mealtime. However, in cases when all the meals on the menu are new to me or difficult to pronounce, I just give a try to any on the menu. I ask the staff for the preparation and ingredients of maybe two or three of them and make my choice, hoping they come out good, and sometimes they do.

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