Some time ago, I was eating with a friend when a bit of sauce splattered onto my shirt. As I went, "oh no", she said, "Don't worry, it's the same colour as your shirt."
But I still need to wash it off later!! :s
I thought she was the weird one. But recently I found that at least two other people (they happen to be girls, but I'm not sure whether being girls has anything to do with it) share her view.
A not-raised-in-Malaysia friend mentioned that he had only seen people in Malaysia using chopsticks to put noodles on a spoon and then eat the noodles. He said that on TV programs from other countries, they eat directly from the chopsticks. So we decided to tell him the logic of eating from the spoon instead of from the chopsticks: 1) You can eat the noodles with the soup, and 2) You don't get the soup flying all over the place (and onto your shirt) from the slurping.
But then those two said that they would slurp the noodles at home (because more "shiok" la). When I raised the question of laundry (I guess that's a big preoccupation of mine), they said that it wasn't a problem... the problem was having people seeing stains on their shirt.
Sigh... appearance before laundry, huh? I guess in a way, they're narcissistic and I'm lazy. :P
And I happen to be outnumbered right now.
But I still need to wash it off later!! :s
I thought she was the weird one. But recently I found that at least two other people (they happen to be girls, but I'm not sure whether being girls has anything to do with it) share her view.
A not-raised-in-Malaysia friend mentioned that he had only seen people in Malaysia using chopsticks to put noodles on a spoon and then eat the noodles. He said that on TV programs from other countries, they eat directly from the chopsticks. So we decided to tell him the logic of eating from the spoon instead of from the chopsticks: 1) You can eat the noodles with the soup, and 2) You don't get the soup flying all over the place (and onto your shirt) from the slurping.
But then those two said that they would slurp the noodles at home (because more "shiok" la). When I raised the question of laundry (I guess that's a big preoccupation of mine), they said that it wasn't a problem... the problem was having people seeing stains on their shirt.
Sigh... appearance before laundry, huh? I guess in a way, they're narcissistic and I'm lazy. :P
And I happen to be outnumbered right now.
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