As a child, my white grandmother shamed me for eating #Filipino #adobo with #rice in traditional #kamayan style. For this offense, she compared me to Tupperware and my obedient utensil-using sisters, ironically, to "fine china." Eating with hands is NOT #uncivilized. Her #ethnocentrism cut deep.

Kamayan - Wikipedia

Eating with hands, or #kamayan, is a #traditional, #precolonial Filipino custom. Considered #savage by some, eating #pagkakamay happens throughout #southAsia, embodying #sensual relation to food, #practicality, and #sharing. Just press the rice and dish onto fingers and use thumb to push into mouth!

Lakay Kusina kamayan food #kamayan