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One of the researchers here, from hungarian origins, made me realize a couple of weeks ago. He was talking to some taiwanese about food and said that it was odd, but in Europe, the US, the West, it is not in good manners to hold your plate in your hands and get it close to the mouth. It is the spoon or the fork the one that has to move. It is not so here; it is very common to see people eating with their soup bowl on their hands or, particularly, the rice bowl from which you pick up small lumps of rice to mix them with something else. And I am included in that group.

True, very different ways, but I was not surprised at all.