All About Everything in Indonesian Food

If western use fork, knife, and spoon, if Chinese and Japanese use chopsticks, Indonesian use their natural eating utensils, their hand.
Oh yeah, that’s Indonesian. This eating manner created from thousand years ago. But, depend on the culture in each of Indonesian places, there’s some difference in other.
This manner so stick into Indonesian culture and do you know? Some Indonesian said it’s not fells good and don’t give much of pleasure when they use eating utensils. Oh yeah, but of course for watery food such soto or sop, of course they use spoon. Hm…


The good manner to eat is using your 3 fingers. There are Thumb, middle finger, and index finger. Even many Indonesian use their 5 finger, this way is the best manner.
For ripping the food, place your index finger to the food, hold the food with thumb and middle finger, and then rip it.
Don’t use your both hand to eat! When you eating, there are some kinds of situation, lesehan or at the table.
When you in lesehan situation, hold the plate with your left hand, and use your right hand to eat.
When you in sitting in front of the table, you can put your left hand holding the side of the plate, and use your right hand to eat.
Ah… if you have ever gone to Indonesia, maybe you will ask to yourself why you given a small bowl with water inside did. Don’t drink it! It’s pretty silly if you do drink those. It’s named kobokan, place for you to wash your hand before and after eating. Sure you can use the sink, but, before you go to the sink, use kobokan first.
Before you eating, you just dip your finger to the kobokan. After you eating, you can put your hand into there.
Oh yeah, Indonesian don’t recognized what is desert, main course, or everything in eating steps. They just put all of the food onto the table, and it’s your turn to eat what you want.
Happy eating!