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Do you know how to eat pho or ramen properly, or how to avoid the cripplingly embarrassing though frighteningly simple error most people make when eating a Thai curry? And how do you avoid offending your neighbours when you’re invited round for a feast of beef and black bean, fondue or bibimbap? Here are some more answers to help you with these modern-day dilemmas.

Beef and black bean

When sharing a Chinese meal it’s the height of bad manners to use your chopsticks to lift things from the shared plate straight into your mouth. It’s like double dipping. Oh, and never, ever wave your chopsticks around, use them to stab food or use them as drumsticks.

Rice Chinese style

It’s acceptable to lift the bowl up and push the rice into your mouth with your chopsticks; dropping any food is a far greater sin. It’s also seen as the height of gaucheness to be caught bending over the table in an effort to get closer to your rice bowl.

Thai green curry

Never use chopsticks even if they are on the table of that Thai restaurant you love. They’re placed there as a trap. The waiters will laugh at you behind your back and call you ‘kwai’ if you use them. Always use a spoon and fork. That’s what Thais do (unless they live deep in the rural North).

Croissants

Wrap one end of your croissant in your napkin and then bite off the other end. You may then proceed to eat the croissant a bite at a time, dunking it in your breakfast beverage of choice (always assuming it’s hot chocolate or coffee) or smearing it with jam between bites,as you go. Note that croissants should only be eaten for breakfast and really only at weekends – they’re generally a luxury.

Fondue

Never drop your bread in the melted cheese and don’t let the fork touch your teeth, lips or tongue. The correct way to remove the chunk of bread loaded with gooey cheese is to grasp it with your teeth in the middle and pull it from the fondue fork.

Bibimbap

When you’re served Korea’s classic rice dish in a hot stone bowl, break the egg and stir it into the middle of the rice without disturbing the toasty crust on the bottom. This dresses the rice and helps it cool down. To be really polite, take a spoonful of rice and use your chopsticks to top it with a bit of meat or vegetable. And never, ever lift the bowl. Remember, too, that in Korean restaurants the long metal chopsticks are more commonly used for meat, while grippier wooden chopsticks are preferred for slippery noodles.

Vietnamese rice-paper rolls

To eat these rolls, wrap them in a leaf of iceberg lettuce along with herbs such as hot Vietnamese mint. Eating them nude is okay, but it’s a far inferior option in terms of texture and taste.

Sushi

When eating sushi never wear perfume, don’t talk noisily, you hairy, milk-loving barbarian, and use barely any soy sauce at all. Only dip the topping of nigiri sushi fleetingly into the soy and never dip the rice into it. And if you want to be really old-school Edo-style, only ever eat nigiri with your fingers.

Japanese skewers

Whether you are eating kushiyaki or yakitori your approach depends on the number of skewers used; when food is served on a single skewer pull it forward along the skewer to then eat it directly off the skewer. When the food is grilled and served straddling two skewers, you are permitted to use your chopsticks to pull it off the skewers.

Pho

Only eat pho at breakfast time and eat it with a spoon in the left hand and chopsticks in the right. First, taste the broth and then season it with lime juice, fish sauce, herbs such as Vietnamese mint or sawtooth coriander as required. Eat it hot and once you’ve eaten all the noodles you may lift the bowl to drink the rest of the broth. Don’t slurp.

Ramen

Sip the broth first. Again, never season it before you’ve tried it and when you come to the noodles make sure you slurp up the noodles and broth loudly together. Oh, and eat ramen quickly; only the novice lingers because if you do the noodles will drink up too much of the broth in the bowl.

Cheeseboards

Never serve a cheeseboard before dinner. This is apparently dead common. Its correct place is either in between the final main course and dessert (in France), or after dessert (in England).

Chicken wings

Remove the knob of cartilage at the top of both the wingette and the drumette. Now the meat will slip right off. To be truly elegant, ease out the two bones (smaller one first) in the wingette as well for a boneless delight.

Porridge

Porridge should be stirred with a spurtle, seasoned only with salt and served piping hot. Then you should dunk your spoon of porridge into cold milk before popping it in your mouth. Adding butter, sugar and jam are Sassenach aberrations.

Caffè latte

This should only be drunk in the mornings and never, ever after dinner in an Italian restaurant.

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