the multi-ethnic and multicultural coexistence, in South Africa, do not then take a trip around the world can feel and taste of Asia, Africa and Europe and a variety of American States, culture and living habits. What to eat and how to eat is better able to reflect the different cultural aspects, South Africans who saw and heard some different way of eating can feel the cultural differences and mutual penetration.

a few centuries ago, the British followed the Dutch first came to South Africa and brings a European way of eating, this is dining with a knife and fork and plate. This approach is now almost a meal in South Africa’s main method. However, the incorporation of other countries and South Africa the local way, people use knives and forks seem to have some special place. Knife and fork to tackle meat and bread, cakes and the like food seems to be not a problem. The treatment of rice, how to do it. Imagine, in addition to Chinese, chopsticks, spoon and can deal only. But the job in the restaurant and to the friend’s house guest, and often saw the South Africans, whether black or white, there is another way to deal with rice, rice is eaten with a fork.

When a plate filled with a lot of rice, use a fork seems easy. But only close to the plate number of rice dishes, it was unable to deal with these capsules of even the guy rolling. But the South Africans patiently suppress rice with a fork and let the gap between the fork up through the crowd, following the above try to get a grain of rice, and thus to evolve into a full capsules of a fork, and then calmly sent into the mouth. Later, tried, how can not use the fork on the plate of rice squeeze a bead on the fork. Like the foreigners do not generally trained for some time as they can not eat with chopsticks. of Cape Town later met an old professor of Dance, she is very interested in Chinese culture, and a chat about it to eat. She does not understand why friends warn her not to eat chewing loudly. I said, this is a Chinese Confucian culture, Confucius said, “Food silent”, otherwise it will be seen as rude and uneducated. Reason is probably terrifying thing to see and hear eat with ugly, that your home is poor, like how many years did not eat the same meal fed, were looked down upon. But Picking Up for dinner is normal.

She said she did not know this culture. They have a similar eating culture. In Europe and South Africa, according to Western food if it is to put the plate on the table, left hand fork, the right hand with a knife, and allowed to reach for the plate to eat. However, because South Africans Asians learn to eat along with rice, sometimes can not eat the rice completely clean, it will reach for the plate with a spoon or fork to turn food into his mouth all the expense, as the Chinese people to use chopsticks steak dinner Picking Up the same. Then put that plate dinner will not be considered as no education, but many people either reach for the dishes to eat anything.