What do Filipinos prefer to use - the spoon or the fork?

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AK0SiMEa

Uses both, but if people have to decide, I think most people would probably pick the spoon.....

girl ur looking for!

spoon...masarap din mg kamay pag tuyo ang ulam

Magwawali

Fingers

wildyoungnfree

Excerpted from Wikipedia about Filipino table manners

" * Food is usually eaten with Western cutlery, though with variation: the tablespoon is the main utensil, held in the right hand; the left hand holds the fork, but only as a helper to scoop food into the spoon as well as to pick up portions of food. Unlike other Asian cultures, it is not considered a faux pas to use a knife to cut foods into smaller portions at the dining table.

* Eating using the hands is acceptable in some cases - although rare these days, especially in the urbanized areas of the country. One would find this practice mostly in rural areas.

* Eating with hands is not practiced in formal dining situations, except of course with foods that normally are consumed that way, such as table breads (i.e., buttered buns), and other delicacies. Generally, mid-level restaurants and social gatherings are not appropriate venues for this, whereas this may be done at home."

Spoons all the time. If we don't have a spoon, we use our hands!

ambot

some uses spoon nad fork...but they like to eat by there hands...lol

jamiehappy97

Both. Sometimes hands. We rarely use knifes, only in fancy restaurants or if we are provided.

nang.amie

we use both

Great Days

I notice that a lot of Filipinos now use a plastic SPFORK when eating noodles in disposable cups.

I don't know who invented this combination of spoon and fork. But this plastic utensil is inside the pack of many cup noodle brands.

Have a nice day !

Juan C

we can use both at the same time...

wtf

I like to use fork with noodles and spaghetti. We Filipinos eat a lot of rice so its hard for us to use fork. But everytime I eat I always have the spoon, fork and knives ready though a lot of times I only use the spoon and knives. knives is for my orange at work since I work 12 hours and too lazy to brush my teeth I just eat the orange to clean my teeth.

Pointy

Most Filipinos were raised to use the spoon (right hand) and fork (left hand) when eating. Knives are not normally included in the utensils as the spoon is also used to cut the viand as well.

It is simply a culture thing.

heartburn

bare hands

freeverse

Mostly spoon and fork,but spoon is a must.We don't have any problem about it though coz we even enjoy using our hand.

Kid Kupad

The spoon because it's much easier to scoop rice, the staple food, with it. It can also be used to slice fish, even meat, instead of fork or knife.

Also there's almost always soup or "sabaw" (broth) included in the meal, so using a spoon is necessary.

exodus

we use both, spoon and fork
The Montreal-Philippines cutlery controversy was an international incident that arose in 2006, when a 7-year-old boy of Filipino birth was repeatedly disciplined by authorities in his elementary school in the Montreal suburb of Roxboro, for using his cutlery in a Filipino way. The boy's parents protested, and the story was picked up by the media; in response, the Canadian embassy in Manila was surrounded by protestors, and Jose Brillantes, the Philippines Ambassador to Canada, issued an official condemnation, saying that it was "an affront to Filipino culture."

The boy was disciplined on ten separate occasions by the school lunchroom monitor for "disgusting" and "piggish" eating habits: using a fork to push his food onto a spoon before eating it.

Spell Chekker

i need both!

SCG

we use both but spoon will do without a fork. Knife? not at all. we slice our meat with our spoon.

yeekatoox â„¢

magkamay nalang ! pinoy na pinoy :]

mancity

Hi Filipinos prefer to use a spoon and fork at meal times.They very rarely use knives

cHocoLake

spoon., but me., my kamay, (sometimes)=D

Bhuwisit

Neither. We like to use what is known as a "spork", even at pancy farties and weeding resepshoons. You know who you are.

McMaevie

Some are using a spoon if they have but in case they run out of spoon they usually used handy is your own FINGERS.
There are some restaurant that doesn't have any spoon or forks they just prefer you a water to wash your hand and used your finger when you eat food.

they use their hands... we filipino's love to do the "kamayan" thing it means that using our hands...

Traviesa

hmmmm..... I know chop sticks are pretty common. And their spoons are very diff than ours. They are usually ceramic and a much larger and deeper.
A bit of advice if you are traveling to their country its not policte to ask for a diff eating utensil. Just try to work with what they give you. If you are struggling they will usually pick up on it and bring you a fork. that's OK, you just cant ask for it.

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