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Quote from a book published in 1885 written by an Englishwoman who lived in Malaya:
One day Tengku Kudin (pictured) was invited by a British Resident to attend a reception dinner at the resident’s home.
When all guests were seated and waited for the meal to be served, Tengku Kudin suddenly woke up to the direction of the water pipe and washed his hands. Without concerning others’ perception towards him (the rest of the guests were using forks and cutting knife), Tengku Kudin comfortably and without hesistation, ‘sholved’ the food to the square mouth with his hands!
Tengku Kudin’s ‘ungentlement’ behaviour was noted by an Englishwoman who happened to sit on his side.
Feeling ackward with Tengku Kudin’s mannerism, the woman then asked:
“Why do you eat with your hands?
Don’t you think that eating with fork and knife is more civilized? “
Tengku Kudin answered loudly and hastenly, till the rest of the guests listened . He said:
” There are three reasons I eat with my hands:”
First: I know for sure that my hands are cleaner than the forks and spoons as it was me who cleaned them – not other people. The forks and knifes washed by another person are not necessarily clean.
Second: I believe that my hands are cleaned because I am the only one use them. Nobody else uses them, my hands never been borrowed by others, while the forks and knives are being used by many people.
Third: I believe my hands more cleaned because they never fall in the drain!
Tengku’s answers made all the guests dropped their jaws. If before this, the guests looked down on the way Tengku Kudin’s eat by giving him sarcastic smiles, now they just nod their heads in agreement to the logics behind Tengku Kudin’s answers.
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