Our first child’s pediatrician was from India. Our child got sick one night. Dr. told us to come over to her house. It was about midnight. She was cooking supper. After examining and making sure our child was OK she invited us to stay for midnight supper. We did. I learned to eat with my right hand that night. She offered me a fork, but hey....when in Rome. I love your channel!
@Bella Tempesta Sure do! Live right in the hills of Appalachia. Small town. But as a disclaimer I worked in a different office downstairs from this particular physician.
Im a 15 yr old Indian boy, living in India. As I grew up in the UK, I was taught that eating with my hands is bad manners, and so I always ate with cutlery. Recently I have been getting a lot of comments from my relatives about the fact that I dont really look nice when I eat with my hands. So, I decided to look up how to eat nicely with hands, and this video really helped me. Thank you !!!! 😊😊😊
I live in the US and I'm 30 yrs old now and have started experimenting with different cultures ways of living and here recently it has been India and the way they eat and what they eat and I'm here to tell you that since I have practiced eating properly using my hands I enjoy eating so much more. I eat more of my food and I enjoy the flavor and experience, so much more than before and I don't even understand why but this is the way to do it! 😂
Also, when you touch/mix and eat food with your hands, the sense of touch is activated and your pallets are better prepared for the heat and texture of the food. Food definitely tastes better.
satish, sorry i disagree; food doesn't taste any better when one eats with one's fingers, for there are no taste buds on the fingers, but most indian parents "train" their children's minds to believe that.
@@Karawoolfe How do you eat soup? Just curious. We can eat certain things by hand like taco, pizza, rolls...but something like boiled veggie, curry rice, soup, porridge, paste...How?
@@greentomato4632 I don't know the logic, but when mom's give ball of rice rounded by her handz, it's much tastier than when we have it with our own hands. There is something mysterious about it.
anthroariel oh that’s a great point! We do frown upon that here don’t we? Just goes to show you. What is acceptable is entirely a culturally determined.
In Somalia they actually have a whole galateo on how to eat with your hands, you only eat with your right hand and only pick food with the tips of your hands and never put your fingers in your mouth but only the food, and when you eat in a shared platter you start from your side corner and work your way up to the middle, we don’t squish food and we don’t make balls with the food it’s actually considered impolite, I was born and raised in Europe but I still LOOOOVE eating with my hands even tho my family barely does
Noon pa man, kultura na ng Pilipino na ang kamay ang ginagamit pag kumakain. Naihatid na lamang sa kamalayan natin ang pag gamit ng mga kubyertos sa hapag kainan dala ng kanluraning "kaugalian", hanggang sa ito ay namana at nakasanayan nang gawin sa pag lipas ng panahon. Karagdagan pa rito, dahil nasa "tropical" na klima ang Pillipinas, ang mga pagkain ay makukuha sa tuyo at luntian na kalikasan, na angkop naman sa ating paggamit ng natural na lakas at pisikal na pangagatawan para ihain ito sa mismong panahon at oras upang kainin, at muling pagtatanim.
Thank you so much for this video! As an Irish woman, I have always wondered and have been eager to learn the certain tips and trips to this technique. I’m happy to say I can enjoy my Indian food even more now♥️
I've always found hand-eating with roti & injera and such to be really natural... for me personally eating rice with my hands is still my final frontier. Totally my fault and all, I just feel like I'll probably need to spend some more time in India to get used to it :)
Ughhhh i want to experience this! I want to go to an indian restaurant where everyone is eating with their hands so I can finally try it and not be judged. The food looks soooo yummy
Look eating with spoon and hands is a choice one makes. Nobody will judge because this is the most proper way to eat. In fact Indians eat with spoon not to get judged by other people so go for it.
This is similar to how I grew up eating Mexican food with tortilla being in a Hispanic family. Using tortilla to pick up rice, beans, and protein. It just wasnt emphasized to try to use one hand and never really actually used the bare fingers are the main differenced. Very cool to see how there are similarities across cultures. Thank you for sharing. I LOVE Indian food and I make your butter chicken recipe all the time. Would it be odd to eat the dal using a spoon similar to a soup?
No it wouldn't be odd. I use spoon to eat daal all the time. The serving portion is usually more in quantity than the amount you can scoop with roti. So you can always use a spoon. I even slurp it directly from the bowl when I am alone at home. Not in formal settings and restaurants though.
momo, it's quite ok to eat with a spoon. the only problem is that we have only 27 spoons in a country of 1,300,000,000 people. but don't despair, our parliament is allocating a larger spoon acquisition budget next year.
This is a very brave video to make. Thank you for sharing. You make eating with ones hands look very elegant. Eating with family is fun and done with a lot of love. Each one for their own. I think it's great to eat with ones hands. But I also strongly feel that one must do what one is comfortable with. Just enjoy life. Your tutorial is very informative. Much appreciated.
Hey Urvashi , I live in HARYANA and my kids just watched your video , because they don’t know how to eat rice with their hands. Now they’re eating the Biryani without a spoon and they think it’s so much more delicious! Thank you for this wonderful video! So thoughtful! 💕
I love this video. So glad I stumbled upon this.. I am a pro in eating with my hands without making any mess but still, I loved watching it. What a graceful teacher!
You make me so happy with this video. I've been shown how to eat Indian food before, actually it was one dish - seasoned okra rolled in a 4" circular bread so it could have been naan, roti or chipati. My friend didn't explain she just said this is how you eat it. We were sharing an Indian food moment as I picked up my all Asian Cookbook by Jacki Passmore ($10.00). It was 1978 and I had lent her my book. We were in a ceramic class together and while chatting, as we worked, we came upon the topic of cookbooks that contain Indian food. She had never seen one with any REAL Indian recipes in it. I wanted to know how bad the recipes in my book were since I had cooked some of them and thought they were authentic so I brought the book to class for her to have a look. After she browsed through it for me she said many of them were exactly the same as her mother's recipes, recipes that she had never seen written down. She asked if she could borrow it for awhile to copy recipes. I was happy to oblige; a gift to both of us. Onevery precious moment for me and now your video adds even more to it. Thank you.
I appreciate your detailed instructions on how to eat Indian food. I'm eyeing the menu of the local Indian restaurant but my anxiety doesn't let me go there. Now I'm well equipped to try delicious food!
I'm Arab.. We eat with our hands, spoons and forks.. Depends on the food I guess.. But I would say this.. Rice definitely tastes better when u eat it with ur hand! I wouldn't be caught dead eating biryani or machboos with a spoon lol!
Helpful thank you so wash throughly before eating with your hand and just use the tips of your fingers. And the left hand is used to get more food and stays clean!
The only sophisticated and real video showing how to eat food with hands like an Indian. And, this is the only video with vegetarian food. Clean, simple, and perfect. Thanks, Urvashi. Anyone who wishes to learn this skill should watch your video.
I am reminded of when my family had gone to a Chinese restaurant and were eating our food with chopsticks. After a while some of us complained we were getting hand cramps because our muscles were not accustomed to holding chopsticks through and entire meal. But my son who was only about 8 and had very little practice immediately retorted he was getting a stomach cramp because he was not able to get any food into his mouth with those chopsticks! I was in the state of Gujarat for 6 months and the family I lived with mixed the rice and dal with their fingers and ate it just like Urvashi showed. I had also visited with a college student who happened to be from Rajasthan, if I remember correctly, who explained to me that food tastes differently when eaten with the fingers rather than utensils. He explained it as using all the senses to enjoy food, as well as touch and said it heightened the flavor. The family I lived with also tore the roti at the fold and just refolded the roti to move the fold when needed. It's an easy way to get a nice shaped piece of roti to pick up food with. I noticed how good Indians are at eating food with their hands, but that makes sense, right? They have always done it that way and have loads of practice. We just need to keep practicing also. It does get easier and you do get better at it. At first it feels completely unnatural and an ineffective way to eat, but after a while you get the hang of it. One thing I have noticed is posture. When we eat we are told to sit properly at the table. We bring the food to our mouths with our silverware. But Indians lean in to eat over their plate. They bring the food up and slightly inward but they meet the food there with their mouths. If you watch people eat with silverware you'll notice they may lean in, but not as much and often keep their backs straight. But oh how good it tastes! I don't know if it can be proven scientifically, but I do prefer to eat Indian food with my hands over with my silverware. For first timers I would recommend something like suki bhaji. It's a cubed potato mixture that varies by region, but since it's just boiled potato cut into cubes and then fried with seasonings it's not only super easy and tasty to make, it's also super easy to eat with roti to practice. Here is the recipe from the family I lived with. Do you also have a recipe for these potatoes? Though it might not be keto friendly....I myself don't eat them often just because Holy Carb! We used lemon juice as a substitute for mango powder I believe. *Suki bhaji* ▫ 4 medium potatoes boiled, peeled, and cubed in about 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch cubes In a pan heat: ▫ oil 1 or 2 tablespoons When oil is hot enough splutter mustard seed and cumin seeds (do not burn the cumin seeds) ▫ mustard seeds 1/3 teaspoon -1/2 teaspoon ▫ cumin seeds 1/2 teaspoon When seeds have spluttered add: ▫ 4 green chillies chopped Stir and cook for a few seconds, then add the potatoes. To that add the rest of the spices, stir often. ▫ salt 1/2-1 teaspoon or as per taste. ▫ half teaspoon sugar ▫ chilli powder 1/2 teaspoon -1 teaspoon ▫ turmeric powder -1/4 teaspoon Turn the burner off and stir in the remaining ingredients: ▫ juice of one small lemon ▫ coriander leaves (1/4th cup) for garnishing Practice eating with roti. ☺ Thank you so much for this video Urvashi. I really enjoyed it.
Marjie Young thank you for taking time to share your experience and for the recipe! Yes posture is quite different. We also wear “home clothes” or pajamas. Bathe, change into clean clothes, and then sit down to eat so you’re not sitting in your street-dirty clothes. Very different!
@@sarpoztugran569 Actually, this is a very authentic topic. Many, many cultures eat with their hand and practice great cleanliness. Please be a bit more tolerant of other customs, thank you.
Woah, ok I'm definitely going to start eating with my hands more frequently now! Just finished dinner where I split my meal into two portions; I used utensils for the first portion and then for the second one I used only my hands. Idk what sort of sorcery is behind this but the flavor was definitely more intense and delicious when using my hands.😇
yes it is crazy right?! 😂😂😂 same here I live in Alabama and I love studying other cultures in every way and it does make absolutely everything better. The taste definitely,... and I don't even understand how but it does it taste better, you're capable of eating more feeling more satisfied and somehow using their method of hand-washing after using my hands to eat they feel cleaner then before I even tried to use them. As long as my American husband is not around I'm gonna start using my hands to eat everything 😂😂
Me a indian🥰 watching this while eating rice with my hand 🥰and thinking 😂 that ops do people really need tutorials for eating with hand 🥰 because it's a common thing for us😂
I’m good with sandwiches, and bread if it’s slushi texture I’m good with spoon or fork that’s just me though but I respect what other cultures do things to each there own.
I worked with 6 Fijians at a bodyshop in Canada for 10yrs. I learnt so much from these guys... I was told that to use the Roti is like a spoon.❤❤ And sugar water helps with the Chili burn.
Mixing food with the hand, I mean squishing it, actually improves the flavours of food. I don't know how it is with you but I have noticed it that good squished by different people have different taste. When I was small, I could differentiate between good squished by my father and that squished by my mother. Same rice, same accompaniment but different taste. And food squished by either of my parents definitely tasted better than when I used to squish the food myself.
I am English and invited to the home of Indian friends in Pune for Dilwali 12th- 14th Nov. Next weekend. This is good information but why don’t you prepare small bits of the bread before starting? It seems illogical to struggle to tear pieces off with 2 or 3 fingers? Could I do this or will it be seen as bad etiquette? I'm guessing they will not be eating while standing up when at home, right?
What happens when you run out of bread/ rice while eating your food? Do people prepare more rice/ bread in that case, or do they usually stop eating once all the carbohydrates have been consumed? Also, would it be acceptable to eat certain foods using your hands *without* the use of bread/rice, such as the cabbage and carrot dish in the video? I could imagine myself doing that if I ran out of bread/rice, in a restaurant for instance
I recently started eatin food from a vegan Trinidadian restaurant. I was looking for tips on eating roti and some of the other breads they have when i found ur video. i didnt realize there was a skill to eating with my hands. Will try my skills the next time I try Indian food as well Side note: I grew up in the deep south in Georgia. As a child I remember my Grandmother teaching me to eat collards or turnin greens with my hands after mixing the greens with cornbread. Now everyone uses a fork. But I swear food tasted better with my hands!
I'm just getting into indian culture, I mean I'm 30 and only have about 300 Hindi words. My lady friend told me to eat with roti and shown me.. I didn't realize until now we're all hands on, even soup conforms to this, amazing. I'll remember to use my hands and set the utensils aside more next time I go to the local Indian restaurant.
I’m Latina and there is this Indian restaurant near me and I want to try cause the food looks so good but I’m kinda shy since I don’t know how to eat it 😔✌🏼
Dont be ashamed. Try eating all indian breads the ways she showed and rice biriyani everything as she taught to eat rice. Desserts can be eaten with spoon or hands. Wtever and however you want. Nobody z gonna judge u
I try at home, but I have this compulsion to keep wiping my hand clean between each handful! I then give up and eat with a spoon but tear the chapati w/ one hand.
Yes etiquette but also, just enjoy food however you enjoy it. Food taste so good when you use your hand so go for it and use your hands. Also balling rice and lentils is fun, so go ahead and try it.
Very helpful! I have a question about washing hands after. When your fingers get messy from the more liquid items, how do you clean that in a restaurant in India? I figure you would end up washing your hands, but how do you get from your seat to the sink without touching anything? Napkins/towels first? Open sinks in the same room? Hands-free bathroom doors?
All Indian restaurants have an open wash basin area, so first wipe your hands on paper napkins provided at the table to eliminate any drips, then go to the wash area where you can use your clean left hand to pump the liquid hand wash dispenser into your right and then wash thoroughly, turning on the faucet with your left hand... Pretty logical.
@@Mscellany1 Oh okay. That might be true for all the restaurants in India but not all Indian restaurants worldwide; that's why I asked. I've been to several, and none of them had an open wash basin area.
You're SO AWESOME Urvashi Ji!!! My father was very able to tear a piece of tortilla and grab some beans and rice with it, but our landlady(mexican-american)and me couldn't master the manner to eat with that piece of chapati(kokurucho in mexican slang), so we'd(probably learned from her), we'd make a kokurucho, grab it in our left hand and with our right hand scoop up with a fork or spoon some beans or rice, or maybe some mole or black chili, thank you for showing me and considering the nearest Indian restaurant is in Mexico City, I'll view this video many times(to absorb the technique)and therefore impress everybody there! :)
Hello Urvasi. I loved watching this, very educated informative video. Now we know. This was so interesting, thank you so much for sharing this with all of us. Stay safe and healthy. Happy Easter and God Bless.... Claudia
I am Indian and have been doing this all my life. Still I am watching this just to understand what a marvellous thing I've actually been doing all my life. Eating with the hands require minute and intricate muscle coordination of the fingers which we take for granted because we have learnt it naturally. For Westerners, they have to acquire this skill after much practise.
The naan isn't a popular homemade food and I must say being an indian I have only eaten naan once in my lifetime, that too, in a restaurant. Naan can be torn into pieces and dipped in the sauce/gravy.
during the summer it is prickly pear fruit season here in Mexico and many street vendors will buy wooden boxes full of prickly pear, they expert and painlessly peel the outer skin which has the spines and they sell you the peeled fruit, condimented with red chili powder, salt and lime juice, or you could eat the fruit naturally like I do, well they always provide either a plastic fork or a toothpick, who needs that, I grab each pear with my hand! ;)
I follow a channel where they eat this way, and western people comment so often.... I'm from Tennessee, and I eat with my fingers.... 😂 Not nearly as neatly, it must be said. Next time I find an Indian restaurant, I will gladly forego flatware. ☺
My mate’s mum from Pakistan said I eat perfectly with my hands after I watched this and then she mixed my food for me and didn’t stop smiling at me for the rest of the meal 💓 never felt so validated 😂
Oh, this was really useful! I eat with my hands a lot (I really like Indian foods and medieval European foods, and medieval European foods are meant to be eaten with the hands and a knife and spoon, so a lot of the same muscle memory is used), and I've always felt like my etiquette was a bit lacking. Turns out it was, lol. Time to work on that (and eat delicious food)!
Eating with your hands is primative. The reason why forks knifes spoons was invented so we dont have to use hands. Why would anyone think having all your food over your hands and fingers is a good thing . Babies eat with there hands then we teach them to use cutlery.
I eat food like this and people like my friends tell me it’s gross :( it makes me upset because I obviously wash my hands very well before and after smh
Thank u 🙏we do love indian food in germany tho. And for me, origin of my parent from middle east, its true, that we do eat withbour right hand as well, mostly make food to a ball...that works well, cause our food is dryer than urs.
Was over a friend's house, they are from Bangladesh. His wife cooked a really nice meal and served us. They forget to give me a fork and spoon. So I watched how they were doing it and started copying them. After a few minutes they apologized and brought me a fork and spoon. By then I had already seen and copied enough, I told them I didn't need it. Now a couple times/week I eat with my hands at home.
Urvashi, Indians say God made hands before silverware! I have a long time considered that the consuming of foods with implements shows (primarily Western) distain for the (crude) enjoyment of food. Victorians, by example did not like to show any pleasure in food...or anything else for that matter because it was carnal. I'll be biting my tongue here for there is so much I could say. When you release yourself to engaging with food in the manner of handling, you gain a whole different relationship. People in India and MANY other countries share from a communal plate. So romantic, really. How sweet and loving, chatting away and sharing intimately.
@@mohinib2001 In all honesty I just think being able to complete a meal without getting the juices all over your hand is not as efficient as using utensils. Efficiency also indicates ability to adapt to different food sources. Using your hands is only possible with limited foods, imagine trying to eat a plate of pasta with your fingers, you’d end up creating modern art all over the table and your face.
@@jammyrapper7426 Straight to insults over a food comment discussion and couldn’t even spell the word correctly. I wouldn’t be surprised if you were raise in a single parent home and was never socialized properly for civil society.
I'm indian...and 19 yr ....and I live in india....so why I found this and watch this and watch until end 😂😂😂😂
:)
This one is too wierd
Your indian and you live in india no need to tell us again.
Same sis I'm 20 tho
Me too😂
Mera mn meri marzi☺
Our first child’s pediatrician was from India. Our child got sick one night. Dr. told us to come over to her house. It was about midnight. She was cooking supper. After examining and making sure our child was OK she invited us to stay for midnight supper. We did. I learned to eat with my right hand that night. She offered me a fork, but hey....when in Rome.
I love your channel!
Thats a really cool story! I love midnight dinner
@Bella Tempesta Sure do! Live right in the hills of Appalachia. Small town. But as a disclaimer I worked in a different office downstairs from this particular physician.
When in Rome you say? correct . So if you live in England do what the English do. When in Rome remember........
@@stecartmelYes, you do what the English do, which is to respect what people do in their own house, except when it's sodomy.
Im a 15 yr old Indian boy, living in India. As I grew up in the UK, I was taught that eating with my hands is bad manners, and so I always ate with cutlery.
Recently I have been getting a lot of comments from my relatives about the fact that I dont really look nice when I eat with my hands. So, I decided to look up how to eat nicely with hands, and this video really helped me. Thank you !!!! 😊😊😊
You.. are a well-mannered and polite son!
Thank YOU!
I live in the US and I'm 30 yrs old now and have started experimenting with different cultures ways of living and here recently it has been India and the way they eat and what they eat and I'm here to tell you that since I have practiced eating properly using my hands I enjoy eating so much more. I eat more of my food and I enjoy the flavor and experience, so much more than before and I don't even understand why but this is the way to do it! 😂
Also, when you touch/mix and eat food with your hands, the sense of touch is activated and your pallets are better prepared for the heat and texture of the food. Food definitely tastes better.
satish, sorry i disagree; food doesn't taste any better when one eats with one's fingers, for there are no taste buds on the fingers, but most indian parents "train" their children's minds to believe that.
@@greentomato4632 it's not true, eating with hands makes food better, i am Moroccan and we eat with our hands
Greento mato or whatever the f*** your name is! That is indeed true.
@@Karawoolfe How do you eat soup? Just curious.
We can eat certain things by hand like taco, pizza, rolls...but something like boiled veggie, curry rice, soup, porridge, paste...How?
@@greentomato4632 I don't know the logic, but when mom's give ball of rice rounded by her handz, it's much tastier than when we have it with our own hands. There is something mysterious about it.
Thank you from my heart for sharing your culture with those who, as children, were punished for eating with our hands! 🤚😊💖
anthroariel oh that’s a great point! We do frown upon that here don’t we? Just goes to show you. What is acceptable is entirely a culturally determined.
anthroariel, you were punished for *playing* with your food, not for *eating* the food with your fingers.
In Somalia they actually have a whole galateo on how to eat with your hands, you only eat with your right hand and only pick food with the tips of your hands and never put your fingers in your mouth but only the food, and when you eat in a shared platter you start from your side corner and work your way up to the middle, we don’t squish food and we don’t make balls with the food it’s actually considered impolite, I was born and raised in Europe but I still LOOOOVE eating with my hands even tho my family barely does
Exactly same for india
As Filipino, I genuinely believe that food taste better with hands.
Noon pa man, kultura na ng Pilipino na ang kamay ang ginagamit pag kumakain. Naihatid na lamang sa kamalayan natin ang pag gamit ng mga kubyertos sa hapag kainan dala ng kanluraning "kaugalian", hanggang sa ito ay namana at nakasanayan nang gawin sa pag lipas ng panahon. Karagdagan pa rito, dahil nasa "tropical" na klima ang Pillipinas, ang mga pagkain ay makukuha sa tuyo at luntian na kalikasan, na angkop naman sa ating paggamit ng natural na lakas at pisikal na pangagatawan para ihain ito sa mismong panahon at oras upang kainin, at muling pagtatanim.
Yes
As a white person who grew up with strict table manners…. I also think eating with hands makes food taste better. It’s way more romantic.
Y'all disgusting too.
Thank you so much for this video! As an Irish woman, I have always wondered and have been eager to learn the certain tips and trips to this technique. I’m happy to say I can enjoy my Indian food even more now♥️
I've always found hand-eating with roti & injera and such to be really natural... for me personally eating rice with my hands is still my final frontier. Totally my fault and all, I just feel like I'll probably need to spend some more time in India to get used to it :)
Chinese Cooking Demystified good solution! :)
If I'm not mistaken, its common in some parts of India to use a spoon for rice nowadays.
@@erin9868 nahh not really
As an Indian.. I suggest you come to Maharashtra to learn to eat Indian style.. cos it's a little bette here than in North and South
@@abhijeetsalunke1868 and that's how u create division...
I’ve seen some of my friends and there parents eat like this! I think it’s so cool how different other cultures eat and cook :D
"No more making burritos out of indian food." I felt that one. :( In my defense I had no idea... but next time I shall try this method.
Ughhhh i want to experience this! I want to go to an indian restaurant where everyone is eating with their hands so I can finally try it and not be judged. The food looks soooo yummy
You are Too western to do this lmfao
Look eating with spoon and hands is a choice one makes. Nobody will judge because this is the most proper way to eat. In fact Indians eat with spoon not to get judged by other people so go for it.
@@subhadarsanimuduli3210 hmm, good statement
Definitely a culture shock but I enjoy watching how diverse is our world and its people, greetings from Colombia thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
This is similar to how I grew up eating Mexican food with tortilla being in a Hispanic family. Using tortilla to pick up rice, beans, and protein. It just wasnt emphasized to try to use one hand and never really actually used the bare fingers are the main differenced. Very cool to see how there are similarities across cultures. Thank you for sharing.
I LOVE Indian food and I make your butter chicken recipe all the time.
Would it be odd to eat the dal using a spoon similar to a soup?
it is completely fine. Indians are chill peeps.
Daal and rice are a few exceptions where Indians won't judge you for eating with a spoon/fork
Bruh nobody use hands to eat dal with bare hands, Unless you are mixing it with rice.
No it wouldn't be odd. I use spoon to eat daal all the time. The serving portion is usually more in quantity than the amount you can scoop with roti. So you can always use a spoon. I even slurp it directly from the bowl when I am alone at home. Not in formal settings and restaurants though.
momo, it's quite ok to eat with a spoon. the only problem is that we have only 27 spoons in a country of 1,300,000,000 people. but don't despair, our parliament is allocating a larger spoon acquisition budget next year.
This is a very brave video to make. Thank you for sharing. You make eating with ones hands look very elegant.
Eating with family is fun and done with a lot of love. Each one for their own. I think it's great to eat with ones hands. But I also strongly feel that one must do what one is comfortable with. Just enjoy life.
Your tutorial is very informative. Much appreciated.
Why is it brave?
Hey Urvashi , I live in HARYANA and my kids just watched your video , because they don’t know how to eat rice with their hands. Now they’re eating the Biryani without a spoon and they think it’s so much more delicious! Thank you for this wonderful video! So thoughtful! 💕
As if she fucking cares
I love this video. So glad I stumbled upon this.. I am a pro in eating with my hands without making any mess but still, I loved watching it. What a graceful teacher!
Thanks for Making video Dear Urvashi.. it's because of people like you who take Indian lifestyle to a different level
For me, the authentic way of eating any food is the best way.. different foods, different ways to eat them.
thank you. 😇😋 exactly what i read this morning . thanks
You make me so happy with this video. I've been shown how to eat Indian food before, actually it was one dish - seasoned okra rolled in a 4" circular bread so it could have been naan, roti or chipati. My friend didn't explain she just said this is how you eat it. We were sharing an Indian food moment as I picked up my all Asian Cookbook by Jacki Passmore ($10.00). It was 1978 and I had lent her my book. We were in a ceramic class together and while chatting, as we worked, we came upon the topic of cookbooks that contain Indian food. She had never seen one with any REAL Indian recipes in it. I wanted to know how bad the recipes in my book were since I had cooked some of them and thought they were authentic so I brought the book to class for her to have a look. After she browsed through it for me she said many of them were exactly the same as her mother's recipes, recipes that she had never seen written down. She asked if she could borrow it for awhile to copy recipes. I was happy to oblige; a gift to both of us. Onevery precious moment for me and now your video adds even more to it. Thank you.
Sheila M what a nice memory to have of a friend ❤️
@@Twosleevers Thank you.
@@sheilam4964 why the hell did you write a 6 paragraph story lmao.
What a well done video. Your voice was loud and clear and your instructions were just right. It helped me a lot so thank you!
I appreciate your detailed instructions on how to eat Indian food. I'm eyeing the menu of the local Indian restaurant but my anxiety doesn't let me go there. Now I'm well equipped to try delicious food!
I'm Arab.. We eat with our hands, spoons and forks.. Depends on the food I guess.. But I would say this.. Rice definitely tastes better when u eat it with ur hand! I wouldn't be caught dead eating biryani or machboos with a spoon lol!
Quite rightly said.. Tastes better if eaten with hands
1st Etiquette- never eat food while standing, always be sitting
Thank you for educating us.
Helpful thank you so wash throughly before eating with your hand and just use the tips of your fingers. And the left hand is used to get more food and stays clean!
The only sophisticated and real video showing how to eat food with hands like an Indian. And, this is the only video with vegetarian food. Clean, simple, and perfect. Thanks, Urvashi.
Anyone who wishes to learn this skill should watch your video.
Thank you for uploading this wonderful video.Your way of eating food is so good and I am also going to follow this 😊
18 saal se kuch nai kaya tha aaj kha liya . Thankuuu soo much for making this video 🤗
Hi, can you explain why you don't use the right index finger whilst eating?
I agreed..there is difference in taste when we eat the same food by hand or spoon....
MY SABA IS HAVING A HARD TIME EATING BECAUSE OF YOU
well that was interesting
I always wondered about how you would go about it, thanks
I am reminded of when my family had gone to a Chinese restaurant and were eating our food with chopsticks. After a while some of us complained we were getting hand cramps because our muscles were not accustomed to holding chopsticks through and entire meal. But my son who was only about 8 and had very little practice immediately retorted he was getting a stomach cramp because he was not able to get any food into his mouth with those chopsticks!
I was in the state of Gujarat for 6 months and the family I lived with mixed the rice and dal with their fingers and ate it just like Urvashi showed. I had also visited with a college student who happened to be from Rajasthan, if I remember correctly, who explained to me that food tastes differently when eaten with the fingers rather than utensils. He explained it as using all the senses to enjoy food, as well as touch and said it heightened the flavor.
The family I lived with also tore the roti at the fold and just refolded the roti to move the fold when needed. It's an easy way to get a nice shaped piece of roti to pick up food with. I noticed how good Indians are at eating food with their hands, but that makes sense, right? They have always done it that way and have loads of practice. We just need to keep practicing also. It does get easier and you do get better at it. At first it feels completely unnatural and an ineffective way to eat, but after a while you get the hang of it. One thing I have noticed is posture. When we eat we are told to sit properly at the table. We bring the food to our mouths with our silverware. But Indians lean in to eat over their plate. They bring the food up and slightly inward but they meet the food there with their mouths. If you watch people eat with silverware you'll notice they may lean in, but not as much and often keep their backs straight.
But oh how good it tastes! I don't know if it can be proven scientifically, but I do prefer to eat Indian food with my hands over with my silverware. For first timers I would recommend something like suki bhaji. It's a cubed potato mixture that varies by region, but since it's just boiled potato cut into cubes and then fried with seasonings it's not only super easy and tasty to make, it's also super easy to eat with roti to practice.
Here is the recipe from the family I lived with. Do you also have a recipe for these potatoes? Though it might not be keto friendly....I myself don't eat them often just because Holy Carb! We used lemon juice as a substitute for mango powder I believe.
*Suki bhaji*
▫ 4 medium potatoes boiled, peeled, and cubed in about 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch cubes
In a pan heat:
▫ oil 1 or 2 tablespoons
When oil is hot enough splutter mustard seed and cumin seeds (do not burn the cumin seeds)
▫ mustard seeds 1/3 teaspoon -1/2 teaspoon
▫ cumin seeds 1/2 teaspoon
When seeds have spluttered add:
▫ 4 green chillies chopped
Stir and cook for a few seconds, then add the potatoes. To that add the rest of the spices, stir often.
▫ salt 1/2-1 teaspoon or as per taste.
▫ half teaspoon sugar
▫ chilli powder 1/2 teaspoon -1 teaspoon
▫ turmeric powder -1/4 teaspoon
Turn the burner off and stir in the remaining ingredients:
▫ juice of one small lemon
▫ coriander leaves (1/4th cup) for garnishing
Practice eating with roti. ☺
Thank you so much for this video Urvashi. I really enjoyed it.
Marjie Young thank you for taking time to share your experience and for the recipe!
Yes posture is quite different. We also wear “home clothes” or pajamas. Bathe, change into clean clothes, and then sit down to eat so you’re not sitting in your street-dirty clothes. Very different!
What kind of bullshit is this?
@@sarpoztugran569 What do you mean?? If you are not interested in watching, why the heck you even continued watching. That says it all !!!
@@sarpoztugran569 Actually, this is a very authentic topic. Many, many cultures eat with their hand and practice great cleanliness. Please be a bit more tolerant of other customs, thank you.
Yaar ye kya puri ram
Kahani likh ke rak di
Something wierd but the only thing I use utensils with are drinking coffee
I just grab a spoon and scoop it out
Woah, ok I'm definitely going to start eating with my hands more frequently now! Just finished dinner where I split my meal into two portions; I used utensils for the first portion and then for the second one I used only my hands. Idk what sort of sorcery is behind this but the flavor was definitely more intense and delicious when using my hands.😇
yes it is crazy right?! 😂😂😂
same here I live in Alabama and I love studying other cultures in every way and it does make absolutely everything better.
The taste definitely,... and I don't even understand how but it does it taste better, you're capable of eating more feeling more satisfied and somehow using their method of hand-washing after using my hands to eat they feel cleaner then before I even tried to use them.
As long as my American husband is not around I'm gonna start using my hands to eat everything 😂😂
Me a indian🥰 watching this while eating rice with my hand 🥰and thinking 😂 that ops do people really need tutorials for eating with hand 🥰 because it's a common thing for us😂
I’m good with sandwiches, and bread if it’s slushi texture I’m good with spoon or fork that’s just me though but I respect what other cultures do things to each there own.
I worked with 6 Fijians at a bodyshop in Canada for 10yrs.
I learnt so much from these guys...
I was told that to use the Roti is like a spoon.❤❤
And sugar water helps with the Chili burn.
I’m Indian asf, why am I watching this
Thank you so much. I've heard it's better to eat with your hands as it helps with saiety
This is the only video so far I found that's clearly explain how to eat with hand thanku so much 🎉❤❤😂😂
Mixing food with the hand, I mean squishing it, actually improves the flavours of food. I don't know how it is with you but I have noticed it that good squished by different people have different taste. When I was small, I could differentiate between good squished by my father and that squished by my mother. Same rice, same accompaniment but different taste. And food squished by either of my parents definitely tasted better than when I used to squish the food myself.
The best way to fully experience the culture of another, especially with food, is to try to do how the locals do it. Very informative video!
How would you get meat off the bone using your hands?
How exactly would I eat this kind of food when I don't have any fingers on my right hand :/? Would I be SOL?
I love eating with my hands, this was a fun video to watch
My hands are disabled. I have sclerodactyly due to scleroderma. Would it be acceptable to use utensils?
Sure you can always ask for them.
Great job. Thanks for sharing your cultural food. Love it
I am English and invited to the home of Indian friends in Pune for Dilwali 12th- 14th Nov. Next weekend.
This is good information but why don’t you prepare small bits of the bread before starting? It seems illogical to struggle to tear pieces off with 2 or 3 fingers? Could I do this or will it be seen as bad etiquette?
I'm guessing they will not be eating while standing up when at home, right?
Do you have a recipe for the daal (sp?)
What happens when you run out of the flat bread?
I'm Hispanic and my family has eaten this way with tortillas. I've always felt like eating this way is better, and more natural
What happens when you run out of bread/ rice while eating your food? Do people prepare more rice/ bread in that case, or do they usually stop eating once all the carbohydrates have been consumed?
Also, would it be acceptable to eat certain foods using your hands *without* the use of bread/rice, such as the cabbage and carrot dish in the video? I could imagine myself doing that if I ran out of bread/rice, in a restaurant for instance
What is the Hindi word for mix? Very nice video, thank you.
Thanks a lot for video! Before watching it I thought that when you eat with rice ,you have to use spoon , but hand! I will definitely try right now )
going for lunch and i wanted to make sure i had best manners! thank you!!
Honestly love looking at different ways people eat.
Yes for us (Ethiopian) ppl to eat with our hand is normal and easy 😊❤
I recently started eatin food from a vegan Trinidadian restaurant. I was looking for tips on eating roti and some of the other breads they have when i found ur video. i didnt realize there was a skill to eating with my hands. Will try my skills the next time I try Indian food as well
Side note: I grew up in the deep south in Georgia. As a child I remember my Grandmother teaching me to eat collards or turnin greens with my hands after mixing the greens with cornbread. Now everyone uses a fork. But I swear food tasted better with my hands!
I'm just getting into indian culture, I mean I'm 30 and only have about 300 Hindi words. My lady friend told me to eat with roti and shown me.. I didn't realize until now we're all hands on, even soup conforms to this, amazing.
I'll remember to use my hands and set the utensils aside more next time I go to the local Indian restaurant.
And if you don't eat bread how you eat then ? Simply with no bread?
I’m Latina and there is this Indian restaurant near me and I want to try cause the food looks so good but I’m kinda shy since I don’t know how to eat it 😔✌🏼
Dont be ashamed. Try eating all indian breads the ways she showed and rice biriyani everything as she taught to eat rice. Desserts can be eaten with spoon or hands. Wtever and however you want. Nobody z gonna judge u
using The Thumb To Guide The food Into The Mouth😂❤
Hey, we Filipinos also use hands on our rice 😊
I try at home, but I have this compulsion to keep wiping my hand clean between each handful! I then give up and eat with a spoon but tear the chapati w/ one hand.
Don't clean your hand just clean your hand after having the food
Yes etiquette but also, just enjoy food however you enjoy it. Food taste so good when you use your hand so go for it and use your hands. Also balling rice and lentils is fun, so go ahead and try it.
Wow I never knew there is a technique for it, thank you!
Very helpful! I have a question about washing hands after. When your fingers get messy from the more liquid items, how do you clean that in a restaurant in India? I figure you would end up washing your hands, but how do you get from your seat to the sink without touching anything? Napkins/towels first? Open sinks in the same room? Hands-free bathroom doors?
First we use tissue paper then wash our hands
@@nancysrivastava1625 Of course! I should have assumed that. lol.
All Indian restaurants have an open wash basin area, so first wipe your hands on paper napkins provided at the table to eliminate any drips, then go to the wash area where you can use your clean left hand to pump the liquid hand wash dispenser into your right and then wash thoroughly, turning on the faucet with your left hand... Pretty logical.
@@Mscellany1 Oh okay. That might be true for all the restaurants in India but not all Indian restaurants worldwide; that's why I asked. I've been to several, and none of them had an open wash basin area.
Thank you for this video, I’m ready to try Indian food and eat it the right way😊
You're SO AWESOME Urvashi Ji!!! My father was very able to tear a piece of tortilla and grab some beans and rice with it, but our landlady(mexican-american)and me couldn't master the manner to eat with that piece of chapati(kokurucho in mexican slang), so we'd(probably learned from her), we'd make a kokurucho, grab it in our left hand and with our right hand scoop up with a fork or spoon some beans or rice, or maybe some mole or black chili, thank you for showing me and considering the nearest Indian restaurant is in Mexico City, I'll view this video many times(to absorb the technique)and therefore impress everybody there! :)
Joe Serrano I want to see photos or video of this! Practice at home will make you perfect. :)
Hello Urvasi. I loved watching this, very educated informative video. Now we know. This was so interesting, thank you so much for sharing this with all of us. Stay safe and healthy. Happy Easter and God Bless.... Claudia
Lucille Ball happy Easter to you! Thanks for watching
I am Indian and have been doing this all my life. Still I am watching this just to understand what a marvellous thing I've actually been doing all my life. Eating with the hands require minute and intricate muscle coordination of the fingers which we take for granted because we have learnt it naturally. For Westerners, they have to acquire this skill after much practise.
How do you eat the bread Naam ? You dip it in the sauce ?
The naan isn't a popular homemade food and I must say being an indian I have only eaten naan once in my lifetime, that too, in a restaurant. Naan can be torn into pieces and dipped in the sauce/gravy.
Love Indian food, but I think I have tactile sensory issues. I’m missing out on an experience.
Why didnt you use index finger while eating rice but use it while eating roti?
Why we need to eat food with hands
during the summer it is prickly pear fruit season here in Mexico and many street vendors will buy wooden boxes full of prickly pear, they expert and painlessly peel the outer skin which has the spines and they sell you the peeled fruit, condimented with red chili powder, salt and lime juice, or you could eat the fruit naturally like I do, well they always provide either a plastic fork or a toothpick, who needs that, I grab each pear with my hand! ;)
Really great video. Would try it at home, but never in a restaurant. 😁
Sunflower Baby gotta start somewhere right?
Ditto... It's lovely to see different cultural way of eating. And the food looks lovely.
What if your left handed??
My Indian friends are cool. They accept the fact that I'm American. They even put out silverware and they always love my garlic naan...😁
Suzanne Muliolis good friends indeed!
Why do you eat stereotypical Indian food, there much more to this than naan and butter chicken.
I follow a channel where they eat this way, and western people comment so often.... I'm from Tennessee, and I eat with my fingers.... 😂 Not nearly as neatly, it must be said. Next time I find an Indian restaurant, I will gladly forego flatware. ☺
melissa thompson you’ll be eating like a proper Indian!
@@Twosleevers 😎😊
Spoons are advanced technology apparently…..geez
My mate’s mum from Pakistan said I eat perfectly with my hands after I watched this and then she mixed my food for me and didn’t stop smiling at me for the rest of the meal 💓 never felt so validated 😂
That is so cool!! good for you for trying it
Is your dad from Zimbabwe?
I would unfortunately fail at this before I even got started. I am left-handed and just would not be able to manage.
Such a pleasant lady! Thank you!
Oh, this was really useful! I eat with my hands a lot (I really like Indian foods and medieval European foods, and medieval European foods are meant to be eaten with the hands and a knife and spoon, so a lot of the same muscle memory is used), and I've always felt like my etiquette was a bit lacking. Turns out it was, lol. Time to work on that (and eat delicious food)!
Eating with your hands is primative. The reason why forks knifes spoons was invented so we dont have to use hands. Why would anyone think having all your food over your hands and fingers is a good thing . Babies eat with there hands then we teach them to use cutlery.
I am genuinely very messy while eating...Thanks ma'am for this video❤🙏
I eat food like this and people like my friends tell me it’s gross :( it makes me upset because I obviously wash my hands very well before and after smh
Don't heed them. It's terrible to criticize people over eating. 😢
Thank u 🙏we do love indian food in germany tho. And for me, origin of my parent from middle east, its true, that we do eat withbour right hand as well, mostly make food to a ball...that works well, cause our food is dryer than urs.
i am an indian 94 year old and I eat a roti with a fork and nife . me and my belly thanks u very much. sincereley, nagasundi
just amazing how spectacular! my best friend Praveen loves to eat this way, great recommendation!
Is it disrespectful if you eat with your left hand instead? I have arthritis in my right hand, and I don’t have full movement of my fingers.
Was over a friend's house, they are from Bangladesh. His wife cooked a really nice meal and served us. They forget to give me a fork and spoon. So I watched how they were doing it and started copying them. After a few minutes they apologized and brought me a fork and spoon. By then I had already seen and copied enough, I told them I didn't need it.
Now a couple times/week I eat with my hands at home.
Urvashi, Indians say God made hands before silverware! I have a long time considered that the consuming of foods with implements shows (primarily Western) distain for the (crude) enjoyment of food. Victorians, by example did not like to show any pleasure in food...or anything else for that matter because it was carnal. I'll be biting my tongue here for there is so much I could say. When you release yourself to engaging with food in the manner of handling, you gain a whole different relationship. People in India and MANY other countries share from a communal plate. So romantic, really. How sweet and loving, chatting away and sharing intimately.
It’s just less efficient than using utensils no matter how you try to justify it.
@@mohinib2001 In all honesty I just think being able to complete a meal without getting the juices all over your hand is not as efficient as using utensils. Efficiency also indicates ability to adapt to different food sources. Using your hands is only possible with limited foods, imagine trying to eat a plate of pasta with your fingers, you’d end up creating modern art all over the table and your face.
@@vaporz109 there is a difference between pasta and indian food dunbass
@@jammyrapper7426 Straight to insults over a food comment discussion and couldn’t even spell the word correctly.
I wouldn’t be surprised if you were raise in a single parent home and was never socialized properly for civil society.
Pasta is not Indian food. This video is about indian table manners i guess.
Wow looks incredible
for a culture that doesn't use toilets or have good hygiene in general, they sure have some particular ideas about food hygiene