I’m back from my Australia trip, but I feel like I left my head dangling Down Under. So while I’m trying to recover from a mild vertigo symptom I’m having that’s keeping me from my kitchen, instead of giving you some more of Sydney or Melbourne restaurant reports (which require me to look through many pictures of which I shouldn’t be doing right now), I will blog about Thai dining etiquette. Because December and January are the most pleasant months to visit Thailand, some of my friends are heading over there and requested that I teach them the unique mealtime etiquette of my native country.
Explaining it in storyline form is difficult for me, mostly because I grew up eating with Thai etiquette and probably still follow it here in the US, so I can’t really tell you step by step. The best I can do is spell out the “Do’s and Don’ts”. I’ve rated each of them on what I call the Thai Richter Etiquette scale (TRE) of 1 through 5, 5 being the most egregious.