Fond of eating using your hands?

I'm a Filipino, too. However, I don't have fondness in eating without using any cutleries. Simply because it's messy and smelly. What's weird though, is that when I'm eating with friends, families and other close relations and especially when the food requires dexterity (seafoods like fish, crabs, shrimps, etc.) I prefer using my bare hands. It's not the idea that it's easier to eat or you have authority over your food or it's more comfortable; it's the openness, the feeling of being at home and welcoming other people within your own circle of privacy. It's like sharing yourself to others by letting them know how carefree you are by using using your hands when eating. It's a bit sentimental but this is my only reason I could eat without any aids. Just my two cents.

i'm a malaysian and most of us..despite our culture and race.eat using bare hands.as you know,i think i got the pleasure of eating by bare hands and all of us enjoy it.it is just that make sure you wash your hand with soap after you finish eating cuz you don't want any smell like curry,seafood or fish on your hands.hehe

For me it is good to have food specially you use hands to eat.

I like to eat with my hands but I it depends on the situation when I would eat with it. My husband can eat with his hands but he is not used to it. My father likes eating with his hands because he is an Ilokano. There are some culture who thinks eating with hands is not a part of having good manners but its okay, I really enjoy it.

I love choc covered strawberries!

I love to eat at Mang Inasal my favorite one, I always ordered Pm1. I am comfortable with this restaurant because I'm kind of like to eat using my hands too. Feel like i'm at home.

Honestly, I cannot eat using my hands or without having to use utensils because I tend to be so messy. I envy my partner whenever we are eating seafood, he uses his hands and he looks like he's enjoying and looks very satisfied with what he is eating.

I do eat with my bare hands. I am Filipino too but not from any province. I'm what you'd call manileña (though i'm not from the manila proper but from anitpolo). I grew up enjoying eating with my bare hands. There were times when we couldn't eat out much anymore (because it's too expensive) that my mum would prepare dinner for us just outside the house, on the drive way. we'd barbecue chicken and lay out banana leaves on the table. prepare vinegar for dipping the chicken into and some extra barbecue sauce for topping the rice with. This is how we eat out! literally, outside the house. Sometimes we have the ordinary barbecue (for Filipinos) which is cubed pieces of pork on sticks, then grilled, or grilled liempo/porkchop, grilled tuna or any other yummy fish. We also prepare eggplant salad with vinegar and bagoong (shrimp paste/fish sauce) or unripe mangoes, bagoong and onions. Sometimes, when we just feel like it, we eat fried chicken at home with our bare hands, especially if it's wings or the neck. To remove the smell from our hands, we squeeze kalamansi all over our hands we treat it as soap) and wash regularly with soap. soy sauce smells tend to linger on the hands longer so better be careful with those!

i love eating with my bare hands..the food will taste more delicious..

Yeah, I do! I love to eat with bare hands especially when I'm in our house in the province. I love to do it especially when we are out for an excursion in the beach. as well as when our dish is fried fish to be soaked in soy sauce with lime extract! wooooooow! it make feel hungry! haha

I love eating with my hands I feel as if I have authority over what I'm eating. Since I've been doing it since I was a child I fell as if its so much fun. Yes in a lot of cultures people teat with there hands.