Question: Have you ever encountered difficulties when dining abroad?

You cannot have International Table Manners, because people have different habits from the ancient times. Just looking at the image above I horrify. NEVER place your fork and knife in a way to show a CROSS!!!

Maybe because I read a lot including table manners and such, I don't seem to have problems during dining. Plus, it's my practice at home to flip the utensils after eating.

I have not been to a foreign country in decades and when I did go it was mostly to Juarez Mexico but not to dine. I do not go to restaurants here either and whenever I did I never noticed anyone paying any attention to table manners, people just eat the food and leave.

I didn't half the meanings of the above photos. I really just know the one for finished or not finished.

Table manners are entirely different from west to the east. The table manners are part of the culture of a country, so they couldn't be wiped out.

Thanks for remind me this table manners things, i still remember a few LOL. I never been in fancy resto's in abroad so like i said before, thanks for remind me. How are you today?

I think generalizing table manners is difficult. In India, some of our goods like Roti, Dosa, Utthapam etc are meant to be eaten by clean hands. Eating them with knife and fork is possible, but then it would make eating much more cumbersome. Yet someone from some other place would not understand that. Similarly, many in India would find it tough to use knife and fork, but they still have good table manners. I once had a difficulty in England with foreign clients as we had to eat with a knife and fork and the Pizza was hard, not the kind that I was used to. Still, I was able to manage somehow!!

Having a set of cutlery for different activities at a dining table is a thing of the past. It could just be a fork and spoon and that is not difficult to handle

Thanks for bringing it to focus. Though I thought I knew table manners there are things I still don't know.