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In Cambodia, chopsticks, spoon and fork, and hands are the primary eating utensils. Although chopsticks are commonly used for noodle dishes, most Cambodians use chopsticks for any meal. [56] Because Cambodia adopted the spoon and fork later than neighboring countries such as Thailand, it is common to see Cambodians use chopsticks for any meals ...
Words of Chinese origin have entered European languages, including English. Most of these were direct loanwords from various varieties of Chinese.However, Chinese words have also entered indirectly via other languages, particularly Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese, that have all used Chinese characters at some point and contain a large number of Chinese loanwords.
Thailand: 7: Talk:Chopsticks/Archive 1#Thailand: Hygiene: 4: Talk:Chopsticks/Archive 1#Hygiene: Mongolia: 3: Talk:Chopsticks/Archive 1#Mongolia: Chinese Etiquette and Inversion of Chopsticks: 6: Talk:Chopsticks/Archive 1#Chinese Etiquette and Inversion of Chopsticks: Why do those countries use chopsticks: 5: Talk:Chopsticks/Archive 1#Why do ...
Chopsticks are only used only to pick up food. The Chinese disapprove of spearing food with chopsticks although people sometimes do it if the food is too slippery. It is offensive for chopsticks to be used to point at people, pick teeth, bang the bowls, move the bowls, or to be chewed on or waved around.
The Thai language has many borrowed words from mainly Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali and some Prakrit, Khmer, Portuguese, Dutch, certain Chinese dialects and more recently, Arabic (in particular many Islamic terms) and English (in particular many scientific and technological terms). Some examples as follows:
Chinese dragons, legendary creatures in Sinosphere mythology and culture. The Sinosphere, [1] also known as the Chinese cultural sphere, [2] East Asian cultural sphere, [3] or the Sinic world, [4] encompasses multiple countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia that were historically heavily influenced by Chinese culture.
As a Thai; I use chopsticks since I was a child. Thai people always use Spoon and fork for almost all Thai food; Soup spoon for soup; Chopsticks and soup spoon for noodles (both Thai and Chinese noodle) and also with Chinese or Japanese food; Hands mostly on Isan food such as Larb or Som tam; manop 06:35, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
In Thailand, kau chim is commonly known as seam si (Thai: เซียมซี; alternatively spelled siem si, siem see). It is believed that seam si came to Thailand with the Chinese diasporas and was presumably first introduced at the oldest Chinese temple in Thailand; the Lim Ko Niao Shrine in Pattani Province.