EATING IN VIET NAM

Hi! I'm Hoa. I'm fourteen and I'm from Vietnam. Vietnamese food is really delicious. We eat a lot of rice, noodles, vegetables and meat. We fry or boil a lot of our food. It is very healthy.

In Viet Nam, people don't usually eat with knives and forks. Instead we use chopsticks and we sometimes use spoons.

We usually eat from big serving dishes. We put them in the middle of the table, but we sometimes serve portions of rice in small bowls. In Viet Nam, we don't think it's rude to reach across the table to take food from serving dishes.

We think it is rude to take the last piece of food from a serving dish for yourself. We offer it to another person instead. That is very polite.

When your bowl is empty, someone gives you more food. When you are full, you put your hand over your bowl or leave some food in your bowl. We put our chopsticks on top of our bowls or on the table next to us when we finish eating.

Do you like Vietnamese food? Is it very different from food in your country?
Vietnamese people usually eat with ................................. a lot of their food. It's very healthy.
Vietnamese people usually eat with ......................... or ............................
We usually eat from a ................................. in the middle of the table.
We sometimes eat ................................. in small bowls.
In Vietnam, it isn't rude to ................................. across the table.
It is ................................. to offer someone else the last piece of food on a serving dish.
In Vietnam, when your bowl is ................................., someone will serve you more food.
When we finish eating, we often leave some ................................. in our bowl