TO audibly slurp noodles is considered a compliment in certain places. In the USA it's considered impolite but I think Korea and part of China, making slurp noises is telling the host of chef you enjoy the food.

It is a very cute commercial.

I don't really understand why I am so irritated by some things, and one of those things is bad manners at the dinner table.

That said, I cannot deny that this is a really GOOD TV commercial, heck, why can't any of OUR commercials in the U.S. have some really good humor in them?

Yes. We have had a Malaysian-Chinese lodger for a little over 2 years now. At the beginning one made allowances for the differences in cultures but not to have learned, or really to have even observed, that his table manners are unacceptable to people here in all that time really annoys me; perhaps more than it should.

When in Rome.........

Remember when we travel to there country we never try to learn there costumes and then get upset when they hate us.

River

Yeahbutt... At most I'm bugging them for a fortnight. This one's been bugging me for years.

calmeilles (imported) wrote: Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:14 am Yeahbutt... At most I'm bugging them for a fortnight. This one's been bugging me for years.

Wait a minute, did you say you've been buggering them for a fortnight? ...oh, "bugging" sorry, never mind, my mistake.