Cultural Difference Experience

Once I went to Australia and lived with a homestead family, they cooked everyday to eat, and once they decided to cook rice since they thought I would like to eat something I'm used to. So they cooked fried rice and gave me chopsticks. So then, I picked the bowl up and starting eating it like the person eating rice in the picture below...

Suddenly, I noticed that everyone at the table started looking at me eating rice. I stopped and looked back at them. Then after a while of awkward silence, the girl Simone, about the same age as me asked me if that was how we ate in Taiwan... Then I understood, it was because the way I ate my rice that they stared at me. Anyways, I told her that usually when we eat, we pick the bowl up and eat to prove what the person cooked was delicious, and that I liked it. After this confusion, their family tried picking their bowl up and eating the way I did. But some of their rice ended up all over their clothes. And I thought to myself, is it really that hard to eat with the bowl in their hands?