Be a part of Indonesian society has been a lot of meaning for me, there's many tradition that realise or not, have been surpassed to me ever since my great-great grandparents, it's always like that and sometimes its even not change a bit from the first time that tradition been founded.
the tradition that exist could be a good one or a bad one, well actually you can't always said which one is good or which one is bad, because by my understanding, those tradition are made in their time and i think it sure is fits to it's time because if it doesn't then why people still believe in that and still tell their children to tho exact the same.
one of the tradition in indonesia there are eating food sitting down in ground and eat using your hand. this tradition also known as "lesehan" we can say that indonesian people really like these method of eating, for instance even in high class restaurant that have indonesian taste, there's usually a gazeboo for people to do "lesehan" Indonesian people think that by eating like this, it will help our digestive system and make our body healthier.
the idea of Indonesian people like to do "lesehan" is indonesian people always have an idea that if you eating while sitting down and using your hand, you probably will use the more time to finish your meal, why is that so? because there's must be a conversation between the meal and also it's hard to eat fast, we required to eat slowly and solemnly, which is really good for our digestive system.
what i want to talk about in this article is that the tradition of using hand as eating utensil is actually not originated in indonesia only, i mean since human stepped their feet to earth, how else people can eat their food if not using their hand? well it's kinda rhetorical question since we all know about that. but the truth is this habit is has been performed by the prophet Muhammad SAW by himself and it's included in his sunnah that eating by your bare hand is the best way of eating? why is that so? they said it contains certain enzym or bacteria that good for digestive system.
but nevertheless eating by your hand usually get really messy and dirty, and sometimes when we eat greasy food or something like that it usually kind a hard to wash our hand and sometimes we just really lazy just to wash your hand after eating (usually people just use small amount of water provided called "kobokan") i mean those amount of water did not wash your hand clearly, it just wetting it.
then someting comes out from my mind, why there's not any eating utensil for hand-user-eater like us?
i mean this thing should be there like protecting 5 of our finger, just for the finger not the palm. because usually food never touch the palm section. this utensil can be made out of plastic, metal or anything else. it function is just for protecting your finger for becoming greasy and slimy, not just that but it also help to grab some food.comfortably.
i think that's it for today, let's meet again sometime.. cao! have a nice day :D