KAMAYAN eating

While most Filipinos today eat using a spoon and fork, the traditional way of eating is kamayan, or “with hands."The term kamayan can be used to describe the act of eating by hand, but a traditional kamayan meal is a feast served family style, usually over banana leaves. But more than anything to anyone familiar with Philippine history, it is a reminder of our colonized history. ... The native Indios, like practical indigenous people all around the world, ate with their hands, kamayan style