Will you EAT UP all of your dish when invited as a guest?

Don't know about cultures man, but I really am a true foodie and I respect what people cook and eat. I love to eat. So if any one invites me to there place or somewhere else, for a lunch or dinner, I always finish the whole meal and just be myself, after all, according to me wasting food is an insult to the food, the cook and the people who served. Really, so when are you inviting me on!!?

im from Philippines, and i eat all the food that is on my plate. i hate to see food wasted. same thing if i am at a restaurant, or even business gatherings, or parties. i eat all. here we dont see nothing wrong with eating everything that is on your plate its just normal.

Here in the United States I don't believe there is a special portacall about leaving food on the plate when eating out. All the restaurants serve such big servings that unless one is a big eater it is hard to eat it all. They serve enough for two people. Regardless whether it is a business or just friends. I always get a togo box to take the extra food home. It was paid for and I hate to see good food go to waste.

It depends on how hungry i am..I have eaten everything on my plate & then their or other times i leave some..I eat what i want or until i am full....There is no such laws here in the states as to how much you eat or don't eat..We tend to think if you leave food on your plate you did not like it that much..

hi there leo..im a filipino..and when it comes to food..we love eating!lol...if i wear invited to a birthday party i will not be ashame of eating all my food in my plate.. never tried business meetings...just birthday parties!lol!.. and wedding invitations!...... theres no need to be ashamed of... as long as they invited you..meaning your free to eat.. but if your not invited and you went there..that is much shameful.. take care!

yeah?i'm chinese too.but how come i dont know that habit?or should i call it culture? u must be an old man,and always think in the old way eat up everything is a good habit when invited to a dinner.it also shows that u like what the host offers u

Thanks for sharing interesting information. I have seen that also in movies, chinese people leave some food on the plate , now I know the reason. Me when i am the visitor, I always do that, leaving some food on the plate, but I am sure that the house owner will not think that they have given not enough food, but just that I am shy to finish it all lol.

In my country (Brazil) we are not very formal people. I like to eat everything cause i was taught to do that. My mother when was a child passed for starvation so she taught me to give value to food. So I feel bad when I leave food on the plate.

This is an interesting discussion, and I like to read about the traditions in different countries. I have heard about the thing you mention (that it is best to leave a bit of food on the plate) but in my country it is the other way around, and it is considered polite to eat all of your food. If you leave food on your plate the host might think that you didn't like the food. My parents always told me to eat all of the food when I visit someone and get invited to dinner, but I was very fussy when I was a child, and I always tried to avoid food that I didn't know

Hi leo, Greek style we are expected to eat everything the host puts on our plate which can be a bit embarrassing sometimes as I find it impossible to eat as much as them as they are always way bigger than me. People who know me are used to the fact that I don't actually need a huge pile of food falling off my plate but am content with a lesser amount and may accept the fact that 3 lamb chops is enough for me and really really I don't need 10 of them. For persistent offenders of popping food onto ones plate without being able to stop them I usually have a large bag with me with some kind of container inside so I can sneak the food into it whilst no one is looking and thus not insult anyone.And I've never been caught doing it either.

i guess i would. it's like being offered a cup of coffee. though i've already drink one, out of politeness i will. :)

personally, i would appreciate a guest in my house to consume everything he puts into his plate. that would be very flattering for the owners as it would be telling them that u like what they serve u. additionally, i would like to consume everything i take because it would be very embarrassing stuffing ur plate with food which u cannot consume. isn't that just a waste of food? if u hadn't taken that in the first place, other people could have eaten the same. we were trained by our older folks to consume food on our plate and to bear in mind that some people don't have as much food as we are and telling us how fortunate we are instead.

I try to, whever I can! But sometimes, if I really can't I say that I'm really full and just can't do it, but always feel awkward to do so. I understand this view anyway: if you eat up your dish, it means that you liked having it, thus it's a compliment. But sometimes the problem is in the quantity, not in the quality.

Well in our culture it doesn't really matter to us. I don't really know why. But for me, I always try to finish up my bowl or plate because I think that the food is wasted if I don't eat it all up! And I am very frugal so I think that wasting food is a very bad action. And if there is left-over food, I usually try to pack it up and give it to poor people.

my parents have taught me that never eat much at other persons house being a guest since its a bad habit. they said that we have all that in our home why to eat all in other's house. Even if u like the dish and love being eating more then also u have to leave some as the habits comes in the way.

Well i'm a Chinese too . If somebody invited me to have a meal outside and i ordered my dish i would eat it up surely. I don't think it's kind of Chinese culture , at least i don't have in my own heart. But i've found that in my family now people don't eat up dishes at all and leave some pieces in each dish. I don't get used to it and i hate overnight food . My hubby often jokes about this and he says that they don't want to wash the dishes or bowls so they don't eat them up.

In India if you leave food on the plate it means the the food is not good. The hosts feel bad about it. As you say different cultures have different ways of appreciation.