Who is a real Malaysian?

It’s fair to say that a love for food is indeed one of Malaysia’s biggest uniting factors.

THIS last week, some old guy stirred up a little hornet’s nest by implying that if you used chopsticks to eat, you weren’t a "real Malaysian" – and that you have to eat with your hands, in order to be a ‘real Malaysian’.

The memes that followed were pretty funny. My favourite was the one which showed a series of photos featuring major political figures who had been this man’s nemeses for each decade since the 60s, where the last photo for the 2020s showed only a pair of chopsticks.