Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Rio Ferdinand tweet sparks Southeast Asian food fight


JAKARTA: Former England footballer Rio Ferdinand has unwittingly sparked a cross-border food fight after suggesting that a rice dish was Singaporean, to the horror of Indonesians who claim it as their own.
Ferdinand made the food faux pas during a weekend trip to watch the Singapore Grand Prix, when he tweeted a picture of himself holding a plate of the dish next to the comment: “Nasi goreng lunch.. Keeping it local in #Singapore”.

“Nasi goreng”, which literally translates as “fried rice” in Indonesian, generally consists of rice mixed with a sweet sauce and other ingredients such as chilli, vegetables and chicken, and often topped with a fried egg.
But the suggestion that the dish was not Indonesian caused horror in the archipelago, which is one of Singapore’s neighbours, and sparked a flood of angry tweets.
“M8, its Indonesian food, actually. There’s no ‘nasi’ and ‘goreng’ in Singapore,” Agung Prasetyo tweeted at Ferdinand, while others invited the former Manchester United player to their homes to try a dish of real, Indonesian nasi goreng.
This angry reaction was met with irritation in neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia, with netizens claiming that fried rice is found in many countries in the region, not solely Indonesia.
There was particular annoyance in Singapore, with some suggesting that Indonesians’ defiant defence of a rice dish was a stark contrast to its refusal to accept the blame for forest fires on its territory that blanket the city-state with haze every year.
“Ohhhh nasi goreng can claim but haze cannot,” said Twitter user @HarisBRosli.
On Monday, Ferdinand attempted to calm the bickering unleashed by his remark, commenting on Twitter: “Was there really uproar with my Nasi goreng tweet??!! Relax guys...’local’ in SE Asia”.
More news at : The Star Online

7 comments:

  1. Hihiii..tak pasal2 la nasik goreng ni jadik isu

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  2. Hahhaaaaa... mentang-mentanglah Rio Ferdinand yang tweet masing-masing nak ngaku nasi goreng negara mereka.
    Agak-agaknya RF membahan tak depa tu...??

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    1. Ferdinand tweet lg sekali minta semua bertenang dan ckp nasi goreng ni southeast asia yg punya hahaha

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  3. salam..
    hi suki..
    jap..em ni citer pasl pe..nsi goreng?
    huhu

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    1. ada negara mengamuk sbb Ferdinand ckp nasi goreng singapore yg punya hihi

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    2. oh..mcm tu punye kes pon ada ka..hahah
      adei..besau sgt ISU tu ^o^

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