A Glove for Food
There is something stimulating about eating with hands. Here in Beijing, you can grab and eat lamb chops/legs, as the waitress provides you a plastic disposable glove.
This to my eyes quite a radical solution makes complete sense once you use it. You still eat the meat with your hands as the shape encourages you to, yet makes you worry less about your hand sanitary, or the grease on your hands that might prevent you from eating other dishes requiring chopsticks.
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plastic gloves are not really necessary – you just need to wash your hands before/after, like in India
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Aha!
Gloves still come in handy here because apart from the ribs you need to hold chopsticks. It definitely makes sense in India, when you can use your hands throughout.
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I believe that in India and Cambodia you only have to use the left “clean” hand, instead of washing both of your hands.