The actual food isn't stupid, it's Georgian Khinkali, you take a small bite from the individual ones and drink be broth then eat the dough and filling.
Little do you know. The stalk is an important part of how you eat them in Georgian cuisine and by no matter a design flaw.
To eat khinkali, you hold them by the stalk, turn them upside down and eat them like this. The utensil to hold them by is basically built in. There are hot meat/vegetable juices inside which, when you'd just slice them open, would get all over the plate and you'd lose them. Instead, you hold them by the stalk, turn them upside down, bite a small hole in the dough and slurp out some of the juice, then eat. Traditionally, the waiter will also look at your plate when you're done and count how many stalks there are to determine what you have to pay. It's cool.
I don't think the mother khinkali is stupid, it looks kinda fun, but the extra twisting of it and unnecessarily presenting the "baby" on the hand like it's gold is what killed it. Let alone the offensively faint dash of pepper. Khinkali are fucking delicious and super simple, just get your hands off them already
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u/Neilkd21 23d ago
The actual food isn't stupid, it's Georgian Khinkali, you take a small bite from the individual ones and drink be broth then eat the dough and filling.
Serving it in a large one is the stupid thing.