I’m on a break between conference sessions and have to make another food-related, fork-related entry. This morning, aside from the usual coffee and tea in the conference foyer, there are green tea steamed buns. “Oh, cool,” I thought, “Steamed buns. I’ve always wanted to try one.”
I open the serving tray and there they are. Puffy little round white buns with a green dot on the very top. I select one, put it on my plate, and… are those forks by the serving tray? Yup. All lined up nice and neat — a bunch of forks. A Singaporean is standing relatively close by, so I decide to just ask for help.
“Do you use forks for these, or just your hands?” I ask.
“Fork?” he asks, incredulously. Then he laughs uproariously. “No, no. Just hands!”
Okay, why are the forks there, then?? He shrugs when I point at them.
Green tea steamed buns are unbelievably good. From the very first bite, I realize that I’ll be craving these things when I’m back home in the US. I’m already plotting ways to track down and access a supply for future consumption. 
Oh, and for all the designers on the team who abhor mushrooms: Singapore restaurants offer an astonishing array of the yummiest mushrooms ever! Mushrooms and rice noodles! What a great place this is.
OK- if I ever get the opportunity to visit Singapore, I will try the mushrooms! Maybe they taste incredibly delicious there as opposed to our icky American fungi.