Suara.com – Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP racer, Fabio Quartararo, received praise from Indonesian netizens when protesting claims that fried rice came from Malaysia.
This was said by Fabio Quartararo during an interview session. This moment started when the French racer was asked about his favorite Malaysian food.
When he heard this question, Quartararo took a breath. Instead he turned to ask the questioner. “Do you have any suggestions? “I don’t really know the names,” answered Fabio Quartararo.
The interviewer finally proposed fried rice to Fabio Quartararo. He said, “Fried rice is one of the classic foods in Malaysia.”
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However, surprisingly, Quartararo protested this claim. “But it (fried rice) comes from Indonesia, right?” said Quartararo responding to the interviewer’s suggestion.
After that, the interviewer explained that fried rice is not only popular in Indonesia, but also in Malaysia. Quartararo said he didn’t know this and didn’t want to make a mistake.
“What I know is the name is mango sticky rice. However, I didn’t know that fried rice also exists in Malaysia. “I don’t want to say it wrong,” said the racer who became MotoGP world champion in 2021.
A video showing moments from this interview also went viral on TikTok. For your information, this video clip was uploaded by the Skyegpid account. To date, the TikTok video has been viewed 3.5 million times.
From Bolatimes.com’s monitoring, this video has been liked 183 thousand times. Not only that, the number of comments is also relatively high, because it has been commented on more than 7 thousand times.
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Most of the Indonesian netizens who left comments praised Quartararo’s knowledge of Indonesian culinary delights.
