It seems to have confused someone in the house as to how to use it, or in this case not use it. The clever foreigner, that’s me, put his dishes in the rack to work with gravity, which was kind enough to tell any excess water to fall in to the draining board, however the Chinese method for stacking dishes seems to have completely bamboozled gravity and so the dishes remain wet for quite a while. Mind you it doesn’t really matter in the big scheme of things because the dishes have not been washed properly, no dishwashing liquid was used during the Chinese process…. they are happy to waste water and just rinse each dish until it looks clean. The water is turned on full bore, enough water in fact to relieve the drought conditions in Australia right now….. I’ll never understand the thinking behind this.

I use my own dishes in the house because I know that they are clean and if I have to use anything else I always clean it first just in case there is a wee ecoli waiting to pounce and give me a severe kicking.