JAKARTA: Former England footballer Rio Ferdinand has unwittingly sparked a cross-border food fight after suggesting that a rice dish was Singaporean, to the horror of Indonesians who claim it as their own. Ferdinand made the food faux pas during a weekend trip to watch the Singapore Grand Prix, when he tweeted a picture of himself holding a plate of the dish next to the comment: "Nasi goreng lunch.. Keeping it local in #Singapore". "M8, its Indonesian food, actually. There's no 'nasi' and 'goreng' in Singapore," Agung Prasetyo tweeted at Ferdinand, while others invited the former Manchester United player to their homes to try a dish of real, Indonesian nasi goreng. "Ohhhh nasi goreng can claim but haze cannot," said Twitter user @HarisBRosli.

Source: New Strait Times September 19, 2016 11:22 UTC