Cultural Shock - dishwashing detergent

My Chinese inputting software is still not working so I'm afraid I can still only write in English. Sorry for those who enjoy me talking in Cantonese! 

Lately I read some articles in a blog of a Taiwanese young woman who is married to a Spaniard and  is living and working in Spain. Because of her background, you can imagine she must have gained so much experience over the years in her exchange with the locals there.  Some of the topics that she brought out are pretty interesting.

One of the things that she said was about the use of dishwashing detergent (洗潔精) in the handwashing of dishes.  She said a lot of Spaniards use a lot of dishwashing detergent in washing the dishes. She thought they use too much dishwashing detergent.

 

What's your dishwashing habit? For me, since I was little, my mom would teach me to use dishwashing detergent to wash the dishes. We would first stack the dishes aside, fill the sink with water, then squeeze some dishwashing detergent into the water, then start washing.  And afterwards, we will rinse all the dishes twice, making sure that not any dishwashing detergent and washing suds are still left on the dishes.

But people I know from the UK are so different.  I remember when I was living in the UK, every single hallmate of mine (who were British) would use tons of dishwashing detergent to wash the dishes.  After the first round of dishwashing, they WOULDN'T rinse the dishes, but rather, immediately stack the dishes (with washing suds still on the dishes) on the tray to dry. 

Amazing to me!!  They washed the frying pans and glasses and cupsin similar ways too - no rinsing of the dishes. 

I wonder if people from any other nations do wash the dishes the same way as the people in the UK do.  Well, at least as far as I know it, all the people whom I know from Hong Kong rinse the dishes after using the dishwashing detergent.