Some Indonesians can be a bit sensitive about other countries trying to appropriate our cultural heritage (remember the Great Indonesia-Malaysia “Dance War” of 2012?).

Well, this weekend a tweet from former Manchester United defender, Rio Ferdinand, who was in Singapore to watch the Little Red Dot’s F1 Grand Prix, caused a culinary battle on social media:

Robe game is nice!! Nasi goreng lunch.. Keeping it local in #Singapore pic.twitter.com/qSs5tH3FMK — Rio Ferdinand (@rioferdy5) September 17, 2016

The implication that nasi goreng was Singaporean did not sit well with many Indonesians.

@rioferdy5 m8, its indonesian food, actually. There’s no ‘nasi’ and ‘goreng’ in singapore.. — Aguπg Pяasetyo (@Agungbusby) September 17, 2016

@rioferdy5 actually thats indonesian local food 🙂 — Rizky Agustian (@iiiqy) September 17, 2016

@rioferdy5 Comon Rio a man of your free World travels should no Indonesian food is not Singaporean — Stephen Power (@racingblogger) September 17, 2016

@rioferdy5 Damn! Nasi Goreng isnt Singapore’s local food. It actually Indonesian local food. Everyone know~ And I hope u to know — (@myhendra_) September 17, 2016

And then it escalated, with cats…

However, their cries of culinary misappropriation received a nearly equal amount of pushback from Singaporeans.

@rioferdy5 Fo fuxx sake gais! NASI GORENG means FRIED RICE which you can find all over the world. Stop being so childish. — joshie.bassman (@joshiefpm) September 18, 2016

Culminating with this:

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