Showing posts with label Curiosity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Curiosity. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Inside Arabic Kitchen

It's the month of Ramadan for our Muslim friends around the world. For this month, Muslims observe the whole daylight of fasting. No food. No water. Nothing at all. 

It was already past 6 in the evening when I went around Ermita in Manila. While walking around, I noticed some Muslims praying inside a glass walled room which was covered by a silk or see though white clothe. Most are men wearing a "cap" (i don't know how they call it) kneeling facing each other while praying. There was a music like chanting in the background. I've never been to a mosque but I saw how a mosque look like and I am not sure if that area where they pray is a mosque. 

I continued my walk and saw this restaurant. Out of curiosity, I went inside. I was a bit uncomfortable because I felt like I was a foreigner there. A friendly fellow Filipino approached and asked me what I want. I honestly told him what it got me there. After a few minutes of chit chats, I learned from him about their promotion which was eat all you can for P399.00 then convinced me to try their menu on that evening. I wanted to try but I was reluctant knowing that I was alone and did not know those kinds of food. I just told him I'll do that next time but I will bring some friends.

I asked if I could take pictures of the eat all you can food available on the table. He agreed so I took pix like a dumb, thanked the attendant and went out.

Arabic Kitchen outside 











Friday, August 31, 2012

Wife of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Found this picture posted on a glass wall of a bookstore somewhere in Jurong West.
wife of yesterday, today and tomorrow

Wife of yesterday

Wife of today

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Balut for a despedida

You are in a certain country and it was time for you to leave. However, the local people you became close with told you to eat a food you never tasted and probably you never seen in your whole damn life, what will you do? Will you be challenged? Will you turn them down and apologize? Whatever reasons you have, it is your own choice. As I always hear people saying, it is your life anyway. .. :)

It is in the history of the foundation I work with to let foreign volunteers eat one of the Filipino foods, either upon arrival as a form of "baptism" or before they leave the country. Most of them think balut as one of the wackiest and yuckiest (so kadiri) ever foods we have here. Few of them are BCBG like super duper maarte and will not even dare to try. Most of them tried and later on some begun to like it. I’ve known some whom I really can not imagine to eat a balut but really dared  try it.


Like this one:


opening the balut..


pointing at the "chick"

"attend" ..look!

go go go!!!! watch me first!

there's no balut prepared here..