Re: "Tastes Like Chicken"
LOL, I remember when I went to the Phillipines in 1993, I was in Quezon City and it was 11pm where I was playing cards with "L" and his financee Maria. I told Maria that I had tried Balut once in Hawaii in a filipino restarurant owned by a friend of mine. All of a sudden, I heard a sound outside, " Balut!, Balut!", I asked Maria what was that, she said Oh it's the Balut vendor!
Maria gathered all the pesos off the card table and returned with Balut for eveyone including me! I ate it with trepidation, and the next day I came down with diarrehea!
The worst thing is to come down with diarrehea in a foreign country! Unlike here, toilet tissure paper isn't available in most bathroom stalls, including supposedly high class areas like S & M Mall.
I eventually recovered when we went to Baguio City where it was 20 degrees cooler, and I ate only Pancit Mami (the filipino equivalent to saimin) and McDonalds fillet fish sandwiches. LOL... My Filipino Friends made fun of me when I didn't even want to eat what they called Manapua, " Shao Pao" which is actually closer to the orignial Chinese name for it.
I was told that the Hawaiians called Manapua, " Mea Ono Ka Pua'a" which means delicious pig cookie, and the Chinese corrupted it (because their language is monoslyllabic) they couldn't pronounce the Hawaiian words, it became manapua instead.
Originally posted by Pomai
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Maria gathered all the pesos off the card table and returned with Balut for eveyone including me! I ate it with trepidation, and the next day I came down with diarrehea!
The worst thing is to come down with diarrehea in a foreign country! Unlike here, toilet tissure paper isn't available in most bathroom stalls, including supposedly high class areas like S & M Mall.
I eventually recovered when we went to Baguio City where it was 20 degrees cooler, and I ate only Pancit Mami (the filipino equivalent to saimin) and McDonalds fillet fish sandwiches. LOL... My Filipino Friends made fun of me when I didn't even want to eat what they called Manapua, " Shao Pao" which is actually closer to the orignial Chinese name for it.
I was told that the Hawaiians called Manapua, " Mea Ono Ka Pua'a" which means delicious pig cookie, and the Chinese corrupted it (because their language is monoslyllabic) they couldn't pronounce the Hawaiian words, it became manapua instead.
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