Manggar
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sun 16 Oct 2016 22:37
Manggar
Welcome
We arrived for lunch in Manggar, the
main welcome was from a local group of singers and
dancers.
Such
colour.
We sat to so much food and more kept
arriving. Crab and fish soup – traditional for the
area.
I pushed the tippy end of one fork
tine into several dishes and each set my eyebrows on fire. The fish curry should have carried a hazard warning. There is
little colour difference between local ketchup and hot sauce but a whole tongue
explosion........ Everyone tucked in and all the men
began to look as if their foreheads were leaking – Bear was more than
beading...... I stuck with fried calamari, plain rice
and water......Must get bigger and less of a wuss at this spicy
malarkey...
Our trusty police
escort had parked their boots and settled in the local way to enjoy their
food.
Karel
(Tehani-Li) accepted our gift from the
Regent after he had given a brief speech of welcome. We all received a
bag containing a fan, a fridge magnet and our lovely ‘ship-in-a-bottle’ – a
traditional fishing craft. Then we settled to watch the dancers. They invited us
to dance with them and then we were invited across the road to watch Antu Bubu –
a ritual designed to rid the surrounding sea of the evil spirit who stops
fishermen having success. A rich experience amongst the loveliest people.
ALL IN ALL WONDERFUL EFFORT
FROM VERY FRIENDLY PEOPLE
EXTREMELY
WELCOMING |