Sundai's Num Nums

I've noticed a recent trend of parents forcing allowing their children to start "foodie" blogs.  I can only assume they use the word "foodie" because it would be uncouth to label a small child an "asshole."  Anyways, I fell in like with the idea.  But I have no child!  Or HAD no child.  I adopted a child!  Not in the gross "raising" one kind of way.  More in the I send 35 cents to Africa every month and they send me a picture kind of way.  I give him money, someone else raises him, and I cross my fingers (but don't lift one) and hope he turns out okay.  Ooo, I feel like a Dublinite already!

So, now I have Sundai.  A nice young boy from Africa.  I send him money every month.  He sends me a letter every month.  With one twist.  I've asked Sundai to include a "foodie review" of the local cuisine at the end of each of his correspondences.  I will type out those reviews on this blog and title them "Sundai's Num Nums."  Here's the first of hopefully, malaria-contingent, many blog post by Sundai.  Enjoy!

 

Today's meal, while fraught with some minor issues, was simply delightful!  I started off the dining experience with a small wooden bowl of long grain white rice.  Marvelous!  The texture of the rice was sublime perfection.  The flecks of white mushed in my mouth with a slight bite at the center of each delicious kernel.  The rice had an interesting and intriguing flavor.  As if it had been cooked in a broth or some sort of flavor-infused water.  Upon consulting with the chef, I found out the latter was true when the he informed me that, in fact, the water that was used to cook the rice had also been used to wash the villagers clothes earlier that day.  Local flavor indeed!

The meal was accompanied by a enjoyably warm glass of the same water that the rice was cooked in.  A perfect pairing!  This flavor melding made the food and drink blend together in to one incredible culinary experience.  Definitely worth the risk of Hepatitis A!

What dining experience would be complete without desert?  Not one I wish to know.  After completing the first, and only, course of today's palate excursion, a truly unique and sweet snack was sent to me to cap off the evening.  A Typhoid Fever vaccine!  A little bitter at first, when left to explore the inches and crevices of an awaiting tongue, other, more pleasurable, flavor notes began to emerge.  A bitter-sweet combination that paralleled a rich, dark chocolate.  (Note: I've never had dark chocolate, but I am making the parallel based off what the white missionaries in my village have told me about the delectable treat.)  The bitter onset of the meal-capper was also balanced out by the fact that it would prevent me from dying.

That is all for this edition of Sundai's Num Nums.  I hope, like, seriously hope, to be able to make another entry soon.  Until then, Num Num!