The Beginning of Exploration

Food had entered the life human being since as early as creation. The Bible given us the account that God not only created our food on the Third day, Adam and Eve was given the word to "eat" as part of their early "duty" in the garden. The fall of human being even started because of Food.

Food will never leave us and therefore rather than resisting the temptation to avoid them, i encounter them full frontal through exploration of my tongue in tasting different food along the way.

I love food, i love to cook, i love to taste the beauty of flavor that just slip in to your tongues as that first scoop of food entering that cavity we called mouth. That experience of tasting the food is something that i cherish so much.

Yet there is one aspect of food that i think important. Eating alone is not something that i enjoyed as well. I love eating with people and communal meal is something that i feel have been forgotten by many people. We are taken away so much by the individualistic nature of modern world that often eating with friends are considered as a waste of time and space. I am not talking about a candlelight dinner where two individual eating on a luxurious dish cooked by a famous chef who are featured on the magazine.

That is the reason i choose the title, Third World Tongue. My exploration of food will focus mostly on food that are reachable on the street where you eat while wearing your sandals and shorts, laughing loudly, cracking jokes, and throw the whole night into a big feast of celebration. I like the aroma of the street, the loudness of the vehicle, the sprinkle of dust on your food that actually put that essential flavor into the dish that being served. Some of you might think i am a cuckoo, for all that things are poison and dirt but for me that essence of reality are important to the food itself.

And yeah, i am a vegetarian; a lacto-ovo vegetarian to be exact. But i am surrounded by people who enjoys their meat. This situation brings something unique to my food exploration. Often time i have to "adapt" to the meat eating feast with having vegetables dishes on my own. Personally, i believe vegetarianism should not separate social life especially during eating time. So hopefully this blog also can help those who wants to have a good time with Carnivorous friend without having to be separated from others...

Well enough been said. As you explore the food fiesta with me, i hope that your experience will be enriched as well =)