Dear diary, entry #5 ( children on board)

Dear diary,

I’ve been in Brunei for 36 hours- work beckons. An intense flurry of meetings but I still managed to try out the meal, which Brunei is famous for.

Ambuyat,

Is a dish made from sago - like paste. It really looks like a bowl of glue, which you eat with a pair of melded chopsticks, which we thought, someone forgot to separate for us. In fact, my colleague and I broke our first sets of chopsticks apart, thinking the waiter forgot to...

Until we realised this was incorrect. The waiter laughed.
We laughed
Everyone knew we were tourists! Not that I cared, much...

but how were we were suppose to eat with a pair of unopened chopsticks? The answer is:

You dip the chopsticks into the paste and twirl it around so the paste sticks, like this:

Then dip the paste in the accompanying dishes you order.

It’s yummy. Simply delishes.

I was told to say this in Bruneian:

‘ nyaman banar ambuyat anni’

it means, this ambuyat is so delicious.

It was!And non- fattening as I obviously could not hold much with those chopstick like scooping instrument.

I ended up using my fingers and my cutlery.

If you’re ever in Bandar Sri Begawan, the capital of Brunei, check this restaurant out. They have other dishes too.

A very interesting and ‘light’ dinner meal consumption, diary.

The children meanwhile, were texting me furiously. I ignored them.

Love