Dapitan's Pride
This is not my first time in Seafood Island, Market! Market!, Taguig City. More than five times actually that I have dined in here in different occasions for different reasons. The first few were really satisfying to say the least. The excitement in having to try eating boodle style added to the ambiance that this place offers. With pirate ships, pirates, and treasure map painted on the main wall together with rope motif on the chairs, the place welcome the idea of eating with your bare hands.
Boodle feast or boodle fight is a military tradition where food, usually rice and viands, these are placed on a bamboo leaves. Once the “fight” starts, everyone gets to eat fast with their fingers/hands. As the name implies, it is a “fight” so everyone tries to finish as fast and as many as they could. With a lot of people fighting over a limited meal, it is matter of survival on who gets to fill his hunger.
In the many occasions that I’ve been in Seafood Island, I don’t get to see a boodle fight. The closest thing is that the meal is served boodle style on a large tray with bamboo leaves and people eat slow with their cutleries. I cannot really see the ‘gusto’ or eagerness as in the traditional boodle. Well, of course the diners are not combatants who’d started and ended the day in grave physical training. This has waned my appetite in getting the boodle ambiance that I had enjoyed before. I could say that it is also up to the establishment to set the tone and culture in how their food should be consumed. If at first wet towels (at least the disposable ones) and having a bigger and visible hand washing area could promote the boodle tradition.
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