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Spit or Swallow?
10:33 AM, Wednesday, 24 January, 2007
One certainly spits in this situation.
Hao had never tried buai before, so we picked some up on Sunday to have a chew. I've chewed it a fair bit but had never taken a photo. I think that you can see why.
Here is the paraphernalia. There are the green buai nuts, which you have to bite open. One here is opened and you can see inside is a nut, about the size of a macadamia nut. It's really really bitter, and makes you salivate a lot - you chew it into paste, and then dip those funny looking green sticks called mustard into the bag of white powder, which is lime, and then add that to the mix and you chew it all up. Continue to dip, and chew. The end result is quite a vivid red goop, which you proceed to spit everywhere at random intervals. It's a mild appetite suppresant, and gives some people hot flushes, head spins, jollies, mouth cancer, whatever. It doesn't do anything to me. Except make my teeth look gross.
Here is Hao biting into the nut. That's as far as he got - he couldn't cope with the nut, let alone the lime and mustard, and spat it out a few seconds later. For the sake of prosperity, and in order to tease him about his girly-girliness, I continued.
This is what it does to your mouth. Note the red stains on my teeth. It takes a lot of brushing to get that out!
And here's some of what I spat out. The longer you chew, the redder it gets. This is all over Port Moresby - on footpaths, roads, walls, trees, gutters, buses, cars, everywhere. Totally yuck.
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Comments
Oh come on, it not that bad. It helps sharpen your mind and concentrate. You just get used to it and its fine.
Posted by: Antony | January 24, 2007 11:15 AM