Brainless Servings

If you notice, there's a basic difference among Western and Eastern cuisines. Aside from its various taste and servings is the ingredient they use. Here in Indonesia you could find Tail Soup, Tongue Steak, Chitlings Satay, Lung Chips, Kneecap Black Soup and Fried Brain. Though those finger-lickin-good cookings comparatively high cholesterol, still many people finds it delightful to eat daily.

That noon, I crashed into a well known Makassar restaurant. Their speciality is Coto. A typical Makassar's soup-like cuisine, served with meat slices and some ox's or bull's "internal organ", such as Heart, Chitlings, Lung, Tongue and Brain.

It's a crowdy noon that I've to take a queue to get a table. The waiters were busy taking orders while I was busy looking for a place to sit and eat. There're so many visitors that the waiter has to yell out the order.

"Whose with extra chilli?"

A custumer raised his hand.

"Whose with tongue?"

Another customer raised his hand.

"Whose without chitlings?"

A lady raised her hand.

"Whose without brain?"

Suddenly, it's quiet.

"Hey, whose got no brain?"

A chubby guy in the corner raised his hand slowly. "It's mine. But I do have brain, you know!"