One of my healthy party ideas came to fruition today… TWICE! An entire jug of buko palamig in my son’s lunch time party. An entire jug of buko palamig in our extended family get together for our grandma who recently passed away. Move out softdrinks, move out beer, in this hot summer, everybody bows down to the refreshing power of buko palamig. Let’s get drunk over buko palamig.
What is buko palamig? (direct translation is: coconut cooling drink) It’s coconut juice, big blocks of ice, coconut meat strands plus some sugar to taste. Yeah yeah sugar is bad but you can’t have 100% goodness appeal to all people in a party of mostly standard food eaters. And I halved the amount of sugar they usually put in.
Where to get buko palamig? I got mine from my suki in Marikina Market. I usually buy 20 coconuts at a time. They also sell buko palamig retail. I asked this time to buy the entire jug with contents this time. Pretty cheap huh? Cheap but good!
Then there’s sashimi. Everybody loves sashimi. Fresh raw tuna, raw blue marlin, fresh raw salmon. Yes the salmon is farmed, so it’s not the best but it will have to do… party compromises.
I then got a zester tool which makes fine strands of a giant labanos I bought. A nice condiment for the sashimi. There’s kikkoman fermented and brewed soy sauce, some calamansi and some wasabi for that Japanese feel. Plus wooden disposable chop sticks.
Got some raw carrots and raw cucumber sticks in. It wasn’t so popular, but hey, it’s there.
We health advocates can tip the balance and help friends and relatives by bringing healthy RAW food to every party.