What makes you go home?
If I’ll answer that, despite a busy schedule in school or work, I’d like to go home because of my mamang Lolita’s cooking. You are used to it, grew up with it and all those long years, you even memorize the menu. For reasons I don’t know, if you dine with the old folks, everything is just perfect. Ahh, the smell of the newly-cooked rice, pinakbet or beef stew (pressure cooked), and the taste, ohhh lalala, just amazing.
Of course, you would love dining out with your friends as Davao City offers a long list of outstanding restaurants, from our favorite “law-oy puwesto”(fronting the PC Barracks, now Camp Domingo Leonor) to the unlimited rice at Penong’s, “lugaw” at Dencia’s, or for special occasions at The Royal Mandaya Hotel or Marco Polo Hotel.
Where there is good food (affordable or expensive), there is a happy Dabawenyo.
I don’t know with the new generation these days but we grew up being taught how to cook. First the rice(usually, when you are in Grade One), then you learn to clean, then fry or “sugba” the fish, as you progress then you start learning the “tinola”, then the proper way of preparing the tuna kinilaw. Eventually you have a complete arsenal for “Sutukil”. Once you are released to the world, you will survive, so to speak.
Recent reports that food safety was not strictly followed affected dozens of student-athletes from Mati who are in the city for the Davao Regional Athletic Association Meet, a qualifying tournament for the Palarong Pambansa.
“This reckless action resulted in the injury of individuals, obvious cost-cutting on the budget for the meals is tantamount to corruption and should be dealt with severely,” Davao City mayor Sara Zimmerman Duterte-Carpio said in a statement.
“Reckless action” indeed.
I don’t know what they were thinking when they served the “bahaw” food to the Mati student-athletes.
Had they treated the student-athletes like their own children, this unfortunate “reckless action” should never have happened.
Why? Ma konsensiya na man.
I hope this will never be repeated when food safety becomes a strict policy to be followed by the organizing Department of Education. This can be prevented!
But if this happens again in the future, it simply means that there is no true love accorded to our student-athletes.
And I hope that those responsible for hurting our student-athletes will pay for their actions.
Let us, please, show some love to our student-athletes because they are the future of this nation. Keep them safe and healthy.
They simply deserve our brotherly love.
