Boodle Fight for a Birthday Party
By Thelma
@thelme55 (76556)
Germany
August 8, 2018 1:10am CST
Have you participated in a boodle fight?
As a Filipino, it is not new to you and to me but it is the first time I have done it at home. It was for my birthday celebration. Yes, I am getting older again. I don't mind though as long as I am healthy.
A Boodle Fight is a way of celebrating birthdays and other parties wherein the food is put on banana leaves, rice on the center and other food around the rice on the table and everyone should eat with a bare hands. Of course, washed.
I have not planned to celebrate my birthday but since my sister told me that they would come, so I thought of having a boodle fight dinner. The meat were all grilled in coconut charcoal while the fishes and spring rolls were fried. I didn't have a birthday cake, instead I had an avocado iced cake which was made by me a few days ago. It was a very hot day and night anyway.
My siblings were helping me in the kitchen and decorating the boodle fight table. It was very successful and we end up all dancing, from a 1 year old baby to an 80 years old aunt.
So, how was your week? Sorry for not be here for a few days but now I am catching up. Happy hump day to all.
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19 responses
@amitkokiladitya (171935)
• Agra, India
8 Aug 18
Wow..this is a nice concept. Happy birthday
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@thelme55 (76556)
• Germany
11 Aug 18
@amitkokiladitya yes, my relatives, young and old, enjoyed it.
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@amitkokiladitya (171935)
• Agra, India
11 Aug 18
@thelme55 I hope your guests enjoyed it
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@jobelbojel (34730)
• Philippines
8 Aug 18
I have experienced it eating with my officemates.
Happy birthday, ate Thelma!
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@m_audrey6788 (58482)
• Germany
8 Aug 18
I think I experienced it along time ago when I was very young when we visited the province of my late Father 
Happy birthday Thelma
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@thelme55 (76556)
• Germany
10 Aug 18
I see. This kind of eating is also new to me @m_audrey6788. Thanks for your greetings.
@toniganzon (72279)
• Philippines
8 Aug 18
We have a restaurant here that has that concept and one time we went there just to experience it but we didn't enjoy. The food wasn't good according to our tastes only because that restaurant is so popular and a lot of people eat there.
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@thelme55 (76556)
• Germany
8 Aug 18
I see. Maybe the food was not really yummy. Thanks @toniganzon.
@toniganzon (72279)
• Philippines
8 Aug 18
@thelme55 Just not our kind that we prefer maybe coz others really like it there.
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@popciclecold (35727)
• United States
23 Aug 18
@thelme55 Thank you, I plan to search the web.
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
8 Aug 18
Happy birthday, Ms. Thelma! I think boodle fights were practised by soldiers only before and later on others followed and there are even restaurants that accept boodle fight orders for some groups of customers.
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@thelme55 (76556)
• Germany
11 Aug 18
Yes, I have read about it when I researched it online @sunrisefun. Thanks.
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@popciclecold (35727)
• United States
19 Aug 18
No, I have never heard of it. But glad you all had a good time. Avocado Iced Cake, I would love to taste that, sounds good.
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@popciclecold (35727)
• United States
20 Aug 18
@thelme55 You have peaked my interest, I am going to look on the internet for that.
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@thelme55 (76556)
• Germany
20 Aug 18
Avocado ice cake was very refreshing and delicious @popciclecold. Thanks.
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when it comes to food. I am only willing to do it when there are less than 10 people
@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
8 Aug 18
not yet, but yes, i'm aware of them. i'm not really good at eating with my hands. i need at least a spoon or i'll end up hungry. hahaha!
i first noticed it at mang inasal. they provide plastic gloves to diners.
happy birthday thelma! can your husband also eat that with his hands too?
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
10 Aug 18
@thelme55 i meant it was at mang inasal several years ago when i first saw people eat with their hands with plastic gloves provided by the restaurant.
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@thelme55 (76556)
• Germany
10 Aug 18
Thank you. Yes, my hubby can also eat with his hands without cutlery @hereandthere. I didn't know that Mang Inasal offers boodle fight dinner .
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@rsa101 (37969)
• Philippines
20 Aug 18
I think that Boodle Fight was a military tradition of eating their meals. Since most of the time the soldiers are always on the outskirts of the country. The way they prepare their meal is like that in the picture of yours. they would eat meals together and enjoy each others company. It is also practical since after eating there are no plates and utensils to wash since they eat with their bare hands and eat it directly where it is.
Nowadays it is becoming a popular way of celebrating and eating not only for the military but the civilian adopted this way of eating a meal.
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@Iam_jauntyjen (4963)
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14 Aug 18
belated happy birthday!
It sounds like you realy had a great birthday celebration. And the barbeque looks yummy.
I have never experienced boodle fight. :(
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@thelme55 (76556)
• Germany
20 Aug 18
Hi! Thank you @Iam_jauntyjen. The food was yummy indeed.
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