Flamingo Papaya Blog

 Like many people from the part of the world where I grew up in, I have been long hesitant to try different kinds of cuisines. A main fear behind this is that I may suffer a bad reaction to the food, otherwise it has usually been my dread for novelty that has often kept me away from trying new varieties of food. It has only been in recent years when I have started overcoming this hurdle and opened up myself to giving it a shot at trying new food cultures, at the very least giving them a taste instead of shying away. 8 times out of 10 I have enjoyed the new cuisine which I have tried, and this in turn encourages me to be even the braver with the next food when the opportunity arises.  Food is highly personal even in a globalized world and so naturally, peoples' taste are not universal. Therefore, some foods are easy to adapt to, while others need our pallets trained in order for us to savor them and appreciate their taste. Sometimes, certain foods are a love-at-first-bite situa...