THE MESSAGE. BRINGING INTO FOCUS FILIPINO PRESENCE IN AUSTRALIA
www.kalatas.com.au | Volume 4 Number 10 | July 2014
FOOD, TRAVEL & LIFESTYLE
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OUT ‘N BACK
‘THE ENTRANCE’ TO FUN, FOOD AND FIRE
W
hen your mind is
set, there might
be a few delays
towards achieving your goal
but your determination to arrive at your destination will happen.
I had always wanted my own bancà.
As a 12-year old kid in the coastal city
of Iligan in Lanao, spending the weekend with the clan was a ritual. The local fisherman always lent me their 10foot bancà and from that I learned to
surf the waves using a Pinoy canoe with
an outrigger. Of course I sank the bancà
heaps of times, and that was part of the
learning. The kabò was always there to
bail it out anyway, so it wasn’t a big deal.
Fast track to 2014 and one Saturday last month, I travelled to The Entrance in the Central Coast of NSW to
MITCHELL
BADELLES
is the producer of SAY
MORE Radio Show
on SWR 99.9FM. He
is also a Balintawak
Arnis - Filipino Martial
Art enthusiast. Mitchell
is a sales rep for
Heritage Profiles &
Mouldings, allowing
him to travel around
NSW as part of his job.
pick up my own slightly used Old Town
Loon 160T tandem kayak. It would be
the closest I got to a bancà. And that’s
another adventure story.
The fun part was getting to the Waterfront where, every Saturday, craftspeople put up their stalls and you can
get knick knacks. And every first and
second Saturday, the farmers markets
popped up. Being a lover of chilli, the
first sauce that jumped at me was the
Red Belly Chilli Tomato Jam at the
Tar10 tent. Lyn and James were very
obliging and short of spoon feeding me,
led me to the flavours that I wanted after I said, “take me to your chilli!”
Rubbing shoulders as I walked
through the crowd, I was not quick
enough with my camera as a giant, hip
high, black dog walked past me, parting
the crowd. Next thing I know, I was in
front of the Paella tent! The chorizos and
prawns and mussels immediately made
my mouth water. A couple more steps
and I landed at the liqueur tent handing
out samplers of ‘The Kiss of Fire’. I’m
a sugar and chilli d