The best food that I have had on the race has been in
Thailand and Vietnam. I loved Thai food, my favorite was their Sweet and Sour
Chicken/Sweet and Sour pork dishes. It’s consists of fried vegetables and
sometimes fruits like green peppers, onions, carrots and most of the time
Pineapple. I don’t know what the sauce consists of, some of the people on our
squad said they saw people use ketchup for the sauce. In Vietnam we went to a
restaurant called The Black Cat in Ho Chi Minh city. There I had the biggest
burger I’ve ever eaten in my life. It was 500grams of beef, 4 slices of cheese,
six slices of bacon, three tomatoes, 1 onion, 1 head of butter lettuce and 1
pickle on a gigantic sesame bun. This burger was intense. If you ate the burger
you would get your picture on the wall of the restaurant. So being the men that
we are Mike Sanders, Josh Woodmanse, and
I challenged each other to eat it. Josh finished it in 26 min! Mike and I did
it in about 50 minutes. When we got back home Mike couldn’t hold down the
burger and got really sick for a while. I held the food down but couldn’t go to
sleep because the burger had stretched my stomach so far that I could feel
stomach touch my rib cage!! We had a great time! Lol
The weirdest thing I’ve eaten on the race is Dog meat. In
Cambodia they practically will fry up anything. You can buy beetles,
tarantula’s, and Dog meat just about anywhere in the city. Jory decided he
wanted to try Dog meat and one of the Cambodians went out to get some for him.
About an hour later the he comes back with about 1 pound of greasy meat in a
plastic bag. Jory gets excited and eats some then decides to walk around
offering some to everyone. So I tried a couple of pieces, it wasn’t bad, kind
of like a bland steak. I asked what kind of Dog it was but nobody knew,
supposedly it’s a specific breed of dog that they raise in Cambodia to just be
eaten when they get older.
The worst thing I’ve had was in a village in the northern
part of Thailand. It was during what we call “Manistry” where all the guys on
the squad spent a month together doing ministry in northern Thailand. We went
up to those villages to put on Christmas dramas and have a worship time with
the villagers. When we arrived we were greeted and asked to sit inside the
church they built. We go inside and sit on the floor (that’s how most people
eat in Southeast Asia) and they start bringing in bowls, plates, and containers
of food for us. We pray and start to dig in, after a few minutes somebody asks
why the rice they served was so red…. Never ask what’s in the food folks! The
villagers killed 7 pigs for us that day and cooked up the meat, but they didn’t
want to waist the blood of the pig so they cooked the rice in with the blood of
the pig. After knowing what I was eating it became quite difficult to finish.
