
"Where did you run out of?" manila asked who had accidentally seen Lee and Michael enter through the back door of her kitchen.
"A .. anu. We ..."
"We're out of the shower." It was Michael who continued Lee's words.
"Mandi?" Manila repeated what she heard.
"Yes, I took them both to bathe in the shower" said Arby, who has now joined and brought Lee and Michael's dirty clothes.
"Ha .. ha .. ha." Manila laughed amusedly at the thought of the rich man who must be rigid with his simple circumstances.
"Why are you laughing?" ask Michael.
"It's okay, come on in! Lieutenant's been waiting for you in the dining room." Manila stepped away to pick up the dirty clothes Arby was holding and put them in the laundry basket.
Lee, Michael and Arby are now reunited with Mr. Ajie's family.
Lee turned his gaze to look for something that seemed to be missing in front of him.
"Why are you standing there, Lee? sit down and join in." said Bryan.
"Sitting down?" lee asked doubtfully in his face.
Arby laughed and was able to read with the habits of the rich who always ate at his table and chair.
"Friends, we're here to eat together with the Lesehan method" Arby told Lee.
"What is lesehan?" lee asked, asking for an explanation.
Arby sat next to his father until, if seen, a circle of people facing his food would form.
"The weird thing is yes, we eat below like using a klasa or a mat of the like." explained Arby simply and in hope Lee easily understood it.
Manila is coming. Directly pulled Lee to immediately sit with him in the following Michael who is now sitting next to Sofia.
"Let's pray first." take Mr. Ajie to Lieutenant Bryan.
For a moment they were all silent. Pray that the food they will eat will be a blessing to them all.
"Sofia, help your dear sister" said Manila who prepared rice and side dishes for everyone.
No grandiose dinner menu served that night. Pak Ajie's family only makes grilled red snapper+ vegetable asem+ defaults from boiled cassava leaves and fried rice sauce as a complement.
"Uhhhhhh .. it feels .. cuy." said Michael who already looks bored like a marathon athlete.
"Definitely delicious." said Manila and got a nod from Grace who had been so voracious in the process.
"Today I found the menu very delicious and special like this." Lieutenant Bryan clucked in awe and wiped the sweat on his forehead with the back of his hand.
"Wait a minute, someone's still missing. By, help me out for a second." Aunt Manila stepped into the kitchen at Arby's side.
And not for long. Now the two of them have returned with a plate of jengkol in the stew and some gobang petay board held by Arby.
"What's that?" lieutenant Bryan asked with great enthusiasm.
Sujiarty's mother put her jengkol stew and petay right in the middle of her dinner crowd.
"This is Jengkol cooked in stew style" explained Sujiarty.
"And what's that green snake like?" ask Grace who is no less marketing than her husband.
"This, is petay gobang. Traditional food that grows behind the house and believes as a complement to the meal menu." explained Mr. Ajie and Grace was now starting to bring her hands closer to take one of the petay boards.
"Alright, then I'll try this one out." Lieutenant Bryan picked up some jengkol with a spoon on his plate.
At the bite slowly jengkol it while looking at people who are now seriously staring and waiting for the response.
Both of Lieutenant Bryan's eyes rounded to feel the awesomeness of the taste contained in his jengkol.
"Manila .. Can you add a portion of my rice. Don't know why? I feel challenged by the taste of this cuisine." Lt. Bryan handed the plate made of clay coated with banana leaves to Manila.
After getting an extra portion of rice. Lieutenant Bryan is now like a man who just passed the war he devoured jengkol without caring about the people around him.
While Grace from earlier looks still confused by how to peel the gate petay.
Sujiarty's mother took the initiative to quickly peel the petay and hand it over to Grace.
"Sweet this is also delicious." Grace told her husband.
"really? don't you want to taste this terrible jengkol stew?" Lieutenant Bryan feed the rice with the jengkol in his hand on his wife's mouth.
They both really enjoyed dinner.
"You want a jengkol, Lee?" Manila spooned 2 spoonfuls of jengkol on a plate made of clay Lover.
"What tastes good?" Lee hesitantly looked at his lover.
Manila picked up the jengkol and ate it in front of Lee.
"Enak .. and not toxic really." said Manila who managed to sweep doubt in Lee's heart.
With all the courage in his heart. Now Lee opened his mouth wide and put one jengkol into his mouth.
"How, yummy?" Manila wanted to laugh because she saw the face of Lee who was holding back enforcing chewing her jengkol.
"SPend off! just be careful if you vomit." said Manila who made Lee forcedly and reluctantly swallow it.
"Mi .. mi ..drink." Lee held his neck feeling the drag from swallowing his jengkol.
Manila continues to laugh at her lover's face that has been pale due to her aunt's clove.
Lee put the plate down and stopped the event.
"I think I'm full." Lee got up and left a group of people who were still enjoying the event.
"Why is he, brother?" asked Sofia who saw her sister stepping away.
"Here you go, maybe Lee's full." Manila said.
Michael the play boy cap mlehoy. It turns out that he inherited the same spirit as Bryan in enjoying his jengkol stew.
"Enyak .. worthy." Michael chewed on a soft, explosive-tasting jengkol stew on his tongue.
Sofia turned her head laughing looking at the gluttonous Michael eating next to her.
"You have to taste Sofia" Michael said.
"It seems that I don't like the jengkol stew" Sofia replied as she lowered her head.
"Sofia." call Michael and Sofia immediately raised her face.
"A .." said Michael and Sofia opened her mouth to say the letter A.
Michael quickly feeds the rice and the jengkolnya into Sofia's mouth.
"Cicip used to be a new Comment." Michael said to Sofia.
Little by little Sofia started chewing the food in her mouth.
"Enak ..it tastes good like a tiger's heart." Sofia said.
"You again?" ask Michael.
Sofia nodded her head and now reopened her mouth.
"Am ...." The sound of Michael feeding Sofia back.
Manila just smiled to see the closeness between Michael and Sofia which is now more and more friendly according to him.