Dr Phil Davies in Camden

[Kiai Carita]

Peace,

To you who are interested, I just got an email from Dr Phil Davies, recomended by Mas Tristan here as an authority on silat in London. He is coming tomorrow night to our gamelan do at the Stables market in Camden. Last two weeks we have had exhibitions by silat Melayu teachers Sulaiman and Cekgu Ariffin and their student Scott. It is getting interesting, for those of you who are in London, you are welcome to come and share...PM me for more details.

Warm salaams,
Bram

[Orang Jawa]

Originally Posted by Kiai Carita

Peace,

To you who are interested, I just got an email from Dr Phil Davies, recomended by Mas Tristan here as an authority on silat in London. He is coming tomorrow night to our gamelan do at the Stables market in Camden. Last two weeks we have had exhibitions by silat Melayu teachers Sulaiman and Cekgu Ariffin and their student Scott. It is getting interesting, for those of you who are in London, you are welcome to come and share...PM me for more details.

Warm salaams,
Bram

Salam Bram,
Dr Phil not only a silat player but he also a good cook.
Please send my best regard to him.
Tristan

[Kiai Carita]

Originally Posted by Orang Jawa

Salam Bram,
Dr Phil not only a silat player but he also a good cook.
Please send my best regard to him.
Tristan

Salam Mas Tristan,

I met Mas Phil last night and we spent 2 to three hours drinking kopi-tubruk and talking and moving. Sulaiman from this forum and a friend were also there and indeed it was a 'rezeki' to meet Mas Phil. He spoke very fondly of you...about finding you at the airport when you picked him up for one of your gatherings. He highly recomends your gathering to anyone interested in silat.

We found much similarity between the our silats and outlooks. Mas Phil gave us a small lesson in how to move from a wide and low kuda-kuda straight to the macanesque kuda-kuda when you sit on the floor with legs in an S shape, without damaging your knee. He is coming next Sunday again and will be bringing a student, insya'allah. Also he talked alot about one of his friends who is writting an anthropological study on silat.... something to wait for I believe.

Warm salaams to all,
Bram

[Orang Jawa]

Alhamdullilah, that you met Dr. Phil. He is a funny guy too. I had a great time with him. While I'm in London, he took me to the Indonesian restaurant in Lincester. Wow, what a spread it was. My stomach so bloaded for eating so much
When he staying at my house, he surprised me with his cooking..what a surprised it was.
Have fun!
Tristan

[Kiai Carita]

Originally Posted by Orang Jawa

Alhamdullilah, that you met Dr. Phil. He is a funny guy too. I had a great time with him. While I'm in London, he took me to the Indonesian restaurant in Lincester. Wow, what a spread it was. My stomach so bloaded for eating so much
When he staying at my house, he surprised me with his cooking..what a surprised it was.
Have fun!
Tristan

Salam hormat, Kangmas Tristan!

Dr Phil came again last weekend and he brought along his murid, Dave. Dave and I did a little bit of buah-sambut and as a result of being too slow I am now still limping from a backwards sapu performed rather well by Dave. Afterwards I asked how his sapu was so strong and found that he trains sapu-ing a bamboo pole stuck deep in the ground. No wonder I felt the thump right through to my bones. We also had a visitor from Sydney, Ed, a teacher of Richard de Bourdes' Harimau. His low kuda-kuda work was amazing.

Dr Phil told me he cooked pecel for you and that you liked it very much. All you need is boiled vegs and peanut sauce, with tamarind and kafir lime leaf. Why is it called kafir lime? Is it because the Arab guides to the European colonizers were disgusted at the dog-stew when they arrived in the non-Muslim parts of South East Asia?

Warm salaams to all,
Bram

[Gajah Silat]

Guys....

Nothing wrong with a bit of daging anjing...mmm enak sekali

[Kiai Carita]

Originally Posted by Gajah Silat

Guys....

Nothing wrong with a bit of daging anjing...mmm enak sekali

Reminds me of a song back home ... to be sung using a Batak accent.

Waktu aku datang ke Siborongborong
When I arrived in Siborongborong
Huzan turun dengan lebatnya
Rain was falling very heavily
Untung ada anaknya Simbolon
Lucky there was Simbolon's kid
Wazahnya kehitam-hitaman
His face was rather dark
Diazaknya aku masuk ke rumahnya
He invited me to enter his home
Makan daging anzing dengan sayur kol!
To eat dog meat and cabbage stew!

Long ago before I embraced Islam I used to eat tongseng and sate anjing and developed a liking for the ofal. Now I find it disgusting though at the time it seemed yum.

Warm salaams to all,
Bram.

[Rebo Paing]

Originally Posted by Gajah Silat

Guys....

Nothing wrong with a bit of daging anjing...mmm enak sekali

Aauuuw! Get me a BUCKET!

It's enough to make me consider being a vegetarian for minute .. ok a minute's up, but seriously iwak asu? ... no way Jose, not on your nellie, not this little black duck!

Bram did you say OFFAL? Mangan njeroning asu? Aauuuw! Get me ANOTHER BUCKET!

Salam
Krisno

P.S. GS, isn't your wife a Bojonegaran?

[Kiai Carita]

Originally Posted by Kembang Alas

....

Bram did you say OFFAL? Mangan njeroning asu? Aauuuw! Get me ANOTHER BUCKET!

Salam
Krisno

P.S. GS, isn't your wife a Bojonegaran?

Yes Kris I said offal - jeroan asu dog offal. But to be fair it is not really dog as we used to call it 'kambing kota' - urban goat. My Flores friends in Bali like to go hunting around Denpasar with a motorbike and a sack and a hammer as there are so many strays there. Bali strays are disgusting though they all have skin disease.

Kris, in Jawa and in our village there are hardly any more dogs left. The last of our dogs were aten by Pak Yono Tentara our local soldier. In Muslim areas we don't call it dog meat, we call it sate jamu ( medicinal sate). I think it is illegal to eat dog in the UK although I am sure alot of these pooches here would be really tender and tasty.

I think that GS once said that his wife is from Blitar. You have sate jamu in Blitar too.

Warm salams,
Bram.

[Narrue]

I guess the secret must be all in the seasoning because it sure aint in the ingredients….Puck!!

[Kiai Carita]

Originally Posted by Narrue

I guess the secret must be all in the seasoning because it sure aint in the ingredients….Puck!!

True... true... I remember in those days when we were young and brash... we would have so much spice in the dish that there was no taste of the ingredients.

Salam hangat,
Bram.

[Orang Jawa]

Originally Posted by Kiai Carita

Reminds me of a song back home ... to be sung using a Batak accent.

Waktu aku datang ke Siborongborong
When I arrived in Siborongborong
Huzan turun dengan lebatnya
Rain was falling very heavily
Untung ada anaknya Simbolon
Lucky there was Simbolon's kid
Wazahnya kehitam-hitaman
His face was rather dark
Diazaknya aku masuk ke rumahnya
He invited me to enter his home
Makan daging anzing dengan sayur kol!
To eat dog meat and cabbage stew!

Long ago before I embraced Islam I used to eat tongseng and sate anjing and developed a liking for the ofal. Now I find it disgusting though at the time it seemed yum.

Warm salaams to all,
Bram.

Assalamualaikum W.W.
Orang Batak and Orang Karo (North Batak and Brastagi areas) loves daging anjing (dogmeat) and Tuak(cocunut wine)
However, The majority of orang Mandailing (South Batak) are muslim, therefore they did not ate and drink that stuff.
My family lived in Medan for a couple years, I have never ate dogmeats was tempted to, but I don't have the stomach to do it.
Tristan

[Gajah Silat]

I think that GS once said that his wife is from Blitar. You have sate jamu in Blitar too.

My wife is strictly halal, so you can imagine what trouble I was in when I was caught eating dogmeat and sambal, and drinking arak with some Torajans(that obviously led me astray ) Man, was I in trouble that night

I think it is illegal to eat dog in the UK although I am sure alot of these pooches here would be really tender and tasty.

Well at least it would be free range