Boodle fight craze hits Dubai

This Filipino dining experience is becoming a hit in Dubai restaurants

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00:00When you say Filipino, it's always happiness.

00:02Even I'm not yet chef, the budal fight is very popular for every Filipino.

00:07It's a very happy to eat all together using bare hands.

00:11You build a good friendship.

00:14We love to eat food.

00:16It's very popular because it's a traditional way of eating as a Filipino.

00:22Back home, yes, it's a trend.

00:23In our country now, it's a trend.

00:26Anywhere we go, it's like offer for us to have a budal fight.

00:29It's more convenient and cost-saving also.

00:33It's like family package.

00:35It makes us closer as families and it's a good way of bonding to us.

00:40We have a different variety.

00:41I think we have four to five varieties of budal fight.

00:45But in the original, we have only one variety because all the food should be mixed together.

00:50So when you say traditional, if you are Filipino, the traditional is chicken inasal, of course,

00:56the grilled one.

00:56And then for the seafood, we have fish like tilapia, bangus.

01:00The specialty of our budal fight is the seafood skejun.

01:03And we also do have this chicken isaw, the chicken intestine, which is very popular in

01:11the Filipinos.

01:13The proper way of eating budal fight is by bare hands.

01:18Because as we Filipinos, we love to eat with our bare hands.

01:21But make sure that when you are eating the budal fight, you need to wash first your hands.

01:27That's why we are telling the non-Filipinos that the way of eating budal fight, it's used

01:33to be by the bare hands.

01:34If they want to use the plastic cup, that's the option.

01:37We have a lot of customers coming here.

01:42They want to try.

01:43They want to see why budal fight is very popular to us.

01:48So we explain why, then we serve it the way, the traditional way.

01:5230% of our guests, which is coming from other nationalities, especially the locals, and

02:00some British also is coming.

02:02This is my first time.

02:04And because of my friend, Cheryl, she invited me.

02:07And I'm really excited.

02:08That's why I love it, really.

02:10Two hands in the gloves.

02:12It's really the amazing food.