Right. So I mean, we could have done different things. Bamboo , coconut, these are other things that are really abundant in the Philippines, but we chose coffee.And we chose specialty coffee.
You get the the crunch of a fresh shrimp. And if they're doing things really right, you've got some fresh little pieces of lard in there and some bamboo shoot that set it off with even more fireworks. And that's what you really want. This the the the thingsthat taste alive and fresh. And as you progress there, then you start going to things that are maybe pan fried. Like
tamalei. It is a tamalei. It's got a lotus leaf on the outside. Inside it's bamboo leaves, then it's rice. And it's a Cantonese tamalei with a sticky ricewith um pork belly and then peeled mung beans. And it's just divine. And uh there's a lot of things in Chinese food
I'm sure someone out there is going to point out the remarkable life story of the squid. Bamboo is great, a bamboo stick, wire hanger, loop in the wire hanger at the bottom.
organic ingredients. And I have a background in architecture, so I want to do modern design, and I didn't want to have a restaurant with bamboo and Buddha and stuff like that.Not that that's bad, but that's just not my thing.
Asexual. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Bamboozle them. And then we horrify them again so they leave, and they want to do something.
It's like, we've done all the hard work for you so that you can know that you're wearing something that's fully made out of bamboo and that will decompose easily. You know that this is a brand that doesn't hold inventory.
And why we decided coffee and not coconut-- Or bamboo . Or bamboo , which were other things that are grown in the Philippines. Right. So I mean, we could have done different things.
now if only I'd been 40 born 40 years before I could have snake through those same bamboo trees looked at that same house at that same veranda and I probably would have seen a portly famous American in a pith helmet with a big
- ... incredibly sharp. They cure it over the fire and they have a way of sharpening it. That edge of bamboo becomes incredibly knife-sharp. You can cut meat with it easily; I've done it. These arrows... Look at that. I mean, I'm 5'9". That's easily a seven-foot arrow.
Wow, that was good. Is there still a bamboo ceiling for you, or have you-- do you feel like you've already broken through that, and now it's just
And he's preparing each and everything. He's making bamboo rafts. And he's the king of the jungle in Coorg.
For example, we sell tree-free toilet paper, which means that no trees were cut down or recycled to make toilet tissue. It's made from bamboo grasses and sugarcane. And so that are just things that people love.
And thank you all for being here. likely to experience the bamboo ceiling, so to speak?
with my emotions a little bit. You can smell the bamboo .
And I went to Tanzania, India, the Philippines, Mexico, and the UK. I lived in a bamboo house in the Philippines. I lived in a former squatter settlement in Mexico City.
a very beautiful place. So island to island, Manhattan to Tanna; I'm thinking a lot more If you treat bamboo correctly, it's actually easy to manipulate. If you go to Hong Kong or Singapore or Shanghai, you can see whole skyscrapers of bamboo next to it. And by training
This is a remote bamboo forest in Japan and it was kind of misty that day, and there was just a nice feeling in there. You know when you see this you think, is that a photo, what
They were bamboozled. And we need to talk to them with respect, which they deserve, and not tell them that they're idiots, which they're not.
Pseudo-intellectuals try to bamboozle their readers with highfalutin' gobbledygook, concealing the fact that they have nothing to say.
So they used very high quality bamboo , yarn, silk, et cetera.
It's beautifully forested in bamboo .
And I think the idea was that bamboo -- you put it in the ground, and then you water it.
or what's been called a bamboo ceiling, so that when you look at so many workplaces-- I'm astonished-- not just in tech, but in accounting firms,
So if you go back to the bamboo ceiling idea, for example, a lot of young people don't realize that their identity is defined by other people
as well to talk about Bamboo Ceilings, Minority Myths, and also just to help educate around the Asian community.
of geometric structures out of thousands of bamboo sticks woven together and linked into these huge networks of platonic solids.
a very beautiful place. So island to island, Manhattan to Tanna; I'm thinking a lot more being made by hand and the bamboo is shaped and molded, and it's also stronger then steel.
a very beautiful place. So island to island, Manhattan to Tanna; I'm thinking a lot more going to be looking at bamboo as a kind of core component of the project so all of these things are things we're thinking about and we're going to be learning as we go. I'm not
Well I have no doubt that the bamboozlement theory is true of some writers, some of the time.
But we're so extremely humbled and grateful. And why we decided coffee and not coconut-- Or bamboo . Or bamboo , which were other things that are grown in the Philippines.
honeycomb. It's really crunchy on the outside progresses to a paste on the and and the second layer and then the inside there's all these nuggets of pork and u bamboo shoots and and this gravy. Then so you've got this you know, it just goes down and then like a crunch shrimp, soft, soft, juicy, juicy. It's just incredible. And then you go into things
side and a 10-year-old boy myself could cross this river snake through the tight stalks of the bamboo forest and look out into an enchanted garden of the property opposite ours it was a large
And then you have green onion, you have bamboo .
So she would say, go pick some heavenly bamboo from the yard, or go get a gardenia.
roles in companies like Google, the bamboo ceiling, everything.
But I'll let Magnus-- So the code name of this was actually Project Bamboo .
Ley excavated alleys with her fingertips and cut decorations on rooftops with a sliver of bamboo .
it gives me pleasure to move that stylus over the my little Bamboo tablet I mean
So what came down the road was a group of men carrying bamboo broom sticks, then a man pushing a wheelbarrow, a guy toting a shovel, and four policemen
I believe it. I've got a Wacom Bamboo , so I'm-- I'll get there eventually.
with my emotions a little bit. That's how I was trained, making these bamboo pens and calligraphy.
It's crazy. It's like bamboo .
this house which um was a 2 acre property on the edge of of this of this city there was a river at the bottom of our plot a muddy river jerking with Bill hars here bugs there was a bamboo forest on the other side and a 10-year-old boy myself could cross this
believes Prince Philip is a god so certain ideas around how an airfield for example, I'm just going to give you one example and then I'm going to play this, they would make an airfield and put bamboo airplanes in the middle of the airfield to attract the other silver birds to come down. Imagine stuff like that. Imagine if you, for the first time, had ever seen a huge B-2 bomber come and drop huge cargo with parachutes. That must have been super
appliances we've used CFLs um energy efficient air conditioning um we have bamboo flooring which is a sustainably
Many found companionship in cicadas or other musical insects that they kept in bamboo cages and slim pocket boxes. And young people, not just the middle-aged,
Aromatic steaming. You could steam it in a bamboo steamer.
People call them tamales, but they're wrapped in bamboo leaves and stuff.
is growing near the edge of a stream or a river and they build a kind of bamboo scaffolding across the river and over