Cooking Challenge part (1)

Hi everyone,

This is Ebrahim and I’m going to share with you one of the most challenge I have ever faced in my life. First of all let me tell you about my topical and my traditional life in my hometown; Men not allowed to enter the kitchen at all due to culture in my country which give men and women different responsibility and works and not allowed for gander to do other gander work, so due to this culture my experience in cooking consider zero nothing, 19 years never cook anything, Food will be always ready no need for me to worry about cooking or cleaning my dishes all will be done by females my part just to eat. In Yemen at noon time when males back home form their work, school & college. these dishes in the photo must be ready.

  then when I have finished my high school, I have been continuing my higher education abroad in ALAM ( Malaysian Maritime Academy).

 Luckily no need for me to cook cause ALAM provide the meals for the students so no need for us to cook, 

after that I moved to shipboard training. Again I’m lucky the food there is served no need for me to cook.

There on board ship where the challenge has been begun. On board that ship there is habit which is that at the weekend the lowest ranks, Cadet & joiner officer, has to cook for all crew as entertainment. I was totally shocked cause I can cook nothing beside boil egg and in the same time I had culture shock because of my culture life that I had been grown with as I mentioned above, “I’m man, it’s shameful to cook, this is for girl” speaking to myself.  So I refuse to cook and I always spend my weekend at my cabin and I avoid spending the weekend with them to escape from cooking. After 10 month doing same thing ,new seniors join the ship one of them was the captain, This captain has experience with some of my countrymen officers so he is aware of my culture so he met me and “Ebrahim you are not in Yemen you are away from your traditional life you have to make with other crew culture exchange Arabian food is one of the best food, you have to start learn how to cook how to depend on yourself how to cook you have to break your ego,  your friends had broken their culture shock so you should to and next weekend you have to cook KABSA (Arabian rice with meat) for everybody you have five days to prepare yourself” Captain said.

Did I continue my refuse? How did I spend this 5 days? And what happened in that weekend?
 See you in  (Cooking Challenge Part 2)