Brunei Edition
Dia del Nino leads today's complete edition for Brunei.
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Every kid gets a present and the day off from school if the school is feeling generous. The real tradition is parents buying way too much cake and the kids running on a sugar high until midnight. Bolivian children are spoiled on this day and that is exactly how it should be.
The story every Bruneian knows: nasi katok means "rice for a knock." You knock on a door late at night and someone hands you rice wrapped in newspaper or banana leaf with a piece of fried chicken and sambal. It is the simplest meal in Brunei and the one that tastes best at midnight when nothing else is open and hunger has no patience.
