An Expat's Paradox

So I was talking to a expatriated friend from college a while ago and the conversation went like this:

Jet: What can be more filipinizing than taking a bath in front of a poso*?


Bryce: Eating balut** with taho***.


Jet: [stumped]

Balut with taho. Now that's a paradox. How do you eat something that's only available during the day with something that's only available at night? Buy taho and there's no more balut around. Buy balut and there's no more taho around. Chances are the very people who sell taho in the morning are the same people who sell balut at night.

Now to see the real essence of this, you shouldn't take into consideration making your own or going to the commercialized restaurants that serve these delicacies. Like if you need to get it from a genuine vendor, how do you do it?

This sounds a bit similar to the Buddhist riddle "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" kind of question, except more mundane and well, rustic. So here's what I think about the whole issue in a novel kind of way:

Storywise, I can imagine an old hermit telling the very riddle to an adventurer and present him with the supposed solution: To eat balut with taho at the same time, you must find the point of intersection of dusk and dawn. And it shouldn't be at just some place. It has to be in the Philippines to make sure both delicacies exist at the same place.

So the Prince journeys to find where this place is and fails. But then he realizes that the place where dusk and dawn meet can be seen through enlightenment. So he becomes a buddhist and attains bodhisatva and then finally eats what he wants and becomes the ruler of the universe.

Either that or he tries to work around the problem by buying taho in the morning and waiting for the magbabalut in the evening, only to die from food poisoning several hours after consuming the stale taho.

So how do you eat taho and balut at the same time?

My answer would be you just don't. Time is nature's way of making sure everything doesn't happen at once.

*becomes ruler of the universe*

Okay so that didnt make sense. Anybody with a better answer? Best answer gets a cookie.

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(Internationalization notes)
*Poso - An iron manual water pump tapped to a deep well used mostly in deurbanized and rural areas.
**Balut - Salted fullshell egg delicacy with a duck fetus swimming in salty juices inside usually sold by vendors at night.
*** Taho - Hot soya drink with sugarcane syrup usually sold by vendors from dawn till before lunch.