Coconuts

My friend in Canada just told me how she got a hammer and smashed the coconut she just bought into pieces, spilled the water on the floor, scraped the hard meat inside and ate it! I told her, this is how we do it here: Get a 'sundang' (long knife) and hold it in your right hand (if you're right-handed), hold the coconut with your other hand, then smash the shell in half using the blunt side of the knife. That way, no one here has ever had their hands or fingers cut off accidentally.



Second photo is buko (young coconut) being cut open. No one had their fingers cut off using the sharp side of the knife either.