deal or no deal via PHILIPPINES

"WOW!" Howie Mandel says with his jaw open... thinkin, can i take one home with me???

I must say, it was the first time I actually watched the game show Deal or No Deal, let alone the "round the world" version from the Philippines. Maybe it's my rhetoric-feminist-pinayism-haterade lens that i can't seem to detach, but is it me, or does it look like the helllaaaa light-skinned pinay host Kris Aquino appears as the madame that whores out her beautiful "26K" (I mean, really, how literal can you get with the "selling" of these women) for the gawking Howie Mandel and white america to just eat up?

and of course, for the international version, they had to bring out three plates of extra deal or no deal choices for the contestant to choose and eat for specified prize money: 1) chicken feet on a stick, 2) fish heads, and drumroll please...... balut (of course). to which the red-headed white dude ate up with as much fervor as that annoying bald dude on bizarre foods, as if he's conquering the savage's delicacies. ok fine, maybe i'm goin overboard. but is a bit odd that as the guy devours the food, the pinoy/pinay audience busts out in their celebratory dancing -- which, i would say, was my favorite part -- damn them pilipinos like to dance!!!!

the market segment where howie mandel looks at tilapia was also a nice touch...

i'm not an avid fan of wa-wa-wi or any of those other pilipino popular television fanfare, so maybe i just don't get it.