 " Pandai <unk> " ( Perfected Spelling : " Pandai Jatuh " , meaning " The Clever Falls " ) describes an incident involving three old men at a wedding . When the hosts pass out betel to be chewed , the first man takes out a golden mortar to crush the betel . He boasts that the only shortcoming of such a mortar was that the betel tasted somewhat sour . The second man then takes out his silver mortar and says that , with silver , the betel would only taste sour if left for too long . The third man , the poorest of them all , takes out his wooden mortar and says that , having tried golden and silver mortars , he has concluded that betel crushed under wood tastes the best of all . The story was first published in 1933 , in issue 60 , volume 11 , of Pandji Poestaka . 
