Behold! The Steamed Clams at Taiping. These babies won't hit you as impressive until you've sucked them in from their shells together with bits of the rice wine sauce.
Refreshing!
Unlike Taiping, Penang or Kg. Sg. Batang, Cameron Highlands is hardly known for its culinary landscape, except for this snack, the Glutinous Chicken Rice. One mustn't underestimate this measly lump of sticky rice. They take up to 3 hours to prepare and less than 15 minutes to be sold out!
Squiggly octopuses at Kg. Sg. Batang. We didn't even look at the menu for this dish. We simply walked into the restaurant (more like a shack), saw what the other table was having and ordered the same thing. I don't even know what this dish is called. What I do know is that the octopuses were amazing with the peanut-chilli sauce!
When done or cooked right, the Oh-Jian (fried muscles with egg) is one of the most addictive dishes that you can find in South-East and East Asia. There is no secret to preparing this dish other than using fresh muscles and eggs (without over-cooking them); anything stale would conjure the yuck-monster, which should never be a part of any dish.
These unfriendly, alien looking fruits are known as durians. A durian connoisseur (my dad) would tell you that the goodness of a durian can be determined from the pungency and bitterness of the fruit. In other words, the more intensely these fruits display the signs of "I'm smelly and bitter tasting, please don't eat me," the more likely they will get eaten, savoured and appreciated in memory.
The durians' guts...which I don't even have a word for...anyone?
5 comments:
All look so yummy, pity the good once are so far away, except the durian of course. Need to find some close to home.
I'm so glad that you told me about your blog! I can't believe what I've been missing. Durian fruit guts look...interesting. How do you cut open the fruit?
How come I never get to eat those???
What about the coconut juice? Durian + coconut juice = fantabulous.
Such gooood food photos!! Lol I remember my room mate used to eat durian fruit! it smelt sooo bad! I used to think it was coming from the garbage and then I went into the fridge and there was this pointy monstrosity! lol he had me try some...not bad for a smelly fruit.
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