Friday, May 9, 2008

FYI : For Your Dining Adventures

One of my closest friend, who shared that phase of my life where delicious-but-additives-ridden food were our daily staples, must be settling down fine in England right now.

After 8 years in stress-inducing Kuala Lumpur, I bet she’d find that southern English town extremely peaceful. However, I’m also sure that she is starting to miss one of the “perks” of living in KL - all kinds of food, at all corners of the city, at whatever price and at any time of the day!

Because if this town where she is at, is anything like the one English city I used to be familiar with - food adventures would be minimal.

In fact, I’m not surprised if she has to travel far and wide to find the kind of food that she really enjoys.

And I hope she’s will not be using the “We have no car yet!” as an excuse as she knows that finding a Car Hire company that can search for the best rates is not a problem with Car Rental UK. Not only is it an award winning site for the best car hire website, it also searches up to 50 sites for both suppliers and brokers! So it’s pretty much guarantee that you will get the best deal.

So go hire a car and find some worth-writing-home-about kind of English fare, now!

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Wild Boar Meat

One of the benefit of having native Iban family as one of our neighbour is that we get items that are not common for typical Chinese family.

Such as the homemade loofah - which was actually a new discovery for me too.

The most interesting “gift” was perhaps the wild boar meat which are commonly found in this part of Brunei and was given to us by our neighbour a few weeks ago.

Being exotic (read : not something my Chinese family would voluntarily buy from the market) my mother in law had quite a challenge figuring out how to cook it. She fried some with soy sauce, bean paste and garlic which turned out popular - until she announced its origin and even I felt a little squemish (for no reason!).

Then just the other day, she cooked a curry out of it.


In case you wondered how wild boar meat looks like - its quite tough
And let’s just put it this way.

We think she cooks the best curry but for some inexplicable reasons, wild boar meat just does not make a good curry.

My family in Sabah, however, is fond of eating wild boar and my mother would regularly cook the traditional “sup bakas pucuk ubi” (soup of wild boar meat with tapioca leaves) and this is one Sabah dish that I sure miss having. As discovered by my sister recently, there are also these roadside stalls between Keningau and Tambunan which not only sell these meat, but you can also indulge in them as snack, freshly BBQ-ed on the spot - which I’m yet to try myself.

FYI, we consider wild boar meat to be nutritious as being wild animal, its very organic.

So how do you cook your wild boar meat?

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