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
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?
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?
