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Have you ever eaten these before ?

These are called buah pangai in Melanau and if I’m not mistaken, the local Malay name for it is buah bawang (which sounds like onions) and the Foochows call it mawang…which sounds like the name of a local YB’s name mispronounced. LOL!!!

I usually eat it when it is ripe. Inside, it is orange in colour and it is sliced like mango and eaten ulam-style with sambal belacan. As for the taste, it is sort of sourish sweet and something like quinie (the local mango) or buah emplam. Other than that, you may eat it when it is not ripe yet by removing the skin the way Tom (Gundot’s hubby) did it, like this…

I am positive that’s Tom (not his real name) as I cannot imagine Gundot’s arms being so hairy! ROTFLMAO!!! Then it is chopped into thin strips or pieces like this…

After than, you pound it with belacan (dried prawn paste), chillies, udang kering (dried prawns) to make the sambal…and serve it with rice. I seem to have lost the remaining two photos that Gundot emailed to me, so I’m afraid there is no pictorial support available. What you’ll get in the end is something sour, hot from the chillies and fragrant from the other ingredients. I guess you can add a bit of sugar if you want, so it will not be too sour to your liking. Anybody would like to share anything of interest on the fruit?

Incidentally, Gundot, I did not lose the other photos that you sent. Perhaps I forgot to click “SAVE” after uploading them onto flickr. I still have this one, for instance… 

Hey! Just look at those two monkeys in the tree! Hahahahaha!!!

Gosh! It’s mid-week already! How time flies…and in just two days, the weekend will be here again! Well, Clare sent me an MMS early this morning to show off the Wednesday popiah at Handsome Court in Nanas Road (Kuching)…and as it was raining here, I did not go out for breakfast. Instead, I just cooked myself some instant noodles – curry flavour and I threw in a couple of udang galah (freshwater prawns) and an egg…

I sent this via MMS back to Clare and I guess that was enough as a counter-response to what I got from her. She never replied after that! ROTFLMAO!!! So what have the rest of you been eating?…..