It was a real beauty, this beast…
Somebody in the kampung (village) hunted it down the other day and was selling some of the meat to the people in the neighbourhood. To say that I was thrilled to be able to get hold of some at RM15.00 a kilo (which is cheap actually as it is usually sold at around RM20.00 at the market) would be an understatement. Looking back, my last post on it was in 2008, so as anyone can see, I had not had any for a long, long time.
It is not easy to get around here, especially the good ones. If it is too young or not fat enough, it will not be nice. I guess the only thing to do with meat like that would be to cook curry or fry with lots of ginger and serai (lemon grass) as it would not have any of that very unique fragrance that makes it so very delicious. I understand from one-who-knows that it can be bought in West Malaysia at only RM12.00 but the meat there is not nice at all – I wonder why.
It is very easy to cook really. You just cut the meat into chunks or thick slices. Make sure that you cut across the grain so that it will not be tough and you do not have to simmer for too long to get it to be nice and tender. Then you put all that into a pot…
…and cook it on low heat. Note that you do not add anything at all – no water, nothing. Wait for the fat and the juices to ooze out of the meat, stirring periodically to ensure that all the meat is cooked…
If the meat is good, the whole house would be filled with the delightful fragrance of the sua too bak (wild boar meat) by now. Finally, add BOILING water for the soup – the water must be boiling to ensure that the cooking of the meat is not interrupted. Then you add salt and msg according to taste…
There, it certainly is easy to cook, isn’t it? As for the taste, I can assure you that it is something out of this world. Yum! Yum!!!
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 