Never like this before…

When I was growing up, I was quite familiar with canned stuff from a company named Amoy Canning including the clams in soy sauce for frying mihun and the pickled lettuce that we would usually eat with porridge. But if I’m not mistaken, they were made in China at the time but this one’s from Singapore…

Other than that, when it came to luncheon meat, I would automatically assume that it would be pork but sometime ago, my blogger-friend in Singapore published a post on fischeon  or fish luncheon meat. Then I saw this at the supermarket round the corner from where I stay – chicken luncheon meat…

– made in Singapore. I simply had to grab a can to try, of course, to see if it was any good.

I intended to cook it the same way that I would usually cook (pork) luncheon meat so I got the ingredients ready…

– one Bombay onion and two chilies, sliced, some curry leaves and two eggs.

I cut the luncheon meat into bite-size pieces and pan-fried them…

…till they were nice and slightly crusty on the outside.

Those health-conscious people would be glad to know that there wasn’t any oil in the pan unlike in the case of pork. Usually, I would just use that oil to fry the rest of the ingredients to go with the luncheon meat but obviously, that would not be possible this time around.

So, I took the meat out and greased the pan a bit to fry the onions…

…before adding the chili and the curry leaves…

Then I put the meat back in…

…and finally the eggs…

I mixed everything together and once the eggs were cooked, the dish was ready to be served…

So how was it? Many of you would be dying to know what it was like, I’m sure…

Well, my missus said it was nice…and I quite liked the taste. However, it was too soft for my liking so much so that it did not really feel like I was eating meat. I thought it was more like one of those tofu-based vegetarian meat, perhaps.

Actually, I did buy their satay and rendang (ranging around RM8.00-10.00) as well that day…but I gave them to my daughter to take to her school in Selangau so in case she runs out of things to eat, she could just open up a can and have that. To date, she has not done that so I cannot say whether they are good or otherwise.

As for this can of chicken luncheon meat, I cannot remember the price now but I think it was not exactly cheap, probably somewhere around RM8.00 as well…and considering that it was not particularly to my liking, I don’t think I would go and buy it again…