My favorite uncle is the bestest uncle in the whole wide world. He's very friendly and extremely generous. Whenever there's visitors in town he will take them out to eat till they burst. So when he saw us coming he decided to take us out to lunch but knowing what we like to eat, he personally went down to the Sibu Central Market to buy the fresh produces for the restaurant to cook!
This market is huge! It was built in 1996 at the cost of RM12 million and some said its the biggest market in Asia. *roll eyes* Anyway the council built this so they could force all the stall holders around town to concentrate in one area coz apparently hawkers are eye sores? *roll eyes again*
Politic aside, I'm here to check out the fresh produces like these small crabs some call 'pangi' if I'm not mistaken. They're soft shelled and I remember eating them, just soak with some sauce and down the hatch!
But these are more my type of crabs, they're mud crabs and I just love eating them though I didn't get to eat a lot of them on this trip. Gets a bit tiring eating them, I wish someone would shell them for me!
Poor chicken! Thou shall see no morrow's sun! But its a convenient way of selling these chicken, they're all wrapped up and ready to be carried away. The only problem is you can't see how skinny the chicken are!
Live balitongs and cockles! I used to love eating them too but nowadays I'll think twice especially the balitongs coz they live in mud and they're full of mud! It doesn't matter how clean you wash them there's still going to be mud inside them!
Last but not the least is the dabai. I believe you can only find these in Sarawak. Some call it 'oh kana' literally meaning black olives but they're not real olives. No need to cook them, just soak them in warm water for a couple of minutes, dip in soya sauce and eat! You'll enjoy it and keep the seeds coz you can play those childhood games with them before they start to rattle inside meaning the kernel is ready to be eaten. Break the hard casing and pop the kernel in your mouth..you'll thank me for it!
